[Request] Digital archives/collections of historical/social movement posters, documents, or propaganda.

by prolitical

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit for this sort of request but I figured it's worth a shot (if there is a sub more appropriate I'd appreciate being pointed in the right direction). Recently I found a very, very interesting digital archive for African activism which includes various posters, pictures, documents, and other media (link is: http://africanactivist.msu.edu/). Obviously there's a lot of material to dig through in there but I'm a bit of an obsessive collector and would love references to similar resources. I'm specifically most interested in media relating to activism, social movements, and other sorts of radical shenanigans but I would gladly welcome leads to any sort of historical archive/collection with some cool media.

TL;DR: Does anyone have any interesting links to digital collections of posters/pictures relating to activism/social or radical movements.

sowser

This is mostly drawn from a list of resources I put together for another user a few months ago with primary source material for the United States, British Caribbean and South Africa. It's not all in line with what you're looking for, but some of these resources should be right up your alleyway, and there are others in here that might pique your interest as well!

  • The University of North Carolina has over 1,000 fully digitised, written slave narratives available here in HTML format;
  • The Library of Congress has a similar archive for WPA interviews from the 1930s here...
  • ...as well as the Freedom to Slavery collection of African American pamphlets here;
  • Several institutions collaboratively maintain the Digital Library of the Caribbean which has a wealth and expanding collection of material;
  • Teaching resources from the Museum of International Slavery and the UK National Archives;
  • Caribbean history resources also from the UK National Archives;
  • Some 1,200 documents (slightly misleading: every page is a document) on the 18th and 19th century Caribbean from the British Library;
  • A full, freely accessible, digitised archive of The Liberator, a radical abolitionist newspaper in the 19th century United States;
  • The Gilder Lehman Online Documents Centre has a lot of digitised material from its outreach efforts;
  • Digital Innovation South Africa has a lot of fantastic content that'd be right up your alley, but it's also really badly hosted - if the website is down keep trying over several days, it will come back;
  • Speaking of South Africa, both COSATU and the ANC websites have their own limited digital archives;
  • There's also the Struggles for Freedom project at Aluka, co-hosted with JSTOR, which used to be known by another name that now escapes me, available here (although institutional access may be required).