Posters, Pamphlets, and Broadsides

• AIDS Posters: UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library – 625 posters from 44 countries.  Issued by a variety of institutions to educate and warn people about AIDS
• AIDS Posters: Wellcome Digital Collections
• An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera: Library of Congress – over 28,000 proclamations, advertisements, blank forms, programs, catalogues, clippings, timetables, and menus from the 17th century to the present
• Berkeley 1968-1973 Poster Collection: UBC Library Digital Collections – 250 posters concerned with the advocacy for peace, equality, and harmony during the Vietnam War era from the University of California’s Berkeley campus and other regions in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Block Prints of the Chinese Revolution: Princeton University Digital Library – Collection of 30 very rare block prints from the 1911 Revolution.
• Broadsides and Ephemera: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – Thousands of broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed items on a wide range of topics from across the United States
• Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides: University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library – Pre-1930 Canadian pamphlet and broadside holdings, supplying both page images in full colour, and full searchability of the contents of each item.  To date the site consists of 597 broadsides (single sheets, printed on one or both sides) and 2062 pamphlet titles.
• Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication and Mass Education in the Early Period of the People’s Republic of China: Digital Collections at the Center for Research Libraries – Chinese pamphlets, picture books and other propaganda issued during the early years of the People’s Republic of China between 1947 and 1954
• Chinese Public Health Posters: Clendening History of Medicine Library at the University of Kansas
• Chinese Public Health Posters: National Library of Medicine – Roughly 7,000 items produced from the early 20th century to the year of SARS
• Conservative Party Election Posters, 1909-2007: Bodleian Libraries
• Gazetteers of Scotland, 1803-1901: National Library of Scotland – 20 volumes of the most popular descriptive gazetteers of 19th-century Scotland.
• Historical Medical Poster Collection: Cushing-Whitney Medical Library, Yale University– public health communications, medical product advertising, aid and relief solicitations
• Italian Cultural and Political Posters, 1930s-1980s: Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries – 108 Italian cultural and political posters mostly from the 1970s and 1980s
• Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: UCSF – This collection of Japanese woodblock prints illustrates a wide variety of health-related topics, providing a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West
• Jay T. Last Collection of Lithographic and Social History: Huntington Digital Library -more than 185,000 commercial prints and ephemera of mostly 19th and early 20th-century American origin, illustrating the evolution of commercial advertising, visual culture, and graphic design
• John J. Powers Safety Poster Collection: Mountain West Digital Library – More than 200 screen prints of posters produced in the 1960s and 1970s for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Butte, Montana
• Latin American Posters Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – Posters created by a wide variety of social activists, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, political parties, and other types of organizations across Latin America.  Topics include: human rights, elections, gender issues, indigenous issues, labor, ecology and environmental issues, development, public health, and education.
• Pamphlet Collections: Harvard College Library – The Harvard College Library is in the process of digitizing its collection of tens of thousands of pamphlets published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Areas currently covered in this digital collection include Latin America, World War I, Sociology, the Boer War, and Brittany
• Political Posters: Labadie Collection, University of Michigan – posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest. Some are from the first half of the 20th century, but the majority are from the 1960s and later
• Posters: National Library of Medicine
• Prints and Ephemera: Huntington Digital Library – more than 650,000 prints, posters, ephemera, color plate books and extra-illustrated books culture from the 1500s through the 1900s, with special emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth century society
• Renaissance Festival Books: British Library – 253 Renaissance festival books thatdescribe the festivals and ceremonies that took place in Europe between 1475 and 1700 including marriages and funerals of royalty and nobility, coronations, stately entries into cities and other events
• Rowlandson Collection: Princeton University Library Collection – More than 700 British caricatures from the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Sophia Smith Collection: Women’s History Archives at Smith College Images – tens of thousands of original photographs, slides, negatives, postcards, artwork, scrapbooks, and illustrated print sources (periodicals, broadsides, fliers, pamphlets, and posters)
• Soviet Posters: National Library of Scotland – 70 posters from the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1930, relating to the Russian Civil War and economic and social issues.
• Taller de Gráfica Popular Prints and Posters: Princeton University Digital Library – 20thcentury Mexican political, comic, and artistic prints and posters
• The Resurrectionists: New York Academy of Medicine – broadsides, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the body snatchers and murderers William Burke and William Hare, their accomplices, and their victims
• The Word on the Street: National Library of Scotland – 1,800 Scottish broadsides from 1650-1910.
• Thomas Nast Collection: Princeton University Digital Library – More than 600 political cartoons produced by German-American artist Thomas Nast from the 1850s to the 1890s.
• WWI & WWII Posters: UBC Library Digital Collections – Fifty nine posters, broadsides, and ephemera from World War I and II, published in Canada, Belgium,  England, France, Germany, and the United States