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Marlene Dietrich Collection, The Kinemathek. 1/ Portrait with cravat, early 1930s, Photo: Eugene Robert Richee. 2/ Dietrich on a paratrooper practice jump with the 82nd Airborne Division, France, 1945, Photo: George Norton. 3/ Dietrich during a performance in Pilsen, in liberated Bohemia, where the US troops met the Red Army in May 1945. The performances were open to American and Russian soldiers. 4/ Costume design of a black show dress with rhinestones and sequins, including coat and fur trimming, LA. The costume, prepared by Elizabeth Courtney, was worn by Marlene Dietrich to her first engagement in Las Vegas, 1953. 5/ Marlene in a red knitted sweater from Kniže, Los Angeles, 1940. Photo: Ray Jones. 6/ Custom sketch for a shoulderless show dress with flowers and cloth swatch. Design: Jean Louis, LA, 1950s. 7/ Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1944. Foto: Hyman Fink.

Carrozzeria Touring, Maserati 3500 Gt, 1961. Via Zwischengas

Katsushika Hokusai, Phoenix, Edo Period, 1835. Japan. Eight panel folding screen; ink, color, cut gold-leaf and sprinkled gold on paper. Via mfa.org

Grace Jones, wearing Philip Treacy, photos by Kevin Davies.

"I design hats to enhance the face in a particular way. It's essential to make the wearer look and feel a million dollars but remembering to amplify the personality underneath." Full interview with Philip Treacy: Visual Atelier 8

Jean Widmer, Exhibition Poster, 1972. Via CooperHewitt

Bob Peak, preliminary sketches for Rollerball, 1975. Poster set (3) promoting games between Tokyo and Houston, New York and Houston, and Houston and Madrid, 2018. United Artists. Via @studiotstella

Jean Dunand, a panel, 1925. Lacquered wood. France. Via Christie's

Pullmann limousine, Märklin, 1930s. Germany. © Griebel Collection, Photo: Jürgen Hoffmann. LVR Industrial Museum.

Otto Rodewald, portrait Gerda Margarethe Rück, 1929. Oil on canvas. Hamburger Kunsthalle

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AIGA | the professional association for design

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WorldCat
www.worldcat.org
The world's largest library catalog is searchable by title, subject, or author. It can be used to find an item in a local library.

AIGA, the professional association for design
(formerly American Institute of Graphic Arts)
The Archives Room
233 Broadway, 17th floor
New York, NY 10279
www.aiga.org/design-archives-info

The bulk of the collection consists of printed records, including: AIGA newsletters and journals since 1922; AIGA conference collateral since 1985; AIGA competition collateral as well as exhibition catalogues documenting selections from AIGA national juried competitions since 1915; AIGA design annuals since 1980; and membership directories since 1928. In addition, the collection includes binders of 35 mm slides from travelling exhibitions from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; flat files housing works by AIGA Medalists collected since 2004; and flat files housing works by AIGA chapters dating back to 1988. The collection also contains printed ephemera from the early beginnings of the organization as well as materials from the AIGA annual, tapes from past talks, national conferences, lecture series and seminars. For resources related to specific initiatives, see also AIGA Design for Good Resources, AIGA Diversity & Inclusion Resources, and AIGA Women Lead Resources.

Contact: Heather Strelecki, Archives Director, 212 710 3145

A collection of stories about the professional lives, contributions, and portfolios of designers-contemporary and historical-from traditionally underrepresented groups or backgrounds.
AIGA Design Teaching Resource (DTR)
teachingresource.aiga.org
A peer-populated platform for educators to share assignments, teaching materials, outcomes, and project reflections. Browse for inspiration. Sign up to post projects.

With over 20 million items in its continually growing collections, the Archives is the world's largest and most widely used resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.

Arts of the Book Collection
Yale University
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
180 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
web.library.yale.edu/building/arts-library

Examples of and material relating to the book and its attendant arts: binding, typography, illustration, calligraphy, book design and architecture, paper making and decorative papers and the history of the book.

Contact: Art Subject Specialists

The material in this digital collection consists of administrative, curricular, exhibition and event materials, photographs, posters, videos, and articles related to the CalArts School of Design. Much of the material comes from the California Institute of the Arts Institute Archives.

CSPG's posters are unique, primary historical documents which reveal histories of struggles that are often hidden, and more often forgotten. Our growing collection is one of the most diverse visual resources in the world. This educational research archive contains more than 90,000 protest graphics, from the 19th Century to the present-including the largest collection of post-World War II posters in the United States.

Contact: Carol A. Wells, Founder and Executive Director, 310 397 3100, cspg@politicalgraphics.org

The Chicago Design Archive provides the one permanent, online record of excellent design created by local professionals from the late 19th century to the present.

Contact: Tanner Woodford

City College of New York
The Morris Raphael Cohen Library
North Academic Center (NAC) Room 5/301
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
https://library.ccny.cuny.edu/cohenlibrary

"The George Lois Big Idea Archive" from legendary art director, designer and ad man, comprises films, TV and radio commercials, print ads, posters, scripts, correspondences, photos, memorabilia and numerous other items from a remarkable career spanning more than 65 years.

Contact: Edward Keller and David Nocera

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Memorial Study Center
2 East 91 Street
New York, NY 10128
www.cooperhewitt.org

A variety of materials, ranging from slides and book covers to promotional materials, printed ads, to original artwork, correspondence, clippings and drawings. www.siris.si.edu (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) is the search engine that serves the entire Smithsonian Institution.

