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Peace Movement posters, 1979-1990

Overview of the Collection

Title
Peace Movement posters
Dates
1979-1990 (inclusive)
Quantity
68 posters (6 oversize folders)
Collection Number
5781
Summary
Peace movement posters
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
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Languages
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Content Description

68 posters produced predominantly in the early 1980s documenting the peace movement in Seattle, the British and European anti-nuclear movements, and Central American liberation movements.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of David Foecke, August 2013. Inventoried and transferred by Laurel Sercombe.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Seattle peace movement posters

    • Description: Target Seattle: Preventing Nuclear War – Celebration of Survival – Kingdome, October 2, 1982, 8:00 p.m., tickets $1.00; [glossy poster featuring glowing Seattle skyline; dark gray background]; 20" x 35"
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 1
    • Description: Target Seattle/Soviet Realities – Preventing Nuclear War – October 29-November 6, 1983 – You Can Help: 382-5011 – Design: Rick Eiber Design; [color poster – American flag with hammer & sickle replacing half the stars]; 18" x 25"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 2
    • Description: New Initiatives – Target Washington – People Getting Together to Prevent Nuclear War – You Can Help – Senator Daniel J. Evans and Congressman Thomas S. Foley, Co-Chairmen – Yakima Conference – Spokane Conference – Vancouver Forum; [color poster illustration by Don Baker; design by Wilkins & Peterson]; 19" x 30"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 3
    • Description: It Will Only Happen Once – Target Seattle: Preventing Nuclear War – Paramount Theater Saturday, September 25, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM – Tickets at all Bass outlets – call 282-1880 - $4.00 General $2.00 Students & Seniors; 5 ½" x 14 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 4
    • Description: Legs Against Arms – 10-kilometer pledge run to stop the nuclear arms race – The People’s Campaign to Stop the Arms Race – October 2, 1982, 10 a.m.; [poster on board]; photo by Jake Seniuk; design by Michael Sato; 17" x 22"
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 5
    • Description: Northwest Peace Festival '83 – Peace Parade, Peace Auction, Give Peace a Dance, Peace Cabaret – The Largest Ever Collaboration among Peace Groups in the Puget Sound Region – September 24 & 25, 1983; Poster by Art Chantry and Virginia Hand; [poster on board]; 20" x 27"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 6
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – A 24 hour dance marathon with Seattle’s best dance bands – An event of the Northwest Peace Festival '83 - Legs Against Arms & Armistice Present – September 24-25, 1983; photo by Geoff Mannasse; design by Mike Wagner; 11" x 16 ¾"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 7
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – A 24-Hour Dance Marathon – Greenpeace, Legs Against Arms, Physicians for Social Responsibility – June 16-17, [1984]; Poster by Art Chantry; 13 ½" x 23 ¾"
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 8
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – A 24-Hour Dance Marathon – Sponsored by Legs Against Arms and Puget Sound SANE – October 19-20, 1985; Poster by Art Chantry, 2 posters: 11 ½" x 22 ½" and 22 ½" x 35"
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 9-10
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – A 24-Hour Dance Marathon – Sponsored by Puget Sound SANE and Legs Against Arms – June 28-29, 1986; Poster by Art Chantry; 18" x 24"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Folder:oversize 1, Item 11
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – Fifth Annual – A 24-Hour Dance Marathon – June 20-21, 1987; Legs Against Arms, SANE and University SANE Present; Poster by Art Chantry; 16 ½" x 20 ½"
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 12
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – A 24-Hour Dance Marathon – June 18-19, 1988; Puget Sound SANE and the Community Marketing Media Center Present; Poster by Art Chantry; cut on angle: 17" x 23 ½" (at longest & widest point)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 13
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – The Seventh Annual – A 25-Hour Dance Celebration – October 21-22, 1989; Washington State SANE/Freeze and Ploughshares Present; Artwork by Harry Segal; 14" x 26 ½"
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 14
    • Description: Give Peace a Dance – The Eighth Annual – A 25-Hour Dance Celebration – October 27-28, 1990; Washington State SANE/Freeze and Ploughshares Present; Artwork by Dionne Haroutunian; 15" x 22"
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 15
    • Description: America’s Next Step Is Up to You [at top]; [full-page illustration by Brad Holland of man walking gingerly through a field of nuclear warheads]; Find Out Where the Candidates Stand on Nuclear Weapons – Call 527-VOTE [at bottom]; Sponsored by Give Peace a Dance [at bottom]; 24" x 18"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 16
    • Description: Nuclear War Awareness and Action: Presented by the Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Speakers Bureau – Medical Consequences of Nuclear War; Civil Defense; Economic/Social Effects of Military Spending; What About the Russians?; Psychological Effects/Children; Individual Action – What YOU Can Do; A Bellevue Community College Course, April 11 through Mary 23; Fee $10.00 – Call Continuing Education, 641-2263; Graphics by Gloria; 11" x 17"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 17
    • Description: Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility & Providence Medical Center Present: The Implications of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War – Saturday, September 25, 9:00 AM-4:30 PM – Paramount Theatre, 907 Pine, Seattle – “Can one generation bind another and all others in succession forever? I think not. The creator made the earth for the living, not the dead.” Thomas Jefferson – 1781 – [list of speakers] Paul Beeson, MD, David Brower, Richard Falk, James Finn, Rabbi Norman Hirsh, Judith Lipton, MD, John Mack, MD, Jonas Salk, MD, Rev. W.J. Sullivan, and J.D. Yoder]; 10 ½" x 15 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 18
    • Description: Better Read Than Dead – Northwest Nuclear Exchange: Reporting on Disarmament [ad for the premiere issue of Northwest Nuclear Exchange]; For subscription and other information call 632-3193 or 634-1877; [illustration of George Washington’s face designed by] Ken Lans; 10 ¾" x 13 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 19
    • Description: WPSR [Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility] Wants YOU for… The Rapids Deployment Force – Wenatchee River – White Water Raft Trip – Picnic Lunch – July 2, 1983 [more details included]; 11" x 15"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 20
    • Description: This is a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone: This is to certify that “Puget Sound (Sane) SANE” [written in by hand] has been declared a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone and is now a link in a chain of Peace that seeks to bind all people in a common stand against the proliferation of nuclear weapons and in a shared concern for Life on this planet. Dated at “Seattle” this “7th” day of “November”, 1984” by “The SANE Ones”; 8 ½" x 11"
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Folder:oversize 2, Item 21
  • European peace movement posters

