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In our newsletter of November 1, 2023, we announced the Getty Research Institute’s acquisition of some 600 objects from the collection concerning social justice in the United States. The GRI has now catalogued the collection as the “Merrill C. Berman Collection of Posters Relating to United States Twentieth-Century Social Movements, 1906–2020 (bulk: 1935–1999)” and the detailed online finding aid (found here) describes the collection as follows: The collection comprises 315 posters, a poster maquette, and drawings, as well as fliers, black-and-white photographs, invitations, press releases, brochures, pamphlets, publications, stamp albums, product labels, and other ephemera that represent key historical moments in American history, with a particular focus on African American activism and protest, the Works Progress Administration, twentieth-century social justice movements, and LGBTQ movements. Some key periodicals included in the group are pictured above and below.
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