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Jane Addams Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Abstract

A world-famous social reformer; co-founded the first settlement house in America in 1889; championed many causes on behalf of the urban poor, such as protection of immigrants, child labor laws, industrial safety, juvenile courts, and recognition of labor unions; a leading figure in the movement for international peace; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Dates: 1838-; Majority of material found within 1880-1935

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-016
Abstract Hannah Clothier Hull (1872-1958), was one of the founders of the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She served as a national officer of the WILPF for nearly forty years. Hull was also active in other social reform movements. A member of a well-to-do Quaker family, Hannah Clothier graduated from Swarthmore College in 1891. She first worked at a Philadelphia settlement house and then entered the graduate program in social work at Bryn Mawr College....
Dates: 1889-1958

Peoples Mandate Committee Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Abstract Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...
Dates: 1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956

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Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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Women and peace -- History -- Sources 2
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Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 2
Baer, Gertrude 2
Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
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Drevet, Camille 2
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 2
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 2
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
Starr, Ellen Gates 2
Vernon, Mabel 2
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 2
Woods, Amy 2
Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
Armstrong, Florence A. (Florence Arzelia), 1881-1962 1
Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
Baber, Zonia 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
Boyer, Gaeta Wold 1
Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948 1
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
Burke, Ana del Pulgar 1
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
Elliot, Martha Helen 1
Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
Glücklich, Vilma 1
Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 1
James, Ada L. 1
James, William, 1842-1910 1
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 1
Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 1
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
Libby, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
Marshall, Catherine E. 1
Milholland, Vida 1
National Council of Women of the United States 1
Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960 1
Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971 1
Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936 1
Peoples Mandate Committee (U.S.) 1
Peoples Mandate Committee for Inter-American Peace and Cooperation (U.S.) 1
Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 1
Ragaz, Clara 1
Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 1
Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 1
Robins, Margaret Dreier 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Sears, Amelia 1
Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 1
Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934 1
Stevens, Alzina P. 1
Stockwell, Maud C. 1
Surles, Flora Belle, 1887-1971? 1
Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 1
Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 1
Swope, Mary Hill 1
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 1
Taylor, Lea Demarest 1
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 1
Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 1
Webb, Sidney, 1859-1947 1
Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961 1
Williams, Mary Wilhelmine, 1878-1944 1
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 1
Wold, Emma, 1871-1950 1
Woman's Peace Party 1
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