Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Administrative Information
Collection Summary
Collection Title: French political campaign posters
Date (inclusive): 1936
Collection Number: BANC PIC 2005.005
Extent:
44 items (posters) and 1 folder (photographic prints and typescript)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in French
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access Information
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond
that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], French political campaign posters, BANC PIC 2005.005, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
France -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Posters
Political posters, French
Posters
Administrative Information
From the collection of Professor Charles Aikin of the U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Political Science, given to the Library in 1967.
Scope and Content Note
Chiefly textual posters (broadsides) collected in the Left Bank of Paris during the 1936 elections. Posters represent various
candidates and parties. Included are the Communist Party (Parti Communiste), the Centre de Propagande des Republicains Nationaux,
miscellaneous anti-communist, anti-fascist, or anti-popular front items, and posters for the candidates Bergery, M. Duval-Arnould,
L. Blum, Roger Sarret, and Wiedemann-Goiran. Also included in the collection is a set of 25 photographic prints taken in Paris
during the 1936 elections, showing posters posted in the streets and parks of Paris.
Note
The Charles Aikin collection of British campaign posters, received with his 1967 gift of French posters, has been cataloged
as part of the British political campaign poster collection (BANC PIC 2005.006).