Contact: Stephen Van Dyk, Head Librarian, 212 849 8330
Design History Teaching Resource
www.designhistoryteachingresources.org
Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
39221 Woodward Avenue
Box 801
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
www.cranbrookart.edu/library

An extensive collection on graphic design history, theory and professional practice. Books are available through inter-library loan.

Contact: Judy Dyki, Head Librarian, 248 645 3364

Offers practical tools to help design history teachers create dynamic and inclusive curricula, get students working with objects (particularly when there are few local collections), deal with large class sizes, point students towards primary sources, and introduce innovative and healthy research practices.

A vital digital preservation initiative created to capture and share the irreplaceable story of Kansas City design.

London Office
1st Floor, St Georges House
14-17 Wells Street
London, W1T 3PD, UK

The Design Library has the world's largest and best organized collections of documentary fabrics, original paintings, wallpapers, embroideries and yarn dyes, numbering over seven million designs. The collections date from the 1750s to the present and are sorted into over 1200 categories for easy access. The Design Library is proud of the depth, breadth, organization, and continuing expansion of our archive.

Contact (New York): 845 297 1035 or Contact (London): 020 7580 0543

Design Museum of Barcelona
(Museu del Disseny de Barcelona)
www.museudeldisseny.cat/en

This collection is formed by pieces both historic and contemporary that illustrate the technological evolution of the graphic arts over three centuries. Accordingly, most of the holdings comprise dies, typographies (with the typefaces, punches and dies from important sets ranging from the eighteenth to the twentieth century), photogravure and intaglio plates by numerous local artists.

The Design Museum London
224-238 Kensington High Street
London W8 6AG
designmuseum.org

Contact: +44 20 3862 5900

AIGA Design Archives in Denver represents the largest and most comprehensive holding of contemporary American communication design in the world. Consisting of approximately 12,000 physical artifacts created from approximately 1980 to 2010, the collection recognizes award-winning entries made to the organization's annual competitions.

Contact: Darrin Alfred, AIGA Curator

A scholarly journal of thought leadership, education, and practice in the discipline of visual communication design. Dialectic seeks to publish scholarship, analytical study and criticism that will enlighten and inform a diverse audience of design educators engaged not only in classroom teaching experiences but also in differing forms of research and professional practice. Dialectic is double-blind, peer-reviewed, and is the official journal of the AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC).
quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic

A curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals and ephemera. The collection is a source of original items for educational, historical and scholarly analysis.

Contact: Greg D'Onofrio and Patricia Belen, hello@kindcompany.com

The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049 1688
www.getty.edu/research

Primary materials for the history of modern artistic and intellectual movements such as Realism, Symbolism, Futurism, the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism and Fluxus. Collection of audio and video recordings from International Design Conference, Aspen (IDCA).

Contact: Senior Staff, 310 440 7335

Goldstein Museum of Design
University of Minnesota College of Design
364 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
goldstein.design.umn.edu/collection

Goldstein Museum of Design uses the power of design to foster improved quality of life for individuals and communities.

Contact: 612 624 7434

A place to gather, assess, and preserve the rich legacy of graphic design, paper manufacture, and printing in West Michigan.

Contact: Barbara Loveland and Linda Powell

Presenting award-winning work from 1944 to the present, selections include books, magazines, annual reports, and logos honored in Graphis Annuals.

Contact: B. Martin Pedersen, 212 532 9387

Founded in 1884 as a cooperative reference library for the Club's bibliophile membership, the Grolier Club Library today welcomes any qualified researcher needing to explore this focused research collection of more than 100,000 volumes on the art and history of the book: bibliographies, histories of printing and graphic processes, type specimens, and fine and historic examples of printing, binding, and illustration.

The Grolier Club Library collections of book catalogues are among the most comprehensive in the US, and these, along with the papers of important bibliophiles, bibliographers, and antiquarian book dealers, have long been recognized as an important resource for collectors and scholars in book history.

Contact: Meghan Constantinou, Librarian, 212 838-6690 x5

The Herb Lubalin Study Center
Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square, Room LL119
New York, NY 10003
lubalincenter.cooper.edu

The graphic work of Herb Lubalin, in addition to the works of other New York-based designers such as Lou Dorfsman, George Tscherny, and Push Pin Studios.

Contact: Alexander Tochilovsky, 212 353 4021

Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive
Denver Art Museum
100 West 14 Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204
www.denverartmuseum.org

Extensive collection of Bayer's artwork including paintings, watercolors, drawings, pastels, graphics, photography, sculpture, models, designs for Bayer's large-scale projects, textiles and jewelry, exhibition design, furniture design, book, catalogs, announcements, pamphlets, magazines and other documents. Herbert Bayer: Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum (University of Washington Press, 1998) by Gwen Chanzit is the catalogue of the collection.

Contact: Gwen Chanzit, Curator, 720 865 5000
Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Archive (HMCT Archive)
archive.hmctartcenter.org
Herman Miller Archives
855 E Main Avenue
Zeeland, MI 49464 www.hermanmiller.com

Contact: Amy Auscherman

Serves as a repository for original and rare materials that document the history and teaching of typography, letterform, and graphic design. The collection focuses on materials from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on designers and educators associated with Professor Leah Hoffmitz Milken, ArtCenter College of Design, or Southern California.

The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. The archive contains many kinds of objects that are created as part of social movements by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, photographs, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials.

