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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
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
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
Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-021
Overview
Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist...
Dates:
1876-1938
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War
Overview
Representatives of nine national women's organizations united to accomplish two goals: to lobby for the United States to join the World Court, and to hold a conference together. They chose Carrie Chapman Catt to be their leader.
Dates:
1924-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peoples Mandate Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-109
Overview
Peoples Mandate to Governments to End War was an international campaign begun on September 6, 1935, by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to express such overwhelming opposition to war that governments would not dare resort to it as a means of solving disputes between nations. By the end of the decade the Peoples Mandate became an independent organization, headed by Mabel Vernon, and focused on peace and connections between women and women's organizations in the...
Dates:
1935-1975; Majority of material found within 1935-1956
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 6
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- Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. (Sophonisba Preston), 1866-1948 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
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- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
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- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Camp, Kay 1
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- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
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- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
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- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Goicochea, E. J. 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Grimes, Louis Arthur, 1883- 1
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 1
- Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl, 1895-1979 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Hinton, Carma 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964 1
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- Kohn, Hans, 1891-1971 1
- Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
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