Digital Images of Hoover's China Posters Are Online; Russian and Soviet Posters to Follow

July 8, 2008

Several hundred images of posters from China are available in a searchable catalog of the Hoover Archives poster collection. About three thousand posters from Russia and the Soviet Union are being scanned and added to the database in July, with posters from other countries to follow. More than one thousand poster images are already online.

Searches can be refined to those posters for which images are available; the posters can also be browsed by country.

Thirty-three thousand of the Hoover Archive's one hundred thousand political posters are cataloged in this database. Eventually, digital images, created by scanning 35 mm slides, of all the posters will be available.

Because some posters are protected by copyright laws, the images are limited in size. All images are for educational and research purposes only.