The work of Dadaists with strong involvement in typography and advertising design (George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Hoch, Iliazd, Kurt Schwitters, Jan Tschichold, Tristan Tzara).

Contact: Timothy Shipe, Curator, 319 335 5824

Letterform Archive is a nonprofit library and museum dedicated to inspiration and education in the letter arts. Opened to the public in February 2015, the Archive offers visitors hands-on access to its curated collection of 30,000 items related to lettering, typography, calligraphy, and graphic design spanning 2,000 years of history.

Contact: info@letterformarchive.org; 415 802 7485

The Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
101 Independence. Avenue, SE
Washington, D.C. 20540
www.loc.gov/rr/print

A collection of American, European and Latin American popular and applied graphic arts, caricatures, posters, cartoons and political prints.

Contact: Ask A Librarian, 202 707 6394 (specify that query is for prints and photographs division)

The new museum for visual culture in Hong Kong, as part of West Kowlon Cultural District, focusing on 20th and 21st century art, design and architecture, and moving image. Scheduled for completion in 2018.

Contact: Jennifer Wong, Assistant Curator (Design and Architecture)

Dedicated to preserving and making accessible design works of significant artistic, cultural, and historical value by preeminent designers, illustrators, and art directors who have close ties to the School of Visual Arts. The collections represent the artistic and intellectual vitality of the SVA community and provide an invaluable resource to students, designers, and researchers who wish to study the breadth of a designer's work, including Gail Anderson, Louise Fili, Steven Heller, Stefan Sagmeister, Deborah Sussman, George Tscherny, Henry Wolf, and more.

Contact: Beth Kleber, Archivist, 212 592 2636, bkleber@sva.org

Minnesota Historical Society
345 W. Kellogg Boulevard
St. Paul, MN 55102
www.mnhs.org
www.mnhs.org/visit

The AIGA Minnesota archives have been acquired by the Minnesota Historical Society. Collecting since 1849, the Minnesota Historical Society Library is the world's premier library for research about Minnesota's people, places, history, and culture. Materials in the collection are available to the public by appointment.

Contact: Kolean Pitner; for questions about the archive contents, archives@aigaminnesota.org

The focus of the museum's archive is Soviet design from 1950 to 1980. It includes contemporary Russian graphic design, movie posters, industrial design objects, and a full collection of the All Union Institute of Technical Aesthetics (VNITE) magazine. The archive also houses photographic slides, rare VNITE prototypes, the archives of the Union of Designers of the Soviet Union, and the private archives of designers, including Vladimir Runge.

Contact: info@moscowdesignmuseum.ru; +7 495 991 90 42

A personal screenshot collection of the titles from movies over the years, saved for future generations to enjoy.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MOCAD)
4454 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
www.mocadetroit.org

As the only museum in the Southeastern United States dedicated exclusively to design, MODA's mission is to explore the many facets of the design disciplines as they exert a positive influence on Atlanta and the Southeast.

The Design Collection is devoted to the design of twentieth-century mass-produced objects, and the philosophy they reflect. The focus is on a broad representation of Swiss design, juxtaposed with reference objects of international provenance. The collected objects include items by well-known designers and commonplace objects of anonymous design.

National Design Centre
Ministry of Communications and Information
111 Middle Road, National Design Centre
Singapore 188969
www.designsingapore.org/national-design-centre

The Singapore National Design Centre (NDC) is the meeting point for creative minds and businesses, and the venue for presenting all things design. It is centrally located in the arts, cultural, learning and entertainment precinct in the Bras Basah-Bugis district.

Contact: +65 6333 3737

National Endowment for the Arts Collection
Special Collections & University Archives
University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Libraries
154 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9275
scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums686

In 2014, the National Endowment for the Arts turned over its papers, recordings, and other ephemera for digitization to the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This body of work, known as the National Endowment for the Arts Collection, is part of the National Arts Policy Archive and Library, a collaborative project intended to document the history of arts administration in America.

The materials range from issues of "Federal Design Matters," which was published from 1974-1981 and includes "Graphic Design for Non-Profit Organizations," created by Peter Laundy and Massimo Vignelli for the NEA and AIGA. Explore these documents, a rich and enlightening view of U.S. design history through the lens of the NEA.

Contact: 413 545 2780

In the always expanding digital realm, The New York Public Library provides patrons worldwide with powerful online tools to help them discover its extensive resources and services. Visitors can browse the Library's immense collections, download e-books, and view more than 800,000 items from its award-winning Digital Gallery.

Contact: Through Ask NYPL, librarians are available to answer patron questions on any topic at any time; 212 930 0834

New York School of Interior Design Archives and Special Collections
New York School of Interior Design Library (NYSID)
170 East 170th Street
New York, NY 10021 library.nysid.edu/library/about-the-library/nysid-archives

The collections relate to the practice of interior design as well as the official and historical records of the College. Through the collections, The NYSID Archives & Special Collections seeks to support interior design research, as both professional practice and academic discipline.

Contact: Nora Reilly, Archivist/Assistant Librarian, 212 452 4196

The collections document the history of all divisions of The New School, as well as the lives and work of people and organizations in a range of subject areas that intersect with the interests of New School students and faculty, including the Bea Feitler papers and Ivan Chermayeff graphic work.

Contact: 212 229 8914

The People's Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive. The It aims to challenge the status quo of graphic design archives. This archive is a grassroots effort built from the ground up rather than the top down.

