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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

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Abstract Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates: 1876-1938

National Council for Prevention of War Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-023
Abstract

The National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) was directed by J. Frederick Libby for many years; it lobbied Congress and created educational peace material, among other activities and campaigns.

Dates: 1921-1975

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-043
Abstract Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and...
Dates: 1915-

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Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 4
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 4
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 4
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 3
Baer, Gertrude 2
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Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 2
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 2
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 2
National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 2
National Council of Women of the United States 2
Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 2
Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 2
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 2
Starr, Ellen Gates 2
Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
Woman's Peace Party 2
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
Woods, Amy 2
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 2
Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
Alley, Alden Gifford 1
American Peace League 1
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
Art for World Friendship (Organization) 1
Baber, Zonia 1
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
Beverage, Albion P. 1
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 1
Boeckel, Florence Brewer, 1885- 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
Camp, Kay 1
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1
Chalmers, Ruth 1
Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 1
Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.) 1
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
Drevet, Camille 1
Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
Elliot, Martha Helen 1
Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Finucane, James F. 1
Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
Fosdick, Raymond B. (Raymond Blaine), 1883-1972 1
Fowler, Eleanor 1
Frank, Libby 1
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
Glücklich, Vilma 1
Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 1
Harris, Paul, b. 1897 1
Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
Hinton, Carma 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
International Peace Bureau 1
Ivey, Anne 1
Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 1
James, Ada L. 1
James, William, 1842-1910 1
Jane Addams Peace Association 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, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
MacKnight, Jesse M. (Jesse Mackenzie), 1910- 1
Mackenzie, Gladys K. G. 1
Marshall, Catherine E. 1
Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 1
Midgley, Jane 1
Moore, Carol V. 1
Morgan, Laura Puffer, 1874-1962 1
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