Houghton Library collection of Soviet posters
Overview
Posters created in the Soviet Union for International Women's Day, space travel, and worker safety.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1980-1990
Condition Description
In good condition.
Physical Description
(1 folder of 7 posters)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
Extent
.04 linear feet (2 folders)Seven posters: two related to space travel; four for International Women's Day; and one worker safety poster.
Arrangement
Arranged as received.
Custodial History
The collection of seven posters was formed by a Los Angeles (Calif.) real estate investor originally from Omsk (Russia). He had been a Russian exchange student at Mark Funke's high school in the 1990s and, back in touch circa 2018, sold this collection to Funke, from whom the Library purchased it.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2022M-51. Purchased from Mark Funke Bookseller with the Bayard Livingston and Kate Gray Kilgour Fund, 2022 January 3.
Processing Information
This collection was processed to a basic level with minimal rehousing, organization, and preservation. (Melanie Wisner, 2022)
- Title
- Houghton Library, collector. Houghton Library collection of Soviet posters, circa 1980-1990 (MS Russ 163): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University
- Date
- 2022 February 9
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou03436
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
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