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ARC-1023

collection

Lynette Jeffers Collection on Janis Joplin

1991 October 27, undated

0.07 (Linear feet)

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Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer and songwriter. She was the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company until she left to pursue a successful solo career until her death in 1970. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

The Lynette Jeffers Collection on Janis Joplin contains three items relating to Janis Joplin: an autograph, a handwritten party invitation, and a newspaper clipping referring to a set of Joplin's bracelets that were given to Jeffers at a party after a concert. The newspaper clipping is dated October 27, 1991 and the rest of the materials are undated.

: The Lynette Jeffers Collection on Janis Joplin was received by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a gift from Lynette Jeffers on June 2, 2023.

: [Identification of Item], Lynette Jeffers Collection on Janis Joplin, Library and Archives, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

: Materials are in English.

: Processed by Crystal Matjasic, Technical Services Archivist. Completed April 17, 2024. Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS and local processing manual. Collection processed through a Museums for America grant from the IMLS.

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