The aim of P-DPA is to systematically collect, organize and keep trace of experiences in the fields of art and design that explore the relationships between publishing and digital technology. The archive acts as a space in which the collected projects are confronted and juxtaposed in order to highlight relevant paths, mutual themes, common perspectives, interrelations, but also oppositions and idiosyncrasies.

Poster House
119 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011 posterhouse.org

Poster House is the first museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to posters.

Dedicated to presenting the impact, culture, and design of posters, both as historical documents and methods of contemporary visual communication, Poster House presents a global view of posters from their earliest appearance in the late 1800s to their present-day use. Poster House takes its mission from the medium, aiming to engage and educate all audiences as we investigate this large-format graphic design and its public impact.

R. Hunter Middleton Chicago Design Archive
University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard J. Daley Library, M/C 234
Special Collections
801 South Morgan
Chicago, IL 60607
http://researchguides.uic.edu/c.php?g=252628

Numerous collections that document the history of design in Chicago, with special emphasis on the period dating from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Contact: Peggy Glowacki, Special Collections Librarian, 312 996 2742

Until 2010, annual selections from "Fifty Books of the Year," "The Book Show," and "50 Books/50 Covers" were given to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia's Butler.

Contact: Jane Siegel, Graphic Arts Subject Specialist

Rochester Institute of Technology
Wallace Memorial Library and Cary Graphic Arts Collections
90 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623
library.rit.edu
library.rit.edu/cary

Collection of posters, cartoons and materials documenting the work of graphic designers such as Mehemed Fehmy Agha, hans Barschel, Lester Beall, Alexey Brodovich, Will Burtin, George Giusti, William Golden, Alvin Lustig, Cipe Pineles and Ladislav Sutnar.

Contact: Kari Horowicz, Art and Photography Librarian, 716 475 2557

The AIGA Kansas City chapter is cooperating with the Artist File Initiative. More details coming soon.

Contact: Marilyn Carbonell, Head, Library Services, 816 751 1216; for questions about the archive contents, contact Kathy Kelley

The holdings of works in English are comprehensive, and the history and practice of printing and the book trade in other countries are well represented. There are extensive collections of examples of the work of notable printers, of illustration processes, of text composition, and of the use of special types.

Current issues of many of the Library's periodicals range from the major British and overseas technical journals, to journals of graphic design, printing and book trade history, bibliography, and craft printing and binding.

Contact: 020 7353 3331, info@sbf.org.uk

The University of Brighton Design Archives is an internationally significant research base with a curatorial team that initiates and promotes collaborative activity through a program of projects. Founded on a scholarly resource focusing on British design and global design organizations in the twentieth century, it has contributed substantially to the research profile of the University for over 20 years. The Design Archives welcome scholars and students from many academic disciplines researching the designed environment, the design profession, and design practice.

Contact: +44 (0)1273 643217 and +44 (0)1273 643209

The Center houses Lella and Massimo Vignelli's extensive professional archives which includes primary source material and finished works. It also includes work by Bill Bonnell and Pierre Mendell, and the RitaSue Siegel archive.

Contact: Roger Remington and Jennifer Whitlock

The Visible Language Workshop Archive is a small collection of videotapes, teaching slides, and a large portfolio of detailed notes and documents exposing the theories, inner workings, and products of Muriel Cooper's VLW, examining interactive media design, electronic communication, and experimentation with computing and printing technologies. This archive also contains materials from the 1994 TED 5 conference in Monterey, California, where Cooper presented a collection of student work from the Workshop.

Contact: Jeremy Grubman, Archivist, 617 258 0657, jgrubman@mit.edu

The estates of prominent designers such as Charles & Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Anton Lorenz, George Nelson and others are maintained in the archive of the Vitra Design Museum. The holdings also include company publications, brochures, posters, patent documents and drawings.

Contact: info@design-museum.de, +49 7621 702 3200

The first digital archive dedicated to the Italian graphic design heritage. A growing overview to spread and promote the culture of quality that distinguishes the Italian design tradition. From the greatest classics to the best contemporary projects, commissioned by Italian clients or made by Italian designers, to explore and discover the fundamental aesthetic and cultural contribution brought by the Italian graphic design all over the world.

The Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art and Design Oral History Project is an online archive of oral history interviews of contemporary craftspeople, artists and designers. The primary form of these interviews are transcripts, illustrated with photographs of the interviewees and their work; some also feature audio and video clips.

The not for profit foundation the International Advertising & Design DataBase was founded in 2014 in the Netherlands. It is the goal of the Foundation to publicize as much information as possible through the IADDB and to ask the public to actively participate by adding images, names, dates and all other kinds of information. The database starts with but is not limited to posters, newspaper advertisements, poster stamps, handbills, packaging, commercials on radio and TV.

Contact: Martijn Le Coultre, Secretary and Treasurer (president of the Dutch Poster Museum), lecoultr@xs4all.nl
The Saul Bass Poster Archive (1981 AIGA Medalist)www.saulbassposterarchive.com
In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes: texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

Where you'll find thousands of exceptional vintage film posters from around the world: everything from well-known classics to rare and unique cult titles.

Alexander Girard: A Designer's Universe (2019 AIGA Medalist)See: Virtual Exhibition

See also: filmartgallery.com/pages/saul-bass-archive

This online archive was created to feature the many posters designed by Saul Bass (1920-1996) throughout his sixty year career, with examples drawn from his private collection. The collection is in the process of being catalogued with only a portion currently on view. When complete, this online archive will contain a full selection of film and non-film posters, limited-edition print materials, publications and some personal designs.

