Scope and content

A collection of campaign materials including animated buttons, broadsides, handbills, maps, litter bags, bookmarks, comics, coloring books, phonograph records, and the like from the 1968 presidential, state, and local elections. J. Freides Stationery, Philadelphia Badge Company, American Heritage Foundation and the Story Line, Inc. are the manufacturers represented.

Abstract Blank note cards and one greeting card from eight different publishers reproducing photographs of muscular black male physiques, some nude, by several American photographers. Nineteen of the cards feature tipped-on real-photo analog prints. With the exception of three cards, all include the envelope and are sealed in the original clear mylar sleeve; 11 have a sticker on the verso of the sleeve from Wild Card, a gay gift shop in San Francisco’s Castro District open from 1996 to 2018. Also,...