Distinctive Collections

The Americas, Europe and Oceania Division is home to many distinctive collections that offer researchers unique materials of historical, scholarly or simply curiosity value.  Among those one can find colonial African trade cards and Russian food ration cards from the 1990s, multicultural comics and political posters from various countries, Czech and Slovak samizdat brochures and Danish LGBT scrapbooks, German theater posters and one of four surviving copies of the Album comique pour les Affaires étrangères by Joseph Gabriel-Hippolyte Mollard (Paris, 1869) to name a few.

This page features selected distinctive collections curated by the AEOD. To learn more, please contact our Division Members.