Dreyfus Collection
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75976
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- Textual material ; 144 postcards ; 66 photographs ; 17 prints
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Date
- 1989-1914 [predominant 1903-1908]
- Scope and Content
- The Dreyfus Collection contains material related to the Dreyfus Affair, specifically the publicity and commentary surrounding the trial. It consists of a collection of editorial cartoons, newpaper clippings, broadsides, photographs and drawings. The content represents both positions in support and …
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Material Type
- multiple media
- Physical Description
- Textual material ; 144 postcards ; 66 photographs ; 17 prints
- Scope and Content
- The Dreyfus Collection contains material related to the Dreyfus Affair, specifically the publicity and commentary surrounding the trial. It consists of a collection of editorial cartoons, newpaper clippings, broadsides, photographs and drawings. The content represents both positions in support and against Alfred Dreyfus, some of which are explicitly anti-semitic. The collection of postcards contains political cartoons and caricatures that were circulating at the time. Similarly, some of the posters represent the trial in a political manner. Newspaper clippings from the period are also included within the collection.
- Date
- 1989-1914 [predominant 1903-1908]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Storage Location
- JPL
- History / Biographical
- The trials of Captain Alfred Dreyfus took place in the last decade of the 19th century and first decade of the 20th century. Dreyfus, an officer of the French general staff, was falsely accused of passing state secrets to the German military, tried and twice convicted (1895,1899) of treason before finally being exonerated in 1906. The effects of the decade-long controversy were felt both within France and abroad for decades after the case proper was settled. The media that surrounded the trial and its aftermath created a flurry of public commentary on the topic and is an aspect that is well reflected within this collection. Postcards in particular were a new and inexpensive format that propelled the scale of popular opinion expressed through their mass-circulation and often time provocative, anti-semitic imagery. Dreyfus counted among his defenders such illustrious figures as the future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau, the celebrated novelist Emile Zola, and the social thinker Bernard Lazare. Theodore Herzl, serving as Paris correspondent for the Viennese newspaper Die Welt, was disturbed enough by the anti-semitic implications of the Dreyfus Affair to turn his thoughts and energies to political Zionism, the movement which he founded.
- Language
- French
- English
- Yiddish
- Custodial History
- Provenance for this collection remains unknown.
- Notes
- A portion of material was removed from the collection's two albums. For each of these items a note has been created that indicates its initial page number and position in which it was originally placed.
- Subjects
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- France
- France - Jews
- Antisemitism
- Media
- Cartoon
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Contact photographs, exterior shots of individuals at the courthouse and its courtyard during the 1899 Dreyfus trail
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76134
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 63 contact photographs : b&w ; various sizes
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 016100
- Date
- 1899
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 63 contact photographs : b&w ; various sizes
- Date
- 1899
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 016100
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Language
- French
- Subjects
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Newspaper
- Newspapers
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Carte de visite, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76135
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.1 x 16.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 016101
- Date
- [190-]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.1 x 16.5cm
- Date
- [190-]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 016101
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Carte de visite, Fernand Labori
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76136
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.1 x 16.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 016102
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.1 x 16.5cm
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 016102
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Gerschel Photographe, Paris
- Notes
- Inscribed verso - Labori, Fernand - Counsel of Dreyfus, Zola and Picquart
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Carte de visite, Fernand Labori and unidentified gentleman
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76137
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.1 x 16.5cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 016103
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 11.1 x 16.5cm
- Date
- [ca. 1900]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 016103
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Gerschel Photographe, Paris
- Notes
- Inscribed verso - Labori, Fernand & -
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard [street scene, skeleton holding 'J'accuse' flag]
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75977
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_001
- Date
- 1908
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1908
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_001
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Louis Bouchet
- Notes
- Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177, Rue Saint Honore Postcard removed from envelope
- Name Access
- Louis Bouchet
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, "Monsieur Zola: Je commence..."
