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Poster collection (University of California, Irvine)
AS.050
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: University of California, Irvine, poster collection
Creator:
University of California, Irvine
Identifier/Call Number: AS.050
Physical Description:
18.5 Linear Feet
(36 oversize folders) and 0.4 unprocessed linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1965-2011
Abstract: The collection comprises over 1,800 color and black and white posters created by various administrative offices, academic
departments, and organizations on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus from the 1960s to the present. The posters
advertise programs and events held on campus and provide information on course offerings as well as academic and student support
services.
Language of Material:
English
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The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are generally retained by the creators of the records
and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright. For information on use,
copyright, and attribution, please visit: http://special.lib.uci.edu/using/publishing.html
University of California, Irvine, poster collection. AS-050. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine,
California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquired periodically from various campus sources.
Additional materials are expected.
Processed by Mariko Takemoto in 1999. Processing completed by Ellen Cruz in 2001. Finding aid produced by Carrie Lee in 2001.
Additions and revisions made by Cyndi Shein in 2007. Updated by Laura Uglean Jackson and Christine Kim, 2017. Updated by Gabrielle
Wood, 2023.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises over 1,800 color and black and white posters created by various administrative offices, academic
departments, and organizations on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus from the 1960s to the present. The posters
advertise programs and events held on campus and provide information on course offerings as well as academic and student support
services. The major academic units represented include the Schools of the Arts, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Humanities,
Physical Sciences, Social Ecology, and Social Sciences.
The collection is arranged alphabetically by the subject of the poster, or by the originating campus unit. Within each folder
the posters are organized by year, with undated posters on top.
The collection also contains two unprocessed additions:
Accession 2014.040. Unprocessed addition, 2014, 1967-1990. 0.4 linear feet
Accession 2017.003. Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows series and Bill Maher event unprocessed addition, 1997-2007. 0.1 linear
feet
Many of the posters were removed from the records of their office of origin and added to this collection. Contextual information
can be found in the corresponding archival collections, vertical files, and campus publications.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Posters -- 20th century.
Posters -- 21st century.
University of California, Irvine. School of Biological Sciences -- Posters
University of California, Irvine. School of the Arts -- Posters
University of California, Irvine. School of Social Sciences -- Posters
University of California, Irvine -- Poster collections
University of California, Irvine. School of Social Ecology -- Posters
University of California, Irvine. School of Humanities -- Posters