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Neala Schleuning poster collection
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American educator and writer Neala Schleuning (also published as Neala Janis Schleuning Yount) received her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1978 with a dissertation on the life and work of Meridel Le Sueur, a well-known and respected Midwestern writer of the political left. Schleuning was personally associated with Le Sueur, collaborating with her and the Twin Cities Women's Film Collective on a film about Le Sueur's writing,
My People Are My Home (1976). Schleuning taught American history, Women's Studies, and American Studies, and was involved in higher education administration. She was director of the women's center at Mankato State University (now known as Minnesota State University, Mankato), and assistant director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. A Fulbright Scholar, she is the author of several books, including America: Song We Sang Without Knowing (1983); Idle Hands and Empty Hearts: Work and Freedom in the United States (1990); Women, Community, and the Hormel Strike of 1985-86 (1994); and To Have and to Hold: the Meaning of Ownership in the United States (1997).The Neala Schleuning poster collection includes a wide variety of posters, broadsides, and several menus collected by Schleuning in the course of her worldwide travels. The poster collection is a strong graphic collection reflecting her broad interests in women's issues, American studies, and political movements. The items span approximately twenty years, with items dating from the 1970s through the 1990s. Some early posters represent social and political issues of the 1970s, such as the Women's Liberation Movement and Nuclear Disarmament. A large number of broadsides advertise cultural events, such as plays, gallery openings, and Native American gatherings, many of which occurred in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, where Schleuning lived. Through the 1980s and 1990s, posters display ongoing social and political concerns such as labor relations, health reform, and homelessness.
The collection is arranged in two broad geographic series, posters from domestic American events or those obtained from travels abroad. Series I. United States is arranged in topical subseries: Anarchist Gatherings, Anti-Nuclear Campaign, Cultural Events, Gay/Lesbian Issues, Labor Relations/Worker's Rights, Native American Issues, and Women & Work (Women's Liberation). The posters and broadsides represent various events that were held across the United States, including items from events honoring American icons Karen Silkwood and Leonard Peltier.
Series II. International includes posters and broadsides from nations around the world, from Africa to Central America to Asia. The Schleuning Collection contains a series of Russian posters honoring Soviet leader Vladimir Ill'ich Lenin and another series of Soviet propaganda posters, as well as two fine silkscreen posters from Sri Lanka. The collection also contains an impressive array of posters from two United Nations World Conferences on Women, held in Nairobi, Kenya (1985), and Beijing, China (1995), respectively. The two menus in the collection are placemat menus from McDonald's restaurants in Russia and China.
Just as the items in this collection cover a broad range of topics and geographic locals, the artwork ranges from simple sketches to fine illustrations to photography; production methods range from limited silkscreen or letterpress to mass commercial printings. Likewise, paper quality of the posters varies from the type of cheap flyer one might see posted on a bulletin board to high-gloss, photo-quality sheets. The collection provides a good international overview for study of graphic design and the poster art of political statement.
The item list of posters provides the following descriptive details: poster title/slogan/primary text from graphics on the poster, location of event or place of publication, date (when known), poster size (in inches), color production, and format (broadside or poster). Additional details, such as multiple copies or artist, are provided as available.
Many of the posters contain text in languages other than English; translations are provided for most of these. Graphic descriptions have been provided for image posters without text. The posters are housed in flat files; oversize items have been identified with removal sheets and are housed separately.
Folders 1-17: Shelved in SPEC oversize mapcases
Gift of Neala Schleuning, January 2004
Processed by Tammy Kiter, Spring 2004. Finding aid encoded by Anna Nuzzolese, December 2018.
People
Organization
- United Nations
- World Conference on Women (4th : 1995 : Beijing, China)
- World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women (1985 : Nairobi, Kenya)
Subject
- Economic development
- Nuclear disarmament--History--20th century
- Women's studies--United States
- Russia--History--1613-1917
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921
- Women's Rights--History--20th century
- Refugees
- Indigenous peoples
- Gay rights
- Employee rights
- Political participation
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Library Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- University of Delaware Special Collections
- Finding Aid Date
- 2018 November 09
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Collection Inventory
10.75 x 17 color broadside. 2 copies.
10.75 x 17 color broadside
10.75 x 17 color broadside
8.5 x 14 color broadside.
8 x 10 color photograph depicting boy, tree, and root system.
11 x 17 black and white broadside.
11.75 x 17.75 color broadside
10.75 x 16.75 color broadside
2 copies
Physical Description15.75 x 9 color poster
20.5 x 27.75 black and white poster
8.5 x 13.75 color broadside
11 x 20 color broadside
16.5 x 21.75 color poster
8.5 x 13.75 double-sided black and white broadside
14 x 14 color poster
22 x 16.75 color poster
10.75 x 17 black and white broadside
16.75 x 10.25 black and white broadside
linoleum print combined with type, printing done on an 1883 press by The Sun Arts Press; 18.5 x 10 color resume and 4 x 6 attached card
10.75 x 16.75 black and white broadside, 3 copies
10.75 x 16.75 black and white broadside
13.25 x 18.75 black and white poster
13.5 x 17.25 color poster
3 copies.
