The Visual Holdings of the Slavonic Library,Prague |
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| Authors: | Luká? Babka |
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| Institution: | Slavonic Library, National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | This study focuses on the visual collections in the holdings of the Slavonic Library (a section of the National Library of the Czech Republic). The library holdings also include unique collections relevant to the topic of Russian and Ukrainian emigration: collections of visual art, ex libris, posters and flyers by Ukrainian émigrés (1918–1945), and a collection of invitations and flyers by Russian émigrés (1918–1945). Rudolf H?lka’s collection of photographs, dating back to the 1920s, captures a series of ethnographic, folkloric, and architectonic phenomena which no longer exist. Moreover, Russian posters from the period of WWI, from the revolutionary year of 1917, and the subsequent civil war are equally fascinating as are banknotes from the same period and region. |
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| Keywords: | Slavonic Library Prague visual collections posters art works ex libris photography cartography Russian emigration(1918?1945) Ukrainian emigration (1918?1945) |
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