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Hi-Spots Magazine - 1967
In 1961 Melva Earhart re-opened the State Bar on W. Kearsley Street in Flint. By the late 1960s it had become almost exclusively gay, and hosted…
Hitting the Hi-Spots Magazine - 1951
Lesbian Melva Earhart purchased the State Bar in Flint in 1950 and it soon became a safe hang-out for a homosexual clientele. Its original location on…
Roll of papyrus in the process of being unrolled. What text will be hidden inside?

Source and date unknown
Acquired in 1925
P.Mich.inv. 3984 # 22 (unpublished)
Leyla Lau-Lamb, papyrus conservator for the Michigan Papyrus Collection, is shown here in the process of unrolling the roll.

Photograph by Randal Stegmeyer
2010
P.Mich.inv. 4694a (P.Mich. IX 522)
Found in Karanis (Kom Ushim), Egypt
P.Mich.inv. 5457 verso (P.Bingen 113)
Found in Karanis (Kom Ushim), Egypt
P.Mich.inv. 104 (P.Mich. III 176)
Bacchias, Egypt
Acquired in 1920
P.Mich.inv. 4453a verso
Acquired in 1925
Jack B. Pierson and Robert Purcell
This photo was taken at an unidentified Detroit bar shortly after Pierson and Purcell began their lifelong relationship. After World War II, they…
Jan Stevenson and Craig Covey at Pride Banquet
Stevenson, as executive director of Affirmations Community Center and co-publisher of Between The Lines; and Covey, as executive director of the…
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