Contact: info@treehousedsgn.com

A living archive of Robert Brownjohn's work arranged and described by his daughter Eliza Brownjohn.

Established in 2015, the Seymour Chwast Archive is a digital repository for his often groundbreaking, frequently humorous, and constantly expanding body of work. Featuring selections from the designer's personal collection, the site includes posters, books, packaging, typography, painting, sculpture, editorial illustrations, and ephemera from the 1940s to the present.

The Corita Art Center is a gallery and archive dedicated to preserving and promoting the work and spirit of artist, activist and educator, Corita Kent.
Have another resource to share? Contact AIGA's archivist, Heather Strelecki
Highlights of Elaine's career from 1944 to the present, arranged by year.

Highlights of Alvin's career.

The official website for Herbert Matter.

Tribute to album cover designer, Alex Steinweiss.

Dugald Stermer
www.dugaldstermer.com

Showcases the work of an accomplished illustrator, known for books of his own artwork celebrating the beauty of endangered species.

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About the IADDB

The not for profit foundation the International Advertising & Design DataBase was founded in the Netherlands in 2014 as an hommage to Dr Sachs and carries on where he, due to the circumstances of the times, had to stop.

It is the goal of the Foundation to publicize as much information as possible through the IADDB and to ask the public to actively participate by adding images, names, dates and all other kinds of information. The database starts with but is not limited to posters. Posters are just part of a campaign, that in the old days would include newspaper advertisements, poster stamps, handbills, packaging, etc. etc. Nowadays an advertising campaign would not be complete without commercials on radio and TV as well as on social media. As copyrights get into the way of publishing those newer ways of advertising the IADDB will start with material, posters magazines etc., that as far as the foundation could establish are free from copyrights. Rightful owners of copyrights to anything published by the IADDB are urged to step forward so the board can address the matter prudently.

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AIGA brings design to the world, and the world to designers.

The AIGA archives and special collections serve to identify, preserve, and make collections of enduring value available to the public. With more than 20,000 selections dating back to 1924, the AIGA Design Archives is a vital record of all disciplines of communication design.

Explore our curated collections. If you're not sure where to start, browse by color, year, or format, etc., or search by keyword.

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The Libraries' physical collections comprise 1.5 million books and manuscripts, along with over 400,000 pieces of ephemera, microfilm, photo collections and a/v material, housed in over 21 locations in Washington, Maryland, New York, and Panama. Some of those collections are available via inter-library loan request through your local public, school, or corporate library. If you're with an organization interested in using one of our collections items in an exhibition, please see the Exhibition Loan Services page.

Additional details of the collections housed in the various library locations can be found on the branch web pages.

To see if a specific book or journal is in our collection, search our catalog.

Digital Collections

Our digital collections include over 35,000 digitized books and manuscripts (available in either our Digital Library or as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library) as well as digitized photo collections, ephemera, and seed catalogs.

Many of our physical collections have not yet been digitized. Some of the resources listed below - such Trade Literature and Art and Artist Files - are portals for searching the inventories of those collections.

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The Arts Library Special Collections (ALSC) are composed of materials from the former Art+Architecture and Drama libraries, as well as the Arts of the Book Collection. ALSC holdings include contemporary cataloguesraisonnés, 18th- and 19th-century works on artists and architecture, a broad selection of fine press and artists' books, rare research materials in support of these subject areas, and the Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color.

In addition, ALSC has manuscript and archival holdings in book arts, art history, and drama. Theatrical production is documented through photographs, production books, scrapbooks, and ephemera. The Yale Bookplate Collection contains ex-libris prints and process materials, such as original sketches, plates, and woodblocks. The Arts of the Book Collection maintains archives of Fritz Eichenberg, Fritz Kredel, Richard Minsky, Carl P. Rollins, and many smaller collections about the book arts.

ALSC showcases its collections in the William H. Wright Special Collections Exhibition Area on the lower level of the Haas Family Arts Library. ALSC collections, exhibitions, and related programs are free and open to the public.

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The Arts Library Special Collections (ALSC) are composed of materials from the former Art+Architecture and Drama libraries, as well as the Arts of the Book Collection. ALSC holdings include contemporary cataloguesraisonnés, 18th- and 19th-century works on artists and architecture, a broad selection of fine press and artists' books, rare research materials in support of these subject areas, and the Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color.

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Experiential graphic design involves the orchestration of typography, color, imagery, form, technology and, especially, content to create environments that communicate.

Examples of experiential graphic design include wayfinding systems, architectural graphics, signage and sign programs, exhibit design, retail design, and themed or branded spaces. Increasingly, experiential graphic design involves the use of digital technologies and systems that present dynamic content through motion graphics and make possible rich interactions between a user in a place and the information being provided. (segd.org)

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving using one or more of typography, photography and illustration. Common uses of graphic design include corporate design (logos and branding), editorial design (magazines, newspapers and books), wayfinding or environmental design, advertising, web design, etc. (wikipedia) See www.aiga.org.

Industrial [Product] Design is the professional practice of designing products used by millions of people around the world every day. Industrial designers not only focus on the appearance of a product, but also on how it functions, is manufactured and ultimately the value and experience it provides for users. Every product you have in your home and interact with is the result of a design process and thousands of decisions aimed at improving your life through design. (idsa.org)

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Experiential graphic design involves the orchestration of typography, color, imagery, form, technology and, especially, content to create environments that communicate. Examples of experiential graphic design include wayfinding systems, architectural graphics, signage and sign programs, exhibit design, retail design, and themed or branded spaces.

