Presidents -- United States -- Election
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Barack Obama 2008 Presidential Campaign Posters
Collection
Identifier: COL-154
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of thirty-eight posters (lithographs, digital prints, silkscreens) related to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, including prints by Shepard Fairey and other notable artists. There's also a copy of Time Magazine from December 29, 2008, with Obama's Shepard Fairey portrait and caption "Person of the Year" on the cover, and three "Yes we did" postcards. All posters have been photographed.
Dates:
2007 - 2009
F. Ray Risdon Collection of Lincolniana and American Political Life
Collection
Identifier: SCRIS-039
Abstract
F. Ray Risdon collected Lincolniana for almost fifty years. His collection passed to Occidental College Library in 1957, by which time he had amassed 3000 monographs, 1500 pamphlets, and 85 linear feet of non-book items. Of special interest to Mr. Risdon were the myriad ways in which people choose to commemorate President Lincoln, and this collection includes not only a wide variety of commemorative material, but also correspondence regarding the creation of a Lincolniana collection...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1799-1972