Graphic: copyright ca. 1923 by the National Council for Prevention of War and the National Child Welfare Association Inc.

Enter the database here to find information about the oversized materials held by the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. These include such items as diplomas, sheet music, anti-war ads printed in newspapers, original artwork, flyers, and much else, created in the 18th through the 21st centuries. Not all of the items in the collection have been cataloged for this database as of Nov 2003. See below for hints about searching this database. For more information about the contents of the database, contact the Curator at 610-328-8557 or at wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu

The items in this database are categorized into five types: banners, documents, graphics, newspaper ads, and scrapbooks. The database numbering system starts over within each type. Many people, including student assistants, have worked on this database over the past five years, so there are some inconsistencies with the way information has been noted in the various fields.

Besides conducting searches within the particular fields (or using the All Search field which searches across all the fields), patrons may wsh to use subject keywords for searching the database. The following keywords have been used to describe items within the database:
Africa Peace
African-Americans Political Campaigns
American Flag Propaganda
Anti-Nuclear Movement Protest Demonstrations/Marches
Arbitration, International Racism
Children Relief Efforts
Conferences/Congresses Religion
Disarmament Russia/USSR
Draft Resistance Temperance
Economics United Nations
Education Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Bombing of War Resistance Movements
Hunger War Tax Resistance
International Relations Women
Labor World War I, 1914-1918
Middle East

World War II, 1939-1945

Military Budget Youth

 

This page by Anne Yoder, Archivist, Nov. 2003 / March 11, 2005.