Historical Objects

Over 3000 digitised public health posters relating to AIDS, from 99 countries through the Wellcome Library Digital Collections.

Documents, pamphlets, booklets, flyers, and other original material drawn from the Pacific Northwest Collection of pamphlets and books, the Theater program collection, and various textual ephemeral collections.

The Brandeis University World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters collection includes nearly a hundred different images promoting the two war efforts. A number of the posters were created by artists whose work was already widely known through books, magazines, and advertising.

A selection of images from the University of Washington Libraries' World War I and World II Poster Collection featuring propaganda posters and broadsides from the United States, Western Europe and the Axis powers.

Hosted by the International Institute for Social History in the Netherlands, this is a collection of Chinese posters divided in three sections: the early years (1949-1965), the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the period of modernization up to the present (1977-1997).

Over 1.600 Chinese propaganda posters are shown on this website. The Gallery features 200 highlights focused on the 20th century, from the collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Stefan R. Landsberger (University of Amsterdam, Leiden University).

The collection includes more than 250 anti-Fascist posters, sent or brought home by American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.

Pamphlets, posters, and other campaign literature issued primarily by political parties in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and El Salvador (1980-2009).

The Yanker Poster Collection includes more than 3,000 political, propaganda, and social issue posters and handbills, dating 1927-1980. Most posters are from the United States, but over 55 other countries and the United Nations are also represented.

This focused collection includes illustrated US posters from the turn of the century (1900) and surrounding decades from Scribers, Harpers Bazar, Heralds, and more. They advertise materials (e.g. bicycles) as well as journals, magazines, and theater events.