Data Center Poster Collection, circa 1965-circa 1998, bulk 1975-1995

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Summary

Title:
Data Center poster collection
Dates:
circa 1965-circa 1998, bulk 1975-1995
Creators:
Data Center (Oakland, Calif.)
Extent:
4 boxes and 24 oversize folders (circa 845 posters)
Language:
Collection materials are in English , Spanish , French
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Data Center poster collection, BANC PIC 1999.087, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

Posters collected by the Data Center of Oakland, Calif., chiefly relating to the politics of Central America, but also including South America, Cuba, Africa and apartheid, American (United States) politics of the 1970s to mid-1990s, American issues of race and ethnicity, anti-war posters and handbills, community events, and alternative film promotions. Many items were produced in the San Francisco Bay Area to promote local events, rallies, or commemorations. Some materials are by Latin American artists and have various countries of origin.

Biographical / historical:

The Data Center (Oakland, Calif.) was founded in 1977 as "an activist library and publication center, in affiliation with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)." As stated on the organization's website (2013), its mission "was to address the political economy and the injustice of class inequities worldwide, and to provide actionable information to those in frontline organizations engaged in those struggles for justice."

Acquisition information:
Received as part of the Data Center archive, which incudes the Data Center records (BANC MSS 99/329).
Processing information:

Received unsorted. Grouped by Bancroft Library staff according to size, then within each size category, items were rough-sorted by topic or origin. If posters appeared to be a set, or were produced by one agency, they were kept together. Most posters were grouped according to the nation or region to which they pertain. Each general grouping has been described (to the folder level) in this finding aid. Note that any one topic or region may have multiple relevant entries in this finding aid, due to the size divisions.

Rules or conventions:
Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
LuAnn Sleeper
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: June 2013

Access and use

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Data Center poster collection, BANC PIC 1999.087, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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