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A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mary Bye Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-024
Overview
Mary (Du Bois) Bye, Quaker peace and social activist and member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in Pennsylvania, was born in 1913. This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues.
Dates:
1966-[on-going]
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
Allen S. Olmsted II Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-095
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Allen S. Olmsted papers is correspondence (1898-1977). Most of these are carbon copies of letters dictated by Olmsted and filed in subject transfer files at his law offices in Philadelphia and Media (Pennsylvania) [note: there are also many letters from Allen Olmsted in the papers of his wife, Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)]. Correspondents include Brent Dow Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Emily Greene Balch, Roger Nash Baldwin, Witter Brynner, Joseph S. Clark, Sophia H. Dulles,...
Dates:
1898-1986
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society
Dates:
1908-1926
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-030
Overview
The Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament was active from 1930 to 1936, chiefly in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through public opinion and personal contacts, PCTD supporters pressured Congress to support total disarmament, including passage of the Frazier Amendment outlawing war. Other objectives of the Committee included a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, opposition to all preparations and training for war (including ROTC), and support for...
Dates:
1930-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-149
Overview
Wilbur K. Thomas (1882-1953), a Quaker born in Indiana, was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1918 to 1929. He graduated from Friends University in 1904, served as pastor of various Quaker churches, graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1907, earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1914, and was a member of Boston Friends Meeting after 1909. He was director of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1946. The collection contains...
Dates:
1914-1933
Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) records
Collection — othertype: SC-189
Identifier: SFHL-SC-189
Abstract
Collection includes material on Young Friends' Movement seminars and conferences, financial records and statistics, Executive Committee minutes and correspondence, and photographs from seminars. Also includes some correspondence of Elizabeth and Ross Wilbur.
Dates:
1931-1939
Wilmer J. and Mildred Binns Young Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-289
Overview
Wilmer J. Young (1887-1983), a Quaker teacher and peace activist born in Iowa, was involved in post World War I reconstruction in France and Poland. He married Mildred Binns in 1922, and together they worked with AFSC work camps and cooperative farms until he began to teach at Pendle Hill in 1955. The collection contains primarily journals and correspondence from his time in France.
Dates:
1909-2014
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- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 2
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- American Civil Liberties Union 1
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- American Legion 1
- Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882- 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Beheiren 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Bye, Mary, 1913- 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Clouds, Kai Yutah, 1948-1980 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
- Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice 1
- Cope, Eliza M. 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Cox, Lucy A. 1
- Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.) 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Drexel, Constance 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Eves, William 1
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Frazier, Lynn J. (Lynn Joseph), 1874-1947 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friend, Theodore 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Gordon, Lindley V. 1
- Harvey, William Brinton, 1862- 1
- Haverford College 1
- Heisler, Francis, 1895- 1
- Hoopes, Darlington, b. 1896 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Joint Peace Committee of Providence and Chester Monthly Meetings (Society of Friends : Media, Pa.) 1
- Kabat, Paul 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lape, Esther Everett, 1881-1981 1
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 1
- Lee, Jennie, 1904- 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 1
- Lief, Alfred, 1901- 1
- Longstreth, Walter C. 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- Newton, Ray 1
- Nicholson, Vincent D. (Vincent De Witt), 1890-1945 1
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Conference (1st : 1908) (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society 1
- Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1925-approximately 1932) 1
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 1
- Plowshares Eight (Group) 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Smith, Tucker P. 1
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