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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

Lydia G. Wentworth Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-041
Abstract Lydia G. Wentworth, was a writer and ardent peace advocate who lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts. Despite illness which confined her to bed for over thirty years, she carried on a prolific correspondence and contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines. Wentworth was on the advisory committee of the Women's Peace Society, and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Association to Abolish...
Dates: 1902-1947; Majority of material found within 1918-1947

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Names
Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
Baer, Gertrude 1
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Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 1
Drevet, Camille 1
Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
Glücklich, Vilma 1
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 1
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 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
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
Marshall, Catherine E. 1
Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron, 1871-1946 1
Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 1
Ragaz, Clara 1
Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 1
Robins, Margaret Dreier 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
Sears, Amelia 1
Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 1
Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934 1
Starr, Ellen Gates 1
Stevens, Alzina P. 1
Strong, Sydney, 1860-1938 1
Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 1
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 1
Taylor, Lea Demarest 1
Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 1
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 1
Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 1
Webb, Sidney, 1859-1947 1
Wentworth, Lydia G., 1858- 1
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 1
Woman's Peace Party 1
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 1
Woods, Amy 1
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 1
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