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Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-08-022
Abstract
The estate account books of William Penrose generally record deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances for the estate of William Penrose.
Dates:
1817-1830
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-People for Peace
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-084
Abstract
The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice included various peace, anti-poverty, and labor groups. These groups worked together to confront the related issues of war in Southeast Asia and racism, sexism, poverty, and repression in the United States. The People's Coalition for Peace and Justice was founded in 1970 as National Coalition Against War, Racism, and Repression and organized several specific campaigns including People's Peace Treaty, Citizen's Action Pledge, and Nixon Eviction...
Dates:
1970-1974
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-PCADP
Abstract
The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace grew out of the First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, held in New York, May 1917. It was organized to work for an early and liberal peace at the end of the World War. It favored world organizations, and disapproved of conscription. Officers were Louis Lochner, Emily Greene Balch, Rebecca Shelley, Scott Nearing, David Starr Jordan, Crystal Eastman, Eugene Debs, John Haynes Holmes, Henry W.L. Dana, Max Eastman, and...
Dates:
1917-1919
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-People's Lobby
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Abstract
Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...
Dates:
1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956
Collection
Identifier: HCL-003-088
Abstract
Two copies of a zine produced by Amara Gregorek (Bryn Mawr College Class of 2023) and Lydia Guertin (Haverford College Class of 2024) for Jill Stauffer's Fall 2022 PEAC200 class in connection with Rebecca Fisher (Haverford College Class of 2018)'s Fall 2022 Tuttle Residency focused on her history of Haverford tour.
Dates:
2022
Collection — othertype: PA-093
Identifier: SFHL-PA-093
Abstract
These photograph document the opening of New York Yearly Meeting's exhibition "A People called Quakers," held in Nassau County Museums in 1987. There are pictures of attendees as well as the exhibit content. The photographs were taken by James (Jim) Peppler.
Dates:
1987
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG7-028
Abstract
Anne Jackson Perkins was born May 10, 1925, and died June 7, 2010. She attended Swarthmore High School, and later Guilford College and the University of Delaware, though she did not complete her bachelor’s degree. She worked as a librarian at Swarthmore College’s McCabe Library until she retired in 1988, and lived with her mother and sister until the ends of their lives. She never married, and her diaries often talk about romance, loneliness, mental and physical illness, dislike of family...
Dates:
1939 - 2009
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-05-007
Abstract
The signature album of Lora A. Perkins includes signatures accompanied by inscriptions, quotes, and small sketches. Signers include F.P. Woodbury, Wesley K. Bell, John G. Whittier, Etta Peters, Lovina W. Averill, George Jackson, John P. Loving, Jennie M. Cook, and A. Marie Dearborn.
Dates:
1875-1876