Inventory of the European pictorial collection

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Title: European pictorial collection
Date (inclusive): 1918-2001
Collection Number: XX772
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 slide box, 37 envelopes, 1 oversize folder, 1 album box (6.1 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Photographs, postcards, and slides, depicting cities, prominent personalities, and historical events in various European countries, particularly in Eastern Europe. Includes scenes of the Hungarian Revolution of 1918-1919; the coup of 1926 in Poland; the revolt of 1934 in Austria; post-World War II communist activities in Romania; and the Solidarność movement in Poland in the 1980s.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Acquisition Information

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], European pictorial collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Slides (Photography)
Austria -- History -- 1918-1938 -- Pictorial works
Europe -- Pictorial works
Hungary -- History -- Revolution, 1918-1919 -- Pictorial works
Poland -- History -- Coup d'état, 1926 -- Pictorial works
Romania -- History -- 1944-1989 -- Pictorial works
Poland -- History -- 1980-1989 -- Pictorial works
NSZZ "Solidarność" (Labor organization)

envelope A

16 prints of scenes of street fighting and destruction during the Austrian revolt of 1934; 10 postcards of personalities involved; 5 postcards of views of Melk in der Wachau, Austria

envelope B

1 print of the Czech opera singer Otakar Marak, 1919, autographed

envelope C

3 prints and 4 negatives depicting the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops, August 1968; 1 negative of Premier Dubcek; 1 negative of a view of Prague

envelope D

23 prints depicting daily life in the small town of Zagora, Greece, under the Junta's rule

envelope E

1 pictorial booklet depicting buildings, bridges and monuments in Budapest, Hungary. Captions in German and Hungarian

envelope mF

16 prints depicting scenes from the Hungarian Revolution of 1918-1919; 31 postcards of leaders of the Hungarian Soviet Republic; 8 photocopies of posters from the Hungarian Revolution 1 illustrated newspaper section of leaders of the Hungarian Soviet Republic

envelope G

1 print of Nicholas Horthy, regent of Hungary, 1920-1944, with a dedication to the Hungarian peasantry signed by Horthy 1919 November 16

envelope mH

1 print of Eamonn De Valera, President of Ireland 1959-1973

envelope I

1 post card of Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist premier 1922-1945

envelope J

1 print of crowd in Northern Italy demonstrating in favor of occupation and annexation by Yugoslavia 1948

envelope K

20 prints depicting various places of interest in Wilno, Lithuania, 1920's; and 6 prints 1992

envelope L

32 prints depicting street fighting in Warsaw, Poland, at the time of Marshal Pilsudski's coup in May 1926

envelope m*M

1 print of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain 1939-1975

envelope N

3 prints of President Eisenhower's visit to Spain, depicting him with Generalissimo Franco, and the crowds welcoming him to Madrid 1950s

envelope O

1 print of King Carol of Romania with Professor Temperley

envelope mP

1 print of Stephan, Archbishop of Sofia, Bulgaria 1925

envelope Q

12 prints depicting various locations in Yugoslavia

envelope R

1 print depicting the unveiling in Poznan, Poland, of a statue of President Woodrow Wilson, in 1931

envelope S

44 prints and 2 postcards depicting Budapest and the Hungarian countryside and people 1931

envelope T

2 prints an 8 postcards depicting various monuments in Basel, Vienna, Heidelberg, as well as a performance of "die walkure" in Bayreuth 1931

envelope U

4 prints of Republican supporters (women, Carlist youth, and Communists involved in the destruction of churches) in Spain 1936

envelope V

5 prints depicting street scenes and demonstrations in Czechoslovakia in 1990

envelope W

12 prints depicting scenes from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

envelope X

4 prints of President Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia, and 1 postcard of Hradcany Square 1989-1992

envelope Y

7 prints and postcards of the history museum Brama Stracen Cytadeli in Warsaw, Poland 1992

envelope Z

30 prints of political demonstrations in Czechoslovakia, 1989, and of election campaign posters in Slovakia 1992

box 1

7 prints and accompanying booklet of scenes in Romania following the revolution of 1990

