Within weeks of the occupation of Zuccotti Park last fall archivists from the New-York Historical Society and other institutions were out scooping up posters, fliers, pamphlets, signs and other ephemera. "For us, it's an event in New York City," said Jean Ashton, the society's executive vice president and director of its library, which has so far amassed several hundred Occupy-related artifacts. "We want to make sure that people understand what happened here."
Read the story here: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/occupy-wall-street-from-the-streets-to-the-archives/
Comments