Radicalism Collection
 This is a safe sex promotion poster found in the health section of MSS 431. |  This Vietnam protest poster is promoting a tank plant strike done in Warren, Michigan. It is interesting because I am from that area and got to learn some history about it that I did not know. |  These plays were a satirical take on the Red Scare and were a portion of the communist section. |
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 This is one of my personal favorites as it is very funny. It is meant to grab attention and help stop the war coalition in England. |  This is a promotional poster for a festival that took place right here in Lansing, Michigan. It is part of the large LGBT section of the Radical Posters. |  These are the finalized boxes. In the Picture, they are properly labeled and on the shelves to be sent out to remote storage. They can be called back anytime within 3-5 business days of warning for use. |
The second collection I went through was the Radicalism Collection or MSS 431. It contained items from very different backgrounds. There were posters from Hippie communes, anti-communist sentiments, Black Panther propaganda, and even world war two strikes! This collection was my personal favorite to work with as I never knew what each folder held. For this collection, I not only had to sort and properly store the items but also create cataloging numbers for them and put them in ArchivesSpace. This was done by box which were sorted by size. Compared to the previous collection, this one will be easier to find items in based on number. There were only approximately 250 posters and pamphlets in this collection so it made creating the finding aid much easier. A previous student had made one on an excel sheet and I used it to make the new one. It was difficult though, because I had to figure out their organization and it was not the way I would have done it. Figuring out how to use ArchivesSpace proved to be difficult but, I learned a lot about the program. This finding aid now has the numbers, correct title information, and some minor description of the items. It will be used to further catalog the items so that patrons have an easier time finding specifically what they are looking for.