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Abstract

Collection of fliers, posters, buttons, handbills, and other political ephemera from the 1960s-1970s documenting activist movements in New York City, Queens, and Queens College. Topics include the Vietnam War, 1968 presidential and other elections, students’ rights, and racism. Materials in the collection were gathered by Harvey Silver, a Queens College alumnus who was student activist and photographer of various political and cultural events in the 1960s-1970s.

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Commemorative publications; printed and 3d ephemera; and research and administrative files associated with various anniversaries of Queens College.

Scope and Contents This file consists of two fliers created in 1969 by student groups, the Student Advisory Council of the City University of New York and CCNY Committee for Open Admissions. In these fliers, the groups discuss current administrative issues with diversity, academic curricula, funding, and budgetary support of CUNY students and call for students to apply political pressure and organize. In additional to these fliers, there are two buttons from 1969 with the slogans “Don’t Cut CUNY”...

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This file consists of three handbills advertising two separate exhibitions that took place in 2020 featuring photographs taken by Harvey Silver. Silver’s photographs reproduced on the handbills are of live performances, musicians, and images of upstate New York.

Scope and Contents This file contains posters, fliers, leaflets, campaign contribution receipts, party platform statements, sample ballots, campaign promotional materials, stickers, and publications created and distributed from the mid 1960s to late 1960s pertaining to political candidates and current issues in US electoral politics. These materials were created and distributed by groups such as the National Mobilization Committee, the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, the Coalition for a Democratic...

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Items such as apparel, pens, pins, and medals created in conjunction with various college anniversaries.

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Blue and gold pen inscribed with seal, 1937-1997.

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Medal (seal of Queens College) attached to ribbon.

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Plastic key chain attached to medal ring, "QC 60" with confetti.

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Pin with 75th anniversary logo and motto, "75 years forward".