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Amateur Painters Capture Storefronts on East Ann Street, July 1960 Photographer: Duane Scheel

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1960
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Ann Arbor News, July 13, 1960
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PAINT CITY SCENE: These two members of Prof. Frede Vidar's private art class paint scenes taking in the old business places on E. Ann St. across from the County Building parking lot. The class, which is composed of local doctors, lawyers, businessmen, housewives, and others who study painting as a hobby, meets from 1 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays in two groups. Prof. Vidar teaches art at the University.
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LGBTQ+ Washtenaw Oral History Project - Lynden Kelly

70-year-old white woman with short hair wearing black t-shirt that reads A2QUALynden Kelly, who goes by Kelly (she/her), was born in 1954 in suburban Detroit. In 1972, she moved to Ann Arbor to attend the University of Michigan. She became involved in countercultural organizations and collectives such as the Ann Arbor Tenants Union and the People’s Wherehouse, a wholesale warehouse for the Michigan Federation of Food Co-ops. She recalls visiting LGBTQ+ spaces in Ann Arbor and beyond, including the U-M Gay Advocates’ Office (now called the Spectrum Center), Canterbury House, the Rubaiyat, and the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. From 1990 to 2003, she and business partner Kate Burkhardt ran Common Language Bookstore, which catered to feminist and LGBTQ+ readers, on Fourth Avenue. Kelly also discusses gender roles, coming out to her parents, marriage equality, and co-founding Ann Arbor Queer Aquatics (A2QUA), a queer swimming group.

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Lynden Kelly, Co-Owner of Common Language Bookstore, October 1993 Photographer: Linda Wan

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1993
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Ann Arbor News, October 7, 1993
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Painting in the Shadows - Wednesday's bright sunshine casts the shadow of Lynden Kelly as she paints near a window of the new space for Common Language Bookstore. The sunshine should continue today and Friday when temperatures will reach into the upper 70s. Common Language, a gay, lesbian and feminist bookstore, will move to its new space, where the Capitol Market used to be at [215] S. Fourth Ave., later this month.
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These Women Mean Business

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Ann Arbor News, November 13, 1994
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13
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November
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1994
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