Selected artifacts from the permanent collection.
Theatrical poster, c. 1962
Produced for the first screen account of the Main Street Incident, this poster exaggerates the scale of the evacuation but accurately records the three-flavor construction of the invading vessels. Contemporary reviews criticized the film's treatment of the Dairy Queen casualties as sensationalistic.
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Picture sleeve for 7-inch single, 1959
Issued during Larry Lane's unsuccessful comeback attempt, the single failed to enter the Billboard Hot 100 and was withdrawn after six weeks. Lane died the following year on a toilet in Paramus, New Jersey. Surviving sleeves are now considerably more valuable than the recordings they contain.
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Commemorative comic-book cover, 2024
Published after the Paris observance that restored the missing anniversary Kaddish, the cover presents its central figure in the heroic posture then customary for civilian mourners. The unusually small print run was distributed chiefly through synagogues, hockey rinks, and one comic shop in Queens.
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Consumer magazine cover, 2026
This special issue was rushed into print during the brief national panic over Good Samaritan Derangement Syndrome. Its cover model later acknowledged that he had never rendered aid and had been hired because he could look concerned while standing comfortably out of reach.
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Newsstand magazine cover, 1978
The only national periodical devoted to female biting flies, Working Girl combined workplace reporting, fashion, and blood-host access. This issue's cover subject disappeared during a location shoot in a suburban bathroom and is presumed to have completed her assignment.
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Touring poster, undated
Long believed to advertise a conventional animal act, the poster is now understood as the earliest evidence that the celebrated deer brothers performed without management, permits, or recognizable skills. Their disappearance from the circuit coincided with the installation of a taller backyard fence.
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Lifestyle magazine cover, 2025
LURK served the neglected market of readers who preferred to remain beneath furniture. The centipede featured here was celebrated for eliminating a household intruder, though later accounts disagree over whether it understood the assignment or merely arrived hungry.
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Regional field guide, 11th edition
The eleventh edition was the first to recognize royal visitation as a migratory category rather than a weather event. Its valuation tables remain controversial, particularly the premium assigned to birds observed from inside a house while the observer was supposed to be doing something else.
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Bubbie Pomerantz Bakery advertisement, c. 1956
The campaign briefly revived the nineteenth-century belief that sourdough could be exchanged for friendship at a fixed rate. The bakery withdrew the claim after several customers attempted to redeem loaves for airport rides, medical advice, and help moving a piano.
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Bubbie Pomerantz Bakery advertisement, c. 1957
Created during the bakery's short-lived monster period, the advertisement presents whole wheat bread as the only force capable of reconciling King Kong and Godzilla. Sales rose sharply, although neither creature was ever photographed eating the product.
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Trade advertisement, c. 1958
This rare surviving advertisement documents the bakery's unsuccessful effort to broaden its clientele through insect endorsement. The gentleman centipede was paid in cash; the horsefly negotiated a separate blood allowance and retained approval over all wardrobe decisions.