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All American Friends Conference (Oskaloosa, Ia.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-002
Abstract

All American Friends Conference (1929) was a conference of Quakers from the United States and Canada which was held in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in September 1929. This collection contains a journal kept by Rebecca Thomas Miller, program, list of participants, pictures, and other records relating to the Conference.

Dates: 1929

Hannah J. Bailey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-005
Abstract 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

Elise Boulding Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Boulding, Elise
Dates: 1961-1975

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

Dorothy H. Hutchinson Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-125
Abstract Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson (l905-l984) began to gain influence in the peace movement when her pamphlet A Call to Peace Now was printed by the Friends in l943. That summer, Hutchinson and a small group of people started the Peace Now Movement, using her pamphlet to rally support for the principle of a negotiated settlement rather than unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. This group included George W. Hartmann, a psychology professor at Columbia, and John Collett. Hutchinson also worked...
Dates: 1942-1980

Frederick J. and Faith Ward Libby Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-087
Abstract

Frederick J. Libby (1874-1970) was a pacifist, writer, speaker and fundraiser. He was the founder of the National Council for Prevention of War, 1921-1970. Faith Ward Libby (1902-1984) was also a peace activist and member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. The two married in 1932. This collection contains their personal correspondence.

Dates: 1909-1969; Majority of material found within 1931-1969

Mary Stone McDowell Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-McDowell, Mary Stone
Dates: 1914, 1918, 1945-1955

Alice Paul Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Paul, Alice
Abstract

Collection consists of photocopied photographs and clippings.

Dates: 1907-1992

Lynne Shivers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-263
Abstract

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

Marjorie Swann and Robert Swann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-264
Abstract

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

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
All American Friends Conference (1929 : Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Annual Training Institute in Non-Violence, Grindstone Island (Portland, Ontario, Canada) 1
Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
Baber, Zonia 1
Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 1
Bailey, Moses, 1892-1994 1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
Ballantyne, Edith 1
Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign 1
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
Cary, Stephen G. 1
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
Center on War and the Child 1
Collett, John A. (John Albert), 1911- 1
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
DiBrazza-Savorgnan, Cora Slocomb 1
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 1
Douglas, Alice May 1
Duryea, Anne Sturges, -1940 1
Elliot, Martha Helen 1
Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
Gjermoe, Johanne Ruetz 1
Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
Gordon, Anna A. (Anna Adams), 1853-1931 1
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 1
Hickie, Dorothy 1
Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
Isono, Fujiko, 1918- 1
Jones, Peter D. 1
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
McDowell, Mary S. 1
Miller, Rebecca Thomas, 1864-1938 1
National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 1
National Council of Women of the United States 1
Nayar, Sushila, 1914-2001 1
New England Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960 1
Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971 1
Omaha Action (Project) 1
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977 1
Peace Now Movement (Organization) 1
Peacemaker Movement 1
Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
Quaker United Nations Office 1
Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 1
Rannels, Marion 1
Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 1
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
Shivers, Lynne 1
Simon, Bessie 1
Starr, Ellen Gates 1
Stockwell, Maud C. 1
Surles, Flora Belle, 1887-1971? 1
Swann, Marjorie 1
Swann, Robert S. 1
Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 1
Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916 1
Urie, Caroline Foulke 1
Vernon, Mabel 1
Wardlaw, Ada 1
Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898 1
Williams, Mary Wilhelmine, 1878-1944 1
Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
Willoughby, Lillian, 1915-2009 1
Wold, Emma, 1871-1950 1
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Department of Peace and Arbitration 1
Woman's Temperance Publication Association 1
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 1
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 1
Woods, Amy 1
Woods, Dorothea E. 1
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 1
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