Mounted posters from the exhibition, “Unity and Diversity: a selection of posters from the Communication Design Department at Parsons School of Design," created by junior-year Communication Design students at Parsons. Thirty posters were chosen for the exhibition out of 180 entries submitted to a poster competition held by the Communications Design Department on the theme of “diversity, the underlying theme of the American Republic” in 1994.

The collection consists of five photograph albums and two scrapbooks compiled by the designer, style arbiter, and Parsons School of Design administrator and president Van Day Truex (1904-1979). Truex's travels and social interactions are documented in captioned photographs. A third scrapbook of unknown origin, annotated by Parsons faculty member Stanley Barrows, documents Truex's apartments and the home of his predecessor as president of Parsons, William Odom.