Album 1, "Cartes Postales et Gravures, Zola, Dreyfus"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 bound album : 31.5 x 35.6 x 9.2cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 00004
- Date
- [between 1898 and 1915]
Album 2, "Cartes Postales et Gravures, Dreyfus, Ullmo"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 bound album : 31.5 x 35.6 x 9.2cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 00003
- Date
- [between 1898 and 1915]
Broadside, "Grande Manifestation pour la Mise en Liberte du Colonel Picquart"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 newsprint sheet : 22.0 x 28.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_151
- Date
- 1899
Carte de visite, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy
- 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-]
Carte de visite, Fernand Labori
- 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]
Carte de visite, Fernand Labori and unidentified gentleman
- 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]
Composite print, "Captain Dreyfus and his Defenders"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 mounted print : b&w ; 27.5 x 34.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_145
- Date
- [between 1898 and 1915]
Composite print, portraits of key individuals titled "L'Affaire Gregori"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 mounted print : 23.0 x 31.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_148
- Date
- Sept. 1908
Contact photographs, exterior shots of individuals at the courthouse and its courtyard during the 1899 Dreyfus trail
- 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
Cover from printed sheet music for violin and piano, "Dreyfus Two Step"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 print : 22.0 x 28.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_152
- Date
- 1899
Dreyfus Collection
- 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
Less detail
Newpaper, La Libre Parole
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Newsprint
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 00002
- Date
- 12 Sept.1908
Newspaper clipping, "Ce que pensent du verdict"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 newspaper clipping : 23.0 x 31.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_147
- Date
- 13 Sept. 1908
Newspaper clipping, "Le Jury Parisien condamne le Dreyfusisme et Acquitte M. Gregori"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 newspaper clipping : 23.0 x 31.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_146
- Date
- September 1908
Postcard, "22 - Proces de Rennes, Apres une Audience, Sortie du Capitaine Dreyfus"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_086
- Date
- [ca. 1899]
Postcard, "23 - Proces de Rennes, M. Trarirux, M.Viguier, M. Paleologue. Soldats d' Infanterie Transportant le Dossier Secret"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_087
- Date
- [ca. 1899]
Postcard, "24 - Proces de Rennes, M. Demange et M. Labori Sortant de la Prison Militaire"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_088
- Date
- [ca. 1899]
Postcard, "25 - Proces de Rennes, Transport du Dossier Bertillon"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_089
- Date
- [ca. 1899]
Postcard, "26 - Proces de Rennes, Capitaine Jacquier, Controleur d'Armes, M. Demange, M. Labori"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_090
- Date
- [ca. 1899]
Postcard, "27 - Proces de Rennes, Apres une Audience, Capitaine Dreyfus Traversant la Cour du Lycee"
- Collection
- Dreyfus Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 1 photographic postcard : b&w ; 14.0 x 9.0cm
- Fonds No.
- 1318; 1318_091
- Date
- [ca. 1899]