Leather Archives & Museum: 25 Years (1991-2016) [digital]
The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life. The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life.
COLLECTIONS HIGHLIGHT: SAILOR SID PIERCING COLLECTION In May 2015, the LA&M and the Association of Professional Piercers (APP) launched a crowdfunding campaign through Indiegogo to support the digitization, processing, preservation, rehousing, and exhibition of the Sailor Sid Diller Piercing Collection. Additionally, at International Mr. Leather and the APP conference in 2015, awareness and funds were raised for this Collection. Paul King, Committee Chairperson and APP treasurer, played an integral role in connecting APP and LA&M for the preservation of the Sid Diller collection. Collection using archival standards and best practices. Many hours of carefully removing photographs from harmful photo pages, cataloging papers, digitization and film preservation was and is required to keep this collection available for generations to come. Additionally, the digital collection, as well as the finding aid, are now available online. The APP played a pivotal role in this project through their support, financial generosity, and sharing networks and expertise. The archival work, including digitization and exhibit creation, was completed by Archivist/ Collections Librarian Jakob VanLammeren and Project Intern Julissa Gillig at the LA&M. In 2016, a traveling exhibit for the Sailor Sid Diller Piercing Collection was developed and unveiled at the APP 2016 conference, and featured 18 six foot banners, three monitors featuring interviews with LA&M staff, Sailor Sid, and home movies from the collection; and two exhibit cases with original archival materials from the Sid Collection. Sailor Sid Piercing Collection will benefit leather and piercing aficionados alike. By joining forces, the LA&M and APP are excited to see this collection come to life. Thanks to the APP and over 100 supporters $22,477.55 was raised to fund this project. By supporting the Sailor Sid Diller Online Photograph Collection Indiegogo campaign, you helped fund the complete processing, arrangement and description of this “Sailor” Sidney Eugene Diller was born to Moris S. Diller and Daisie Diller in Chicago, Illinois on March 8, 1910. Little is known about Sid’s childhood, but an archivist at the Illinois Institute of Technology confirmed that he was a student there from c. 1941-1946. Sid also worked as an electrician at a hotel in Chicago according to the 1940 census, and served as an electrician's mate in WWII with the USCG c. 1941-1948 before moving to Miami Florida c. 1950. In a PFIQ interview, Sid revealed that he got his first piercing during the War—a ring in his left 64
ear. After the War, Sid traveled for a few years before settling in Miami, Florida. Sid had a career as an electrical engineer until c. 1974 when he retired. In conducting research for this collection at the LA&M, it was not only uncovered that Sailor Sid was born in Chicago, but the US census revealed that he lived with his mother and father just blocks away from the current location of the Leather Archives & Museum in Edgewater! The letters from his collection, in addition to his writings for The Theban, newsletter of Thebans MC, also discuss his visits back to Chicago. In the 1970s he most often came back to see his friend Cliff Raven before Cliff relocated to the West Coast in 1976; later Sid came to celebrate anniversaries at The Gold Coast. Sailor Sid is most well known for being one of the early piercing, body modification, and tattoo innovators alongside Doug Malloy, Fakir Musafar, Cliff Raven, Jim Ward, and Bud “Viking” Navarro. He ran Silver Anchor Tattoo and Piercing Studio from his house, first in Miami and then Ft. Lauderdale, where he tattooed and pierced mainly gay men from his home. Many of the photographs from the Sailor Sid Diller Piercing Collection proudly reveal nuances about his work/living space--we see dozens of photographs in a row of genital piercings, and then suddenly we are looking at a photograph of Sid’s dachshunds, his Volkswagen Beetle in the driveway, the red white and blue anchor-themed bedspread of his bedroom. Sid was also an Honorary Member of Thebans MC (Miami) and was a Recording Secretary and on the Newsletter Committee in May/June 1976, and continued to contribute to the Thebans newsletter until late 1979/1980, when he relocated to Ft. 65
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COLLECTIONS HIGHLIGHT:<br />
SAILOR SID PIERCING COLLECTION<br />
In May 2015, the LA&M and the Association<br />
of Professional Piercers (APP) launched a<br />
crowdfunding campaign through Indiegogo<br />
to support the digitization, processing,<br />
preservation, rehousing, and exhibition of<br />
the Sailor Sid Diller Piercing Collection.<br />
Additionally, at International Mr. <strong>Leather</strong> and<br />
the APP conference in 2015, awareness and<br />
funds were raised for this Collection. Paul<br />
King, Committee Chairperson and APP<br />
treasurer, played an integral role in<br />
connecting APP and LA&M for the<br />
preservation of the Sid Diller collection.<br />
Collection using archival standards and best<br />
practices. Many hours of carefully removing<br />
photographs from harmful photo pages,<br />
cataloging papers, digitization and film<br />
preservation was and is required to keep<br />
this collection available for generations to<br />
come. Additionally, the <strong>digital</strong> collection, as<br />
well as the finding aid, are now available<br />
online.<br />
The APP played a pivotal role in this project<br />
through their support, financial generosity,<br />
and sharing networks and expertise. The<br />
archival work, including digitization and<br />
exhibit creation, was completed by Archivist/<br />
Collections Librarian Jakob VanLammeren<br />
and Project Intern Julissa Gillig at the LA&M.<br />
In <strong>2016</strong>, a traveling exhibit for the Sailor Sid<br />
Diller Piercing Collection was developed and<br />
unveiled at the APP <strong>2016</strong> conference, and<br />
featured 18 six foot banners, three monitors<br />
featuring interviews with LA&M staff, Sailor<br />
Sid, and home movies from the collection;<br />
and two exhibit cases with original archival<br />
materials from the Sid Collection.<br />
Sailor Sid Piercing Collection will benefit<br />
leather and piercing aficionados alike. By<br />
joining forces, the LA&M and APP are<br />
excited to see this collection come to life.<br />
Thanks to the APP and over 100 supporters<br />
$22,477.55 was raised to fund this project.<br />
By supporting the Sailor Sid Diller Online<br />
Photograph Collection Indiegogo campaign,<br />
you helped fund the complete processing,<br />
arrangement and description of this<br />
“Sailor” Sidney Eugene Diller was born to<br />
Moris S. Diller and Daisie Diller in Chicago,<br />
Illinois on March 8, 1910. Little is known<br />
about Sid’s childhood, but an archivist at the<br />
Illinois Institute of Technology confirmed that<br />
he was a student there from c. 1941-1946.<br />
Sid also worked as an electrician at a hotel<br />
in Chicago according to the 1940 census,<br />
and served as an electrician's mate in WWII<br />
with the USCG c. 1941-1948 before moving<br />
to Miami Florida c. 1950. In a PFIQ<br />
interview, Sid revealed that he got his first<br />
piercing during the War—a ring in his left<br />
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