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Milton Lowenthal Papers

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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Milton Lowenthal was an activist involved in peace and antinuclear movements in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; also with the United Nations Association of the United States of America in Harrisburg, the UN's International Year of the Child; the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, protests after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, and commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.He was a sponsor of Japanese antinuclear artist Kazuaki Kita.

Includes correspondence, financial records, flyers and handbills, manuscripts, memorabilia, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, reference files, audiocassettes, slides, videocassettes, motion pictures, photographs, and posters. Correspondents include John Somerville and Kazuaki Kita.

This collection remains in the order in which it was donated.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.

Gift of the Estate of Milton Lowenthal, 1996 [Acc. 96A-086, Acc. 11A-080].

This collection is unprocessed and remains in the order in which it was donated.This finding aid was created by Amanda Cardillo on June 1, 2012.

  1. Slides
  2. Photographs
  3. Memorabilia

Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright to the resources created by Milton Lowenthal has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright to all other materials is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Peace Resource Center- Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Collection.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Nakano.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Shibata/Kita, 1990-1993.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Kazuaki Kita.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Samarkand Museum.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Correspondence- Kita.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Union of American and Japanese Professionals against Nuclear Omnicide.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 1
Shingo Shibata.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Miscellaneous Mailing Lists.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Shingo Shibata, Kazuaki Kita.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Shipment to Los Angeles/Lists of Ceramics.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Los Angeles- Makinodan/Toji.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Kita- Presentations.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Calendars, 1992.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Kita Calendar, 1993.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 2
Kita Booklet, 1993.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Displays- Kita.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
SSD III Display, 1988 (June 3-9).
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Frick Fine Arts Museum- Pittsburgh University Art Gallery.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Kita Display- Brooklyn Museum.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Victoria, British Columbia- Duckworth.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Washington, Anne Hathaway, Folger.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Harrisburg- Penn Museum.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Peace Museum.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Wilmington Peace Center.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Biography.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Shibata, Kita, 1988-1989.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Smithsonian/Sackler.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Kita Calendar, 1990.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Kita Calendar, 1989.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Kita- World of, 1991.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Kita Calendar, 1991.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 3
Harrisburg and Hiroshima, Sister Cities.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 4
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 4
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

International Year of the Child.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 4
Miscellaneous Files.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 4
Reference Materials from Peace Groups.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 4
Miscellaneous Peace Groups- Harrisburg.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 4
Peace and Justice Organizations in Harrisburg Area.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 4
Peace Post.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
City of Harrisburg.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Grass Roots- Weude and Taylor.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Milo Products Corporation.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Publicity.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
UNICEF.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Three Mile Island.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Coalitions and Sponsors.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Displays.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Nakio Nurayama, Anne Hathaway Gallery, Louise Franklin-Ramirez.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 5
Shibata-Fukushima.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Kita Insurance.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Calendar, 1987.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Museums.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Calendar, 1986.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Calendar, 1985.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Virginia Sales Taxes.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Schools, Libraries- Model U.N.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
Genocide.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
UN Day, 1978.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
International Year of the Child.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 6
International Year of the Child.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 7
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 7
Three Mile Island and Miscellaneous Files.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 7
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 7
Proposition One- Correspondence.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 7
Life, Liberty, and the Hot Pursuit.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Proposition One Committee and Miscellaneous Files.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Resources.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
World Peacemakers.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Shalom Center.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
United Nations Associations.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Union of Concerned Scientists.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Special Session on Disarmament II- U.N.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
U.S. Committee Against Nuclear War.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 8
Peace Work- Harrisburg, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 9
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 9
World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, Other Papers, 1981.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 9
Dr. John Somerville.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 9
Three Mile Island Tenth Anniversary.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 9
Three Mile Island Revisited.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 9
Miscellanous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellanous Peace Materials, 1979.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellanous Peace Materials, 1983.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellanous Peace Materials, 1984.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellanous Peace Materials, 1985.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellanous Peace Materials, 1986.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellanous Peace Materials, 1987.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellanous Peace Materials, 1988.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Sane- Harrisburg.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Third U.N. Disarmament Conference- New York City.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Miscellaneous Peace Materials- Mostly Harrisburg.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 10
Atomic Radiation.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
News Clippings- Lowenthal and Harrisburg Peace Activity.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
Mikhail Gorbachev Book.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
Peace from the Heart Book.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
Russell Peace Foundation.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Inc.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
Committee of Responsibility.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
Pax Americana- Morality.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
Grass Roots.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
John Somerville, 1988-1990.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 11
Somerville, 1991-1992.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1993.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1992.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1991.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1990.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1989.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1988.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1987.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1986.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1985.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1984.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1983.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Miscellaneous Peace Materials, 1980-1982.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Letters, 1970's.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Letters, 1960's.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Advertisements for Peace- Finances.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Humanist Association- Harrisburg.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Town Meeting, 1976.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Grass Roots II.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 12
Trip to Moscow.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
Scope and Contents

[3 folders]

Committee for a Democratic Spain.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
Central Pennsylvania Committee on Vietnam.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
House Un-American Committee.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
Harrisburg Peace Center- New.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
Harrisburg Peace Center.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
Emergency Civil Liberties Committee.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
We the People.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 13
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 14
Scope and Contents

