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Jane Addams Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Abstract

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

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Abstract 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

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Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
American Peace League 1
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
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Baer, Gertrude 1
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 1
Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 1
Drevet, Camille 1
Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
Glücklich, Vilma 1
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 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
International Peace Bureau 1
Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 1
James, Ada L. 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
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 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
Nasmyth, George William, 1882-1920 1
National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 1
National Council of Women of the United States 1
Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 1
Ragaz, Clara 1
Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 1
Robins, Margaret Dreier 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
School Peace League 1
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
Sears, Amelia 1
Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 1
Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 1
Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934 1
Starr, Ellen Gates 1
Stevens, Alzina P. 1
Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 1
Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 1
Taylor, Lea Demarest 1
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 1
Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 1
Webb, Sidney, 1859-1947 1
Woods, Amy 1
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 1
World Peace Foundation 1
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