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Jane Addams Collection

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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

Emily Greene Balch Papers

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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

Helena M. Swanwick Collected Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Swanwick, Helena M.
Overview

Helena Maria Sickert was born in Germany and moved to England early on. She was an author, journalist, and lecturer involved in peace activism, feminism, and social justice. She became chair of the British Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was a British delegate to the League of Nations. Her dream was that women, if they used their power, could make an end to war.

Dates: 1907-1938

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Women and peace 2
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 2
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century 1
Diplomacy 1
Feminists 1
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Names
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 2
Baer, Gertrude 2
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 2
Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
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Drevet, Camille 2
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 2
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 2
Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 2
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 2
Ragaz, Clara 2
Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 2
Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 2
Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 2
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 2
Woman's Peace Party 2
Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
Allen, Clifford, 1889-1939 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
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930 1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
Cheever, Helen 1
Clark, Hilda 1
Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 1
Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
Duchêne, Gabrielle 1
Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
Fletcher, John P. 1
Glücklich, Vilma 1
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
Innes, Kathleen Elizabeth Royds 1
James, Ada L. 1
James, William, 1842-1910 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
King-Hall, Stephen, Sir, 1893-1966 1
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
Lowrie, Kathleen Jennison 1
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
Marshall, Catherine E. 1
Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957 1
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936 1
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 1
Ponsonby, Arthur Ponsonby, Baron, 1871-1946 1
Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
Robins, Margaret Dreier 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1861-1954 1
Sears, Amelia 1
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 1
Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934 1
Starr, Ellen Gates 1
Stevens, Alzina P. 1
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 1
Taussig, Florence G. 1
Taylor, Lea Demarest 1
Vernon, Mabel 1
Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 1
Webb, Sidney, 1859-1947 1
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 1
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 1
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 1
Woods, Amy 1
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969 1
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 1
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 1
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