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) (162)
- The Phonetic Promotion Committee (16)
- The National Union Canton-Hong Kong Strike Committee (1)
- The Commercial Press (21)
- 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 (27)
- Jiangxi Nanchang China Inland Mission (2)
- Jiangxi China Inland Mission Bible School (6)
- Health and Education Organization (1)
- 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 (19)
- Christian Literature Society Shanghai (9)
- Christian Literature Society (92)
- Christian Book Room (21)
- Chinese National Drug Banning Society (2)
- Chinese Government Information Office (1)
- China Sunday School Union (18)
- China Sunday School Association (4)
- China Inland Mission (12)
- China Christian Council Min Zhong Section Chang Le District Committee (1)
- Catholic University Press (35)
- Canadian Mission Press (1)
- Baptist Publication Society (4)
- Anglican Church in China (1)
- Alliance Press-Chongking-Hongkong-Singapore (2)
- Shanghai Publishing Company (3)
Library Collections
- Yale Divinity Library (141)
- World Gospel Mission (43)
- University of Birmingham (56)
- The Salvation Army International Heritage Centre (6)
- The Joint Archives of Holland – Hope College (3)
- The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary – Columbia University in the City of New York (109)
- Société des Auxiliaires des Missions Collection – Whitworth University (57)
- Smith College – Northampton – Massachusetts (6)
- San Francisco Theological Seminary (12)
- Kautz Family YMCA Archives – University of Minnesota (13)
- Houghton Library – Harvard University (7)
- Hong Kong Baptist University (9)
- Harvard Divinity School Library (6)
- General Archives of the Societas Verbi Divini / Divine Word Missionaries in Rome (58)
- Elizabethtown College – Earl H. and Anita F. Hess Archives & Special Collections (11)
- Clark Goebel Collection (1)
- Center for Adventist Research – Andrews University (1)
- Boston University School of Theology Archives (10)
- Billy Graham Center Archives – Wheaton College (50)
- Archives & Special Collections – The Library – SOAS University of London (102)
- Société des Auxiliaires des Missions Collection – Whitworth University (9)