Salvadoran Civil War Political Posters with Metadata for Visualization

Scans of political posters produced during the Salvadoran Civil War in support of anti-government and international solidarity activities. The collection is housed at the Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen in San Salvador and includes metadata created for visualization. This dataset was last updated on March 18, 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze visual propaganda themes and styles based on the scanned poster images.
• Create visualizations of poster metadata over time using the provided ImagePlot guide.
• Study the relationship between anti-government and international solidarity messaging based on the collection's described scope.
• Train image classification models to categorize historical political artwork based on visual features.

Strengths

• Collection is housed at a dedicated museum (Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen), suggesting institutional curation.
• Includes specialized metadata created for visualization and a guide for using ImagePlot.

Limitations

• Row count, column details, and file formats are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen (MUPI), San Salvador.

Collection Method

Scans of physical posters from the museum's collection.

Time Range

Period of the Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-18 05:27:07.

Geography

El Salvador, with materials from international solidarity organizations.