Journals and Diaries
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Albano, Walter S.
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content: Walter S. Albano Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974-10-02-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1599, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Journals and diaries kept by Walter S. Albano beginning in October 1974 with these words, "Well, after many delays (totalling years), I have finally begun keeping a journal of sorts." Albano continued his personal journal to the present time. The journals and diaries are frank and honest, Albano writes, "Most of all I hope in this journal to be true to myself, not to be afraid to put down in black and white whatever I believe about myself or others (despite what Ann Landers says of the dangers.)" 

True to his word Albano was religious in his record keeping and in the thoughts and feelings he put down as he discovered who he was and discovered and lived in the world around him. Later journals record Albano's diagnosis with HIV-AIDS in 1986 and the subsequent treatment thereof. He became part of the SHARE study at Johns Hopkins in 1987. Some journals contain ephemera such as postcards, pamphlets, and copies of correspondence.