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LGBTQ Collecting Initiative

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Michael Zimmer Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P1043
Scope and Contents

The Michael Zimmer Photograph Collection contains two photographs of Michael Zimmer, an artist who died of AIDS at the age of 33. One photograph, taken when Zimmer was 31, shows him posed next to a piece of his art while at the Kansas City Art Institute. The second photograph, taken when Zimmer was 33, shows him using a wheelchair at a gay pride event in Washington, D. C. The photographs show Zimmer's rapid deterioration after his AIDS diagnosis.

Dates: 1991-1993
Found in: Missouri Historical Society, Photographs and Prints Department / Michael Zimmer Photograph Collection

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