The Waitresses was one of the first performance art groups to
emerge from the Los Angeles Woman's Building. Founded in 1977 by Jerri Allyn and Anne
Gauldin, the group used their collective experiences working as waitresses to explore
feminist issues such as sex discrimination and wage inequality in the food service industry.
Materials in the collection document the performances produced by the group from 1976 to
1985, as well as American Dining: A Working Woman's Movement,
a performance produced by Jerri Allyn from 1986 to 1989. Materials also relate to a 25th
anniversary re-staging of five performances in 2007, as well as other exhibitions and
publications about The Waitresses after 1985. The collection consists of performance notes,
scripts, costumes, photographs, press clippings, props and ephemera, research files related
to social issues in the food service industry, and audiovisual recordings related to various
performances and exhibitions.
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Language:
Collection material is in English.
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 reference@getty.edu URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390
