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Holdings

The archive's physical collection. Rare books, single-article press, ephemera and pop-culture material, periodicals, photographs, and correspondence, catalogued at item level and presented as individual exhibitions with full page scans.

1,006Page scans
68Periodical issues
7Categories
1952 to 2002Date range

The holdings hub presents the archive's physical-collection material as item-level exhibitions. Each catalogued item has its own page with object record, editorial context, and the complete page-by-page digitisation. Items are categorised by physical type. Cross-references connect each item to the people, cases, country pages, and collection pages it relates to.

Books

1 catalogued | 36 pages

Rare books from the contactee tradition and the late-Victorian psychical-research literature. Each book exhibited at object level with the full page scan record.

Ephemera

2 catalogued | 14 pages

Single-issue holdings of magazines, intelligence briefs, and short-run printed material that documents the civilian-research network and the popular-press reception of the post-1947 UFO phenomenon.

Periodicals

68 issues | 865 pages

Newsletter and journal holdings across the British, Australian, American, and Continental civilian-research community. Item-level cataloguing in progress; established collection-level treatment continues in the wider Newsletter Archive.

Comics and Pop-Culture

3 issues catalogued | 57 pages

Documentary record of how the post-1947 American and English-language press, comics, and pulp-fiction industries engaged the UFO question. Held as primary-source cultural-reception material, not as investigative documentation. Pages pending item exhibition build-out.

  • Dell Comics: Space Man No. 1253, 2, and 5 (1962 to 1963)
  • Mechanix Illustrated: Martian Invader (1956)

Single-Article Press

Pending item exhibitions

Press articles preserved at item level: Family Weekly (Willy Ley, January 1960), Everybody's (Tom King Australian survey, January 1967), PIX (Christian Darby, January 1968), and the wider single-issue mainstream-press holdings.

Photographs

Catalogue in progress

Press photographs, archival prints, and originals. Catalogue currently in preparation. Item-level exhibitions to follow.

Correspondence

Catalogue in progress

Letters, signed cards, and other working correspondence from researcher estates and acquired collections. Catalogue currently in preparation. Item-level exhibitions to follow.

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