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1960 Campaign for Disarmament Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nineteen Sixty Campaign for Disarmament
Dates:
1960-1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
1967 Committee to End the Draft on or before June 30, 1967 Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Nineteen Sixty Seven Committee to End the Draft
Dates:
1965-1967
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
William Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-996
Overview
This collection contains a handwritten copy of correspondance from William Smith, an Anglican priest and the first Provost of Philadelphia College (later the University of Pennsylvania), to an unnamed acquaintance in England regarding the political history of colonial Pennsylvania and the threat of a French invasion of the colony. Includes harsh criticism of the Germans residing in Pennsylvania and of the political inaction of the Quaker political elite.
Dates:
1755
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
Abington monthly meeting manumissions
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-001
Scope and Content note
This volume records the manumissions of enslaved people for various members of Abington Monthly meeting. The Manumissions include a statement describing who the enslaver is freeing, and why, and includes the signatures of the enslavers and their witnesses. Individuals whose manumission of enslaved people is recorded in the volume include: Thomas Walton, David Parry, Thomas Fletcher, Susannah and Thomas Walmsley, Sarah Bolton, Margaret Bolton, Rachel Bolton, and Isaac Bolton, Silar Walmsey,...
Dates:
1775
Grace Contrino Abrams and Fran Contrino Schmidt Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Schmidt, Fran Contrino and Grace Contrino Abrams
Overview
This small collection of papers details especially the life of Grace Contrino Abrams and her strong interests in teaching and in working against injustice in whatever form. The clippings from newspapers of media coverage, as well as the many Letters to the Editor, show some of her public life, while letters, and reminiscences of sister Fran Contrino Schmidt, fill out her private life. It should be noted that though there were five siblings, Grace and Fran spent much of their time together in...
Dates:
1942-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Irwin Abrams Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abrams, Irwin
Abstract
Includes biographical and bibliographical information and photocopies of a small portion of Abrams published writings, including material about the Nobel Peace Prize, women Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize, Henri La Fontaine, and Carl von Ossietzky.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bella Abzug Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abzug, Bella
Dates:
Majority of material found within circa 1966-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ackworth School, England records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-001
Overview
Ackworth School was founded in 1779 as a co-educational boarding school for Quaker children by Dr. John Fothergill and other Quakers. It is located in West Workshire, England. It was intended to be a board school for children whose parents were not rich. This collection is comprised of four volumes, one of which is a transcription of one of the other volumes. They all relate to the rules and regulations for the Ackworth School in England.
Dates:
1785-1786, undated
Dr. Mavis Kelsey Collection of Adams-Harris Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: BMC-M17
Overview
John Quincy Adams, later President of the United States, acted as Chief Plenipotentiary of the American delegation negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, and ending the War of 1812. Levett Harris was the American Consul (later the Charge d'Affaires) in Russia at this time. Adams's letters containing observations on the course of the negotiations, mediated by the Emperor Alexander, to Levett Harris are included in this collection. Harris, when later seeking appointment as Minister to Russia, was...
Dates:
1814 - 1820
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 629
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 214
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 200
- Bryn Mawr College 25
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- Subject
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 144
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 114
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 80
- Quakers -- History 76
- diaries 70
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 67
- Quakers 62
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 62
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 58
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 54
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 54
- Quakers -- Diaries 54
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 54
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 48
- Quaker women -- United States 42
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 42
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 32
- correspondence 32
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 31
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 30
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 28
- Quakers -- United States 28
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 27
- Peace movements -- United States 26
- World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 25
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 25
- Antislavery movements -- United States 24
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 24
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 24
- manuscripts (documents) 23
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 22
- Quaker women 22
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 21
- Pacifists -- United States 21
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 21
- Student movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 20
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 19
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- Women and peace -- United States -- History -- Sources 18
- letters (correspondence) 18
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- Slavery -- United States 17
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 16
- Education -- United States 16
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 16
- Nuclear disarmament -- History -- Sources 16
- Quakers -- Family relationships 16
- Quakers -- New York (State) 16
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 16
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 15
- Quakers -- Education 15
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 14
- Society of Friends -- Education 14
- Society of Friends -- United States 14
- United States 14
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 14
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 14
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 13
- Nuclear disarmament -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 13
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 13
- Education 12
- Quakers -- Virginia 12
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States -- Sources 12
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 12
- genealogies (histories) 12
- Abolitionists 11
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 11
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Sources 11
- Haverford (Pa.) 11
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 11
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 11
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 11
- Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union 11
- Women and peace 11
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 11
- College theater -- United States 10
- Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Motherhood -- United States -- History 10
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 10
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 10
- Peace walks and marches -- History -- Sources 10
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quaker abolitionists 10
- Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States 10
- Women -- Education 10
- Women and religion 10
- Women clergy -- United States -- Diaries 10
- clippings (information artifacts) 10
- Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Quakers -- Genealogy 9
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Women in education 9
- World War, 1939-1945 9
- account books 9 ∧ less
- Language
- English 1068
- German 2
- Undetermined 2
- Latin 1
- Multiple languages 1
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 47
- Civilian Public Service 36
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 32
- Swarthmore College 27
- Haverford College 26
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 25
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 22
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 20
- War Resisters League 20
- Bryn Mawr College 19
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 15
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 15
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 15
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 14
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 14
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 14
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 14
- Lyttle, Bradford 13
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 13
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 13
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 12
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 12
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 12
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 12
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 12
- Kaufman, Abraham 11
- Newton, Ray 10
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 10
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 10
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 9
- Committee for Nonviolent Action 9
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 9
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 9
- McReynolds, David 9
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 9
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 9
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 9
- Jack, Homer A. (Homer Alexander), 1916-1993 8
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 8
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 8
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 7
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 7
- Gara, Larry 7
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 7
- Page, Kirby, 1890-1957 7
- Sharpless family 7
- Whitney, Norman J. (Norman Jehiel), 1891-1967 7
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 7
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 7
- A Quaker Action Group 6
- Baer, Gertrude 6
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 6
- Bromley, Ernest 6
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 6
- Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 1924-2006 6
- Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984 6
- DiGia, Ralph 6
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 6
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
- Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 6
- Golden Rule (Ketch) 6
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 6
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 6
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 6
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 6
- Pickus, Robert 6
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 6
- Reynolds, Barbara (Barbara Leonard) 6
- Reynolds, Earle L. 6
- Roodenko, Igal 6
- Tatum, Arlo D. 6
- Westtown Boarding School 6
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 5
- American Civil Liberties Union 5
- American Peace Society 5
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 5
- Berrigan, Daniel 5
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 5
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 5
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 5
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 5
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 5
- Cary, Stephen G. 5
- Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 5
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 5
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 5
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 5
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 5
- Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 5
- Furnas, Paul J. 5
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 5
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 5
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 5
- Houser, George M. 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 5
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 5
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 5
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 5 ∧ less
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