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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
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-174
Overview
Abby Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893), daughter of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), was an important figure in many of the reform movements of the mid- and late nineteenth centuries, especially abolition and her work with the Women's Prison Association and Isaac T. Hopper Home. In 1833, she married fellow Hicksite Quaker, James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), a member of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Her daughter, Sarah Hopper Emerson, used some of this material as a basis for her 1897 biography...
Dates:
1824-1992 [bulk 1850-1892]
Irvin C. Poley signature album
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-05-008
Overview
The signature albums of Irvin C. Poley include autographs of famous people, particularly authors, actors, and those in government or diplomacy, primarily sent to Poley, though there are other recipients as well. Many of the instances are signatures. Some of the more well-known authors who wrote letters, rather than just signatures, often relate to speaking at an event or a fund solicitation or response to comment or request for signature from Poley.
Dates:
1903-1937
Fred Rodell papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-827
Overview
The papers of Fred Rodell (1907-1980), a 1926 graduate of Haverford College and long-time professor of law at Yale University. The papers consist of correspondence, published and unpublished writing, scrapbooks of Rodell's written work, and albums of personal photographs.
Dates:
1927 - 1980
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- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 2
- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
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- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
- Arnold, Thurman Wesley 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886-1971 1
- Blackmun, Henry A. (Henry Andrew) 1
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Brennan, William J. (William Joseph) 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Bunche Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971 1
- Carver, George Washington 1
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 1
- Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917. 1
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- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 1
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville) 1
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- Drevet, Camille 1
- DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1
- Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Emerson family 1
- Emerson, Sarah Hopper, 1835- 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Fortas, Abe 1
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
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- Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 1
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- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Hughes, Langston 1
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 1
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- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
- Isaac T. Hopper Home 1
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- James, Ada L. 1
- James, William, 1842-1910 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 1
- Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
- Knopf, Alfred A. 1
- Korzybski, Alfred 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
- Lewis, Anthony 1
- Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951 1
- Lipez, Kermit 1
- Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 1
- Morse, Lucy Gibbons, 1839-1936. 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) 1
- Oakley, Violet, 1874-1961 1
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- Poley, Irvin C. (Irvin Corson) 1
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- Ragaz, Clara 1
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 1
- Richette, Lisa Aversa, 1928- 1
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- Rockwell, Norman 1
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