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• Author/Creator:Rosenblum, Matthew Charles.
  
• Title:Matthew Charles Rosenblum papers, 2001-2006 (inclusive).
  
• Physical Description:.25 linear ft.
  
• Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
  

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  • Location:LSF-Use in SML, Manuscripts and Archives only (Non-Circ)
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  • Call Number: MS 1883
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Gift of Matthew Rosenblum, 2006.
  
• Organization:Arranged chronologically by year and alphabetically by title within each year.
  
• Access and use:The collection is open for research. Copyright is retained by the creator(s) of this collection for materials they have authored or otherwise produced. On January 1, 2060, copyright passes to Yale University. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Additional information is provided in the finding aid.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Matthew Charles Rosenblum was born on June 7, 1947, in New Jersey. His interest in photography began when he was eight years old, and by age 16 he amassed an extensive collection of United States national parks images. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1970, and then earned an advanced degree in psychology from the New School for Social Research. Between 1974 and 1977, he took month-long photographic explorations in the Andes and Amazonas and Southeast Asia. In 1978, he met John Piazza, and for the next twenty-two years they traveled extensively in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia where Rosenblum captured expressions of culture and lifestyle in his portraits of the locals. Beginning in 2000, they became seasonal residents of Cherry Grove on Fire Island, New York, where they started to go by the name of The Hoffas. The name originated from Rosenblum's adoption of Gimmi Hoffa as his nom-de-caméra and the local lore that Jimmy Hoffa, the Teamster leader, was in a federal witness protection program and living in Cherry Grove. Rosenblum's photographs are exhibited in homes and business establishments in Cherry Grove. In 2005 he joined the Board of the Arts Project of Cherry Grove.
  
• Summary:The digital images consist of Cherry Grove celebrities and royalty at various functions, including teas, beauty contests, and the annual Invasion of the Pines. The images are crafted using the digital equivalents of photography, stage makeup, and cosmetic surgery.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid is available in the repository and on the Internet.
  
• Cite as:Matthew Charles Rosenblum Papers (MS 1883). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Rosenblum, Matthew Charles.
  Female impersonators.
  Cherry Grove (N.Y.)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):LGBTQ resource.
  
• Genre/Form:Color photographs.