Imagerie d'Épinal (portable theatre scenes), circa 1870

Summary

Creator:
Imagerie Pellerin (Epinal, France)
Date:
circa 1870
Extent:
0.8 Linear Feet (8 oversized folders A)
Language:
French
Preferred citation:

Imagerie d'Epinal. MS 1511. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Biographical / historical:

Imagerie d'Épinal, based in Épinal and other French towns, developed a distinct form of comic strip. Throughout the 19th century the common people and particularly children in rural areas of France, The Netherlands, and Germany had subsisted on Imagerie d'Épinal, single, cheap broadsheets hawked about the countryside and in small towns. These documents covered, often in narrative form, such topics of folk interest as religious stories, patriotic histories and fairy tales. The severe and simple didactic plates had a more or less realistic social emphasis. --- Brittanica Online Encyclopedia. http://search.eb.com/eb/article-13706 Retrieved 3/9/2009.

Arrangement:

Roughly sorted into series by title. See accession file for a more detailed invetory.

Access and use restrictions

Preferred citation:

Imagerie d'Epinal. MS 1511. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.