Physical Description16.75 x 10.75 color poster
13.25 x 19.25 black and white broadside
16 x 22 black and white poster
15.5 x 22 color poster, 3 copies
19.75 x 25.75 color poster
16.75 x 21.75 color poster
23.75 x 17 color poster
23.75 x 35.75 color poster
16.5 x 20.5 color poster.
11 x 17 black and white broadside. 2 copies.
11 x 17 color poster.
11 x 17 color broadside. 2 copies.
11 x 17 color broadside.
11 x 17 color broadside.
Text entirely in Spanish. Translation approximate. Description: Advertizing the building of a sustainable community on earth through a multicultural solidardity.
Physical Description11 x 17 color broadside
10.75 x 16.75 double-sided color broadside
17.25 x 22.5 black and white poster
10.75 x 17 black and white poster
16.75 x 22.5 black and white poster, 2 copies
17.5 x 22.5 color poster, 2 copies
16.5 x 23.25 black and white poster
10 x 16.5 color broadside.
29 x 24 color poster.
11 x 17 color broadside.
10.25 x 16.75 color broadside
14.25 x 16.75 color poster
15.25 x 22.25 color poster
17.25 x 23 color poster
16.75 x 21.75 color poster
16.75 x 21.75 color poster
17.25 x 22.75 color poster
Description: features photograph and biographicalinformation for six Native American women: Mary Bordeaux, Nellie Left Hand Bull-Big Crow, Dorothy Mousseau Crane Pretty Voice, Kate Roubideaux Blue Thunder, Kate Bone Shirt Omaha Boy, Edna Little Elk.. Poster is first in the Lakota Women Curriculum series; funded by South Dakota Dept of Ed and Cultural Affairs.
Physical Description17.75 x 23.75 double-sided color poster
Poster is one of a series by Akwesasne Notes.
Description: Native American cultural scene.
Physical Description17.25 x 22.25 color poster
24 x 32 color poster.
24 x 32 color poster.
24 x 32 color poster.
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
Oneof a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
One of a series commissioned by the Women's Bureau from American Women Artists. Women's Bureau 75th Anniversary, 1920-1995. U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau.
Physical Description24 x 32 color poster
16.75 x 24.75 color poster
Poster text in Swahili.
Physical Description15.5 x 22.5 black and white poster
9 x 19.25 broadside
16 x 23 color poster
Poster entirely in Russian. Description: features young girl's face with a flower in her hair.
Physical Description12.5 x 19 color broadside
16 x 21 color poster
Poster exhibits text in Swahili.
Physical Description23 x 16.25 color poster, 2 copies
Poster entirely in Arabic. Translation approximate. Description: features sketch of young children.
Physical Description16.25 x 24.25 color poster
Poster primarily in Turkish.
Physical Description16.5 x 23.5 color poster
15.75 x 21 color poster
Poster includes text in Swahili.
Physical Description21.5 x 19 color poster
Text predominantly in Spanish.
Physical Description16.75 x 22 color poster
17.75 x 24 color poster
Poster text in Spanish. Description: features sketch of girl with dove.
Physical Description20.75 x 29.75 color poster
23.75 x 35.75 color poster
Text in French.
Physical Description17.5 x 25.25 color poster
Poster printed primarily in Arabic.
Physical Description23.25 x 34.5 color poster
16.75 x 22.25 color poster
Text in Sinhalese.
Physical Description18.25 x 28.5 color silkscreen, 2 copies
Minimal text in Arabic.
Physical Description19 x 26.5 color poster
Some text in Arabic.
Physical Description13.25 x 18.5 color poster
Text in Chinese. Translation approximate. Description: features painting of female in traditional costume surrounded by flowers.
Physical Description14.5 x 20.5 color poster
16.75 x 22 color poster
Some text in Hatian French Creole. Description: features large symbol for female with mosaic design in black and white.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.75 color poster
Text in both French and Hatian French Creole.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.75 color poster
Description: features Muslim women sitting in a lecture/classroom.
Physical Description24 x 16.25 color poster
16.5 x 23 color poster
Some text in Arabic. Printed by Palestinian National Committee.
Physical Description17.5 x 25 color poster
Text entirely in Arabic. Published by Ministry of Information of Bahrain. Description: features painting of woman in traditional costume holding a dove in one hand and a globe in the other.
Physical Description18.5 x 26 color poster
Minimal text in Arabic.
