Huub Sanders
The Poster Collection of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Ort: Uni Graz, ReSoWi, Universitätsstr. 15, LS 15.03 (Bauteil C, EG)
Zeit: Dienstag, 15.9.2009, 13:00-14:00
Abstract
A short general history of the IISH will be presented. Emphasized will be the twofold aim of safeguarding political endangered material and building a historically valuable collection of primary source material. In the course of this work the IISH collected, next to archives and libraries, photo and poster collections. The presentation will highlight some of the most important parts of this vast collection. Information will be given on posters from the Netherlands, the Soviet Union in the twenties and thirties, Spain during the Civil War, Germany before 1933 and Austria before the Anschluss. Next the shift in collection policy towards the »global south» will be explained. Attention will be focused on some examples of these collections, like posters form the Chinese Cultural Revolution or Indonesian prints from the 1990-ies. The lecture will end with an overview of the problems involved in management, conservation and cataloguing this large international collection, which now amounts to 140.000 items. Internet is of course the central innovative platform. Not only for an Institute which tries to collect posters, but also for poster-producers themselves.
Kurzbiographie von Huub Sanders
MA Leiden University 1980. IISH research staff member for collection development. Responsible for visual materials. Also acquisitions for Latin America, Africa, Australia, and Japan. Involved in the restitution from Russia of Dutch archives stolen from the Netherlands during the Second World War. Also involved in a task group studying the history of the IISH. Editorial secretary »Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis«. Previous activities at the IISH were in preservation projects and information management.
Selected (international) publications:
- Deutsche Archivalien in Nachlässen und Sammlungen deutscher und internationaler Provenienz im Internationalen Institut für Sozialgeschichte in Amsterdam. IWK Internationale wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz zur Geschichte der deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, 29.Jhrg, Sept. 1993 Heft 3, 348-362 [met E.J.Fischer]
- Social Movements on Microfilm: The case of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Microform & Imaging Review, Vol.25 No. 1 winter 1996, 22-37
- The collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, with special reference to Switzerland. In: Brigitte Studer, François Vallotton (eds): Histoire sociale et mouvement ouvrier: Un bilan historiographique 1848-1998. Lausanne: Editions d’en bas, 1997. 283-302
- Sources and Images. The International Institute of Social History = Bronnen en Beelden. Het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis. RKD Bulletin 2002 Nr. 2 1-10
- Images of aspiration. A documentary on social movements based on images from the collection of the International Institute of Social History = Beelden van streven. Een documentaire over sociale bewegingen aan de hand van beelden uit de collectie van het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2005) [met Els Hiemstra-Kuperus]
