Poster Collection of the Hoover Institution
Title | Poster Collection of the Hoover Institution |
Publication Type | Website |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Place Published | Hoover Institution, Libraries and Archives, Stanford, CA |
Abstract | Documenting the wartime viewpoints and diverse political sentiments of the twentieth century, the Poster Collection has more than one hundred thousand posters from around the world and continues to grow. Some 33 thousand are available online. Posters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia/Soviet Union, and France predominate, although items from more than eighty countries are included. Additional posters can be found in various individual archival collections. Posters are searchable by keyword, artist, agency, transcription, description, as well as by country of origin. |
URL | http://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/posters |
Type of Literature:
Keywords:
- War, Culture & Gender
- War & Cultural Representations of Gender
- Popular Culture
- War Mobilization
- War, Home Front & Gender
- War & Politics
- War & Nation/Nation-building
- War & Nation/Nation-building & Gender
- War & International Politics
- War, International Politics & Gender
- War & Colonialism/Imperialism
- War & Colonialism/Imperialism & Gender
- War & Anti-colonial Struggle
- War & Anti-colonial Struggle & Gender
- War, Gender & Peace
- Peace Studies
- Peace Studies & Gender
- Peace Movements & Gender
- Peace Movements
Time Period:
Major Wars:
- -European Civil Wars (1848-49)
- -Italian Wars of Independence (1848-49, 1859, 1866)
- -Crimean War (1853-56)
- -American Civil War (1861-65)
- -German Wars of Unification (1864, 1866, 1870–71)
- -Imperial Conquest of Africa (1880-1914)
- -Spanish–American War (1898)
- -Philippine-American War (1899–1902)
- -Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
- First World War (1914-19)
- Russian Civil War (1917-22)
- Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1919-23)
- Chinese Civil War (1927-50)
- -Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45)
- Second World War (1939-45)
- Global Cold War (1947-91)
- -Arab-Israeli Conflicts (1947–90)
- --Algerian War (1954-62)
- --First and Second Indochina Wars/Vietnam War (1946-75)
- Wars in former Yugoslavia (1991-99)
- -U.S. Interventions in the Middle East (1990–)