Gregory A. Sprague papers, 1972-1987.

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Main entry: Sprague, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan), 1951-1987.

Title: Gregory Sprague papers, 1972-1987

Size: 12.5 linear ft. (29 boxes).

ca. 1026 transparencies : col., slide ; 35 mm.

2 sound recordings

159 sound cassettes (0MM.139)

Restriction: Advance appointment required in order to consult slides in cold storage.

Restriction: Listening copies exist for most of the original sound recordings. Researchers are not permitted to play the original tapes and cassettes.

Summary: Materials written and collected by Sprague, a Chicago historian of gay culture, including his correspondence, copies of articles written by him, lecture notes and syllabi for courses he taught for the Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project (initially called the Lavender University), notes to his slide lectures on homosexuality in history, and sound recordings of conferences, interviews, and disco music. Also present are topical files containing photocopied articles and book chapters pertaining to homosexuality, which Sprague assembled for his research, and slides of published images and other materials used by Sprague to illustrate lectures that he presented (although the slides are not numbered to correlate to particular points in the lectures).

Collection includes a microfilm copy of Gay power: A history of the American gay movement, 1908-1974, by Salvatore John Licata (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California).

Online catalog headings:

The following headings for this collection were placed in the online catalog of the Chicago Historical Society:

Sprague, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan), 1951-1987.

Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project.

Lavender University (Chicago, Ill.)

Loyola University of Chicago

Adult education--Illinois--Chicago.

Gay men--Illinois--Chicago.

Gay men

Homosexuality

Historiography

Lesbians

Sadism

Slides--Color.

Articles.

Audio cassettes.

Audio tapes.

Music.

Notes.

Oral histories.

Syllabi.

Historians--Illinois--Chicago.

Licata, Salvatore John. Gay power.

Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project.

Lavender University (Chicago, Ill.)

United States--Illinois--Cook County--Chicago.

List of contents of the collection:

Series 1. Personal files

Subseries 1. Personal items

Box 1

1 Fraternity certificates and other scholastic awards, 1972-73

2 B. A. Degree from Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.), May 1973

3 Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.) alumni material

4 M.A. degree from Purdue University, August 1975

5 Master of Science in Education degree from Indiana University, August 1976

6 Ph.D. program Loyola University of Chicago, 1980-85

7 Phi Delta Kappa fraternity certificate, Loyola University, March 1983

8 Academic transcripts, 1973-85

9 Letters of recommendation for Sprague, 1975-77

10 Resumes, 1977-85

11 Performance evaluations, Media Services, Loyola University, 1978-86

Income tax returns:

12 1977

13 1978

14 1979

15 1980

16 1981

17 1982

18 1983

19 Financial miscellany, 19884

20 Apartment search, 1984

21 Will of Sprague, undated and unsigned

22 Personal miscellany

Box 2

1 Miscellaneous personal photographs, 1961-83?

2 Record of dreams, 1978-80

Series 1. Personal files

Subseries 2. Correspondence

3 1973

4 1974

5 1975

6 1976

7 1977

8 1978

9 1979

10 1980

11 1981

Box 3

1 1982

2 1983

3 1984

4 1985

5 1987

6 undated

7 Proposal, 1985

8 Latest outlines, 1985

9 Research material for chapter 1

Chapter 2:

10 Research material

11 Notes

Box 4

Chapter 3:

1 Research material

2 Notes

Chapter 4:

3 Research material

4 Notes

Chapter 5:

5 Research material

6 Notes

Chapter 6:

7 Research material

8 Notes

Chapter 7:

