Button/Pin/Ribbon CollectionSwarthmore College Peace Collection

The button, pin and ribbon collection currently contains over 1,300 items and continues to expand. These items have been donated over many years to the Peace Collection (SCPC) by individual peace activists and peace organizations.

Items date from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century and highlight the ideas and activities of the peace movement. The collection documents decades of political grassroots action in the areas of peace and promotes the causes of human rights, women's rights, temperance, and labor rights. Buttons from World War I, the Vietnam War era, the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and various legislative political campaigns are especially well represented.

The record for each button, pin, or ribbon contains an image of the item, descriptive information about the item, provenance, organization or company that created the item, and date and historical context when known.

More information on the Button/Pin/Ribbon collection, including a list of keywords, is available here. Please contact wchmiel@swarthmore.edu with questions or comments about the Button Collection.

Search this collection:

Search all collections:

Search Tips

If you include more than one word, the keyword search will return only items that contain all of the search terms.
Use quotation marks around your search terms when you want to search for occurrences of an exact phrase.
Use an asterisk (*) as a wild card at the end of a word or string of letters to broaden your search results.
In "advanced search," the default selection is "all collections"; if you wish to narrow your search, click on "clear all," then select the collection(s) you wish to search.
Terms specific to a collection which can be used to define a search are available when using "advanced search" to search one collection at a time.
Click the "help" link in the top menu bar while using "advanced search", "browse", and "my favorites" to get information about using these functions.