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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
Hannah J. Bailey Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-005
Overview
Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer,temperance leader, superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887 to 1916, president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU, president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Included in her papers is material...
Dates:
1836-1923
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-011
Abstract
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana was a writer and pacifist who taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1912 until 1917. Dana lost his teaching post as an opponent of American participation in World War I. Dana continued to advocate civil liberties and the rights of conscientious objectors.
Dates:
1914-1950
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
Lydia G. Wentworth Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-041
Overview
Lydia G. Wentworth, was a writer and ardent peace advocate who lived most of her life in Brookline, Massachusetts. Despite illness which confined her to bed for over thirty years, she carried on a prolific correspondence and contributed hundreds of articles to newspapers and magazines. Wentworth was on the advisory committee of the Women's Peace Society, and was a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Association to Abolish...
Dates:
1902-1947; Majority of material found within 1918-1947
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-043
Abstract
Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and...
Dates:
1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 6
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- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1881-1950 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- DiBrazza-Savorgnan, Cora Slocomb 1
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- Dunn, Robert W. (Robert Williams), 1895- 1
- Duryea, Anne Sturges, -1940 1
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- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Fowler, Eleanor 1
- Frank, Libby 1
- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1
- Gordon, Anna A. (Anna Adams), 1853-1931 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Hinton, Carma 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
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- Ivey, Anne 1
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 1
- James, Ada L. 1
- James, William, 1842-1910 1
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- 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
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- MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Mead, Edwin D. (Edwin Doak), 1849-1937 1
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