9 Research material

10 Notes

11 Probable dissertation subheadings

12 Publication possibilities

Series 1. Personal files

Subseries 4. Proposed book, to be co-authored with Walter Williams

13 Correspondence with Walter Williams

14 Correspondence with publishers; outlines of book

Box 5

1 Prologue

2 Chapter 1

Series 1. Personal files

Subseries 5. Articles by Sprague

3 Notes on books read, early 1980s

4 Possible publishers of articles

5 Requests for copies of Sprague’s articles, 1983-86

6 Sprague, “Systematic Approach to Developing Reading Skills for the Social Sciences,” 1975?

7 Sprague, “An Annotated Bibliography of Simulation/Gaming for History Instructors,” 1980

8 Sprague, “Cognitive Psychology and Instructional Development,” 1981

9 Sprague, “The ‘Gay’ Middle Ages,” 1981

10 Sprague, “Sick No More: An Interview with Ronald Bayer,” 1981

11 Sprague, “The University of Illinois’ Long Search for a Permanent Campus in Chicago, 1946-1963,” 1981

12 Sprague, “On the ‘Gay Side’ of Town,” 1983

13 Responses to “On the ‘Gay Side’ of Town,” 1983

14 Sprague, “Dean Ernest O. Melby: Fighting Progressive of Northwestern,” 1983

15 Sprague, “Male Homosexuality in Western Culture,” 1984

Box 6

1 Sprague, “A Brilliant Biography of a Gay Martyr,” 1983?

2 Sprague, “Homosexual Subcultures and Gay Identities in Modern Western Culture,” 1983

3 Correspondence regarding publication of “Homosexual Subcultures …,” 1984

4 Sprague, “The acquisition of homosexual identities in turn of the century America: a cognitive approach,” 1984

5 Sprague, “The Chicago Sociologists and the Social Control of Urban ‘Illicit’ Sexuality, 1892-1918,” 1985

6 Sprague, “Homosexuality in Urban America: The Development of the ‘Gay Male Subculture, 1890-1950” (unpublished, (1981)

7 Sprague, “American male Homosexuality in Transition: From Embedded Behaviors to Subcultural Identities, 1890-1940” (unpublished), 1985

Box 7

1 Miscellaneous Sprague essays on teaching and learning

2 Planned articles on gay movement for Gay Life (not written)

3 Miscellaneous manuscripts for articles/reviews

4 Research note cards, 1980s

5 Research material at the Chicago Historical Society

6 Research material at the Newberry Library, Chicago

7 Research material at Northwestern University, Evanston

8 Research material at the University of Chicago

9 Research material at the University of Illinois, Chicago

10 General sources to find

Series 1. Personal files

Subseries 6. University courses taken by Sprague

11 Augustana College, Political Science 430, Spring 1971-72

Purdue University:

12 History 601, 1973-74 1st semester

13 History 598, 1973-74 2nd Semester

14 History 590, 1974 Summer Session

15 Psychology 695, 1974-75 2nd Semester

Indiana University:

16 Anthropology 505, 1975-76 1st Semester

17 Education R550, 1975-76 1st Semester

18 History H695, 1975-76 2nd Semester

19 Education C656, 1976 Summer Session

Purdue University:

20 Education 524, 1976-77 2nd Semester

Box 8

1-2 Education 524, 1976-77 2nd Semester

3 Education 626, 1976-77 2nd Semester

Loyola University of Chicago:

4 History 387, 1977-78 1st Semester

5 Urban History, 1977-78

6 Foundation 446, 1979-80 1st Semester

7 Foundations 498, Summer 1980

8 Foundations 410, 1980-81 1st Semester

9 Foundations 445, 1981-82 1st Semester

10 Foundations 510, 1981-82 1st Semester

Box 9

Loyola University:

1 Foundations 448, 1981-83 1st Semester

2 Foundations 431, 1982-83 1st Semester

3 Foundations 444, 1982-83 1st Semester

4 Curriculum 480. 1983-84 1st Semester

Box 10

1 Foundations 540, 1983-84 1st Semester

2 Foundations 401, 1983-84 2nd Semester

3 History 464, 1983-84 2nd Semester

4 History 459, 1985-86 1st Semester

5 Foundations 400 (unregistered/incomplete?)

6 Foundations 435 (unregistered/incomplete?)

Series 1. Personal files

Subseries 7. Courses and history projects conducted by Sprague

7 Purdue University, History 104, Spring 1975

8 YMCA Community College, Social Sciences 101, Spring 1978

9 Loyola University Media Services course on Elementary Education Media, 1979

10 Loyola University, Curriculum 326, 1980-81 (proposed only?)

11-12 Lavender University: Gay history course taught by Sprague and others, 1977-79

Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project:

