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Paul Lavern Cummings Papers
Identifier
MS-00971
Abstract
The Paul Lavern Cummings Papers are comprised of Cummings' personal papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials dating from 1927 to 2018. Cummings worked as an actor and performed as a female impersonator under the name Lavern Cummings. The majority of the collection documents his career working at Finnochio’s, a nightclub in San Francisco, California. Materials in this collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, sheet music arrangements, photographs, digital audio files, and ephemera. The collection also includes interviews and biographical research material about Cummings and other female and male impersonators.
Archival Collection
Bar at the Last Frontier Hotel: photographic print
Date
1940 (year approximate) to 1949 (year approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
Individuals pose in front of a bar at the Last Frontier Hotel. The sign on the bar reads, "The 'gay nineties' bar".
Image
Last Frontier Village at the Last Frontier Hotel: postcards, image 001
Description
Postcard of the Last Frontier Village at the Last Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. (c. 1940s) "The Early West in Modern Splendor" a natural color reproduction from kodachrom depicting "The 'Gay Nineties' Bar".
