Jane Addams Peace Association [JAPA] Records

JAPA became it's own entity in 2016, prompting the Peace Collection to separate its records from WILPF thereafter (though there may still be some later JAPA material in the WILPF records).

The accessions received from JAPA (2017-077 [3 boxes] and 2021-001) by 2023 seem to be primarily those of Director Linda Belle. They were originally thought to be in good enough condition to send them straight to offsite storage, but later attention made it obvious that at least some processing might make it possible to discard much duplicate material. This was true of many folders of meeting minutes of the WILPF Board of Directors (attended by Linda Belle and others); any notes or other original material found in these folders of JAPA staff was kept, but the duplicates were taken out. Another reason for processing some of the cartons of files was because of questions on various topics that came in where it was necessary to check in numerous folders in different cartons. Sorting topic folders together into one or more boxes that are now together on a shelf should help with finding material for researchers. However, there was not time to process all the cartons donated.