    • Description: Artsen Tegen Kernwapens – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 17-22 Juni 1983 – Amsterdam – Noordwijkerhout; 17 ¼" x 26"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 22
    • Description: Probeer Maar Aan Iets Anders Te Kenken – Laten We Een Eind Aan De Kernbewapening Maken, Voor De Kernbewapening Een Eind Aan Ons Maakt – Gezondheidswerkers tegen; 13" x 27 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 23
    • Description: Stop de neutronen Bom – Geen atoom raketten – niet in Nederland – niet in Europa; [half-size poster]; 11 ½" x 16"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 24
    • Description: Stop de neutronen Bom; Samenwerkingsverband "Stop de Neutronenbom, stop de kernwapenwedloop"; 16 ¼" x 23 ¼"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 25
    • Description: Stop de neutronen Bom – stop de kernwapen wedloop – Samenwerkingsverband "Stop de Neutronenbom, stop de kernwapenwedloop"; [full-sized poster]; 16 ¼" x 22 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 26
    • Description: Geen atoom raketten – niet in nederland – niet in europa – Samenwerkingsverband "Stop de Neutronenbom, stop de kernwapenwedloop"; [full-sized poster]; 16" x 23"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 27
    • Description: Stop Zenuw Gas – Samenwerkingsverband "Stop de Neutronenbom, stop de kernwapenwedloop"; [full-sized poster]; 16" x 22 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 28
    • Description: Demonstratie – Amsterdam, 21 November, Museumplein, 13 UUR – Geen Nieuwe Kernwapens in Europa; [angry woman kicking missile]; 16 ½" x 23 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 29
    • Description: Kern Wapens Weg! – Samenwerkingsverband "Stop de Neutronenbom, stop de kernwapenwedloop"; 16 ¼" x 22 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 30
    • Description: Ga Stemmen… Tegen Nieuwe Kernwapens in Europa! [black on white drawing of woman kicking missile]; IKV, Pax Christi, Samenwerkingsverband Stop de N-bom/stop de kernwapenwedloop, Vrouwen voor Vrede, Vrouwen tegen Kernwapens…; [tape marks and thumbtack holes but otherwise in good condition]; 17" x 24"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 31
    • Description: Help De Kernwapens De Wereld Uit, Om Te Beginnen Uit Nederland – Vredesweek 19-26 September 1982; [color poster – drawing of characters pushing away U.S. and U.S.S.R. missiles]; [poster has been folded; thumbtack holes]; 16 ½" x 23 ¼"
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Folio 3, Item 32
    • Description: 1e etappe Internationale estafette Stop de N-bom, 26 aug – 1 sept 1979; [black & white photo collage]; 16 ½" x 23 ¼"
      Dates: 1979
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 33
    • Description: Gezondheids-Werkers – Tegen Kern Bewapening – Stop de neutronen bom – stop de kernwapen wedloop; 16 ½" x 23"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 34
    • Description: Friedenskampagne vom 8. bis 12. Juni 1983 – Während des Ev. Kirchentages in Hannover – Umkehr zum Leben; 16 ½" x 23 ½"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Cassette:oversize 3, Item 35
    • Description: Alkmaar Kernwapenurij; 12" x 17"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 36
    • Description: Kerk en Vrede, Beweging voor Ontwapening en Geweldloosheid; [peace sign, dove, rifle being broken in 2]; 17 ¾" x 23 ¼"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 3, Item 37
  • British disarmament movement posters

