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One of
the largest such collections in the United States, the Hoover Institution
Archives Poster Collection includes more than 33,000 cataloged political
posters from around the world, with more than double that number as
yet uncataloged. Many thousands of posters date from World War I and
World War II, though the posters cover 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) are well represented, but also included are posters
from more than eighty countries. The cataloged
posters have been photographed and are available as 35-mm slides.
Selected posters may be viewed and bought online:
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More than fifty posters of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union are available as a Luna Insight® image collection. Luna Imaging's Insight is a client/server package that provides access to image collections over the Internet. Insight provides several search modes, from simple point-and-click select lists to keyword searching to full Boolean searching. Insight combines retrieval and display of text information with an equally rich set of tools for viewing, comparing, and organizing images: zoom and pan images, create and save image groups. Insight offers a complete visual environment for working with images. For more information about Luna Imaging, Inc., visit its web site at http://www.lunaimaging.com/index.html.The collection can be viewed in two ways:
The Insight® Browser is the easiest way to begin experiencing Selected Russian Posters. It uses any typical web browser and requires no plug-ins or downloads. This browser is recommended for first time users. If prompted to select a collection, make sure Hoover Institution Archives Posters appears and click on select. User name and password: hoover, hoover (all lower case letters).
If you have comments, suggestions, or need help, contact Lisa Miller at lisa.miller@hoover.stanford.edu.
The Insight® Java Client is a fully featured Java application that requires download. It provides rich features and advanced functionality over the Insight® Browser. The Java Client is recommended for researchers and frequent visitors. Download Luna Insight®. The user name and password for the Hoover Institution Archives collections: hoover, hoover (all lower case letters).
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Posters of the United Kingdom during World Wars I and II, selected by students in the Stanford University history seminar "Presenting Britain: Posters; Sewers; Bloomsbury" resulted in "Exhibiting Britain" at the Herbert Hoover Memorial Exhibit Pavilion in 1997 (view the virtual exhibit showcasing 104 British posters).
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East German posters were used by Stanford students to create the virtual exhibit "Transnational Poster Art: Former East Germany (GDR) and Latin America, 1970-1989."
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Posters
on an advertising pillar in East Germany, 1990.
German Pictorial Collection |
Access to the cataloged posters is through an internal database that is searchable by artist, text of poster, description of poster, Library of Congress subject heading, date of publication, and other elements. Archives staff will search the database in response to requests. Patrons may request database searches and purchase reproductions by contacting Reference Archivist Carol Leadenham at (650) 725-3444.
The archives
offers on-line access to selected posters for educational purposes only.
The Hoover Institution Archives does not own the copyrights to its Poster
Collection. For further information, please contact Reference Archivist
Carol Leadenham.
As Peter
Paret et al. observed in Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution
from the Hoover Institution Archives (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1992), the poster is "a work of applied art and
… an agent of persuasion and control." Scholarly interest
in the impact of the visual image is increasing, and many scholars have
approached posters as the subject of their research instead of using
them only as illustrations. The depth of the Poster Collection provides
students of the psychology and techniques of propaganda with a large
sample of material on which to base their research.
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