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Jane Addams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-001
Abstract

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

Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955

Lella Secor Florence Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-126
Abstract

Lella Secor Florence became a pacifist while serving as a journalist on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) and then participated in several peace organizations focused on keeping the United States out of World War I. She was active in the British section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and in the birth control movement there and wrote Birth Control on Trial.

Dates: 1915-1936

Anna Melissa Graves Papers

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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

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers

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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

Lola Maverick Lloyd Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Lloyd, Lola Maverick
Scope and Contents

Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, notices, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, conference notes, and newspaper reprints. Includes information about Rosika Schwimmer and the Ford Peace Expedition.

Dates: 1915-1944

Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers

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Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schwimmer, Rosika
Abstract

Rosika Schwimmer was a suffragist and feminist leader from Hungary who worked internationally. She founded several Hungarian societies for the advancement of trade unionism, land reform, feminism, female suffrage and pacifism and worked to promote peace during World War I. She helped to form a number of U.S. and international peace groups, including the Emergency Peace Federation, the Henry Ford Peace Expedition, and the Woman's Peace Party. She received the World Peace Prize in 1937.

Dates: 1914-1948

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records

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Identifier: SCPC-DG-043
Abstract Includes minutes, resolutions and general historical records; anniversary celebrations, committee minutes, literature and releases; office files from the legislative office, the finance and the executive director; includes miscellaneous records from branches, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, among others; a large correspondence file includes general office correspondence as well as that of the National Organizational Secretary, the Washington Legislative Secretary, and...
Dates: 1915-

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Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 5
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 5
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 4
Baer, Gertrude 4
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
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Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 3
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 3
Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 3
Woods, Amy 3
Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 2
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 2
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 2
Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 2
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 2
Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 2
Kaufman, Abraham 2
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 2
Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 2
Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 2
Reynolds, Reginald, 1905-1958 2
Starr, Ellen Gates 2
Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 2
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 2
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 2
Young Democracy (Organization) 2
Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
Adler, Friedrich 1
Albizu Campos, Pedro, 1891-1965 1
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
American League against War and Fascism 1
American Neutral Conference Committee 1
American Union Against Militarism 1
Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
Art for World Friendship (Organization) 1
Baber, Zonia 1
Balabanoff, Angelica, 1878-1965 1
Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935 1
Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
Berg, Russel O. 1
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
Brown, A. Barratt 1
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
Camp, Kay 1
Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
Chalmers, Ruth 1
Chase, E. Dixwell 1
Clark, Roderic Kendall 1
Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 1
Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 1
Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
Dulles, John Foster 1
Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
Einstein, Albert 1
Elliot, Martha Helen 1
Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
Emergency Peace Federation (U.S.) 1
Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 1
Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
Fowler, Eleanor 1
Frank, Libby 1
Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
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