Finding Aid to French political campaign posters, 1936

Bancroft Library staff

Digitization of this collection was funded by the California Digital Library.

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

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Finding Aid to French political campaign posters, 1936

Collection number: BANC PIC 2005.005

The Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Digitization of this collection was funded by the California Digital Library.

Finding Aid Author(s):: Bancroft Library staff
Date Completed:: February 2010
Finding Aid Encoded By:: GenX

Collection Summary

Collection Title: French political campaign posters

Date (inclusive): 1936

Collection Number: BANC PIC 2005.005

Extent: 44 items (posters) and 1 folder (photographic prints and typescript)

Repository: The Bancroft Library.

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

Phone: (510) 642-6481

Fax: (510) 642-7589

Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu

URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/

Languages Represented: Collection materials are in French

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Information for Researchers

Access Information

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], French political campaign posters, BANC PIC 2005.005, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog

France -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Posters

Political posters, French

Posters

Administrative Information

From the collection of Professor Charles Aikin of the U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Political Science, given to the Library in 1967.

Scope and Content Note

Chiefly textual posters (broadsides) collected in the Left Bank of Paris during the 1936 elections. Posters represent various candidates and parties. Included are the Communist Party (Parti Communiste), the Centre de Propagande des Republicains Nationaux, miscellaneous anti-communist, anti-fascist, or anti-popular front items, and posters for the candidates Bergery, M. Duval-Arnould, L. Blum, Roger Sarret, and Wiedemann-Goiran. Also included in the collection is a set of 25 photographic prints taken in Paris during the 1936 elections, showing posters posted in the streets and parks of Paris.

Note

The Charles Aikin collection of British campaign posters, received with his 1967 gift of French posters, has been cataloged as part of the British political campaign poster collection (BANC PIC 2005.006).

République Franéçais: Elections Leislatives De 1936 Union des Gauches: Front Social: En Politi1ue Extérieure:... BANC PIC 2005.005:001--