Of all the newspapers in the Museum of PR's newspaper collection, the most requested issue is this New York Times from 57 years ago. The Museum's newspaper collection goes back to the early 1800s, and visitors find it fascinating to see what made the front page in the 19th century compared to the 20th. On Nov. 23, 1963 the front page of the Times and every daily in the world, carried news of the assassination. For today's Baby Boomers, the photos from that page are seared forever in our minds.
The Museum of Public Relations Fundraiser to Digitize Artifacts
The Museum of Public Relations, the world’s only museum dedicated to the field, has launched a major initiative to digitize its artifacts– in order for the archive to become accessible to students, educators and professionals around the world, especially during the COVID-19 quarantine. Any donation would be very appreciated. Kindly donate through this link: https://www.prmuseum.org/donate-1The Museum’s collection, which has been closed since March, is comprised of more than 2500 rare documents, photos, oral histories and books preserving and chronicling the century-old history of the PR field. The Museum also demonstrates the often under- recognized impact that the field has had on business, culture, politics and society.
Through its recent collaborations with CommPRO the Museum has co-produced a series of exploring the intersection between politics and public relations, including programs featuring CNN’s legal analyst Michael Zeldin interviewing Amb. Andrew Young, John Dean, Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta.
Since its beginnings 25 years ago, the Museum has been recognized as the Number One online resource for
PR education, with its video interviews of Edward Bernays, Dan Edelman and Harold Burson being among its most downloaded resources. The Museum site also features photographs, copies of rare books, a PR world-history timeline and a video repository of the many events the Museum has produced over the last several years. These have included six annual diversity events, celebrating, “Black PR History,” “Latino PR History,” and most recently, “The AAPI Community in Public Relations,” all of which pay tribute to the very rich diversity of the field’s historyThe Museum’s outreach to students and professionals around the world includes guest lectures to universities in Argentina, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, as well as events which attract an international audience, such as the recent “How the World Would Vote” program produced with the Worldcom PR Group and watched by more than 400 professionals worldwide.
Those interested in supporting the Museum’s digitization efforts should visit: prmuseum.org/donate-1
