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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...
Dates:
1842-1961; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Katherine Devereux Blake Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Blake, Katherine Devereux
Abstract
Katherine Devereux Blake was a suffragist and peace activist through the first half of the twentieth century. She was a member of the Ford Peace Expedition in 1915-1916, served on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and its international executive board, and was the chief speaker for the Disarmament Caravan, which toured 9,000 miles in 1931.
Dates:
1911-1950
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Children's Peace Petition Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Children's Peace Petition Committee
Dates:
ca.1916-1950
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Ford Peace Expedition Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-018
Overview
On December 4, 1915, Henry Ford and over one hundred delegates and reporters left Hoboken, New Jersey, aboard the steamship Oscar II bound for Norway, and an itinerary of peace meetings in nonbelligerant Europe. The purpose of the Henry Ford Peace Expedition was the establishment of a conference of neutral nations which would seek to implement peace proposals through continuous mediation. Although Ford left the expedition at Christiana (Oslo) for health reasons, the delegation visited...
Dates:
1915-1916
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....
Dates:
1889-1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 4
- Baer, Gertrude 3
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 3
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 3
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 3
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 3
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 3
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Drevet, Camille 2
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 2
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 2
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 2
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 2
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 2
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 2
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 2
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 2
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 2
- Ragaz, Clara 2
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 2
- Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 2
- Starr, Ellen Gates 2
- Vernon, Mabel 2
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 2
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
- Woman's Peace Party 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Woods, Amy 2
- Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 2
- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
- Baber, Zonia 1
- Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898 1
- Balch, Francis Noyes, 1873- 1
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930 1
- Cheever, Helen 1
- Children's Peace Petition Committee 1
- Clark, Hilda 1
- Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Duchêne, Gabrielle 1
- Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
- Elliot, Martha Helen 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hostetler, Theodore A. (Theodore Allen), 1864-1948 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964 1
- Hull, Cordell, 1871-1955 1
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
- Innes, Kathleen Elizabeth Royds 1
- International Federation of Students 1
- James, Ada L. 1
- James, William, 1842-1910 1
- Jones, J. E. (John Ennis), 1872- 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Karsten, Eleanor Daggett, -1946 1
- Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
- Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
- Kind, Bessie 1
- Kraft, Barbara S. 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
- Leckie, Katherine, d. 1930 1
- Libby, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
- Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
- Lowrie, Kathleen Jennison 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Maverick, Lewis A. (Lewis Adams), 1891- 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- National Council of Women of the United States 1
- Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation (1916) 1
- Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960 1
- Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971 1
- Oscar II (Ship) 1
- Park, Alice Locke 1
- Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936 1
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 1
- Plantiff, Gaston 1
- Pogany, Frances 1
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
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