[6 folders]

John Somerville.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 15
Pledges for Peace.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 15
Kazuaki Kita.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 15
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

International Philosophers for the Prevention of Nuclear Omnicide.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 15
Citizens Energy Council- Bogart.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 16
Harrisburg and Hiroshima- Sister Cities.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 16
Hiroshima-Harrisburg Society- Kanokogi.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 16
Sydney Harris.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 16
Stephen R. Reed.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 16
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 16
Holocaust.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Japanese Investigating Team- Three Mile Island, 1979 (July 23), 1980 (March 28-29).
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Sadako Kurihara.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Sauberman.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Canada, New Zealand, etc.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Religious.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Kampo Cultural Center, 1988 (August 6-9).
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Consortium on Peace Education, Research, and Development, 1988 (October 16-19).
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
U.N. Exhibit.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Young Women's Christian Association Display, 1988 (May 1).
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
World Conference Against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Connection.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Kita- Calendar and Special Message, 1994, 1995.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Peacewave- Japan.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Untitled, 1979.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Hiroshima Day, Sister Cities, 1979, 1980.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Hiroshima Day.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Barry Childers, Paul Alben.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Interfaith Peace Committee.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
"Poetry".
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Committee, 1985.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Observances, 1984.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Untitled, 1984.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Hiroshima/Nagasaki, 1983.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Observances, 1983.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Hiroshima/Nagasaki Observances, 1982.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Untitled, 1980.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Untitled, 1981.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Harrisburg/Hiroshima/Nagasaki, 1991.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Untitled, 1990.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Untitled, 1989.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Nuclear Technology Resource Center- from Simmons.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
40th Anniversary, 1985.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Letters for Peace.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Untitled, 1987.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 17
Peace Wave.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Community Leaders.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Publicity.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Council for Abolition of War.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Untitled, 1962-1963.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Hebrew University.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Harrisburg/Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Special Session on Disarmament III, Walk for World Peace.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Other Contacts- Peace Groups.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 18
Scope and Contents

[6 folders]

Miscellaneous Peace Materials.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Scope and Contents

[5 folders]

Dr. Bauer.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Roger Axford.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Diane Clark.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Center for Constitutional Rights.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
New York Times.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Nuclear Free America.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Peace Garden.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
DCCC/DSCC.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Earth Day.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Sandra Fluck- Lancaster.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Randall Forsberg- Last Defense and Disarmament Studies.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Guardian, 1989.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Housing Now.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
International Philosophers for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Mobilization/Survival.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Sane.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Peacewave- News and Action.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Peacewave- Hiroshima/Nagasaki Appeal.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Pollution- Water, Air, Environment.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
P.S. 230 Oberferst.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Sierra Club.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Southern Poverty Law Center- Morris Dees.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Three Mile Island.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
U.G.S.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Special Session on Disarmament III.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
U.N.- Children and Peace.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Veterans for Peace.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
War Registers League.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Russell Peace Foundation.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
India.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
Pikadon.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 19
John Somerville.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 20
Our Enemy.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 20
Advertisements for Peace- Ed Aberlin.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 20
Somerville II.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 20
Japanese Associations and Activities.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 20
Union of American and Japanese Professionals Against Nuclear Omnicide.
Box DG 191: Acc. 96A-086: 20

Biographical Information.
Box DG 191: Acc. 11A-080: 1
Letters Written and Received.
Box DG 191: Acc. 11A-080: 1
Photocopy of Original Scrapbook.
Box DG 191: Acc. 11A-080: 1
Involvements, Statements, etc.
Box DG 191: Acc. 11A-080: 1
Articles and Letters Written/Published to the Editor.
Box DG 191: Acc. 11A-080: 1
Reference Material.
Box DG 191: Acc. 11A-080: 1
Album/Scrapbook Given by Mikio Kanokogi: (Hiroshima Shudo University), 1980.
Box DG 191: Acc. 11A-080: 1

Union of American and Japanese Professors Against Nuclear Omnicide.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Join World Peace Wave.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Service of Prayer.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
What's Wrong with the War in Vietnam?.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Peacewave III.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Harrisburg/Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Week, 1995.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Candles on the Water.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Harrisburg/Hiroshima/Nagasaki- Peace through Reason Days, Remembrance Week, 1992-1993.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Proclamation Signing, 1978 (May 25).
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Are We to be the World's Policemen?.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Kazuaki Kita Ceramic Art Displays.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
The Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Gulf War Legacies.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
For a World in One Peace.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Scope and Contents

[2 folders]

Harrisburg/Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance Week, 1989 (August 6-12).
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Peace Cannot be Kept by Force.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Who Should We Believe?.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Promote Enduring Peace.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
The Nuclear Connection.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
And Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Ban the Bomb Appeal.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
The Harrisburg/Hiroshima/Nagasaki Committee and the Interreligious Forum Present Peace: A Legacy for our Children.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Harrisburg/Hiroshima/Nagasaki Committee: The First Ten Years.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
One World or None.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1
Foundations of Peace.
Box DG 191: Miscellaneous: 1

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