    • Description: One little cruise missile – ten Nagasakis – no cruise Pershing II SS 20s – Nuclear-free Europe – CND – END; 11 ½" x 16 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 38
    • Description: Have you ever wished you were better informed? – Protect and Survive – Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; 2 sizes: 11 ¾" x 16 ¼" and 16" x 22 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 39-40
    • Description: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons – CND Operation Hard Luck Autumn 1982 – The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; 16 ½" x 23 ¼"
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 41
    • Description: CND – Quarter of a million and still growing, join CND now – Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; [black & white photo of huge anti-nuke crowd]; 16 ½" x 24"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 42
    • Description: No Nuclear Weapons; [black & white English rural scene with missiles super-imposed]; 16 ½" x 23 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 43
    • Description: No Nuclear Weapons; Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament [peace sign breaking missile; red lettering]; 16 ½" x 23 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 44
    • Description: Britain’s Nuclear Threat; [photo of Margaret Thatcher]; 12" x 17"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 45
    • Description: Welcome to RAF Greenham Common – Images for Disarmament No. 7; 12 ½" x 17 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 46
    • Description: Peace? – The Peace Pledge Union Works for a Future without War – Dick Sheppard House – 6 Endsleigh Street, London WC1; [black background, red poppies with green stems]; 16 ½" x 23 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 4, Item 47
  • Miscellaneous peace movement posters

    • Description: Gone with the Wind [movie poster altered to show Ronald Reagan carrying Margaret Thatcher, mushroom cloud in background]; 17 ½" x 25 ¼"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 48
    • Description: Women for Peace [Ronald Reagan holding a missile, covered by a net with a peace sign at the top]; 11" x 16"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 49
    • Description: Jewish Peace Fellowship – Jewish Peace Covenant [with room for signatures]; 16 ¾" x 22 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 50
    • Description: Peace Sabbath – Peace Sunday – May 27-30, 1983 – A Weekend of Worship and Witness – “Do not make and worship gods of metal…” Leviticus 19; [list of nation sponsoring organizations]; design by Laurel Marx; illustration by Len Munnik; 12 ¼" x 18"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 51
    • Description: This House is a Nuclear-Free Zone; c1983; green and brown design (abstract branch against silhouette of house) on cream background; [tape marks and thumbtack holes]; 14" x 22"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 52
    • Description: In Case of Nuclear Attack: 1. Remain Calm 2. Avert Eyes from Flash 3. Brace for Blast 4. Duck and Cover/Place Newspaper over Head 5. Reserve Medical Attention for High Priority Evacuees 6. Have Food and Water for Several Weeks of Isolation 7. Comfort the Dying 8. Isolate Corpses to Prevent Spread of Disease – City of Portland, Oregon, Frank Ivancie, Mayor; [slightly soiled]; 11" x 17"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 53
    • Description: Moscow Independent Peace Group; 14 ¾" x 21 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 54
    • Description: [no text – black & white drawing of woman, mushroom cloud, skulls]; 15 ¼" x 19 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 55
    • Description: [no text – multi-color rainbow over image of earth, starry sky in background] – 16 ½" x 23 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 5, Item 56
  • Central American posters