13 Minutes, 1979-84

Box 11

1 Brochures and stationery, 1980?

2 Members and friends

3 Research leads investigated by Sprague and Jim Monahan, 1981-82

Oral History Project:

4 Completed consent forms (Originals filed with CHS Registrar's Office), 1980-85

5 Interview leads

History Seminar:

6 Sign-up sheets, 1982-85

7 Reading assignments, 1982-85

8 Sprague’s lecture notes, 1982-85

9 Publicity, 1985-85

Readings assigned for specific classes:

10 Nov 17, 1982

11 Dec 8, 1982

12 Jan 26, 1983

13 Feb 16, 1983

14 May 22, 1984

15 June 5, 1984

16 June 25, 1984

17 July 10, 1984

18 July24, 1984

19 Aug 14, 1984

20 Aug 28, 1984

21 Sept 11, 1984

Box 12

Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project:

History Seminar:

Readings assigned for specific classes:

1 Sept 25, 1984

2 Oct 9, 1984

3 Oct 23, 1984

4 Nov 13, 1984

5 Apr 17, 1985

6 May 1, 1985

7 May 15, 1985

8 June 19, 1985

9 Aug 7, 1985

10 Aug 21, 1985

11 Sept 9, 1985

12 Oct 21, 1985

13 Nov 18, 1985?

14 Undetermined sessions, 1982-85

Slide lectures:

15 “Louis XIV of France and the Versailles Palace”

16 “Life of Oscar Wilde”

17 “The Making of the Modern Homosexual”

18 “History of the Gay Male Subculture in the USA, 1890-1950”

19 “History of the Gay rights Movement in the United States”

20 “Gay and Lesbian History”

Box 13

1 “History of Chicago’s Sexual Underground and Attempts to Suppress It, 1840-1940”

2 “Gay Chicago”

Lectures:

3 “Social Services and Moral Uplife, 1880-1915

4 “Discovering the Thriving Gay Male Subculture of Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s”

5 Transparencies on homosexuality

Series 1. Personal files

Subseries 8. Historical simulation games by Sprague

“Spiegeldorf,” designed by Sprague and others:

6 Game booklet and information sheets

7 Game boards and conversion checklists

8 game cards, playing notes

9 correspondence, debriefing notes and reports on the game

10 Sprague’s paper on the game, presented at American Historical Association, San Francisco, 1978

“The Daley Machine,” designed by Sprague:

11 Game boards and playing sheets

12 Game cards

Box 14

“Polemos,” designed by Sprague and others:

1 Rules and instructions

2 Correspondence used in playing of game

3 “Kam-Pain,” played by Sprague and others, 1970s

4 “Mundus,” (?), played by Sprague and others, 1970s

5 General information on simulation games

6 Miscellaneous correspondence and outlines

Series 2. Topical files

Subseries 1. Source material on the history of homosexuality

Box 14

7 By author, A-C

8 Connelly, Mark Thomas. The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era (photocopy)

Box 15

1 Cutler, Marvin, ed., Homosexuals Today (photocopy)

2 By author, D

3 By author, E-G

4 By author, H-O

5 Onge, Jack, The Gay Liberation Movement (photocopy)

6 By author, P-R

7 Reckless, Walter C., Vice in Chicago (photocopy)

Box 16

1 Steakley, James D., The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany (photocopy)

2 By author, S-V

3 Wilhelm, Gale, We Too Are Drifting (photocopy)

4 By author, W-Z

By historical era:

5 Homosexuality in the ancient world

6 Medieval and Early Modern homosexuality

7 Homosexuality in Colonial America

8-9 Homosexuality in nineteenth-century America

10 Victorian-era homosexuality in Europe

11 Homosexuality in Progressive-era America

Box 17

1 1919 Newport Scandal

2 Homosexual humor and cartoons, 1920s and 1930s

3 Homosexuality in the 1920s and 1930s

4 Sexual psychopathy in the 1930s and 1940s

5 Homosexuality during World War II and the 1940s

6 Homosexuality in the 1950s

By various topics;

7 Diffused homosexuality

8 Hoboes and prisons

9 Institutional homosexuality

10 Medical discourse on homosexuality

11 American Indian and Non-Western homosexuality

Box 18

By various topics:

