Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Person
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
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
O. Edward Janney (Oliver Edward) Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-072
Abstract
Dr. O. Edward Janney was a prominent Quaker doctor from Baltimore who was active in many of the social reform movements of his time. He worked with the Society for the Suppression of Vice in Baltimore and labored in the causes of temperance, woman suffrage, inter-racial relations, peace, and other reforms. In 1907, Dr. Janney gave up the practice of medicine to devote his energies full time to reform activities. The collection contains correspondence (1874-1945), diary (1914), memoirs,...
Dates:
1874-1945
Mary Kelsey Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Kelsey, Mary
Scope and Contents
Includes miscellaneous correspondence; two oversize scrapbooks (ca. 1914-1919) which contain correspondence (some with her relative, Kate Kelsey); articles and half-tone images from U.S. and foreign periodicals about World War I; small posters; sheet music; and material about Woodrow Wilson's 1916 presidential campaign and the Women's March for Woodrow Wilson in Washington D.C., ca. 1917; also small amounts of secondary material relating to the American Friends Service Committee, the...
Dates:
1914-1919
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
Fred Rodell papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-827
Abstract
The papers of Fred Rodell (1907-1980), a 1926 graduate of Haverford College and long-time professor of law at Yale University. The papers consist of correspondence, published and unpublished writing, scrapbooks of Rodell's written work, and albums of personal photographs.
Dates:
1927 - 1980
John Nevin Sayre Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-117
Abstract
John Nevin Sayre was a pacifist who spent over 40 years at the helm of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Dates:
1885-1982; Majority of material found within 1922-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Smiley family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1113
Abstract
In 1883, Quakers Albert Keith Smiley and his brother Daniel Smiley organized the first annual conference to discuss assistance to Native Americans at their estate at Lake Mohonk in New York state. These conferences were widely attended by specialists in various fields, as well as important officials. Only later were Native Americans represented. The concern to "uplift" was also directed at Filipino, Hawaiian, African American and Puerto Rican peoples, though attention at the conferences was...
Dates:
1885-1983; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1930
Woodrow Wilson materials
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1975-29
Abstract
Besides serving as the twenty-eighth president of the United States from 1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson was a member of the original faculty of Bryn Mawr College from 1885-1888. Papers on file at Bryn Mawr College about Woodrow Wilson include material about the 1956 celebration at Bryn Mawr College of Wilson's Centennial as well as miscellaneous materials collected from various sources.
Dates:
1885 - 1956
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- African Americans -- History 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century 1
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- Children -- Health and hygiene -- History 1
- Constitutional law -- United States 1
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- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Filipinos 1
- Hawaiians 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Indians of North America -- Congresses 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations 1
- Indians of North America -- History 1
- Judges -- United States -- Biography 1
- Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Law 1
- Pacifists -- United States 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 1
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- Puerto Ricans 1
- Quaker women -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers 1
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- Quakers -- Maryland -- Baltimore 1
- Sex Instruction for Children -- History 1
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- Society of Friends -- Doctrines 1
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- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States 1
- Women pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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