Collection Timeline

1988 to 1994

1988
color photograph four people riding in a pride parad float, surrounded by a crows of marchers, banner in the background reads; "AIDS Resource Center"

1990
grayscale photograph depicting an ACT UP activist, assisting another ACT UP member in a wheelchair carrying protest sign. The sign reads "THE GOVERNMENT HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS... THREE AIDS DEATHS EVERY HOUR." A large splatter of a handprint is at the focal point of the sign.
grayscale photograph of policemen lined-up standing in front of the Centers for Disease Control as activists from ACT UP stage a 'die-in' holding protest signs.

1992
color photograph of man marching at a pride parade carrying a sign covering his face that reads "141,250 men, women and children dead from AIDS in America"; he is followed by another man pushing an empty wheel chair and carrying an American flag; a house they're passing is seen behind them.

1993
color photograph of a trading card promoting the awareness of about AIDS, ACT UP, and PWAC; depicts drawing of protesters marching with signs that read "ACT UP NOW!" and "Fighting Aids"; text of card reads "ACT UP / PWAC"

1994
color photorgraph of an AIDS memorial quilt pin; pin reads "The AIDS memorial quilt... Metro Saint Louis"