The Slavonic Library
Image Collection of the Slavonic Library
Collection materials in format
Analogue
The Image Collection of the Slavonic Library comprises mostly pictures, posters and postcards printed at printing houses.
Collection description
The Image Collection of the Slavonic Library comprises mostly pictures, posters and postcards printed at printing houses. The majority of the images have been received as deposit copies from around the Russian Empire in 1828–1917. There are also visual materials from the Soviet era. Â
The subject matters include people, locations, buildings, army and events during wars, religious motifs and literature. The collection also contains lubki, propaganda posters from the First World War and satirical images.
Postcard motifs include people, locations, theatre and visual arts. There are over 2,000 postcards published prior to 1917 and thousands published during the Soviet era.
Material type
posters
Pictures
Accrual status
Completed
Temporal coverage of the collection
modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Main collection
The Slavonic LibraryParent collection
The Slavonic LibraryRestrictions of use
Only for Special Collections Reading Room Kept in closed stack collection, use requires ordering the publicationCollection themes
Keywords
Cataloguing principles
The description retains the character set and orthography of the publication whenever possible. Cyrillic characters may also be retrieved as transliterated according to the ISO-9 standard (see the transliteration guidelines).
Catalogue information
Paper catalogue made of the collection
The collection has been described in the reference database
The collection has been only partially catalogued
More information about cataloguing
Director Aaro Rissanen Collection is the only image collection to be entered into the National Library’s search service. Prints are catalogued separately in a paper catalogue.
Collection sizes
8000
titles of publications