About 200 items, mainly placards used to publicize decrees, news, and propaganda from the revolutionary government day by day throughout the Commune period. Topics covered range over most aspects of government and military administration, including provisions for employment, payment of workers, elections, raising revenues, requisitioning horses and vehicles for the National Guard, efforts to raise and regulate an infantry, artillery, and cavalry, conscription of all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 40, and efforts to combat corruption in the Commune government, emigration from France, and desertion. Also included is propaganda evidently intended to maintain morale and rally the people to the defense of the Commune, including accounts of alleged atrocities by the royalist army. Authors include Gustave Cluseret, Charles Delescuze, the Ministry of War, and the Comité de salut public.