Overview of the Collection |
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| Title: | Indian Religious Posters Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | circa 1940-1980 |
| Quantity: | 3 linear ft. (1 oversize box) |
| Abstract: | Printed material with images of figures from the Hindu religion, including Ganesh, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama and others. |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
The H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive is an extensive and well-documented collection of visual material depicting Hindu gods, goddesses, saints and sacred sites. The Indian Religious Posters Collection was created by Special Collections Research Center to accommodate gifts of material from other donors that relate to or supplement this collection.
The Indian Religious Posters Collection contains commercially-produced visual material depicting Hindu gods, goddesses, saints and sacred sites. Personages represented include Ganesh, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama and others. The material is of various formats, from calendar pages to posters to reproduced photographs of holy men.
The material is divided by donor. Within that, items are in no particular order.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Indian Religious Posters,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Portions gift of Dr. Frederic Spiegelberg, 1987.
Portions gift of Jack Hawley, 2011.
Created by: MRC
Date: 10 Feb 2011
Revision history:
| Printed material | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Hawley donation circa 1940-1980 (21 items) | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1 | Spiegelberg donation circa 1940-1980 (39 items) | ||||||||||
