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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
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
Alliance Universelle des Femmes pour la Paix par l'Éducation Collection
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Alliance universelle des femmes...
Scope and Contents
Includes newspaper clippings, periodicals, and the constitution of the organization.
Dates:
1896-1909
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Association of University Women Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Association of University Women
Dates:
1920-1942; 1970
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
American Women for Peace Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Women for Peace
Scope and Contents
Materials include releases, leaflets, and the periodical Peacemaker.
Dates:
1950-1953
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Another Mother for Peace Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-102
Abstract
Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.
Dates:
1964-1978; Majority of material found within 1964-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Hannah J. Bailey Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-005
Overview
Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer,temperance leader, superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887 to 1916, president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU, president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Included in her papers is material...
Dates:
1836-1923
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Emily Greene Balch Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-006
Abstract
Emily Greene Balch (1867-1961) was the second U.S. woman to have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Balch embarked on her academic career in the economics and sociology department at Wellesley College. Balch's extracurricular work with the Women's Trade Union League and opposition to World War I resulted in dismissal from Wellesley, and thereafter she helped lead the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Called a "Citizen of the World," Balch worked for peace throughout her...
Dates:
1842-1961; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Biddle family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates:
1793-1951
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- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 6
- Antinuclear movement -- United States 5
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 5
- United States 5
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 5
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 4
- Feminists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Pacifists 4
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- Quaker women 4
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- Antinuclear movement 3
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- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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- Antinuclear movement -- History -- Sources 2
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- Education -- Pennsylvania 2
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- Quakers -- Social service 2
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- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County 2
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- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
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- Women -- Suffrage -- Societies, etc. 2
- Women -- Suffrage -- Virginia 2
- Women and peace -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 2
- Women and war -- History -- Sources 2
- Women pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Women social reformers 2
- Women social reformers -- History -- Sources 2
- Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace -- Sources 2
- Abolitionists 1
- African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- African American women -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- Aliens -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- American Literature -- New England 1
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- American fiction 1
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- English 111
- French 3
- Germanic languages 1
- German 1
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- Names
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 13
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 12
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 9
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 8
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 7
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 7
- Woman's Peace Party 7
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 7
- Baer, Gertrude 6
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 6
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 6
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 6
- Drevet, Camille 5
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 5
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 4
- Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) 4
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 4
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 4
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 4
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 3
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Ballantyne, Edith 3
- Boulding, Elise 3
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 3
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 3
- Camp, Kay 3
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 3
- Chalmers, Ruth 3
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 3
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 3
- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 3
- Gage-Colby, Ruth 3
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 3
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 3
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 3
- Kaufman, Abraham 3
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 3
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 3
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 3
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 3
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 3
- Ragaz, Clara 3
- Vernon, Mabel 3
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 3
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 3
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 3
- War Resisters League 3
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 3
- Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 3
- Wold, Emma, 1871-1950 3
- Women Strike for Peace 3
- Woods, Amy 3
- Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 3
- American Union Against Militarism 2
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 2
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2
- Beaton, Grace M. 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 2
- Byrns, Elinor 2
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 2
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 2
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 2
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 2
- International Peace Bureau 2
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 2
- Jane Addams Peace Association 2
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 2
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 2
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 2
- Kelsey, Kate 2
- Kelsey, Mary 2
- League of Nations 2
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 2
- MacDonald, James Ramsay, 1866-1937 2
- Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) 2
- Morgan, Angela 2
- National Council of Women of the United States 2
- Park, Alice Locke 2
- Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936 2
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 2
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 2
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 2
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 2
- Scholarly Resources Inc. 2
- Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 2
- Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 2
- Starr, Ellen Gates 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 2
- Swarthmore College 2
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 2
- War Resisters' International 2
- Warbasse, Agnes D. (Agnes Dyer), 1877-1945 2
- Welles, Sumner, 1892-1961 2 ∧ less
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