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COLLECTIONS Posters
Introduction
More than one hundred thousand political posters from around the world are available in the Hoover Archives Poster Collection. Thirty-three thousand of these are cataloged in a searchable database. Although many thousands of posters date from World War I and World War II, the collection covers the entire twentieth century. Posters from the United States (approximately 8,700), the United Kingdom (5,000), Germany (4,200), the Russian empire and the Soviet Union (2,600), and France (1,800) predominate, though posters from more than eighty countries are described in the database. Description
The cataloged posters are available as 35 mm slides in the Hoover Archives reading room. Cataloging and photography were supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Digital images of the posters will be added to the online database as allowed by copyright laws. Some digitized posters from the Hoover Poster Collection are available on other Internet sites. Online access to these selected posters is for educational purposes only; the Hoover Institution Archives does not own the copyrights to its Poster Collection. Two hundred and fifty U.S. posters predating 1923 are available for viewing and purchase from Zazzle. More than fifty posters of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union are available as a Luna Insight® image collection. If prompted to select a collection, make sure “Hoover Institution Archives Posters” appears and click on “select.” The user name and password for the Hoover Institution Archives collections is hoover, hoover (all lowercase letters). Viewing may be easier with the Firefox web browser. More than one hundred posters of the United Kingdom during World Wars I and II were selected by students in a Stanford University British history seminar for display in “Forward to Victory” at the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion in 1997. Posters from East Germany were used by Stanford students to create the virtual exhibit “Transnational Poster Art: Former East Germany (GDR) and Latin America, 1970–1989.” Access Information To purchase reproductions of the posters described in the database, please contact Janel Quirante, assistant archivist for visual collections, at quirante@hoover.stanford.edu. For more information, see Audiovisual Services. For assistance with poster database searches, please contact Carol Leadenham, reference archivist, at leadenham@hoover.stanford.edu. |
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