In addition to the multiple ways of sorting the images that are available on the Posters page, Collections features clusters of propaganda posters that might otherwise get overlooked.
Featured Collections
Visually speaking, memory verse posters are the least interesting. The calligraphy may occasionally warrant notice, but none of these prints are enlivened by pictures. Nonetheless, these posters are fascinating. They instruct readers in the foundations of the faith. What are the most essential concepts that must be "hidden in the heart"? If Christian teaching had to be reduced to twenty, or so, lines from the Bible, which ones should they be? This collection of posters allow viewers to see what Chinese Christians prioritized during the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937).
Roman Catholic posters differed significantly from those generated by Protestants. Whereas Protesants focused on evangelism, biblical stories, social issues, or creating decorations for a Christian home, Roman Catholics relied on posters entirely for one purpose. Catholic posters were catechetical tools. They instructed converts in the tenets of the faith.
Regular Collections
Publisher Collections
- Young Men's Christian Association (5)
- United Society of Chinese Youth and Military (1)
- Trinity Publishing (1)
- Tianjin Public Health Bureau (1)
- Tianjin Bible Seminary (2)
- The Religious Tract Society of Hankow (and Shanghai) (150)
- The Phonetic Promotion Committee (16)
- The National Union Canton-Hong Kong Strike Committee (1)
- The Commercial Press (20)
- Stewart Evangelistic Fund (2)
- Standard Publishing Company (1)
- Shanghai Municipal Council (1)
- Salvation Army (1)
- Religious Tract Society – London (2)
- Political Work Department of the Third National Revolutionary Army (1)
- National Revolutionary Army Headquarters – Office of Politics (2)
- National Council of Young Women's Christian Association of China (2)
- National Christian Council of China (7)
- Jiangxi Nanchang China Inland Mission (2)
- Jiangxi China Inland Mission Bible School (4)
- Guangzhou East Embankment Eight Flags Association (1)
- Druck and Verlag Froese & Company – Basel (1)
- Civil Development and Design Committee of National Council of the Young Women's Christian Association (2)
- Christian Witness Press (15)
- Christian Literature Society (61)
- Christian Book Room (19)
- Chinese National Drug Banning Society (2)
- Chinese Government Information Office (1)
- China Sunday School Union (8)
- China Sunday School Association (4)
- China Inland Mission (12)
- China Christian Council Min Zhong Section Chang Le District Committee (1)
- Canadian Mission Press (1)
- Baptist Publication Society (4)
- Alliance Press-Chongking-Hongkong-Singapore (2)
Library Collections
- Yale Divinity Library (124)
- World Gospel Mission (42)
- The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre (6)
- The Burke Library Archives – Columbia University Libraries – Union Theological Seminary – New York (54)
- Smith College – Northampton – Massachusetts (6)
- San Francisco Theological Seminary (12)
- Kautz Family YMCA Archives – University of Minnesota (12)
- Houghton Library – Harvard University (7)
- Hong Kong Baptist University (3)
- Boston University School of Theology Archives (10)
- Billy Graham Center Archives – Wheaton College (45)
- Archives & Special Collections – The Library – SOAS University of London (83)
- Andover-Harvard Theological Library (6)
- Center for Adventist Research – Andrews University (1)