Bloomer's Post Card
Title
Bloomer's Post Card
Subject
Lesbian community, Lesbian bars, art shows
Description
Creme colored paper postcard with dark brown text, which reads:
"Bloomer's Restaurant and Bar, 27th & Jane Streets Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Collected Works: A Gathering of Spirit. Feb. 17 - Mar. 28. Opening Reception February 17- 7-10 PM."
The back of the post card is an image of a turn of the century art gallery with paintings hung salon style, as well as leaned against a stair banister.
For more lesbian bar space memorabilia in the online archives, visit the Cynthia Bruno collection containing matchbooks from the Norreh Social Club and Shawn's, as well as a Norreh T-Shirt.
For more information on Wild Sisters Cafe/Bloomer's and other lesbian feminist and women's movement centered spaces, we encourage you to visit the online digital storytelling project In Sisterhood, about the women's movement in Pittsburgh, http://www.insisterhood.info/.
There is also a Pittsburgh Dig's Interactive page dedicated to Wild Sisters, centered on the public coverage in text and photos given to the bar in 1982.
https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2014/08/01/wild-sisters-coffeehouse-pittsburghs-first-feminist-bar-bistro-and-cabaret/
"Bloomer's Restaurant and Bar, 27th & Jane Streets Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Collected Works: A Gathering of Spirit. Feb. 17 - Mar. 28. Opening Reception February 17- 7-10 PM."
The back of the post card is an image of a turn of the century art gallery with paintings hung salon style, as well as leaned against a stair banister.
For more lesbian bar space memorabilia in the online archives, visit the Cynthia Bruno collection containing matchbooks from the Norreh Social Club and Shawn's, as well as a Norreh T-Shirt.
For more information on Wild Sisters Cafe/Bloomer's and other lesbian feminist and women's movement centered spaces, we encourage you to visit the online digital storytelling project In Sisterhood, about the women's movement in Pittsburgh, http://www.insisterhood.info/.
There is also a Pittsburgh Dig's Interactive page dedicated to Wild Sisters, centered on the public coverage in text and photos given to the bar in 1982.
https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2014/08/01/wild-sisters-coffeehouse-pittsburghs-first-feminist-bar-bistro-and-cabaret/
Creator
Bloomer's Restaurant & Bar
Contributor
Harriet Stein (donor)
Type
Still Image
Identifier
HS-001-001
Coverage
Lesbian bar, art show
Date Accepted
2015-07-27
Spatial Coverage
Bloomer's, South Side (Pittsburgh)
Temporal Coverage
1980-1990
Accrual Periodicity
Infrequent
Collection
Citation
Bloomer's Restaurant & Bar, “Bloomer's Post Card,” PQHP Online Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://pittsburghqueerhistory.com/omeka/items/show/1482.