Cuban Poster Collection, 1960-2000

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Summary

Title:
Cuban Poster Collection
Dates:
1960-2000
Creators:
Biblioteca Nacional José Martí (Cuban national repository library)
Abstract:
A collection of Cuban posters built through a cooperative agreement between the University of California, Berkeley and the José Martí National Library of Cuba. The predominant subjects are Cuban culture and international solidarity.
Extent:
485 prints (posters). 485 digital objects
Language:
Collection materials are in Spanish
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Cuban Poster Collection, BANC PIC 2001.061--C, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

The Cuban poster collection consists of posters given to the library of the University of California at Berkeley as part of a cooperative agreement with the José Martí National Library of Cuba. It consists chiefly of posters related to cultural events, social topics, or international solidarity.

The posters were produced by official government agencies, including Consejo Nacional de Cultura, Editorial Letras Cubanas, Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), Organización de Solidaridad de los Pueblos de Africa, Asia y América Latina (OSPAAAL), and the Ministerio de Cultura. The great majority of dated posters were produced between 1961 and 1989, with several items from the 1990s and later. Over 100 items are undated.

The José Martí National Library of Cuba, in its national repository function, is statutorily designated to receive five copies of all posters published within Cuba. The basis of the Cuban Poster collection at the University of California, Berkeley was an initial gift of 344 of their duplicate posters, received in the year 2000. Future additions are expected as the cooperative arrangement between the libraries continues.

Acquisition information:

The Cuban Poster collection was part of a bibliographic exchange between the Doe Library of the University of California at Berkeley and the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí of Cuba. The Bancroft Library became custodians of the initial 346 items of the collection in 2001.

136 items (plus three duplicates) were added between approximately 2010 and 2016, via the ongoing exchange.

Processing information:

Processed by Lincoln Cushing in 2005, with prior preparation by Carlos Delgado and LuAnn Sleeper in 2002. Additions processed by LuAnn Sleeper in 2017.

Arrangement:

Items in the Cuban Poster collection have been assigned numbers as they are received and inventoried by the library. These are simply sequential numbers appended to the collection number (BANC PIC 2001.061.) They reflect no intellectual arrangement, no evidence as to provenance, and they are not related to the creation of the items in any way. The numbers are required for item identification and retrieval from storage.

For ease of use, this finding aid has been arranged alphabetically by publisher's name, then sub-ordered chronologically. Materials by unknown publishers or artists are arranged alphabetically by title following the listing of known publishers. No cross-referencing is available at this time.

Accruals:

Future additions are expected.

Physical location:
Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Rules or conventions:
Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Guide written by Lincoln Cushing
Sponsor:
Funding for creating this guide was provided by The Bancroft Library.
Date Prepared:
2005
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: November 2017

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Please use digital facsimiles when possible.

Terms of access:

Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Cuban Poster Collection, BANC PIC 2001.061--C, 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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