Support the Archive
Help preserve cinema's visual history.
Movie Poster Archives (MPA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to preserving the visual history of cinema. Our online archive of more than 15,000 titles holds posters, lobby cards, and film ephemera that would otherwise be lost — much of it never digitized or cataloged anywhere else. The physical archive is far larger: more than a million pieces and thousands more titles awaiting digitization. Your gift supports the daily archival work of Ed and Susan Poole, Archivists, and keeps these materials accessible to researchers, collectors, and the public.
This year-end, gifts go further. Year-end gifts support all of our work, and this year especially the expansion of our online repository — thousands of newly scanned posters, lobby cards and slides, added so collectors and researchers can find them. Giving Tuesday is December 1; a gift any time before December 31 counts for the 2026 tax year.
Scanner Equipment Fund — one million images in 2027
This fall we started the master digital archive: a permanent, high-resolution scan of every poster, lobby card, still and slide we hold. Our goal for 2027 is one million images.
Volunteers will do the scanning. What we lack is the equipment — a high-speed feed scanner for stills and photographs, and a flatbed for lobby cards and larger pieces — about $5,000 together. Gifts to this fund go directly to that purchase; anything beyond it goes to the repository expansion.
By check: memo "Scanner Fund," to the address below.
Suggested gifts
Any amount makes a difference. Three giving levels for guidance:
- $25
- $100
- $500
You can give any amount; the suggestions above are guidance only.
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Make checks payable to Movie Poster Archives. Mail to:
Movie Poster Archives2112 Belle Chasse Hwy, Ste. 8-131
Gretna, LA 70056
Giving from an IRA. If you are 70½ or older, a qualified charitable distribution made directly from your IRA to Movie Poster Archives may be the most tax-efficient way to give, and it counts toward your required minimum distribution. Ask your IRA custodian to send the gift to the address above and to include your name.
Movie Poster Archives is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. EIN: 81-4277585. Donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by United States law. You will receive a receipt for your records once your gift is processed.