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Created on : October 17, 2019
Also known as the yellow jackets movement, or mouvement de gilets jaunes, this collection includes digital and audiovisual media--archived websites, digital video recordings, digital photographs--as well as physical publications and ephemera.
The yellow vests movement is a populist, grassroots political movement for economic justice that began in France in October 2018. After an online petition posted in May had attracted nearly a million signatures, mass demonstrations began on 17 November. The movement is motivated by rising fuel prices, a high cost of living; it...
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Created on : October 09, 2019
On November 11th, 2018 Poland was celebrating its rebirth with a multitude of events across the country. Marches and masses were held in more than 600 public places. According to official reports, approximately 200,000 Poles participated in a march in the capital of Poland, Warsaw. This date was the first time Polish officials took part in an Independence March. Among them were President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Former Polish Prime Minister and the President of the European Council Donald Tusk.
This collection represents an assemblage of...
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Created on : September 19, 2019
Many hundreds of protest murals were created in Chile during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990. This collection documents the spirit, force, and iconography of political protest during that timeframe.
The photographer Andrés Romero Spethman worked alongside muralist brigades representing political parties such as the Partido Socialista and the Izquierda Cristiana.
Created in and around Santiago between 1983 and 1990, the murals document the spirit, force, and iconography of political protest during an important period of Chilean history....
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Created on : September 19, 2019
This collection contains scarce and unique pamphlets, primarily from Chile, Cuba, Bolivia, and Mexico; and published during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Harvard's Widener Library is the repository of many scarce and unique Latin American pamphlets published during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
One of the few institutions to have consistently...
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Created on : July 06, 2018
The Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division (AEOD) collects a variety of material on North American life throughout history. The following collections represent materials focusing on different aspects of tourism and local culture with the understanding of the economic conditions of that time and place. For assistance searching and locating these items and similar materials, please contact the AEOD.
Travel Promotion West of the MIssissippi
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Images 1-5. Widener collections support the study of tourism... -
Created on : July 05, 2018
Widener Library has collected a rich sample of rare pamphlets, informal publications, and journals and magazines that attest to the distinctive activist and protest culture that developed in the communities in and around San Francisco between the late 1970s and the 1990s. One sees evidence not only of direct political intervention and organization, but of the expression of sexual and gender identity, underground literary expression, and religious congregations. Especially prominent are GLBTQA publications from groups fighting to raise awareness of the crisis of HIV/AIDS and disrupt...
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Created on : July 05, 2018
The Ukrainian political ephemera collection is a unique collection of materials spanning the period of time from Ukraine's first post-Soviet presidential election in 1991 until the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2014, and the local elections in 2015. In addition to election ephemera, the collection includes materials on politics in Ukraine in the late 1980s, the protest movements in the 1990s, the Orange...
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Created on : May 10, 2018
This collection includes 6 scrapbooks, compiled anonymously, and containing Danish-language newspaper and magazine clippings dating from between 1906 and 1944. Focusing on themes dealing with gays, lesbians, transsexuals, cross dressing, and gender roles, the material largely comes from the 1930's.
The images below come from the third scrapbook in the collection, and focus mainly on Einar Wegener, the Danish artist who underwent the first male to female sex reassignment surgery and took the name Lili Elbe. Her life story was chronicled in the biography,...
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Created on : May 02, 2018
Russian ephemera collection (late 1980s-1990s) is a collection of materials and artifacts related to various political events,...
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Created on : April 09, 2018
These images represent a portion of a larger collection from the British Isles covering a range of current political and social issues, including Scottish independence, the Brexit, marriage equality, racism, migrants’ rights, electoral politics, and leftist/anarchist movements. The collection consists of pamphlets, zines, leaflets, newspaper issues, postcards, and other forms of ephemera.
Pictured below: items from the anti-racist/migrants’ rights movements in Ireland and the UK.
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