| Description | 1. Burgundy folder 22.5cm x 31cm, ‘KSSO’ on front, The title reads "War, be gone. Long live peace". Contains painting of dove in blue and white,.Text in Czech language.
2. Green photograph album, 32.5cm x 24cm. ‘Mothers for Peace’, Bologna, Italy, 20 June 1958, black and white photographs, printed text in Italian, campaigning on a peace theme.
3. In repaired cream box, 32.5cm x 22.5cm. Contains red folder and loose sheets, with watercolour illustrations and signatures. Translation in English, from working women in the district of Kyjov, in Moravia/Czecholslovakia, dated Kyjov, 28 July 1958.
4. Pink cloth folder, 28cm x 32.5cm. Contains loose sheets with text and illustrations, dated Myslkovice, 15 cervence 1958
5. Green and black folder, 22.5cm x 31.5cm. ‘To the English women-the women of the District of Rosice’, with texts in Czech and illustrations, dated Padochov 14 cervence 1958, Czechoslovakia.
6. White folder, with mermaid with shield and sword, 25cm x 34.5cm. Contains text with signatures in Polish and illustration of flower, with white and green artificial berry/foliage attached. Some dated Warszawa, 4 August 1958.
7. Pink folder ‘Rada mistniho narodniho…’, 23cm x 32.5cm. Contains Petition to Czechoslovak government from Union of Antifacsists (Litomerice division) against UK/US actions in Jordan and Lebanon. Also contains text, letters, and signatures, dated Litomerice, 4 August 1958.
8. Oatmeal cloth folder with red white and blue ribbon, ‘Sigma Lutin n.p.’, 23cm x 32.5cm. Contains text in English from the Women’s Committee, dated Lutin, 2 August 1958. Workers from the Sigma Olomouc Plant, mention the forthcoming harvest, ‘USA and Great Britain aggression’, nuclear weapons, and the wish not to repeat ‘Caventry’ [Coventry?].
9. Buff folder ‘Painting 2, Czech, DR1’, containing 7 pieces of artwork with signatures. From Warszawa dated 9 August 1958; Lablin 25 July 1958; Warszawa 9 August 1958; Z-ljezdec (with rural scene); Dynin with factory 18 July 1958; and brown envelope ‘The women of Litovel to the English Women’, with factory, dove of peace and hand.
10. Buff folder, ‘To the Peace Caravan of Mothers of England’, from the members of the Women Committees of the District of Humpolec, 18 July 1958, with text in English.
11. Buff folder, ‘Holedec okres Zatec’, with signatures on a petition showing USA missiles being cut with flowers labelled mir and peace.
12. Red album, 24.5cm x 30.5cm, labelled ‘pax, mir, mnp’ with dove and world. Contains typed and handwritten letters with signatures dated 1958, with mention of Stockholm, ‘Svetova rada miru, Stockholm’.
13. Red album, 25cm x 31cm, with dove with flower. Folder shows evidence of dirt/mould in past. Contains illustrations and texts, including folk art and stylised images of peace with children and pastoral scenes. Adrresses are from various places in Czechoslovakia. The written texts are a mixture of Czech and Slovak,. dated Cervence 1958. |