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Where do these collections come from?

All of the images, documents, audio, and video files in the collections linked to in this guide come from the Public Collections on library.artstor.org. Institutions contribute these collections by publishing from JSTOR Forum - the web-based software used to manage, describe, and deliver their digital collections.

This guide is not comprehensive because new content is being published all the time, but it seeks to capture the breadth and depth of the Public Collections. We're always adding newly published material to this LibGuide, so if you notice a collection that hasn't been added yet, let us know by writing to forumsupport@jstor.org!

How can I use this content?

All of these collections have been made available by the institutions that manage them in order to allow broader access. All of the images can be viewed and downloaded without restrictions, but you should consult the rights data in each record to see if and how an image can be reused.

How can I get my digital collections included?

If you subscribe to JSTOR Forum, you can see our support site articles on publishing and sharing content or contact your Implementation Manager by writing to forumsupport@jstor.org to learn more.

If you've published content to the Public Collections and would like it to be included in this guide, please contact forumsupport@jstor.org. We'd love to add your collection!

Interested in subscribing to JSTOR Forum? Contact us to set up a free trial or write to participation@jstor.org.

About the Public Collections

The Public Collections are a freely accessible library of images and other media where you can search and browse collections with tools to view, share, download, cite, and print media. Institutions that subscribe to JSTOR Forum, a Web-based service for cataloging and managing digital collections, can share their content as Public Collections.

JSTOR Forum is the new name for Shared Shelf and is the next generation of the web-based software for managing, describing, and delivering your library and museum collections to maximize their discoverability and usage.

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All of the images, documents, audio, and video files in the collections linked to in this guide come from the Public Collections on library.artstor.org. Institutions contribute these collections by publishing from JSTOR Forum - the web-based software used to manage, describe, and deliver their digital collections.

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What is Interference Archive?

The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.
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Tuesday, December 5, 2023 @ 7:00 PM

Open to all! We're launching an IA book club and starting with M.E. O'Brien's Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care. What does the "family" mean under capitalism and how does the privatized family shape racial capitalism and social reproductive labor? What radical alternatives can we imagine for care and community? November 14th: Introduction [...]

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Join Interference Archive's Education Working Group for a hands on workshop and discussion about political education. Using archival materials as a jumping off point, workshop attendees will be invited to explore archival ephemera and discuss the ways that movement material can be integrated into different teaching contexts. During the second half of the workshop we'll [...]

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Our collection includes tens of thousands of items created as part of social movements around the world, by the participants themselves: posters, flyers, publications, zines, books, T-shirts and buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and other materials. For us, making this material accessible to the public is an act of preservation, not only of the physical materials, but of the collective history of those struggling for social change. Learn more about our collections and set up a time to visit them in-person in the archive.
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May 2020 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kent State and Jackson State massacres, which set off a historically large-scale student strike across the nation. With the anniversary as an entry point and frame of reference, this 96-page full color publication uses posters, buttons, pamphlets, flyers, zines, and more-to examine the broader scope of student movements that both led up to and followed those of May 1970.

Interference Archive is kept open by the generous donations of people like you who use and support the archive. Thank you!

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Interference Archive - Exploring the relationship between cultural production and social movements.

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What is Interference Archive? The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements.

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to texts, movies & music, as well as 624 billion archived web pages.

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The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) is located on the South Campus of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. Founded in 2015 in memory of Professor Leah Hoffmitz Milken, a renowned typographer, letterform designer, and esteemed faculty member at ArtCenter, HMCT is dedicated to every aspect of the typographic field.

Created to serve as a home and catalyst for the enhanced study of typography and letterform design, the Center serves as an educational forum, design laboratory, research center, and archive. As a meeting place for learning, discussion, and the exchange of ideas and skills, HMCT presents workshops, special classes, symposia, lectures, exhibitions, and residency programs.

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HMCT - Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Archives

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The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography (HMCT) is located on the South Campus of ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California. Founded in 2015 in memory of Professor Leah Hoffmitz Milken, a renowned typographer, letterform designer, and esteemed faculty member at ArtCenter, HMCT is dedicated to every aspect of the typographic field.

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The Archives makes both physical artifacts and digital representations available to design professionals, educators, students, business people, researchers, and others interested in the rich legacy of graphic design, paper manufacturing, and printing in West Michigan.

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100 days celebrating Herb Lubalin's centenary (1918-2018). Project by the Herb Lubalin Study Center and Readymag.

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Getty: Resources for Visual Art and Cultural Heritage

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Visit our Los Angeles museums and library, interact with art, and access free research tools.

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Center for the Study of Political Graphics

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CSPG wishes to thank the National Historical Publications & Records Commission and individual donors for supporting the launch of this interface. CSPG provides access to the materials for educational and research purposes only. CSPG does not hold copyright for any items in the collection.

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Search many of our collections via our Digital Library Collections website: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu

Columbia's digital library collection websites are a gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections.

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Search many of our collections via our Digital Library Collections website: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu Columbia's digital library collection websites are a gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections.

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Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955. More "

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The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Ad*Access concentrates on five main subject areas: Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II, providing a coherent view of a number of major campaigns and companies through images preserved in one particular advertising collection available at Duke University. The advertisements are from the J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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Snow is a major event here in North Carolina, and the University and Library were operating accordingly under a "severe weather policy" last week due to 6-12 inches of frozen precipitation. While essential services continued undeterred, most of the Library's staff and patrons were asked to stay home until conditions had improved enough to safely...

