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Filename: sahl_portraits_164
PID: islandora:80_1288
Title: Alex Mendizabel
Creator: Sahl, Ted (photographer)
Date issued: circa 1982
Description: Photograph is a portrait of Alex Mendizabel. Alex was elected Emperor III, Casa de San Jose Court, Inc. in 1980, and was also co-founder of the Watergarden--A Health and Recreation Center in San Jose founded in 1975.
File Format: Image/jpg
Extent: 4.4 x 2.9 in.
Object type: Photographic prints
Tags: Activists
Subject, LCSH: Gay culture
Subject, TGM: Activists
Business people
Gay men
Portrait photographs
Geographic coverage: San Jose -- California
Collection: Ted Sahl Archives
Repository: San José State University Special Collections & Archives
Relation - is part of: Series III, Box 8, Folders 36
Rights: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact San Jose State University Special Collections & Archives Department.
Location: Series III, Box 8, Folders 36
Note: Written on sleeve holding photograph: "Alex Mendizabel." Mendizabel was a gay activist and co-founder of the Watergarden--A Health and Recreation Center in San Jose founded in 1975. He died in 1993. From Ted Sahl, "From Closet to Community"; (2002), pp.53-54.
Digital reproduction information: Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG