White Rabbit Books Records
Abstract
White Rabbit Books & Things was a store serving the gay and lesbian community since 1983. The original store was opened by John Neal, who added gay-themed books to the front of the retail space for his mail-order calligraphy business in Greensboro, North Carolina. The store expanded and operated two additional locations in Raleigh and Charlotte. Each store would stock books, music, videos, and gay-themed memorabilia, clothing, and ephemera. The only store that remains open is the Charlotte store.
The collection contains materials related to the operation of the White Rabbit stores, including financial materials, inventory and sales figures, advertisements and newspaper clippings. The collection also contains gay men's physique magazines from the 1950s-1970s.
Dates
- 1950s to 2010s
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Biographical / Historical
White Rabbit Books & Things, served the gay and lesbian community since 1983. The original store was opened by John Neal, who added gay-themed books to the front of the retail space for his mail-order calligraphy business in Greensboro, North Carolina. The store expanded and operated two additional locations in Raleigh and Charlotte. Each store would stock books, music, videos, and gay-themed memorabilia, clothing, and ephemera.
The only store that remains open is the Charlotte store.
Extent
4.92 Linear Feet (2 record boxes, 1 document box (legal), and 1 oversized flat storage box.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by John Neal, 2022.
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Processing Information
Processed by Patrick Dollar, May 2023.
- Title
- White Rabbit Books Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Patrick Dollar
- Date
- May 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository