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Title: Dieter Zahn collection
Dates: 1959-1994
Collection Number: 2011C41
Creator: Zahn, Dieter
Collection Size:
5 manuscript boxes
(2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Election campaign literature and other printed political ephemera, mainly from Germany.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
German
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Dieter Zahn collection, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2006.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Dieter Zahn collection consists of political pamphlets, brochures, and other ephemera collected by Zahn, a German journalist,
who gathered much of this material during his international travels between 1979 and the time of his death in 1999.
The collection was acquired by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives from his son, Ralph, in 2006. In addition to the
four boxes of political ephemera, the collection included over 1,000 political posters, which were added to the Poster Collection
of the Hoover Institution Archives, but which have labels identifying their provenance.
The five boxes of pamphlets, brochures and ephemera are arranged by size, then by country of origin, and in some cases, by
political party or topic within the country. Many of the European materials, in particular, were produced during election
campaigns for the European Parliament from 1979 onward, but other topics and campaigns are included as well. Materials include
flyers, leaflets, sample ballots, campaign newspapers, magazines, newspaper advertisements, booklets, election manifestos,
and window posters.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Elections--Germany