Collecting the History of Disco

Museum Collection

Late 1960s: Societal Upheaval

Time Magazine: Middle Americans as 1970 Man/Woman of the Year Cover

Nixon's the One

Workers stomping on a man on Broadway, May 8, 1970

Newsletter Daughters of Bilitis/New York Sept 1969

Early 1970s: Coming Together

David Mancuso

I Will Survive

Photographic slide of Marsha P. Johnson at a New York Gay Pride March

Soul Makossa

The Ice Man Cometh

Only the Strong Survive

Mid-1970s: Disco is Mainstream

Studio 54 with Balloons

John Travolta

Sylvester Gnus article, 1977

Disco Duck symphony

Sylvester performing

Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night

Late 1970s: Rock's Backlash

Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, Chicago Tribune

Anti-disco cartoon from Punk Magazine, 1979

1980s and on: Disco Never Died

33c Disco Music postage stamp

Grace Jones Poster