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Scope and Contents Materials found in this series were created to advertise Marshall's various campaigns as well as the campaigns of her Democratic associates and competitors. The "Administrative" subseries contatins materials that pertain to the internal functions of Marshall's campaigns, including volunteers and staff, campaign finance and fundraising records, and voting results and statistics. This series contains mixed materials including text documents, handwritten notes, buttons, banners, posters, and...

Scope and Contents This subseries contains buttons, banners, posters, and clippings that advertise the campaigns of Marshall and other politicians campaigning on both the local and federal levels between the mid-1970s and early 2000s. The clippings in this subseries are newspaper headlines from local media outlets (i.e. Queens Gazette, Queens Tribune, etc.) advertising Marshall's campaign and election victories, which were separated from general clippings. The buttons in particular include a mix of...

Abstract Helen Marie Marshall (1929–2017) was an American politician and community organizer who served in the various elected positions of New York State Assemblymember, New York City Councilmember, and Queens Borough President between the 1980s and mid-2010s. Documenting the legacy of her personal life and career as an African American woman of Guyanese heritage, the Helen Marshall Papers are comprised of 35.75 linear feet of materials dating from the 1920s through 2014. Including records such as...