Special Collections received a limited edition portfolio of Occupy-themed materials from Occuprint, an organization dedicated to the visual culture of the Occupy movement. Our new materials include the poster issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal (No. 4, November 2011); one signed copy of Dave Lowenstein’s spray-paint and stencil painting, “Tip of the Iceberg”; one print of Alexandra Clotfelter’s “The Beginning is Near” poster; and 31 hand silk-screened prints of posters selected from the designs displayed at occuprint.org. The Claremont Colleges Library was one of the sponsors of this project.
If you would like to come into Special Collections to see these posters, you can register as a reader and make your request online!
“Dollar Tower”
Artist: Jeanne Verdoux (Brooklyn, NY)
World War Poster collection
The World War Poster collection, housed in Honnold/Mudd Special Collections, has just been newly cataloged and its finding aid is now available online at the OAC.
This collection consists of propaganda posters from both World War I and World War II from the perspective of the Allied powers. While the majority of the posters in this collection are products of the United States government, this collection includes some posters from other countries, Britain and France, and from nongovernmental organizations such as the American Library Association, the Red Cross, the YMCA/YWCA, and private businesses.
Thank you to Carolyn Keim, Special Collections intern, for arranging and describing the collection!
New Acquisition: Soviet-Era Posters
Special Collections has received 24 Soviet era posters from a Claremont Graduate University professor, excellent examples of political imagery and message in the post WWII period in eastern Europe. We’ve digitized them, and the collection will be available in the Claremont Colleges Digital Library in the fall.
Stereotypes in Advertising exhibition–part 2
Stereotypes in Advertising: World War I and World War II Posters and Ephemera
The students of GRMT134: Stereotypes in Advertising, taught at Pomona College by Prof. Felix Kronenberg, are organizing a series of three exhibitions in Honnold/Mudd Library. On exhibit through the end of spring semester will be Special Collections’ World War I and World War II posters and ephemera as well as imagery and advertising of current world events.
The second of these exhibitions is “Wartime Patriotism: Past & Present”. A version of this in-library exhibition is also available as a web exhibition.
The students in this interdisciplinary course are exploring the depiction of the other in the world of advertising, looking at various stereotypes pertaining to categories such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, or age from a cultural studies perspective.
Student organized exhibition
The students of GRMT134: Stereotypes in Advertising, taught at Pomona College by Prof. Felix Kronenberg, are organizing a series of three exhibitions in Honnold/Mudd Library through the end of spring semester of Special Collections’ World War I and World War II posters and ephemera as well as imagery and advertising of current world events.
The first of these exhibitions is “Axis of Evil: Depiction of the Enemy in WWII Propaganda”. A version of this in-library exhibition is on the web here:: http://blogs.pomona.edu/grmt134-2009s/exhibit-1/
The students in this interdisciplinary course are exploring the depiction of the other in the world of advertising, looking at various stereotypes, pertaining to categories such as nationality, ethnicity, gender, or age, from a cultural studies perspective.