1 Gay subculture theory

2 Bibliographies and syllabi

Series 2. Topical files

Subseries 2. Source material on the history and purpose of education

3 By author, A-N

4 By author, O-Z

5 Special Sec.: Graduate Education, in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, Mar. 1984

6 Measuring Outcomes of College: prologue, chapter 3, and epilogue (photocopied)

7 Northwestern Univ., Evolution to Excellence: A Report ... on the School of Education 1981:

8 Princeton University, Graduate Education in the Arts and Sciences: Prospects, 1981

9 University of Chicago, The Report of the Commission on Graduate Education, 1982

Box 19

1 Angus, David L., “Detroit’s First Great School War" politics of common schools, 1836-1842

2 Bowen and Douglas, Efficiency in Liberal Education

3 Counts, George S., School and Society in Chicago

4 Hockett, Homer Carey, The Critical Method in Historical Research and Writing. Part I.

5. Owens, Lee, “Political Manipulation of the Chicago Public Schools, 1933-1944”

6 Petit, M. Loretta, “Samuel Lewis, Ohio’s First Superintendent of Common Schools”

7 Schnell and Rooke, “New Concepts in an Old Discipline: Reconstructing the Introductory History of Education Course”

8 Westfall, Barry H., “Frederick Eby and the Dewey Lectures: An Essentialist Present at Educational Progressivism’s Conception”

9 White, W. T. “The Study of Education at the University of Chicago, 1892-1936”

10 Winter, McClelland and Stewart, A New Case for the Liberal Arts

Series 2. Topical files

Subseries 3. Source material on sociology, psychology and social history

Wyer and Srull, eds., Handbook of Social Cognition:

11 Vol. 1, chapters 1, 2, 4, 5

12 Vol. 2, chapters 2 and 3

13 Vol. 3, chapters 1, 4, 5

14 Gergen and Gergen, eds., Historical Social Psychology, chapters 1, 2, 16

15 Miscellaneous social history material

16 Miscellaneous social psychology material

Box 20

1 Research material on late nineteenth century sociology and higher education

2 Chicago School of Sociology

3 Psychoanalysis and psychohistory

4. The Eck Satsang Discourses, First Series, number 1-12

Photocopied material on various U. S. history topics

5 By author, A0L

6 By author, M-Z

Box 21

1 Author unknown

Series 2. Topical files

Subseries 4. subject files

2 AIDS

3-4 American Historical Association annual meetings, 1978-85

5-7 “Among Men, Among Women” (Gay studies conference in Amsterdam), 1983

8 Augustana College

Box 22

1 Berube, Alan

2 Boston Lesbian and Gay History Project

3 Burgess Ernest W.

4 The Cabirion and Gay Books Bulletin

5 Canadian gay Archives

6 Center for Homosexual Education, Evolution and Research (CHEER), San Francisco

7 Chicago, general

8 Chicago gays and lesbians, general

9 Colleges, universities and audio-visual companies, addresses

Committee on Lesbian and Gay History of the American Historical Association:

10 1979-85

11 1984-85

12 Membership forms

13 Conquest

14 Demuth, Charles

15 Elysian Fields, Booksellers

16 Evangelicals in politics

Gay Academic Union, Chicago Chapter (GAUCC)

17 General, 1978-81

Box 23

1 Discovery

2 Poetry reading by S. Diane Bogus, 1980

3 Discovery ‘81

4 Envelopes if correspondence received, 1882

5 General, 1982-986

6 Discovery ‘82

7 Speech by George Chauncy, 1983

Gay Academic Union, National:

8 Printed material, 1975-78

9 Printed material, 1978-81

10 Program Committee, 1982 National Conference (Chicago)

Box 24

Gay Academic Union, National:

1982 National Conference (Chicago):

1 General, and accepted programs

2 Accepted programs

3 Rejected and late programs

4 Minutes, brochures, correspondence, 1982-83

5 Gay and Lesbian Coalition of metropolitan Chicago

6 Gay and Lesbian Pride Week, Chicago, 1982

7 Gay and Lesbian Pride Week, Chicago, 1983

8 Gay argot and folklore

9 The Gay Caucus of Authors, Publishers, and Booksellers

10 Gay events – miscellaneous notices

11 Gay Horizons, 1979-82

12 Gay paganism

Box 25

1 Gay studies syllabi

Gerber, Henry:

