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Jane Addams Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Hannah J. Bailey Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-005
Abstract
Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer,temperance leader, superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887 to 1916, president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU, president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Included in her papers is material...
Dates:
1836-1923
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emily Greene Balch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-006
Abstract
Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was the second U.S. woman to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Balch embarked on her academic career in the economics and sociology department at Wellesley College. Balch's extracurricular work with the Women's Trade Union League and opposition to World War I resulted in dismissal from Wellesley, and thereafter she helped lead the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Called a "Citizen of the World," Balch worked for peace throughout her...
Dates:
1842-1961; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Hannah Clothier Hull Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers
Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records
Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 5
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 5
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 5
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 4
- Baer, Gertrude 3
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 3
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 3
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 3
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 3
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 3
- Woman's Peace Party 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 3
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Drevet, Camille 2
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 2
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 2
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 2
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 2
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 2
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 2
- National Council of Women of the United States 2
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 2
- Ragaz, Clara 2
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 2
- Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 2
- Starr, Ellen Gates 2
- Vernon, Mabel 2
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 2
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 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
- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 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
- Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
- Bailey, Moses, 1892-1994 1
- Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898 1
- Balch, Francis Noyes, 1873- 1
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 1
- Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1
- Chalmers, Ruth 1
- Cheever, Helen 1
- Clark, Hilda 1
- Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 1
- Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- DiBrazza-Savorgnan, Cora Slocomb 1
- Douglas, Alice May 1
- Duchêne, Gabrielle 1
- Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
- Duryea, Anne Sturges, -1940 1
- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
- Elliot, Martha Helen 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
- Fowler, Eleanor 1
- Frank, Libby 1
- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Gordon, Anna A. (Anna Adams), 1853-1931 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 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
- Innes, Kathleen Elizabeth Royds 1
- International Peace Bureau 1
- Ivey, Anne 1
- James, Ada L. 1
- James, William, 1842-1910 1
- Jane Addams Peace Association 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Karsten, Eleanor Daggett, -1946 1
- Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
- Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
- Kind, Bessie 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
- Libby, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1 + ∧ less
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