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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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dorothy Detzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-082
Abstract
Mildred Scott Olmsted, peace activist and suffragist, was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1890. In 1922, Olmsted became Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From 1934 onward she assumed national positions with the organization. In 1946, Olmsted became National Administrative Secretary and held that position (until her retirement in 1966. She remained active as Executive Director Emerita of WILPF and also served...
Dates:
1881-1990; Majority of material found within 1907-1990
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 3
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Baer, Gertrude 2
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 2
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 2
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 2
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 2
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 2
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Starr, Ellen Gates 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Woods, Amy 2
- Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 2
- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 1
- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Baber, Zonia 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Ballantyne, Edith 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Boulding, Elise 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Buell, Raymond Leslie, 1896-1946 1
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Camp, Kay 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Chalmers, Ruth 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Cookson, Sybil, 1890- 1
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
- Denny, Ludwell, 1894-1970 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
- Elliot, Martha Helen 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
- Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965 1
- Frazier, Howard 1
- Freeman, Ruth, 1901- 1
- Gage-Colby, Ruth 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Gordon, Mitchell 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Gulick, Sidney L. (Sidney Lewis), 1902-1988 1
- Hasegawa, Marii 1
- Hayes, Dorothy M. 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Holmes, Margaret 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 1
- James, Ada L. 1
- James, William, 1842-1910 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 1
- Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
- Libby, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
- Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Mellor, Ruth 1
- National Council of Women of the United States 1
- Nichols, Ruth, 1901-1960 1
- Nye, Gerald P. (Gerald Prentice), 1892-1971 1
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 1
- Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969 1
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 1
- Ragaz, Clara 1
- Rainbolt, Rosemary 1
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 1
- Randell, Huldah W. 1
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 1
- Riseman, Meta 1
- Robins, Margaret Dreier 1
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
- Sears, Amelia 1
- Shannon, K. Patricia 1
- Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 1
- Sicherman, Barbara 1
- Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934 1
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 1 + ∧ less
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