The preservation of the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections and the Duke Digital Repository programs are supported in part by the Lowell and Eileen Aptman Digital Preservation Fund

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Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955. More " Browse all 7,219 Items The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S.

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Architecture and design have found a welcoming environment at the Denver Art Museum since its earliest years. Furniture and architectural drawings rubbed elbows with paintings and sculpture during the early 1900s in the first Artists' Club annuals. Visitors to Chappell House and the Carnegie Library galleries in the 1920s could view exhibitions featuring early American furniture, colonial silver, and architectural drawings. By 1930, former museum director Cyril Kay-Scott stressed the need to acquire not only painting and sculpture, but also what was then characterized as applied art: objects designed with both aesthetics and function in mind.

In 1990, then-director Lewis Sharp officially founded the department of Architecture, Design and Graphics and named R. Craig Miller its first curator. The department was established with the mandate to collect, exhibit, and educate in the disciplines of architecture and design. Recognizing that Denver was a relatively new urban center in the American West, Miller made a major commitment to the post-World War II era, and, in particular, to contemporary design.

Miller established clear, but ambitious collecting goals in an area in which few American museums were actively involved and launched into a coordinated acquisition and exhibition program. Masterworks: Italian Design, 1960-1994 (1994) was the first comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Italian design in the United States in two decades, and was the first major exhibition organized by Miller for the new department. U.S. Design 1975-2000 (2002) was the culmination of Miller's five year effort and one of the first by an American museum to demonstrate the United States' contribution to international design during the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Upon Miller's departure in 2007, Darrin Alfred arrived bringing with him broad interests and a history of working with collections. Alfred has expanded the department's commitment to collecting and exhibiting postwar American graphic design. The same year Alfred arrived, the department acquired the AIGA Design Archives, one of the largest and most comprehensive holdings of contemporary American communication design in the world. Alfred's first curatorial project at the museum was The Psychedelic Experience: Rock Posters from the San Francisco Bay Area, 1965-71. This major exhibition showcased more than 250 experimental and visually stunning examples from the department's newly acquired collection of posters promoting dance concerts and other "happenings" that were iconic symbols of the youth culture of the 1960s and 70s.

Most recently, Alfred has conceived and developed the museum's new design galleries, nearly 10,000 square-feet of new and renovated space within the Martin Building's original footprint. The inaugural installation will feature more than 400 objects spanning two exhibitions: By Design: Stories and Ideas Behind Objects and Gio Ponti: Designer of a Thousand Talents.

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Architecture and design have found a welcoming environment at the Denver Art Museum since its earliest years. Furniture and architectural drawings rubbed elbows with paintings and sculpture during the early 1900s in the first Artists' Club annuals. Visitors to Chappell House and the Carnegie Library galleries in the 1920s could view exhibitions featuring early American furniture, colonial silver, and architectural drawings.

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Search many of our collections via our Digital Library Collections website: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu

Columbia's digital library collection websites are a gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections.

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Search many of our collections via our Digital Library Collections website: https://dlc.library.columbia.edu Columbia's digital library collection websites are a gateway to digital reproductions and descriptions of photographs, posters, drawings, objects, ephemera, and manuscripts as well as other archival material from Columbia's rare and special collections.

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Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images-right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections-with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

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The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History is part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Established in 1992, the Hartman Center holds an extensive collection of print and television advertisements, market research, industry reports, multimedia materials, and more, and facilitates the research of scholars and students interested in a diverse array of topics related to advertising and media.

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The John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History is part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Established in 1992, the Hartman Center holds an extensive collection of print and television advertisements, market research, industry reports, multimedia materials, and more, and facilitates the research of scholars and students interested in a diverse array of topics related to advertising and media.

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The Columbia University Libraries online catalogue is a primary tool for locating RBML materials.
Archival Collections Portal
This portal provides access to records of archival collections at Columbia University Libraries, including finding aids, collection descriptions and available digital content, such as online exhibits and images.

Oral History Portal
Use this portal to explore the collections of the Columbia Center for Oral History (CCOH) Archives at RBML.

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The Columbia University Libraries online catalogue is a primary tool for locating RBML materials. Archival Collections Portal This portal provides access to records of archival collections at Columbia University Libraries, including finding aids, collection descriptions and available digital content, such as online exhibits and images.

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Explore 866,767 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.

This site is a living database with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.

Our collections include some content that may be harmful or difficult to view. Learn more

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Explore hundreds of thousands of digital items from The New York Public Library.

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The collection contains, among other materials, posters, playbills, songsheets, notices, invitations, proclamations, petitions, timetables, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, ballots, tickets, menus, and business cards. There are more than 28,000 items in the collection with 10,172 available online. The material dates from the seventeenth century to the present day and covers innumerable topics.

The library of Peter Force, acquired by the Library of Congress in 1867, furnished the basis of the Printed Ephemera Collection. Force himself had secured many of the pieces assembled by an earlier American historian and collector, Ebenezer Hazard. The majority of the items in the collection were produced in America and their major strength is in historical Americana. In adding to the collection, the Library's aim was to accumulate a record of all broadsides printed in America, and to do so, photostats as well as originals were collected.

Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera delivers online access to the Printed Ephemera Collection, providing digital images and searchable text.

