Poster collection, circa 1900-2011

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Summary

Abstract:
Posters from more than 100 countries around the world, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Soviet Union and Russia heavily represented. The majority of the posters date from the twentieth century and are political and propagandistic in nature, covering events including World Wars I and II, the Russian Revolution, and national socialism in Germany. The collection also includes twenty-first century posters covering international political and public health campaigns, as well as social activism.
Extent:
circa 120,900 posters (1000.0 Linear Feet)
Language:
In various languages
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Poster collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Background

Scope and content:

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives Poster collection includes over 120,000 posters from more than 100 countries around the world, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Soviet Union and Russia heavily represented. The majority of the posters date from the twentieth century and are political and propagandistic in nature, covering events including World Wars I and II, the Russian Revolution, and national socialism in Germany. The collection also includes twenty-first century posters covering international political and public health campaigns, as well as social activism.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives.
Processing information:

In the 1980s, more than 33,000 posters were cataloged and photographed under a grant from the United States Department of Education. Since the grant ended in 1985, the archives has acquired more than 50,000 additional posters. In 2022, the archives digitized over 20,000 of the "uncataloged" posters in this collection.

The 33,000 posters cataloged and photographed in the 1980s are available as 35mm color slides and as digital files produced from the slides published via Hoover's Digital Collections website..

The 20,000 "uncataloged" posters digitized between 2022 and 2023 are available as digital copies via Hoover's new "Digital Collections 2" website.

Arrangement:

The list of countries below indicates countries known to be represented in this collection. Each country has been assigned a unique two character poster identification code, listed in parentheses following the country name. Where a country has a slide count associated with it, this indicates a count of posters from that country that were cataloged and photographed in the 1980s. For assistance with this collection, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at hooverarchives@stanford.edu.

Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Content from this collection has been digitized. Original materials may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Poster collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563
hooverarchives@stanford.edu
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