French political campaign posters, 1936

Collection context

Summary

Title:
French political campaign posters
Dates:
1936
Extent:
44 items (posters) and 1 folder (photographic prints and typescript)
Language:
Collection materials are in French
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], French political campaign posters, BANC PIC 2005.005, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Background

Scope and content:

Chiefly textual posters (broadsides) collected in the Left Bank of Paris during the 1936 elections. Posters represent various candidates and parties. Included are the Communist Party (Parti Communiste), the Centre de Propagande des Republicains Nationaux, miscellaneous anti-communist, anti-fascist, or anti-popular front items, and posters for the candidates Bergery, M. Duval-Arnould, L. Blum, Roger Sarret, and Wiedemann-Goiran. Also included in the collection is a set of 25 photographic prints taken in Paris during the 1936 elections, showing posters posted in the streets and parks of Paris.

Acquisition information:
From the collection of Professor Charles Aikin of the U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Political Science, given to the Library in 1967.
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
Note:

The Charles Aikin collection of British campaign posters, received with his 1967 gift of French posters, has been cataloged as part of the British political campaign poster collection (BANC PIC 2005.006).

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Bancroft Library staff
Sponsor:
Digitization of this collection was funded by the California Digital Library.
Date Prepared:
© 2010
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid generated by GenX; markup validated by The Bancroft Library using CDL validation tools; Date of source: May 2012

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

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.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], French political campaign posters, BANC PIC 2005.005, 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