box 1

Tbilisi, Georgia 1989, 1999

box 4

Portrait of Jan Paderewski

box 4

1 album of prints of a Lithuanian literary exhibition in Moscow and scenes of cultural activity in Estonia and Latvia 1948

box 2

Prints, 1970-1987, of Polish dissidents, gatherings and scenes associated with the Solidarnosc movement, the Polish priest Jerzy Popieuszko and his funeral, and visits of Pope John Paul II to Poland

box 3

Prints, 1970-1987, of Polish dissidents, gatherings and scenes associated with the Solidarnosc movement, the Polish priest Jerzy Popieuszko and his funeral, and visits of Pope John Paul II to Poland (continued)

envelope AA

9 postcards depicting Latvian government buildings, government leaders and military parades, 1938; and 5 prints of Baltic independence demonstrations and Latvian monuments 1988-1990

envelope AB

28 prints of Nicolae Ceausescu, other Romanian communist leaders, and scenes of Romanian communist activities circa 1947-1985

envelope AC

31 prints of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife with various world leaders circa 1960s-1980s

envelope AD

76 prints of Romanian communist demonstrations circa 1980s

envelope AE

51 color photographs of election posters in Slovakia 1994

envelope AF

15 prints of street-fighting in Poland 1970

envelope AG

16 prints of political prisoners in Poland circa 1980s

envelope AH

30 prints of underground printing presses in Poland circa 1980s

envelope AI

11 prints of the visit of Pope John Paul II to Poland 1983

envelope AJ

48 prints of the Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko and of his funeral 1984

envelope AK

72 prints of Polish dissidents, and of gatherings and scenes associated with the Solidarnosc movement circa 1980s

envelope AL

1 print of the transfer of the ashes of Ignacy Paderewski to Warsaw 1992

album fAM

1 album of prints depicting the life and career of the Bulgarian communist leader Todor Zhivkov undated

box 4

1 album of prints of the inspection of a Polish army mechanized division by the Polish communist leader Edward Gierek 1971

box 3

13 prints of Lech Walesa and other delegates at the opening session of the Polish Sejm 1989

box 5

Slides of Italian election posters 1994-1996

box 3

Prints of visits of Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Jerzy Kosinski and Richard M. Nixon to Poland 1963-1989

box 3

Prints of Polish political and military leaders 1965-1975

box 3

Negatives of election poster billboards in the Czech Republic 1996

box 3

Postcards of Polish armed forces undated

box 3

Postcards of war damage in Dubrovnik 1995

box 3

Photographs of election posters in Bosnia 1996

box 3

Photographs of the visit of the Polish Cardinal Szczepan Wesoly to the United States 1997

box 3

Slides of the reinterment of the body of General Wladyslaw Sikorski in Krakow, 1993. Postcards of Pope John Paul II 1997

box 3

Autographed photograph of President Guntis Ulmanis of Latvia 1997

box 3

Filmstrip depicting social conditions in interwar Poland undated

box 6

Prints of Poles in Germany circa 1930s

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of Edith Stein memorial in Poland, 1997. Photographs of Prague, 1990. Photographs of Tirana, Albania, 1996. Photographs of the Romanian royal family, circa 1990s. Negatives of election posters in Poland, 1997. Postcards of Wroclaw Poland, undated. Prints of the painting of religious pictures in Ol'shanskii Church, Prague, 1942.
box 6

Prints and photographs depicting social condition in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Estonia, circa 1930s. Prints of anti-communist demonstrations in Prague, 1989. Prints of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, 1939-1942. Prints of election campaigning in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1996. Prints of President Boleslaw Bierut of Poland and F.L. Belin, American ambassador to Poland 1933-1947

box 6

Photographs of Skwer Hoovera in Warsaw 1998

Scope and Contents note

Photographs of election posters in the Czech Republic, 1998. Photographs of election posters in Slovakia, 1998. Photographs of President Emil Constantinescu of Romania, 1998. Photographs of social and political conditions in Albania, 1985-1999.
box 7

Photographs of the Austrian socialist Friedrich Adler, undated; photograph of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek of Poland, undated; photograph of leaders of the Osterreichische Volkspartei 1999

box 8

Material not yet described.