Seattle Women Act for Peace photograph collection, 1945-1998

Early SWAP meeting in house, featuring Dagmar Wilson and Anci Koppel.

Four women sitting together in room at SWAP conference.

SWAP members at a home.

SWAP members wearing Sign Stockholm Peace Appeal tops.

SWAP presentation focusing on history of arms control agreements, Pentagon spending, ballistic missile systems, and defense systems.

SWAP's 31st Anniversary celebration at Bloedel Hall featuring organization members including Anci Koppel, Rosemary Brodie, and Thorun Robel.

Mother's Peace Group showing signs supporting their causes.

1998 Seattle Progressive Coalition gathering, including images of participants, protest signs, and poster boards.

Anci Koppel's trip to Tokyo, Japan for the World Conference Against A and H Bombs in 1962.

Women being interviewed in Vietnam. Photographs came from original folder titled Grassroots Assembly of Women 1967-1973, n.d.

Photographs of the Moscow cityscape, including Kremlin, Saint Basil's Cathedral, and Smolensk, and one group photograph of delegation.

Men and women speaking at the 1968 Montreal Conference.

Women from Southeast Asia conducting a radio interview and meeting with SWAP members in Vancouver, B.C. for the Vancouver Indochinese Women's Conference. Most of the photographs were taken in 1969, but the main event occurred in April of 1971.

Participants of the 1970 Vancouver World Peace Council meeting, including WPC Secretary General Romesh Chandra, Indian diplomat V.K. Krishna Menon, and members of the Vietnamese delegation.

Hilda Schwartz sitting in a room at the Women's International Strike for Peace Conference in Santa Barbara, California.

Speakers and delegates at the 1973 World Congress of Peace Forces in Moscow, including group of Russian Orthodox priests.

SWAP Peace Booth and conference participants at 1977 Washington State Conference for Women in Ellensburg, inspired by the United Nations designation of 1975 as International Women's Year.

Women behind the Indian Health Services table, and women eating lunch.

Group photographs of SWAP members and supporters, including Anci Koppel, in Canada, possibly for a conference.

1966 and 1968 Hiroshima Day protests at Peace Arch Park at the border between Canada and the United States, featuring SWAP members, including Anci Koppel, and woman playing a koto.

Large group of women gathering outside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

Men and women gathering around Strike for Peace table at outdoor event.

Protestors gathering in park and demonstrating through the streets of San Francisco. Caption written on one photograph: 2 Buses were chartered.

Groups of children and parents greeting pediatrician and Vietnam War activist Dr. Spock at Westlake Mall in downtown Seattle, WA.

Woman with bag on her head with text: Mothers say Stop the War in Vietnam Women Strike for Peace.

Anci Koppel and protestors demonstrating at the trial of draft resister Rick Best. Also includes letter written by Rick Best to the U.S. Selective Service Board in 1970 detailing his opposition to the draft and refusal to serve in the military.

Women dancing and playing music on stage at Hiroshima Day Commemoration at Seattle Center in 1971.

Women Strike for Peace (WSP) members gathering at Vietnam Memorial wall.

Protesters demonstrating with signs and large puppets in front of U.S. Court House and through the streets of Portland, Oregon.

Two photographs of people gathering on outside in Olympia, WA, one photograph of Gene Robel holding sign.

Protestors aboardPacific PeacemakerandSS Plowshares.

Protestors holding signs and pushing strollers through Green Lake in Seattle, WA to protest nuclear testing.

SWAP and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) members protesting at Peace Arch State Park in Blaine, WA.

SWAP members posing in front of International Women's Day banner, and women performing and speaking at podium..

SWAP members working at farmers market stand with signs, pamphlets, and donation forms.

League of Women Voters of Seattle and SWAP holding signs and banners celebrating 75 years of women's suffrage.

Anci Koppel and other SWAP members holding protest signs and large paper cranes in downtown Seattle.

SWAP members, Physicians for Social Responsibility members, Greenpeace supporters, and others gathering to celebrate the passage of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Photographs depict Anci Koppel and friends singing, women playing drums, and people holding activist signs.

Anci Koppel, Thorun Robel, and other SWAP members anti-nuclear testing signs in residential neighborhood. Also includes photographs of SWAP members being interviewed.

Young boy signing Abolition of Nuclear Weapons petition at University Street Fair in Seattle, WA.

SWAP members speaking and holding banners protesting military spending.

Hortense Allende, wife of Salvador Allende, speaking at the Langston Hughes Center in Seattle, WA.

Large group of people walking across bridge holding signs, and one photograph of a desert tortoise habitat sign.

Young woman walking through rubble and people standing in front of the ruins of a colonial church in Joyabaj, Guatemala.

Portrait of Trudy Holzinger as a young woman and one group photograph, letter about Trudy Holzinger from Hazel Wolf to Trudy's friends, and biographical information.

Photograph of R. Lyle and Barbara Mercer in Berlin in 1945, flyer invitation to a surprise celebration of Barbara in Seattle, 1985.

Photograph of Claire Shallit at the piano in 1996, reproduction of Claire's obituary from the newspaper in 1998.

Photographs of Anci Koppel with friends, acquaintances, and fellow SWAP members.

Group photographs with Thorun Robel.