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The heart of the project is to preserve and digitize items in the Susan H. Douglas Collection of Political Americana. Acquired from an individual collector in 1957, the Douglas collection includes approximately 5,500 items dating from 1789 to 1960.  Mrs. Douglas characterized them as: ballots, “bric-a-brac” (objects), ballots, pamphlets, songbooks, broadsides, cartoons, celluloid buttons, textiles and handkerchiefs, prints, parade items, posters, ribbons, sheet music, and trinkets and trivia.

In addition to the Douglas collection, Cornell University Library also conserved and digitized approximately 1500 similar items covering campaigns from 1960 to 1972. These are housed in a dozen other manuscript collections in RMC, including the public relation records of the Republican National Committee from 1960-1966. We also preserved and digitized the 393 separately-cataloged works of campaign literature dating from 1800 to 1964 found in the Rare Books collection.

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