The 1920s Silent Movie Poster Collection at Kungliga biblioteket, The National Library of Sweden

This article describes a collection of silent movie posters at the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket). The collection, unique in several aspects, has been digitized and made available on the internet. The collection, consisting of 6,200 uncirculated posters, contains original illustrations produced for the domestic market between the years 1896 and 1930, most of them from the 1920s. The films were predominately American, and to a lesser extent European. The posters were illustrated by a small group of illustrators and poster artists, working mainly in Stockholm. This article considers how the posters were made, and the contemporary process of making the digitized posters available on the internet, and offers suggestions for how they may be used by researchers.