Material Witness: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
June - October 2009
Events Screening of “Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor” with introduction by Prof. Stephen Vlastos Paper Crane Making “Memories of a Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor II” |
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and the second one on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. These two cities witnessed how devastating the effects would be. They were destroyed instantly and so many lives were lost. Many survivors are still suffering today.
This exhibition features the Hiroshima-Nagasaki poster collection donated by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum with Iowa related exhibits and the UI Libraries resources. The Hiroshima Peace Foundation organized a U.S. national poster exhibition tour of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from September 2007 through December 2008 to convey the reality of the damages and horrors of those events, as well as extend their efforts for the abolition of nuclear weapons and calls for peace. Organizers from 103 cities in 44 states hosted the same exhibition and now the UI Libraries is joining them.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki (Special Collections x-Collection Flat D767.25.H6 H56 1990)
The original of featured poster collection is available in the Special Collections.
To learn more about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, please also use http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/Hiroshima-Nagasaki.
Acknowledgements
Exhibition Planning and Installation
Chiaki Sakai, Marianne Mason, Duncan Stewart
Production
Bill Voss
Graphic design
Serina Brekke
Special thanks
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Director Rick Fosse and the Iowa City Public Works Dept.
Iowa United Nations Association
Dorothy Paul
Maureen McCue, Coordinator, Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility
The Main Library’s North Exhibition Lobby provides a distinctive venue to highlight the Libraries’ collections and provide outreach opportunities to the larger community. Exhibitions focus on topics consistent with the scholarly and cultural concerns of the University and draw them from the holdings of the Libraries, supplemented when appropriate with materials from other sources.