Saturday Evening Post Broadside Collection
This collection contains posters featuring Saturday Evening Post covers dating from 1950-1960.
Dates
- Creation: Material published between 1950 and 1960.
Creator
- Saturday evening post (Publisher, Organization)
Handling Guidelines
Most posters are brittle and have tears. Only move individual posters by the interleaving paper behind it.
Extent
3 linear feet
70 items
Collection Note
This collection contains 70 different promotional posters for The Saturday Evening Post. These broadsides were used at newsstands to promote the latest issue of the magazine with text above or below the enlarged image of that week’s front cover and, occasionally, an interior article or a short story.
The cover artwork features a number of the heavy-hitting Saturday Evening Post talents: John Falter, George Hughes, John Clymer, Thornton Utz, Steven Dohanos, Amos Sewell, Constantin Alajalov, and others. The posters depict popular aspects of American life during the 1950s and feature a number of topics ranging from teenage dating, fashion, popular music, social commentary, and rural life.
Arrangement and Description
This collection is described at the item level and is arranged chronologically.
Dimensions
All broadsides measure 22 x 28 inches.
Creator
- Saturday evening post (Publisher, Organization)
- Title
- Saturday Evening Post Broadside Collection
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Andrea Degener, Visual Materials Processing Archivist
- Date
- 2020-08-21
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
Collecting Area Details
Part of the Dowd Illustration Research Archive Collecting Area
Andrea Degener, Interim Curator
West Campus Library
7425 Forsyth Blvd
Clayton MO 63105 US
(314) 935-5495
spec@wumail.wustl.edu