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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
Biddle family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates:
1793-1951
Kay Camp Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-169
Abstract
Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in...
Dates:
1955-2006
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Civilian Training Unit for Women Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Civilian Training Unit for Women
Dates:
1941-1942
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
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview
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
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Overview
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Boyer, Gaeta Wold 1
- Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948 1
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- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
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- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
- International Peace Bureau 1
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 1
- James, Ada L. 1
- James, Dorothy Biddle 1
- James, William, 1842-1910 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 1
- Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
- Libby, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
- Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
- MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 1
- Mifflin, Thomas, 1744-1800 1
- Milholland, Vida 1
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- Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960 1
- Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971 1
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- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 1
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- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 1
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 1
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