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The Swarthmore College Peace Collection houses the papers and records of peace organizations and activists whose work also addresses global environmental issues. The array of issues concerning nuclear power, with special consideration for nuclear weapons, has been the most common environmental causes adopted by peace activists. This resource guide highlights Peace Collection resources on specific campaigns and events and outlines relevant information on environmental issues. The site will feature the following: which environmental issues are most commonly referenced in particular collections; how each organization or party acted on behalf of those issues; how environmental issues tie into peace issues; and most practically where in these collections may a concentrated amount of pertinent material be found.
The papers and records described in the following pages all contain a wide variety of materials. These collections often include meeting minutes and other administrative records, planning materials for programs, and educational publications such as fliers, pamphlets, periodicals, or advertisements. Some collections also include photographs, audiovisual materials, and books illustrating various peace and environmental events or campaigns. The Swarthmore College Peace Collection also collects many types of ephemera including posters, banners, buttons, pins, bumper stickers, stamps, t-shirts, and scrapbooks, many of which also depict environmental campaigns. The pages of this site are meant to highlight some collections and materials within those collections. They are not, however, a comprehensive list of all material relevant to environmental activism found within the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
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"Refute Nukes" - SHAD Alliance: 8" x 10" black and white photograph from Photograph Collection: SHAD Alliance Records (DG 142), 8" x 10" Rallies, Demonstrations, 1978?-1982? photo box ; credit: Charles Scheiner.
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Nuclear arms protest at Sea Brook Nuclear Plant: crowd entering open gate: 5" x 7" black and white photograph from Photograph Collections: Clamshell Alliance Collected Records (CDG-A), 4" x 5" & 5" x 7" CDG-A collective box (C-E); credit: Ed Hedeman.
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Nevada Test Site demonstration, 1962: 8" x 10" black and white photograph from Photograph Collection: Women Strike for Peace Records (DG 115), 8" x 10" Women Strike for Peace demonstrations, etc., 1960-1969 photo box ; credit: Harvey Richards.
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Anti-nuclear power demonstration: Philadelphia Electric, 1976: 5" x 7" black and white photograph from Photograph Collection: Movement for a New Society Records (DG 154), 5" x 7" Marches/Demonstrations, 1980 photo box.
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Comprehensive test ban demonstration, 1962: 3.5" x 5.25" color photograph from Photograph Collection: Peace Action Records (DG 151), 4" x 5" & 5" x 7" DG Collective box.
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Five protestors of nuclear weapons with signs on a street corner: 4" x 6" black and white photograph from Photograph Collection: Peace Action Records (DG 151), 4" x 5" & 5" x 7" photo box 2 of 2.
Images on environmental activism from the Peace Collection's digital library can also be seen in the exhibit, "Activist New York": Environmental Advocacy - A Danger Unlike Any Danger: Nuclear Disarmament Campaigns 1957-1985." Online exhibit from the Museum of the City of New York, 2016-2017.
