The Library has large collections of pictures that belong to the group known as posters and charts.
Swedish posters
The work of sorting the Library's considerable collection of Swedish posters from the late 19th century to the 1960s started in 2009. The contents span a whole period of Swedish cultural history and development.
Not all of the material is available yet and searches can only be done at present using the year and place where they were printed. When all the posters in the Uppsala University Library have been registered, ordered and made searchable, they will become a complement to the poster collection at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm.
The University Library has only a small selection of Swedish posters from the 1970s onwards, which however includes information about important events and posters that are connected with specific individuals. Questions about other posters should be directed to the National Library of Sweden.
Top row: Cycling race from Uppsala-Stockholm, 1912. Referendum about the prohibition of alcohol, 1922. Advertisement for Oscaria shoes, 1936.
Bottom row: Dance at the village hall in Ambjörby, 1952. Advertisement for Dux radio, 1935. Campaign for polio victims, 1957.
Foreign posters
The Library has a collection of posters from the Russian Revolution. Apart from these there are no other foreign posters in the collections.
Charts
Charts is a term that has been used collectively for various kinds of pictures irrespective of techniques or categories. It is still used for large topographical, historical, cultural-historical and art-historical collections of charts in the Library. There are roughly 100,000 charts in these subjects.
School charts
Wall charts with pictures summon up a certain way of teaching in schools. The University Library owns a representive, though not complete, collection of 20th century Swedish school and educational charts. Some of these school charts have been used at the Teacher Training College in Uppsala. There is a list of these (PDF, 565 kB).
