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• Author/Creator:Giard, Robert.
  
• Title:Robert Giard papers, 1962-2019.
  
• Physical Description:74.66 linear feet (326 boxes)
  
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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 702
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 234 (Oversize)
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: Uncat MSS 765, Uncat MSS 1274
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    To request for use in the Beinecke Reading Room select a box in the finding aid
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 702
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: Boxes 1-233, 235-326
    
  • Notes: Former call numbers: Uncat MSS 765, Uncat MSS 1274
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Purchased from Jonathan G. Silin on the Eugene G. O'Neill Memorial Fund, 2004, 2018. Gift of Jonathan G. Silin, 2011, 2019.
  
• Organization:Organized into four groupings: I. February 2005 Acquisition, 1972-2002. II. October 2011 Acquisition, 1988-2001. III. November 2018 Acquisition, 1962-2018. IV. September 2019 Acquisition, 2012-2019.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Robert Giard was an American photographer, born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1939. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1961, and Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from Boston University in 1965. In 1972 he began to take photographs, focusing on landscapes and portraits of his friends, artists, writers, and nudes. His monograph Particular Voices: Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Writers, published by MIT Press in 1997, contains a selection from over 500 portraits he had taken in the previous decade. In 1996, Giard was commissioned to document the 321 grant recipients of the Thanks Be To Grandmother Winifred Foundation. The grant recipients were women over the age of 54 whose projects benefited adult women. From 1996 to 2001, Giard traveled across the U. S. to photograph each year's grant recipents. He died in 2002 of a heart attack.
  
• Summary:The papers consist of photographic prints, negatives, contacts sheets, slides, correspondence, diaries, financial papers, and printed materials documenting Robert Giard's career as a photographer and his personal life, spanning the years 1962-2019. The bulk of the papers contain photographic prints by Giard in several sizes of various subjects, including portraits of gay and lesbian writers and activists, landscapes, nudes, still lifes, and portraits of the Thanks Be To Grandmother Winifred Foundation grant recipients.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available
  
• Cite as:Robert Giard Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Giard, Robert.
  Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation.
  Gay authors--United States--Portraits.
  Lesbian authors--United States--Portraits.
  LGBTQ activists--United States--Portraits.
  Photographers--United States--Archives.
  Older women--United States--Portraits.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):LGBTQ resource.
  
• Genre/Form:Negatives (photographs)
  Photographic prints.
  
• Occupation:Photographers United States 20th century.