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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P.Mich.inv. 3984 # 22 (unpublished)
Flyer for Hot Cops 3
Centaur Films
A one-time dancer at the Gold Coast in Detroit, Steve O'Donnell (lower left) migrated west and began a career in adult gay male videos. The popularity…
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…
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…
Hal Lawson & David Whitney Brewer
In 1958, Wayne State graduate students Lawson and Brewer, along with their friend Jai Moore, established a Detroit chapter of the Mattachine Society,…
From Trace to Text
Papyrus fragments that have not yet been conserved or studied.

Found in Karanis (Kom Ushim), Egypt
First-Fourth Centuries C.E.
P.Mich.inv. 6827 (unpublished)
Boxes used to transport papyri from Egypt to Ann Arbor in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Photograph by Randal Stegmeyer
2010
Papyrus rolls found in a hollow threshold of a door in Karanis, Egypt, in the 1920s.
Photograph by George R. Swain
1920s
KM 5.1801
Go-Go Dancers at Gold Coast Saloon
With a relaxing of laws against obscenity and consequent bar raids, gay strippers became a popular mainstay at several Detroit bars. Some even…
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