Television Posters collection, 1970s-1990s

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Title:: Collection of Television Posters
Dates:: 1970s-1990s
Abstract:: Advertising posters are used for many media products and event, including television programming. The collection consists of American television posters for a variety of programs aired by various television networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and others.
Extent:: 10.0 linear ft. (5 map folders)
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Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Collection of Television Posters (Collection PASC 331). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Scope and content:: The collection consists of American television posters representing a variety of programs aired by television networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, among others. Included are items for both popular and lesser known television series, movies and specials aired from ca. 1970s to the 1990s. Some of the posters may have originally been part of television press kits.
Biographical / historical:: Knowing the passion audiences have for their favorite television programs and personalities, the television industry started creating posters to effectively market television programming. Popular culture places value on posters not only for their promotional value but for their aesthetic value as well.
Arrangement:: The collection is arranged alphabetically by production titles.
Physical location:: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Rules or conventions:: Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection Guide Author:: Finding aid prepared by Kevin Awakuni with assistance from Julie Graham, April 2009; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:: ©2016 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Date Encoded:: This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2016-02-10T14:11-0800 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé using Notetab Pro.

Access and use

Restrictions:: Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Terms of access:: Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators 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.

Preferred citation:: [Identification of item], Collection of Television Posters (Collection PASC 331). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Location of this collection:: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Performing Arts

A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library

Box 951575

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US