French political campaign posters, 1936

Summary

Extent:

44 items (posters) and 1 folder (photographic prints and typescript)

Language:

Collection materials are in French

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).

Location of this collection:

UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library

Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US

Contact:

510-642-6481

bancref-library@berkeley.edu

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