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Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955

Art for World Friendship Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-066
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the personal files of Maude Muller, the founder of Art For World Friendship; the administrative files of the organization, including financial reports, information on exhibits, advertising of the aims of the organization, correspondence with WILPF, educators, and supporters around the world. There is also a large collection of original art work by children (see items removed from collection below; and exhibit listed under "Related Collections").

Dates: 1946-1969

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

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

Heloise Brainerd Collected Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brainerd, Heloise
Abstract

Heloise Brainerd was connected with the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C. from 1909 to 1935. In 1935 Brainerd became the chair of the Committee on the Americas, and chair of the Division of Inter-American Work, for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Brainerd's goal was to draw women from Latin America into the peace movement, and to do this she traveled widely in the Americas. Brainerd was made Honorary Vice President of the U.S. Section of the WILPF in 1954.

Dates: 1900-1971

Kay Camp Papers

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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

Committee for World Development and World Disarmament Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-069
Abstract

The Committee for World Development and World Disarmament was established in 1950 as a non-political, non-partisan, educational organization to provide a forum for information about world disarmament and world economic development. It was first initiated by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (U.S. Section), as a project of the Jane Addams Peace Association; headquartered in New York, N.Y. The CWDWD ceased operations in 1970.

Dates: 1950-1970

Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-144
Abstract Ann Morrissett Davidon (1925-2004), was a writer, editor, educator, pacifist and peace activist through her entire life. William Cooper Davidon(1927- 2013), was a professor of physics at Haverford College and (retired 1994), pacifist, peace activist. The two were married in 1963 and both continued to be very active in peace, pacifist, anti-Vietnam War, and social justice organizations. They advocated and practiced war-tax resistance. In 1971, William Davidon was named an "unindicted...
Dates: 1949-

Dorothy Detzer Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract

Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1913-1981

Lucy Haessler Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Haessler, Lucy
Abstract

Collection consists of one folder of biographical information about Lucy Haessler; the remainder is a typewritten transcription of taped interviews, 1986-1987, by Anthony von der Muhll (Haessler's grandson) for his thesis, Fighting Her Way : an Oral History of Lucy Haessler (B.A. thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987); in later years she lived in Santa Cruz, California, where she died.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1986-

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Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 6
Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 6
Chalmers, Ruth 5
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 5
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 5
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Jane Addams Peace Association 4
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 4
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
American Friends Service Committee 3
Baer, Gertrude 3
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 3
Ballantyne, Edith 3
Camp, Kay 3
Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 3
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 3
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 3
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 3
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 3
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 3
Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
Art for World Friendship (Organization) 2
Baker, Adelaide N. 2
Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
Boulding, Elise 2
Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 2
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 2
Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 2
Drevet, Camille 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 2
Harris, Paul, b. 1897 2
Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 2
Newton, Ray 2
Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 2
Ragaz, Clara 2
Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 2
Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1861-1954 2
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 2
Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
War Resisters League 2
War Resisters' International 2
Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
Young Democracy (Organization) 2
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Adler, Friedrich 1
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
Alley, Alden Gifford 1
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
American League against War and Fascism 1
Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898 1
Balch, Francis Noyes, 1873- 1
Barr, Eleanor M., 1939- 1
Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 1
Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
Berg, Russel O. 1
Berrigan, Philip 1
Beverage, Albion P. 1
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
Boeckel, Florence Brewer, 1885- 1
Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
Bourdet, Claude, 1909- 1
Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946 1
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930 1
Cary, Stephen G. 1
Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
Chase, E. Dixwell 1
Cheever, Helen 1
Clark, Hilda 1
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
Collett, John A. (John Albert), 1911- 1
Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 1
Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.) 1
Cookson, Sybil, 1890- 1
Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
Davidon, Ann Morrissett 1
Davidon, William C. 1
Denny, Ludwell, 1894-1970 1
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 1
DuchĂȘne, Gabrielle 1
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