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75978
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_002
- Date
- [after 1898]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [after 1898]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_002
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from envelope
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Newspaper
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, "Les fonds du syndicat Dreyfus"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75980
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_004
- Date
- [ca. 1898]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [ca. 1898]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_004
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from envelope
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Image of Ferdinand Esterhazy fleeing with Zola watching from the Pantheon] "Lannes Zola 1908"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75983
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_007
- Date
- 1908
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1908
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_007
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- A. Molynk
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Signed recto: A. Molynk Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 198 of album, upper right
- Name Access
- A. Molynk
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Maurice Barre crying and motioning to the Pantheon with image of Zola eminating from it] "M. Barres: Aoh! Schocking"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75984
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_008
- Date
- April 1908
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- April 1908
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_008
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- A. Molynk
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Signed recto, dated and numbered No. 142 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 198 of album, bottom
- Name Access
- A. Molynk
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Image of Zola following a trial of money] "Poubelle"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75986
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_010
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_010
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Material Details
- Original colouring
- Notes
- Numbered recto: La fleche No. 154 Inscribed recto: E. Louvert, Editeur / 12 R. de Clichy Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 199 of album, upper right
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Image of Zola walking over French flag] "Gare Les Taches"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75988
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_012
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_012
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Henries
- Notes
- Inscribed recto: Henries.08. / 4 juin 1908 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 215 of album, upper left
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Skeleton marching forward, followed by an aging Dreyfus in a perambulator, which is being pushed by his bare-breasted "nanny" Zola.] "Arrive de Zola au Pantheon; Dreyfus l'accompagne au temple de i'immortalite"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75989
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_013
- Date
- 1908
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1908
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_013
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- D'Nizard
- Material Details
- Original colouring
- Notes
- Inscribed recto: D'Nizard / No. 58 / Tirage 100 ex: No. 58 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 215 of album, upper right
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, "La Debacle"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75990
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 printed postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_014
- Date
- [between 1898 and 1908]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 printed postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [between 1898 and 1908]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_014
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Notes
- Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 216 of album, top
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Procession towards Pantheon] "L'antithese de deux cercueils..."
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn75991
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_015
- Date
- 1908
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1908
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_015
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Inscribed recto: E. Louvert, Editeur / La Fleche No. 168 / 4 juin 1908 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177 rue Sainte-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 216 of album, lower left
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard "Ch'accuse! (exhibit du Psst)"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76003
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_029
- Date
- [between 1898 and 1908]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [between 1898 and 1908]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_029
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177, Rue Saint-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 271 of album, lower
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Newspapers
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, "Anatole France"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76006
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 printed postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_032
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 printed postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- [ca. 1908]
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_032
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Orens
- Notes
- Inscribed recto: Orens / No. 5 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177, Rue Saint-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 285 of album, upper left
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Newspapers
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, " A[lfred] D[reyfus] Le future president de la republique"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76007
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_034
- Date
- 1907
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1907
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_034
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- Orens
- Material Details
- Original colouring
- Notes
- Inscribed recto: Orens 07 / L'Actualiste (100ep) no. 4 of 100 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177, Rue Saint-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 292 of album, upper left
- Subjects
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Newspapers
- Caricature
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Two skeletons in conversation, coffins indicate Victor Hugo and Zola] "Les deaux voisins au Pantheon"
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76008
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_035
- Date
- 1908
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1908
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_035
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- H. Bursky
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Inscribed recto: H. Bursky 10/VIII/08 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177, Rue Saint-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 292 of album, upper right
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Newspapers
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
Postcard, [Dreyfus limping before the Pantheon, which is labeled "Zola 4 juin 1908] "Alfred Dreyfus, Napolean des Martyrs..."
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn76009
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_036
- Date
- 1908
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard : col. ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Date
- 1908
- Fonds No.
- 1318
- Item No.
- 1318_036
- Storage Location
- JPL
- Creator
- D'Nizard
- Material Details
- Original drawing
- Notes
- Inscribed recto: D'Nizard / 08 / Tirage: 100 ex No. 57 Stamped verso: Louis Daspet / Paris / 177, Rue Saint-Honore Postcard removed from pg. 292 of album, upper right
- Subjects
- Antisemitism
- France
- France - Jews
- Dreyfus Affair (1984-1906)
- Zola, Emile, 1840-1902
- Dreyfus, Alfred, 1859-1935
- Newspapers
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Jewish Public Library Archives
Images
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