Collection - Highlights

Collection highlights, uniques and selected new acquisitions.

Troelstra Online
On the occasion of the publication of the biography of the Dutch social democrat P.J. Troelstra, the IISH offers access to various materials, such as the inventory of his archive, many pictures, and a chronology. (in Dutch)

Chinatown The Hague
A selection of photos from the book Een draak met vele gezichten, about the Chinese community in The Hague. (Dutch text)

Iran: the bloody summer of 2009
The IISH has started an extensive project to document the presidential elections in Iran in June 2009. Contributions to this valuable collection are welcome.

Moroccan Pioneers
The Historical Image Archive on Migrants shows photos of the first Moroccan workers in the Netherlands. (Text in Dutch)

Recent acquisitions

- A selection of acquisitions 2009 | 2008 | 2007

More highlights in alphabetical order

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A
Special Editions from the Academy Library
The Advertising Arsenal - Dutch advertising materials
Aedes Archive and Digital Museum of Public Housing
Afghan Migrant Labourers in Iran - photo collection
Against Risks and Calamities - 56 posters on safety and health at work, 1910-2000
AHF Photo collection - photos of the 50s and 60s by Ben van Meerendonk
AJC Inventory - materials from the Dutch Social-democratic Youth Organisation
Alexander Herzen Foundation - against censorship in the Soviet Union
Althans Collection - books and pamphlets on the extreme right in Germany
Ramón Álvarez Palomo - leader in the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement
Amnesty International Campaigns - a dozen A.I. campaigns from the 1960s to the 1990s
Art to the People - prints, cartoons and posters by Walter Crane, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Albert Hahn, Frans Masereel and Gerd Arntz
Asbestos in Brazil - photos of working conditions in a asbestos factory
Azerbaijan, an Inseparable Part of Iran - Baku newspaper 1918-1920

B
Bangladesh Posters - political posters 1979-2003
David Batser - collection of Russian books
Belomorkanal - the opening of the Russian 'White Sea-Baltic Canal' in 1933
Birobidzhan, 1934-1940 - A Soviet Jewish homeland
Jacob Brandsteder - his bannishment from the Dutch East Indies
Brasilian Labour Party - the archives of Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brasil)
Burma Political Cartoons - 24 cartoons from New Era Journal, 1993-2003
Button Collection Enriched - examples from the old and new collection

C
Etienne Cabet - letter to Rostant
CCOO - Spanish Workers' Commissions
Cebuco collection - books, pamphlets on media research
Centrum Partij en Centrumdemocraten Archives - Dutch right wing political party
The Chairman Smiles - 145 Political Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China
Chile 11 September 1973 - background, chronology and sources
Chinatown Amsterdam - photos by Ab Koers
Chinatown The Hague - photos from the book Een draak met vele gezichten
Chinese Migrants in the Netherlands - photos
Chinese posters 1
Chinese posters 2
Chinese posters 3
Cineclub collection - a film and video collection
Fré Cohen - some lithographies and prints designed by Cohen
Communist Manifesto - some special editions and the only remaining handwritten page
'Cucumber time' in print - Dutch cartoons inspired by the 'silly season'

D
Djambatan/De Brug - photos of the Asian and Arab world
Eppo Doeve collection - Dutch political cartoons
Sédighé Dolatabadi collection - pioneer of the women's movement in Iran
F. Domela Nieuwenhuis - letters to Gerrit Bennink
Down and Out - 53 photographs by Ravi Agarwal of working people in the so-called informal sector of India's economy, 1997-1999
Willem Drees - photos presented to Dutch prime minister Drees
Wim Dussel photo collection - Dutch photographer
Dutch East Indian Migrants - photo exhibition on the life of migrants

E
Economic crisis 1637-2009
Albert Einstein at the IISH - letters and manifests of Albert Einstein
José Ester Borrás and the FEDIP archive - Spanish political prisoners in Franco Spain and the Soviet Union
European Elections Posters
Socialist Ex libris

F
Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI)
Federación Española de Deportados e Internados Políticos (FEDIP) - Spanish political prisoners in Franco Spain and the Soviet Union
Freie Presse. Wochenblatt für geistige und politische Freiheit
French Revolution: letter from 10 July 1794
French Revolutionary Songs

