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Heloise Brainerd Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Brainerd, Heloise
Overview
Heloise Brainerd was connected with the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C. from 1909 to 1935. In 1935 Brainerd became the chair of the Committee on the Americas, and chair of the Division of Inter-American Work, for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Brainerd's goal was to draw women from Latin America into the peace movement, and to do this she traveled widely in the Americas. Brainerd was made Honorary Vice President of the U.S. Section of the WILPF in 1954.
Dates:
1900-1971
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Elihu Burritt Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-096
Overview
Elihu Burritt was born on December 10, 1810, in New Britain, Connecticut, into a working class family. He attended school briefly, but was largely self-educated. Burritt became a blacksmith to support himself, but he continued to study languages at night. Word of his erudition spread; he became known as the "Learned Blacksmith", and was offered opportunities to speak in public. While writing a lecture on "The Anatomy of the Earth", he was so impressed by the interdependency of its parts that...
Dates:
1840-1965; Majority of material found within 1841-1878
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
Gerhard Elston Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-165
Overview
Gerhard Elston served as an officer or staff member in many peace and international organizations including as Executive Director for Amnesty Internationl USA (1978-1981), board member of Clergy and Laity Concerned, Bread for the World, American Christians for the Abolition of Torture, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He died suddenly in 1992 at the age of 68.
Dates:
1849-1992
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Anna Melissa Graves Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-015
Abstract
Anna Melissa Graves was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.
Dates:
1919-1953
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-057
Overview
George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.
Dates:
1911-1937
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mary Hays Weik Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Weik, Mary Hays
Dates:
1954-1963
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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