Physical Description18.5 x 26 color poster
Text in Arabic. Description: features peace dove with Syrian flag.
Physical Description27.25 x 19 color poster
Minimal text in Arabic. Description: features woman with history books, globe, and doves.
Physical Description27.25 x 19 color poster
Translations of text in French and Spanish. Photo is of refugees from Mynamar in Bangladesh. Description: features refugees from Myanmar, Bangledash.
Physical Description18.5 x 26.5 color poster
Published by the Public Information Committee, China Organizing Committe for the Fourth World Conference on Women. Description: features multi-color flags and a monument.
Physical Description20.25 x 29.75 color poster
Text in Chinese. Description: features Great Wall of China and multi-color female symbols.
Physical Description. 20.75 x 29.75 color poster
Text in Chinese. Description: features multi-color ribbons.
Physical Description20.75 x 30 color poster
Text in French.
Physical Description21.75 x 32.75, color poster, 2 copies
Description: features young woman in traditional costume, [Beijing, 1995].
Physical Description22.25 x 34.5 color poster
Description: features young woman dancing in traditional costume, [Beijing, 1995].
Physical Description22.25 x 34.5 color poster
1986: 25th Anniversary of the FSLN.
Description: features painting of soldiers.
Physical Description17.75 x 24.75 color poster
Text in Chinese.
Physical Description13.25 x 9.5 color menu
Text in Chinese. Description: features painting of a bodhisattva predeominately seen in Mahayana Buddhism.
Physical Description10.5 x 15 color broadside
Text in Chinese. Description: features man and woman with monument, large buildings, and people holding books in the background; prints from the Cultural Revolution.
Physical Description14.75 x 12.5 black and white broadside
Text in Chinese. Description: features agricultural setting with crops, tractors, and farmers. One of the group paintings of the "Dammers in the Mountain Areas"--prints from the Cultural Revolution.
Physical Description12.5 x 14.75 black and white broadside
Text in Chinese. Description: features women weaving a net, first aid supplies, soldiers, and guns in background. Prints from the Cultural Revolution.
Physical Description14.75 x 12.5 black and white broadside
Text in Chinese, English, French and German. Description: features agricultural scene with group labor, [1970s?].
Physical Description30 x 20.75 color poster
Text in Chinese. Description: features young woman distributing books to children.
Physical Description20.5 x 29.75 color poster
Text in English, Chinese, and Tibetan.
Photo shows close up of young woman in traditional dress.
Text in English, Chinese and Tibetan.
Photo shows young woman doing a Tibetan dance.
Text in German. Includes dates and location for where and when exhibit was running.
Physical Description16.25 x 23.25 black and white poster
Some text in German.
Physical Description12 x 23.75 black and white poster
Poster predominantly in German except for one organizational name in Spanish.
The poster publicizes a joint exhibition at the Neuen Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (New Society of Fine Arts) put on with the collaboration and support of InterAktion e.V., ans association for intercultural intiatives, and Centro de Comunicacion Alternativa Alaide Foppa, its Mexican counterpart.
Physical Description33 x 23.25 color poster
Side paneling of poster lists names of various German artists. Text in German provides information on where and when the exhibit ran.
Physical Description33 x 23.25 color poster
Text exclusively in German calls for "unterstützt die gesetzliche abtreibung geburtenkontrolle und die rechte der frauen"--support of legal abortion, birth control, and women's rights.
Physical Description33.75 x 22.75 color poster
Text in Arabic.
Physical Description15.5 x 20.5 color poster of shield with dove, Venus symbol, and olive branches.
18.25 x 26 color poster
24.5 x 35.25 color poster. Housed in oversize.
Information about performances, as well as a testimony, written in Filipino.
Physical Description17.25 x 23.75 black and white poster
"Posters, Portraits, Leaflets, 1917-1924, from the collection of Lenin State Library, SSSR," 1989 Folio series of 12 posters (with two introductory sheets) honoring Soviet Leader Il'lich Lenin (Vladimir Lenin), reprinted 1989. Translation from notes on verso of posters. Numbers from poster series.
Text entirely in Russian. Description: features sketch of Lenin.
Physical Description16.5 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian. Description: features text of documents.
Physical Description16.5 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian. Description: depicts a servant in chains and a blindfold, serving food to upper class individuals, same character freeded from servitude after enlisting in the military.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian. Description: features sketch of Lenin standing on top of a globe, sweeping off kings, bankers, and unidentified man.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian. Description: features photo of Lenin (1870-1920) with two working class men (tradesmen/laborers) honoring his image.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian. Description: features sketch of Lenin at the front of a ship battling large waves in the ocean, communist sickle is on the sail of the boat.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian. Description: features photo of Lenin with the years 1917-1922 and the captions, "Main speaker of the 5 year plan" as well as "4th Congress of the Revolution."