2 General

3 “Boy Frank” correspondence

4 Chris Hogan research

Gerber-Hart Library (Chicago):

5 1978 correspondence to grant agencies

6 1980-81

7 1982-84

8 Greater Chicago Gay and Lesbian Democrats, 1980-84

9 The Harvey Milk Archives (San Francisco)

10 Homosexuality, surveys and reports

11 Homosexuality in Academe

Box 26

1 The Independent Scholar/Chicago researcher, 1983-86

2 Indiana University. Institute for Sex Research, Inc.

3 Indiana University. “Teaching and Learning at Indiana University”

4 Institute of Medicine at Chicago

5-6 Instructional Development

Instructional media:

7 Evaluations

8 Job descriptions

9 Production

10 Utilization and administration

11 Conferences attended

12 International Mr. Leather contests, 1981-82

13 Integrity/Houston

14 International Gay History Archive (new York City)

15 International Homophiles Institute

16 International Psychohistorical Association

17 Institute of Human Development

18 The Lesbian and Gay History Group of Toronto

19 Lesbian and Gay History Project of New York

20 Lesbian/Gay History Researchers Network

21 Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, Inc.

Box 27

1 Los Angeles trip, 1983

2 Loyola University of Chicago and gays

3 Mariposa foundation

4-7 Mattachine Society

8 Men’s Studies Task Group of the National Organizations for Changing Men

9 M.A.F.I.A.

10 Midwest History of Education Society

11 Milk, Harvey

12 Minnesota Gay and Lesbian Pride Programs, 1983, 1985

Box 28

1 The Naiad Press

2 National Gay Archives: Natalie Barney/Edward Carpenter Library

3 National Gay task Force

4 New York and Boston trip, 1983

5 Otis, Henry

6 “Outfront: Newsletter of the Purdue-Lafayette Gay Community,” 1975

7 “Pagan” societies

8 “Prairie Fire,” 1978, 1979

9 Psychics, consciousness-raising, occult religions

10 The Purdue Exponent

11 Roditi, Edouard

12 Sado-masochism

13 San Francisco Bay-area trips, 1979-82

14 San Francisco Gay History Project

15 Scott, Bruce C., Publicity surrounding his job discrimination case, 1964

16-17 Scott vs. Macy et. al.

Box 29

1-3 Scott vs. Macy et. al.

4 “Sex and the State” conference, Toronto, 1985

5 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

6 Social Science History Association

7 “Sociologists Gay Caucus Newsletter”

8 Sons of Hamady

9 Stonewall Library and Archives

10 Supervision /Management

11 Van Hoorn, Seven w.

12 “Voices From the Heart,” 10th National Conference on Men and Masculinity (St. Louis), 1983

13 Whitman, Charles

14 Wilde ’82 History Conference, Toronto

Slides: 35mm slides transferred to cold storage (1026 slides total)

Binder #1 (black):

Slides identified as part of Sprague slide lectures (grouped together)

a) “Louis XIV and Versailles” (40 slides)

b) “The Partition of Africa (47 slides)

c) “Oscar Wilde” (67 slides)

d) “The Making of the American Homosexual Community” (233 slides)

e) “History of Chicago’s Sexual Underground …1840-1949: (27 slides)

f) “Gay and Lesbian History” (40 slides)

g) Slides for lecture on simulation game “Spiegeldorf” (15 slides)

Binder #2 (brown): Unsorted slides (261 slides)

Binder #3 (red): Unsorted slides (296 slides)

Manuscripts Microfilm storage:

Gay power: A history of the American gay movement, 1908-1974, by Salvatore John Licata (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southern California).

Audio cassettes (0MM.139): boxes

Taped interviews for Chicago Gay and Lesbian History Project; recordings of conferences and panel discussions on gay/lesbian issues; tapes of music (disco and other); undetermined recordings.

Box 1 contains listening copies on cassettes of many of the original recordings in the collection. They are open for research use.