Museum of Public Relations Collection
The Museum maintains the world’s largest collection of books, manuals, journals and essays written on the PR field. Many are rare or one-of-a-kind editions dating to the 1800s and cover such subjects as psychology, social psychology, news media and political history. Works by and about Edward Bernays, Ed Block, Harold Burson, Gustave LeBon, Ofield Dukes, Doris Fleischman, Muriel Fox, John Hill, Inez Kaiser, Ivy Lee, Walter Lippman, Arthur Page, and Alfred Trotter are among its holdings. Artifacts belonging to some of these pioneers range from correspondence and photographs to personal effects and published works.
Visitors have access to hundreds of books, video interviews, lectures, speeches, and panels. and cover a range of subjects from trust and public discourse to the emergence of diverse practitioners and methodologies.
The PR Museum Digitization Project
The material collected by the Museum has begun to be digitized. Some of the items listed below have had reference PDFs made from them (to the extent that the originals would not suffer damage in the process). If you are interested in obtaining access to these materials, please fill out the Collection Access Form and we will get back to you as soon as possible and arrange for you to access what you are looking for. Please give us as much lead time as possible to arrange to make the material you are interested in available. Due to Covid, we are not permitting large groups into our space, but may consider making material available to individuals in person on a case-by-case basis.
