Peace Collection Posters
Overview
The Peace Collection Posters contains approximately 4,500 items, some of which were removed from various collections in the Peace Collection and some of which were donated independently.
Dates
- Creation: 1870-
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
The collection is open for research use.
Many of the originals are very fragile and can only be seen in person with the permission of the Peace Collection Curator. Contact peacecollection@swarthmore.edu for more information.
Copyright and Rights Information
None.
Extent
450 Linear Feet (4,500 items)
Language
English
Russian
French
Spanish; Castilian
Welsh
Czech
Chinese
Arrangement
This finding aid serves as a guide to the posters in the Peace Collection.
The posters are grouped into series based on the organization they were produced or commissioned by. In some cases, the posters are from multiple organizations, therefore, an organization might appear in multiple series, both independently and with additional organizations.
In many cases, the Peace Collection only has one poster from an organization. These posters are grouped into the Miscellaneous series and the organization is indicated in parentheses with the title of the poster. There are also a large number of posters for which there is no attribution. These posters are grouped into the Unknown series.
Note that many of the posters do not have official titles and the titles listed in this finding aid are transcriptions of the text on the posters.
When additional information such as artist, medium, size, and provenance are known, these details can be found in the notes for each individual poster.
Existence and Location of Copies
Many of these posters have been digitized and can be searched in the TriCollege Libraries Digital Collections.
The Soviet Poster collection can be browsed through the Digital Collections as well.
Legal Status
Copyright is retained by the authors/artists of items in this collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed; this finding aid was created by Grace Diliberto, October 2022 and is based on data maintained internally by various staff members.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Find It at the Library
Most of the materials in this catalog are not digitized and can only be accessed in person. Please see our website for more information about visiting or requesting reproductions from Swarthmore College Peace Collection Library
500 College Avenue
Swarthmore 19081-1399 USA US
610-328-8557
610-328-8544 (Fax)
peacecollection@swarthmore.edu
