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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
Anna Garlin Spencer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-034
Overview
Anna Carpenter Garlin Spencer was a minister, feminist, educator, pacifist, and writer on ethics and social problems. Spencer was the first woman in Rhode Island to be ordained and served as the minister of the Bell Street Chapel from 1891 to 1902. Spencer was active in the cause of women's rights for more than forty years and served as the president of the Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association. Spencer's interest in pacifism also led her to prominent positions with the National Peace and...
Dates:
1830-1931
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Overview
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
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- Names
- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Barney, Nathaniel 1
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878 1
- Carpenter family 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912 1
- Combe, George, 1788-1858 1
- Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887 1
- Davis, Maria Mott 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Dugdale, Ruth 1
- Earle, Mary Hussey 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896 1
- Garlin family 1
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Grew, Mary, 1813-1896 1
- Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 1
- Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-1913 1
- Hallowell, Mary 1
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
- Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 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
- Johnson, Oliver, 1821-1907 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
- Lord, George 1
- Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916 1
- Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 1
- Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
- Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 1
- Marriott, Charles 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 1
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871 1
- McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874 1
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 1
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Needles, Elizabeth 1
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1
- Parker, Emma Parker, 1817-1898 1
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 1
- Potter, William J. (William James), 1829?-1893 1
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 1
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 1
- Ragaz, Clara 1
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 1
- Robins, Margaret Dreier 1
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
- Rotch, William, 1759-1850 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
- Sears, Amelia 1
- Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 1
- Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934 1
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 1
- Starr, Ellen Gates 1
- Stevens, Alzina P. 1
- Stevenson, Thomas B., 1810-1863 1
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 1
- Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 1
- Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 1
- Taylor, Lea Demarest 1
- Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907 1
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 1
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
- Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 1
- Webb, Emily 1
- Webb, Richard Davis 1
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