[2] As a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco during the 1970s, Dan Walsh began a lifelong hobby of collecting Palestinian posters, the majority of which dealt with the theme of nationalism.
Walsh initially received support from Dr. Edward Said through the American Palestine Education Foundation to transform his hobby into a public archive.
[3] In the early 2000s, Walsh founded the Palestine Poster Project Archives, an online public database that is frequently updated.
In 1897, at the First Zionist Congress in Switzerland, attendants decided to adopt poster production as a significant resource to communicate and disseminate information.
According to Dan Walsh, founder of the Palestinian Poster Project Archives, as a result of the Battle of Karameh (Jordan) in 1968, the Palestine Liberation Organization began to more seriously consider the importance of international solidarity and information production and dissemination.
Artist Marc Rudin explained, "The posters had to be designed to be posted in the refugee camps, in its narrow alleys, in Palestinian homes.
[14] Documentation of the Palestinian nationalist posters genre's evolution was fragmented, and at times violently interrupted, in the mid and late twentieth century.
Other sections under "Special Categories" include "Exhibits and Catalogs;" "Historical Figures and Themes;" "Political, Cultural, and Social Publishers;" and "Museums, Libraries, Private Collections, Universities, and Archives.
[20][21] The archives could be incorporated into curricula for visual anthropology, art history, media studies, graphic design, and a variety of other subjects.
Dan Walsh said in an interview with Al-Akhbar English: "There are two narratives presented at my website, the Palestinian nationalist and the political Zionist, and they've never been put together like this before.
[23] In June 2012, the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) sponsored Dan Walsh to present the Palestine Poster Project Archives in cities across the West Bank.