G
André C.J. Gaillard - papers of the French Esperantist
Emma Goldman Portraits
Fernando Gómez Peláez archive - militant of the CNT during the Spanish Civil War
Sania Gontarbert - French Underground and Parti Communiste Internationaliste
A Greek Entrepreneur in Utrecht - the history of Greek migrant entrepreneur Aridjis
Greenpeace Archive
Louis Grondijs - photos of the Russian Army, 1915
Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard - material on the Madres de Plaza de Mayo
Gypsy life - Gypsies in Dutch children's books 1825-1990

H
Joh. de Haas photo collection - photographer of the Red Family
Ger Harmsen Archival collection - Dutch historian of the labour movement
Letters by Mohammed Hatta - first vice president of the independent republic of Indonesia
Nienke van Hichtum - Dutch social democrat and writer of children's books
Nazim Hikmet: documents, photos, sound bits - Turkish poet and communist
The Hogerhuis Case, educational project - 'Dutch Dreyfus affair' (in Dutch)
Holiday Greetings from the IISH

I
IALHI Webmuseum - a chronicle of the labour movement around the world in over 100 visual materials from labour history institutions
Indonesia - election materials
Internationale Situationniste posters
Iran: the bloody summer of 2009
Iran-Iraq - documentation on the war 1980-1988

K
Kairos collection - Dutch Anti-Apartheid organization
Kar - Iranian newspaper
Kautsky papers
Life and work of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) (in Dutch)
Van Kol - photos of the Dutch East Indies 1901-1902
Koos Koster in El Salvador - Dutch journalist killed
Kropotkin's Funeral
The Kun Library - Labour movement in Hungary

L
Gustav Landauer collections - German writer and anarchist
Allert de Lange Publishers - German writers-in-exile
Leerdam Glass Factory archive
Images of Lenin
Little Red Books - variants and persiflages

M
Occupation "Maagdenhuis", Amsterdam University - sound documents and an overview of IISH collections
Madres de Plaza de Mayo - Argentinian mothers seeking justice
Malayan Liberation Army - the archives of the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party
Malaysian Socialist Party - the archives of the Parti Sosialis Malaysia
Sylvain Maréchal, the man without god - French radical socialist and atheist
J.C. van Marken - Photo album - Dutch entrepreneur and advocate of the cooperative movement
José Martínez y Fondos Ruedo Ibérico - Spanish exile publishing house
Karl Marx Portraits
Marx-Engels papers
May '68 in Paris - a dozen posters
Archive of Alman Metten - European Social Democrats
Louise Michel - documents and pictures from the life of Louise Michel
Migrants in The Hague - photo exhibition
Monarchy cartoons - Ups and Downs of the Dutch Monarchy
William Morris Archive - four manuscripts published on the internet
Moroccan Immigrants
Moroccan Pioneers
Musical Mail - Zvukovye Pis'ma - Soviet Russian picture postcards with topical songs
Mission Yuppie Eradication Project - campaign to save the Mission area in San Francisco

N
Nepal Nag's Diary - notes made during an international communist meeting in Moscow 1960
Piet Nak collection - Dutch communist and illusionist
Bert Nelemans collection Surinam during the sixties and seventies
Max Nettlau (1865-1944)
Nicaragua Informationsbüro, Wuppertal - a documentation collection
La Novela Ideal and La Novela Libre - two fiction series from interbellum Spain

O
The Labour Olympiads

P
Pakistani Mine Workers - photo collection
Archief Het Parool - Dutch leftist newspaper
Doves of peace - a dozen posters
José Peirats Valls - Spanish libertarian movement
Persia from a Western Perspective
Platform for Michel Pellanders - photos by Pellanders from Mexico 1982-1983
Portraits of Pétroleuses
Postcards from the IISH collections
Press freedom posters
Press Now - collection on the reaction of the Dutch press to the war in Yugoslavia
A Dozen Souvenirs of Provo - photos and documents of the Dutch anarchist youth movement
Public Housing Digital Museum - pictures of a century of public housing in the Netherlands

