Finding Aid for the AIDS Poster Collection Biomed.0306
Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 8.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: AIDS poster collection
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0306
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(949 items)
Date (inclusive): circa 1985-2003
Language of Material:
English
.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
5013901
The AIDS poster collection consists of 949 posters from 44 countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Costa Rica,
France, Germany, India, Japan, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal,
Spain, Switzerland, Tahiti, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States. The posters were issued by a variety of institutions
and organizations to educate and warn people about AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) and to offer advice and information
in visual form. Some posters are torn, creased. Some are duplicates. Some are fragile. 625 posters have been digitized; an
additional 324 posters have not yet been digitized.