The Atomic Age Opens Collection

The collection consists primarily of two scrapbooks containing mail art postcards solicited by the Popular Culture Library in the spring and summer of 1995 for an exhibition that was part of the conference "The Atomic Age Opens: American Culture Confronts the Bomb." The conference was held at BGSU in July 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the first detonation of the atomic bomb.

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Ground Zero Press; Color, rows of skulls with guitars, one skeleton sitting on globe, phrase "we'll all go together when we go", atomic symbol

Tunguska 1908, Hiroshima 1945: Homage to Dead Birches

Color, forest of birch trees

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Color, Marilyn Monroe, phrase "Atomic Blonde Bomb"

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Color, crowd holding hands up, phrase "you call the shots and we'll show you the results"