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Jane Addams Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Overview
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
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 life--through...
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. In...
Dates:
1889-1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Helene Stöcker papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-035
Overview
Dr. Helene Stöcker (1869-1943) was one of the first woman students to enter a German University. In the 1920s she helped found Germany's first woman suffrage organization, and later the Bund für Mutterschutz (Protection of Motherhood). Dr. Stöcker immigrated to the United States in 1941 under the sponsorship of friends and colleagues in the peace movement.
Dates:
1897-1994; Majority of material found within 1913-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, International Office Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-043-part II
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 3
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- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 3
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- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
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- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 2
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 2
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- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 1
- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
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- Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 1
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- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Jouve, Andrée, 1884-1972 1
- Karsten, Eleanor Daggett, -1946 1
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- Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
- Kind, Bessie 1
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