R
Red-haired Barbarians - 40 rare Japanese prints depicting the Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865
Refugees in Holland 1914-1918
Rheinische Zeitung and Marx - Prussian censorship and Karl Marx
Vernon Richards - British/Italian anarchist
Bangeswar Roy - Bengal armed resistance
Nina Rubinstein and Alexander Stein
Russia - independent press

S
Paul F. Sanders - papers of a Dutch journalist
Boris Sapir collection - collection of Russian books
Liberto Sarrau Royes collection - Spanish anarcho-syndicalist movement
Secret Societies - putative secret societies and clandestine organizations
A. Schijfsma-Reydon archive - letters from a Javanese princess 1912-1916
Seasons Greetings - e-cards from our collection
In Search of Silenced Voices - Indonesian exiles interview collection
Toma Sik - Hungarian-Israeli peace activist
Les Sky Scratchers and Auguste Fabre - French book on skyscrapers, 1896
Slovenians in the Netherlands - photo exhibition
Meijer Sluijser - papers of the Dutch social-democratic journalist
Sneevliet in Shanghai - an exhibition on the life of the Dutch revolutionary
South European Migrants - photo exhibition
Soviet Children's Picture Books
Soviet Education - research trip Soviet Union 1921
Spanish Civil War Collections
Spanish Civil War Photos
Staatsarchief - the archive of the Dutch squatters' movement
Piet van Staveren - Dutch communist joined Indonesian Republican troups
Alexander Stein and Nina Rubinstein
Sudan - Communist Party archive
Support! Vote! Strike! - 150 Dutch social and political posters, 1870 - 1998
Surinamese in the Netherlands - photo exhibition
Surinamese nurses - photo exhibition

T
Taring Padi - poster collection from Indonesia
Tarnschriften - collection clandestine brochures 1933-1940
Tehran 1999 - photo collection
Wim Tehupeiory (1883-1946) - archive of Moluccan doctor
Jan van den Tempel - painting by Jan Sluijters
Terrazzieri in Olanda - photo exhibition on Italian terrazzoworkers in Holland
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - an illustrated chronicle
The Total Objectors Archive - Dutch conscientious objectors after 1970
Disputed Tourist Destinations - Posters and pamphlets on controversial tourist destinations
Trade Union Banners
Troelstra Online
Turkish Migrant Workers - photo exhibition
Platform for Elsbeth Tijssen - photo's by Elsbeth Tijssen from Nagorno-Karabach

V
Vegetarians' League - With Imitation Leather Covers - library collection
The War in Vietnam - educational project (in Dutch)
Vietnamese Posters
Simon Vinkenoog (1928-2009) - traces of Vinkenoog at the IISH

W
W.A. van de Walle - stained glass windows
WTO Protest in Hongkong 2005 - flyers, posters, flags, T-shirts, and photos

Z
Dutch Zimbabwe Committee
J.H. Zimmermann (1741-1805) - German craftsman sails with captain Cook
Zo d'Axa - biographical texts, portraits and writings (1890s)

Press Museum exhibitions

De laatste illustrator - Drawings by Waldemar Post
Willem in geuren en kleuren - Political drawings by Willem
Oud zeer - Political drawings by Joep Bertrams
Fiep in de krant - Drawings by Fiep Westendorp for newspaper Het Parool
Instant Kama - Kamagurka
Léés die krant! - Posters 1905-2005
Altijd op de loer - Germany in Dutch cartoons
Bekijk het even - Cartoons by Stefan Verwey
Favorieten van Peter - Political cartoons from Braakensiek to Opland
'Op uw plaatsen!' - The sport year of Bastiaan Heus
BeNe Cartoon - Political cartoons by Belgian and Dutch artists 2003-2004
Journalistiek in de Tropen - The press in the Dutch East Indies
Van Zeep tot Soap - Women's magazines in the Netherlands
Fokke & Sukke kunnen het niet alleen
Politiek in Prent 2008 - The best Dutch political cartoons of 2008
Politiek in Prent 2007 - The best Dutch political cartoons of 2007
Politiek in Prent 2006 - The best Dutch political cartoons of 2006
Politiek in Prent 2005 - The best Dutch political cartoons of 2005
Politiek in Prent 2004 - The best Dutch political cartoons of 2004
Politiek in Prent 2003 - The best Dutch political cartoons of 2003