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text entirely in Russian. Description: features sketch of monument honoring Lenin and large numbers of people lined up to pay homage to him.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Notation on poster made by original owner states that April 23 is the "wrong date". Text in Russian.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features Lenin standing in front of large tank with soldiers marching in background.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features Lenin looking over a battlefield with Russian flag and industrial complex in background.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features sketch of Lenin with images ofcommunity, agriculture, factory, and shipping industry in background.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features Lenin pointing onward with military and industrial images in the background.
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features soldiers with guns and large buildings in background. Incomplete series of Soviet military posters reprinted from original 1940s posters, published in Moscow, 1970. Numbers from poster series.
Physical Description17 x 23 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features felled Nazi officer being zapped in the belly by a lightning bolt/bayonet. Incomplete series of Soviet military posters reprinted from original 1940s posters, published in Moscow, 1970. Numbers from poster series.
Physical Description17 x 23 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features female factory worker. Incomplete series of Soviet military posters reprinted from original 1940s posters, published in Moscow, 1970. Numbers from poster series.
Physical Description17 x 23 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features soldier on pole cutting electric/communication wires, with bombing in the background. Incomplete series of Soviet military posters reprinted from original 1940s posters, published in Moscow, 1970. Numbers from poster series.
Physical Description17 x 23 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features Soviet soldier destroying German sign reading "To the East"; military aircraft overhead. Incomplete series of Soviet military posters reprinted from original 1940s posters, published in Moscow, 1970. Numbers from poster series.
Physical Description17 x 23 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features soldier with flowers in his arms and Russian flags in the background, 1970. Incomplete series of Soviet military posters reprinted from original 1940s posters, published in Moscow, 1970. Numbers from poster series.
Physical Description17 x 23 color poster
Text in Russian. Cover only – contents lacking. Not part of two previous poster series.
Physical Description33.5 x 26 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features 4 blocks of artwork and text.
Physical Description15.75 x 23.5 color poster
Text in Russian.
Physical Description17.5 x 23 color poster
Text in Russian.
Physical Description33.75 x 22.75 color poster
Text in Russian.
Physical Description31.25 x 26 color poster (housed in oversize)
Text in Russian. Description: Scene of street fighting during Moscow uprising of 1905; bears Lenin quotation: "Without 'general rehearsal" of 1905, the victory of October Revolution of 1917 would be impossible."
Physical Description46.75 x 21.25 color poster, oversize roll. (housed in oversize)
Text in Russian.
Physical Description28.25 x 36.5 color poster (housed in oversize)
Text in Russian.
Physical Description23 x 35.5 color poster
Text in Russian.
Physical Description23.25 x 17.25 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: ceramic folk art figurines.
Physical Description16.5 x 23.5 double-sided color poster (2 copies)
Text in Russian. Description: features four blocks of text and artwork.
Physical Description15.75 x 23.5 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features sketch of crucifixion and photo of unidentified man, along with text.
Physical Description21.5 x 34 black and white poster
Text in Russian. Description: features military clad pirate clutching a torpedo, floating in the ocean.
Physical Description22.75 x 35 color poster
Text in Russian. Description: features sketch of peasant family in village setting. Illustration reproduced from 1914 artwork by "N. D-M."
Physical Description16.75 x 21.5 black and white poster
Text in Russian. Description: doublesided poster featuring images of farmers, agriculture, and produce.
Physical Description25 x 18.75 color poster
Text in Russian.
Physical Description13.25 x 10 color menu
Description: features large, disfigured cupid holding syringe and wine bottle.
Physical Description25 x 38 color poster (housed in oversize)
Text in Spanish.
Physical Description16.75 x 22 color poster
Double-sided poster.
Side 1,Cancion Protesta (Songs of Protest): Encuentro Agosto 1967, Casa de las America (Meeting August 1967, House of the Americas), Cuba. Description: features purple rose with drop of blood.
Side 2, Primer Festival Nacional de Teatro Infantil y de la Juventud ("First National Festival of Young Children and Youth's Theater"): Consejo Nacional de Cultura ("National Council for Culture"), Centro Cubano, n.d. Description: features sketch of child dancing.
Text in Spanish.
Physical Description13.25 x 17.5 color poster (possibly part of a series, includes the number 31 on one side and 32 on reverse)
Double-sided poster.
Side 1, Cimaron/Documental Cubano: Realizador Sergio Giral, Cuba, n.d. Description: features leg with broken shackle around ankle.
Side 2, La drones de Japon/Film Japones en Cinemascope: Direccion Satsuo Yamamoto con Rentaro Mikuni y Yoshiko Sakuma. Description: features sketch of Buddhist monk with a ghostly figure behind him.
Text in Spanish.
Physical Description13.25 x 17.5 color broadside