Minicon 4

Minicon 4 was held in 17–19 June 1971 at the Curtis Hotel (Minneapolis). It was chaired by Jim Young and had a membership of about 150. Lin Carter was the guest of honor.

Committee

Lynn Torline, Secretary
Marge Lessinger, Treasurer
Ruth Burman, Operatic Productions
Chuck holst, Film Coordinator
Linda Lounsbury, Registration
Jim Schumeister, Art Show
Walk Schwartz, Huckster's Room
Don Blyly
Ken Fletcher
Jim Odbert
Blue Petal
Lois Spooner
Frank Stodolka
Anthony Tollin
Patt Worthington

Badge

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Program Book

small Minicon 4 Program Book cover

Here it is in PDF (0.8 MB), or you can have one made out of the raw scans (72 MB), but probably you only want that one if you are on a fast connection and interested in the grain of the paper used. You can also see a text-only transcript (not counting advertisements). Finally, here are nice individual page images:

The Minicon 4 program book is in the public domain due to having been published between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice.

Flyer

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Here's a flyer advertising the convention. It's a photo of the original marker drawing of the flyer. We presume that the flyer ended up being reproduced and used, but that's just an assumption!

This Minicon 4 flyer is in the public domain due to having been published between 1923 and 1977 without a copyright notice.