Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt (Series XIII)

Title

Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt (Series XIII)

Description

Paper records related to the Names Project: AIDS Memorial Quilt, its creation, and the display of it on the National Mall. Photographs of events and individual panels, ephemera, fliers, newsletters, and other AIDS related paperwork. AIDS Walk DC, 1995, Whitman-Walker Clinic and other activities related to World AIDS Day.

Creator

Materials were collected by Bruce Pennington and the Rainbow History Project.

Date

1980s-1990s

Access Rights

Available to all researchers, by appointment, at the DC History Center. Collection is available for “fair use.” Material may be protected by copyright.

Collection Items

World AIDS Day 1993: Time to Act!
44 page resource booklet

World AIDS Day 1994: AIDS and Families
44 page resource booklet

The Quilt Flyer
1 page flyer

Hope Renewed Flyer
1 page flyer

The Quilt: How it Began
4 page informational flier

International Display Schedule
3 page schedule with dates, sites, hosts, and local contact information.

The Quilt News: Winter 1992
8 page newsletter

The Quilt News: Summer 1993
6 page newsletter

The Quilt News: Autumn 1993
6 page newsletter

The Quilt News: Winter 1993
8 page newsletter

AIDS Memorial Quilt display postcard
A postcard of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in front of the Lincoln Memorial in 1992

AIDS Memorial Quilt display
Squares from the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in front of the Washington Monument in 1994
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