Underground Newspapers Microfilm Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SCA-0109

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Microfilmed newspapers cover a diverse range of movements such as the anti-Vietnam War movement, civil rights, women’s rights, gay rights, American Indian issues, Black power, Eastern spirituality, the New Left, and the youth and counterculture of the 1960s-1970s.

Publications are individually cataloged in two places: first, as catalog entries in OneSearch (use keyword "underground newspaper collection", then use "Filter my Results" to set the category "Location" to "Archives Rosenthal Level 3"); and second, all titles are listed in a printed index in box 3 of this collection.

Dates

1963 - 1973

Conditions Governing Access

Appointments to examine materials must be made in advance. Please email QC.archives@qc.cuny.edu for more information or to schedule an appointment.

Conditions Governing Use

Reproductions may be provided to users to support research and scholarship. However, collection use is subject to all copyright laws. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Historical Note

This Collection began as a joint venture created by the Underground Press Syndicate and the Bell and Howell Company in the early 1970s.

Extent

147 Reels

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred from first floor of library (previously the Media Center) to Special Collection and Archives in May, 2021.

Bibliography

Charnigo, Laurie. “Prisoners of Microfilm: Freeing Voices of Dissent in the Underground Newspaper Collection.” Progressive Librarian, no. 40, Fall/Winter 2012, pp. 41–90.