Tarpey-Schwed Children’s Book Collection Files
Randall Tarpey-Schwed
A set of research, correspondence, exhibit, talk, and purchase files that document how the collection was built and interpreted.
Archive filesCollector researchExhibition history
Collector And Donation Context
Records that frame the donation itself: collector files, research context, provenance, public talks, and the Mechanics' Institute setting.
Echoes of the Foot-Hills
Bret Harte
A soot-darkened 1875 Bret Harte volume returned to Mechanics' Institute after surviving the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Mechanics Institute1906 fireBook survival
I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip
John Donovan
A landmark 1969 young adult novel, held here with a laid-in Donovan postcard noted in the local catalog.
Young adult fictionGay teenagersProvenance
Libby on Wednesday
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A middle-grade novel whose local copy connects Snyder's fiction to inscription, donor knowledge, and subtle gay-adult family representation.
Middle-grade fictionWriting groupsFamily ambiguity
Focus on MY Family
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Focus on MY Family
COLAGE
A COLAGE youth-created anthology that documents children and young adults with LGBT parents speaking in their own forms.
COLAGEChildren of LGBT parentsYouth-authored anthology
Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature
Edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Kenneth B. Kidd
A university-press anthology that maps queer children's and young adult literature as an academic field.
Queer children's literatureYoung adult literatureHistory and criticism
Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom
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Out of the Closet and Into the Classroom
Laurel A. Clyde and Marjorie Lobban
A revised bibliography and reference work on homosexuality-related books for young people.
BibliographyBooks for young peopleHomosexuality in juvenile fiction