Arden Eversmeyer Papers

Collection

Identifier: 2024-027

Staff Only

The Arden Eversmeyer papers include buttons, pins, Arden’s memorial program and sign-in book, greeting cards, correspondence, OLOHP and OLOC conference records, magazine and newspaper clippings, legal documents, travel itineraries, magazines, bookmarks, business cards, printed emails, event programs, flyers, fundraising and financial documents, audiovisual materials, books, zines, health records, photographs, bookends, and a framed poster.

Additional materials include various OLOHP documents (one interview transcript with DVD, typed notecards with written notes for a speech, OLOHP interview guide, legal records, magazine and newspaper clippings, flyers).

Dates

1970-2022

Creator

Eversmeyer, Arden, 1931-2022 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is not yet processed. Contact the curator to request access.

Conditions Governing Access

For questions about materials in this unprocessed collection, please contact collection curator Joyce Gabiola at jegabiola@uh.edu.

Extent

18 linear feet

Additional Description

Brief Biographical Note

In 1987, (Jean) Arden Eversmeyer founded Lesbians Over the Age of Fifty (LOAF), a community organization for older lesbians to socialize and nurture a sense of community. In 1998, observing the need to document the life stories of her lesbian friends who were aging, Eversmeyer created the Old Lesbians Oral History Project (OLOHP), which is now a collection of more than 900 oral histories of lesbians from across the U.S. and beyond.