The Nature of Ephemera

As the name would suggest, printed ephemera tends to be transitory documents created for a specific purpose, and intended to be thrown away. The Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library of Congress comprises primary sources relating to the key events of American history, including the Revolutionary War, slavery, the Western land rush, the Civil War, women's suffrage, and the Industrial Revolution. The printed material was produced as the events unfolded and offers unique snapshots of the nation's past.

Printed ephemera has had multiple purposes, as instanced by the variety of material assembled in the online collection. A primary purpose was the distribution of information. In the days before television and radio, citizens received news by way of broadsides and printed ephemera. For example, a Baltimore broadside of 1776 gives the first published account of Washington crossing the Delaware.

Other material tells a different story. Many of the items were never meant to be kept. For example, an ordinary paint advertisement may not seem of historical interest except for the date: 1792. The list of colors (more than one might expect) gives clues about the shades and hues that adorned the homes of the nation's founders. A 1928 railroad leaflet includes one of the earliest references to air travel, and shows the industry in a nascent, and interesting, state.

Printed ephemera also shows a new side of well-known issues and people. A business card which appears to have been printed by Abraham Lincoln was actually published and distributed by his opposition in the 1864 presidential election. It promised that, after losing the election, he'd return to Illinois to split rails and trade horses.

Historical events are brought to life by printed ephemera. In the wake of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, Mayor E. E. Schmitz had no choice but to muster a special police force to keep peace amid the chaos. He empowered the officers to take extreme measures if necessary, and a broadside announced the order.

Lastly, certain items provide a connection with the past in ways that textbooks cannot. An 1840 poster for a lost dog, printed in Alton, Illinois, shows that people felt as strongly about their pets in the nineteenth century as today. It also may spark a new consciousness of one's surroundings: the photocopied sign at the bus stop showing maps and routes might be insignificant now, but it holds a story that may help to illuminate history in generations to come.

In exploring the contents of Printed Ephemera, readers may encounter attitudes and language that are jarring to contemporary sensibilities. It should be noted that broadsides and printed ephemera express the language, experience, and viewpoints of the era in which they were published.

The Printed Ephemera Collection: In the Library's Reading Room and Online

The majority of the Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library is arranged by state of imprint. The states are ordered alphabetically, and within each state, the items are arranged chronologically. The sequence of American material is followed by international imprints ordered by country, and special classes of material grouped under a common subject, such as the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention broadsides, Lincoln material, and playbills.

The collection is housed in archival folders and placed in flat boxes and map cases. Readers visiting the Library may use the card file or the published catalog and make their requests at the front desk of the Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room.

Users may browse or search keywords in the collection, make selections, and download the images. Each item included in the online collection has been digitized in a manner that captures all data on the item. Duplicate copies have usually not been digitized, nor have surfaces of items that are blank or only contain Library of Congress information that is reproduced in the bibliographic description.

Often materials of this sort were produced in such a way that more than one page of text was printed on one side of a sheet. These sheets were then folded before distribution so the different pages of text followed each other in appropriate order. These multiple formats are described in the section Page Order and Folding Diagrams. The multiple printing formats and folding patterns represented in the Printed Ephemera are described in the section Page Order and Folding Diagrams. Original items in these various formats have been digitized page by page in the order depicted in the applicable Page Order Diagram.

The Printed Ephemera Collection: Bibliographic Access

The majority of the Printed Ephemera Collection at the Library has brief item-level descriptions. Occasionally a group of similar items is covered by a single record. Some material has had complete cataloging and is described by MARC records that reside in the Library's online catalog; this comprises only a small percentage of the collection, however.

Because printed ephemera lacks the uniformity of books, the traditional rules of cataloging books and other monographs often do not apply. After all, broadsides don't have title pages. This may explain the simple, and at times irregular, rendering of the titles in the bibliographic descriptions. For the most part, these descriptions are not part of the Library's official catalog, but they remain an invaluable resource.

The collection is shelved in a geographical order, but the card file maintains cross-referenced access in a total of three ways: geographical, author/title, and chronological. All three were published in a four-volume set entitled Broadsides in the Rare Book Division, Library of Congress (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1972), edited by Frederick Goff.

The Printed Ephemera Collection, in addition to making printed ephemera available online, will greatly enhance users' access to the collection by offering keyword searchability, unlocking substantially increased research potential. The potential expands even farther with the full textual transcriptions that are included. These "full-text" searches locate occurrences anywhere in the entire document.

The Printed Ephemera Collection: In Print and Online

All information on the catalog cards has been transcribed in the digital records. Even the backs of the cards, which are not visible in the published finding aid, are accounted for in the bibliographical records that accompany the images in this collection.

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About this Collection | Printed Ephemera: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera | Digital Collections | Library of Congress

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The collection contains, among other materials, posters, playbills, songsheets, notices, invitations, proclamations, petitions, timetables, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, ballots, tickets, menus, and business cards. There are more than 28,000 items in the collection with 10,172 available online. The material dates from the seventeenth century to the present day and covers innumerable topics.

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Library Guides: Advertising: History and Archives: Archives: Digital Collections

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All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All

About this Collection

The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. The posters were designed to publicize exhibits, community activities, theatrical productions, and health and educational programs in seventeen states and the District of Columbia, with the strongest representation from California, Illinois, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The results of one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts, the posters were added to the Library's holdings in the 1940s.

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All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All The Work Projects Administration (WPA) Poster Collection consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest.

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