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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
A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Overview
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Lynne Shivers Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Overview
Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-2015
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Overview
The Swanns were Quaker peace activitists who were particularly well known for their part in nonviolent direct action against nuclear weapons testing and deployment in the 1950s-1960s.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 2
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- Beaton, Grace M. 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Cederfeld, Benny 1
- Friends' Emergency & War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
- Jones, Peter D. 1
- Kulka, Rosa 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain) 1
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- Rannels, Marion 1
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
- Shaw, Paul Vanorden, 1898- 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Swann, Marjorie 1
- Swann, Robert S. 1
- Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 1
- Tiller, Phyllis M. 1
- Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 1
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- Wheeler, Elizabeth A. 1
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- Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1
- Wolkins, Lyra Trueblood 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 1
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