What’s Here?

What is in the collection? Anything that relates to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans communities. Current history, ancient history and history in the making.

At present, there are well over 25,000 items in the collection, and that number it is growing on a daily basis. Here is a sampling of items found in this collection:

  • Books
  • Manuscripts
  • Magazines
  • Erotica
  • Community news papers
  • Political flyers
  • Postcards
  • Posters
  • Original artwork
  • Sculpture
  • Campaign buttons & pins
  • Movies
  • Videos
  • Photos
  • Digital images
  • News clippings
  • E-mails
  • Audio recordings
  • Memoirs
  • Letters
  • T-shirts
  • Ancient artifacts
  • Signs
  • Autographs
  • Business cards
  • Records
  • CDs
  • Reel to reel tapes
  • Lamps
  • Clocks
  • Lunch pails
  • Swizzle sticks
  • Trinkets
  • Comics
  • Hats
  • Postage stamps
  • Fairy stones
  • Now you may realize you’ve got stuff like this lying around. And you may be thinking your stuff is too insignificant to donate.

    Oh contraire!!

    50, 100 or 300 years from now, those “insignificant” artifacts will be helping future generations get an idea of what GLBT culture was really like in our time.

    So don’t just toss those items out. Donate them to the Tretter Collection and save Jean the effort of dumpster diving!