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Marie Tempest is a graduate student in history at Yale University.
Her research interests include posters and other kinds of propaganda,
graffiti, and nineteenth and twentieth century French history. Previous
to her work with the posters of World War I, she studied the French
posters of May and June 1968, a topic on which she wrote a high
honors thesis at U.C. Berkeley, “Anti-Nazism and the Ateliers
Populaires: The Memory of Nazi Collaboration in the Posters
of Mai ‘68.”
This
website was created as part of her summer 2007 internship with the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. The internship included
repair and preservation of damaged posters, poster digitalization,
and archival and secondary research on the early years and apogee
of the poster-as-propaganda. The posters were digitized using Zeutschel
book and Geographical Information System (G.I.S.) scanners, and
lightly edited in Adobe Photoshop for color and contrast.
I
would like to thank the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
for allowing me to carry out this project. I am particularly indebted
to Roddy Humeniak of the Preservation Department—for what
she taught me as well as for her friendship; to Mary-Ellen Ducey
in the Archives & Special Collections; and to Kay Walter at
the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. I must also recognize
Paul Shamble of the School of Biological Sciences for his design
of the site’s beautiful banner. |
