 Imagerie d'Épinal (portable theatre scenes)
Collection DescriptionHistorical NoteImagerie 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. Organization and ArrangementRoughly sorted into series by title. See accession file for a more detailed invetory. Administrative InformationPreferred CitationImagerie d'Epinal. MS 1511. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries. Related Materials and SubjectsSubject Terms | ||||||||||||||||||||