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P.Mich.inv. 4453a verso
Acquired in 1925
P.Mich.inv. 104 (P.Mich. III 176)
Bacchias, Egypt
Acquired in 1920
P.Mich.inv. 5457 verso (P.Bingen 113)
Found in Karanis (Kom Ushim), Egypt
P.Mich.inv. 4694a (P.Mich. IX 522)
Found in Karanis (Kom Ushim), Egypt
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
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P.Mich.inv. 3984 # 22 (unpublished)
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,…
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