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Elizabeth Newlin Baker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-248
Overview
Elizabeth Newlin Baker was a Pennsylvania Quaker peace activist and graduate of Swarthmore College, Class of 1902. This small collection contains drafts of letters she wrote, miscellaneous correspondence received, and papers concerning the Pennsylvania Job Mobilization Program of the late 1930s.
Dates:
1932-1969
Harold Barton Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Barton, Harold
Abstract
In the early 1940s National Mental Health Foundation originated in 1944-1945 when Harold Barton and three associates, serving at Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), announced plans for a national campaign to improve the conditions in mental hospitals. The exposure of these conditions through the efforts of men serving in CPS, and their efforts to be a nonviolent presence in mental institutions, began a new movement in mental health care in the U.S. The National Mental...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1944-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ellen Starr Brinton Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-051
Abstract
Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.
Dates:
1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Ann Morrissett Davidon and William C. Davidon Papers
Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Drinker correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-031
Identifier: SFHL-SC-031
Abstract
This collection includes letters received by Henry Drinker regarding various business and personal matters. The correspondents include Ruth Anna Rutter (later Lindley), George Churchman, and William Brinton, who wrote concerning a subscription from Lampeter Preparative Meeting for relief in Europe.
Dates:
1791-1801
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
Robin Harper Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Harper, Robin
Overview
Robin Harper is active in the peace movement. During the 1950s and 1960s he protested nuclear weapons and missile defense systems. The papers in this collection reflect that involvement.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1957-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Miles, Ward and Alice Calder Miles
Abstract
Includes two oral history interview (4 p., 2007 and 2 p., 2003) of Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles; information about the Civilian Public Service unit at the Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; manuscript "Out of Sight Out of Mind" by Ward C. Miles; information about a psychiatric aide training project conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation under the auspices of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas in 1948; reference material about mental hospitals and psychiatric aide...
Dates:
1944-1948, 2003, 2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
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- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
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- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brinton, William, 1759-1842 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
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- Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1899-1980 1
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
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- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 1
- Portell-Vilá, Herminio, 1901-1992 1
- Prasad, Devi 1
- Prayer and Conscience Vigil, Washington, D.C., 1957 1
- Reilly, Joseph W. 1
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- Shirer, William L. (William Lawrence), 1904-1993 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
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- Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 1
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 1
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- Tiller, Phyllis M. 1
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 1
- United States. War Relocation Authority 1
- Universal Peace Union 1
- Vidal, Gore, 1925- 1
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