Collection contains matchbooks from Cornell University and the Ithaca area. Included are local venues such as Zinck's and Chanticleer, campus events, campus departments, and a matchbook from the "Far Above" Cornell University plane.

Over 300 matchbook covers from gay bars, discos, private clubs, restaurants, and bathhouses across the United States. There are also over 30 business cards from these establishments and over 30 personalized membership cards from private clubs of the early 1970s in New York.

A collection of posters, handbills, buttons and other ephemera from the gay male leather subculture in San Francisco and other major American cities, ranging from the 1960s through to the early 1990s, and encompassing the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era, regarded as the 'Golden Age' of leather bars.