    • Description: Monseñor Oscar Arnulfo Romero – VIII Aniversario de su Martirio [large photo of Romero with quote from him at the bottom]; 25" x 19 ½"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 57
    • Description: Los Niños y las Minas del FMLN – Consejo Salvadoreño de Menores [1987] [looks like a crayon drawing with child’s writing, column of text along right side in Spanish titled “Los Niños y las Minas”]; 17" x 24"
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 58
    • Description: ¿Estos son los compañero que quieres para tus hijos? ¿Estos son los profesionales que necesita el pais? ¿Es esta la educacion universitaria? [6 small black & white photos with graffiti-like captions, i.e., “Venceremos,” “La democracia a la mierda,” etc.]; 13 ¾" x 21 ¼"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 59
    • Description: Arrancaron nuestros frutos, Cortaron nuestras ramas, Quemaron nuestro tronco, Pero no pudieron matar nuestras raices – Comité de Unidad Campesina – 1978-1988 Diez Años de Lucha Campesina, Guatemala, C.A. [poster depicts campesinos tending a tree]; 18" x 27"
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 60
    • Description: Poster 1 of 5 in “A series for the reconstruction of Nicaragua,” Ministerio de Cultura, Nicaragua; Peter Hammer Verlag; published in the U.S. by Pueblo to People – Peasant painting from Nicaragua (Poster D, copyright 1986); Esperanza Guevara, painter; 19 ½" x 27"
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 61
    • Description: Poster 2 of 5 in “A series for the reconstruction of Nicaragua,” Ministerio de Cultura, Nicaragua; Peter Hammer Verlag; published in the U.S. by Pueblo to People – Best.-Nr. 663; 19 ½" x 27"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 62
    • Description: Poster 3 of 5 in “A series for the reconstruction of Nicaragua,” Ministerio de Cultura, Nicaragua; Peter Hammer Verlag; published in the U.S. by Pueblo to People – Best.-Nr. 660; 19 ½" x 27"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 63
    • Description: Poster 4 of 5 in “A series for the reconstruction of Nicaragua,” Ministerio de Cultura, Nicaragua; Peter Hammer Verlag; published in the U.S. by Pueblo to People – Best.-Nr. 655; 19 ½" x 27"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 64
    • Description: Poster 5 of 5 in “A series for the reconstruction of Nicaragua,” Ministerio de Cultura, Nicaragua; Peter Hammer Verlag; published in the U.S. by Pueblo to People – Best.-Nr. 666; 19 ½" x 27"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 65
    • Description: Unidad Comunal de El Salvador a 2 años del Terremoto Exigimos Nuestro Derecho a una Vida Digna… Octubre '88; 13 ¾" x 18 ¾"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 66
  • Kenya posters

    • Description: Energy 81 – Exhibition – Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Nairobi Kenya 5-23 August 1981 – United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy; 16 ½" x 23 ¼"
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 67
    • Description: Village Technology – Solving problems of water storage simply: villagers gather to learn the making of a storage jar – Joint government of Kenya/UNICEF project – Published by UNICEF C.I.S. Box 44145 Nairobi; 16 ½" x 23 ¼"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Folder:oversize 6, Item 68

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Subject Terms

  • Peace movements--Posters
  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
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