Photos and Posters

These collections consist of a range of materials that capture and document the promotion of a variety of films and television shows.

Blaxploitation One-Sheet and Pressbook Collection

These promotional materials for movies made primarily from 1970 to 1979 include examples from the various styles of films made under the Blaxploitation umbrella — private detective films, horror, comedy, drama, romance, and martial arts. Titles include Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Shaft, Super Fly, Coffy, Cotton Comes to Harlem, and Cleopatra Jones, among others.

Finding aid to come.

Children’s Matinee One-Sheets Collection

This collection of one-sheets (movie posters) promoted a series of children's movies that were re-released years after their initial run, including MGM's Children’s Matinees featuring reissues of films like The Wizard of Oz, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Secret Garden, and The Phantom Tollbooth.

Finding aid to come.

Ida Lupino Collection

Ida Lupino was an actress in the 1930s and 40s, starring in films such as They Drive by Night, High Sierra, and Ladies in Retirement. In the late 1940s, she added director to her resume, and is now widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker of the 1950s, during the Hollywood studio system era. This collection features a wide array of vintage publicity photographs, publicity postcards, magazine articles and clippings, lobby cards, pressbooks and one-sheets.

Finding aid to come.

Mexploitation Cinema Photograph Archives

The golden age of Mexican cinema (1957-1977) — featuring vampires, zombies, witches, mad scientists, ape men, and other macabre and supernatural figures — offers insight into distinctively Mexican cinematic and cultural codes. The photographs in this collection feature some of the most well-known actors and films in the genre. 

Finding aid: Mexploitation Cinema Photograph Collection, 1957-1964