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A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Overview
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957
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
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
Women's Peace Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-106
Overview
Women's Peace Society was not interested in using political or economic means to end what it termed "war-madness". Rather, its members chose educational methods such as handing out literature, participating in demonstrations, speaking at public events, and holding school contests. In August 1921, it sponsored a conference at Niagara Falls where it cooperated with Canadian peace women in starting the Women's Peace Union of the Western Hemisphere. The Women's Peace Union chose to work...
Dates:
1914-1933; Majority of material found within 1914-1933
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 2
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 2
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- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Chalmers, Ruth 2
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 2
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 2
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 2
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 2
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
- Steffens, Dorothy R. 2
- Wold, Emma, 1871-1950 2
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- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 1
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- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Byrns, Elinor 1
- Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
- Committee for World Development and World Disarmament 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Cookson, Sybil, 1890- 1
- Daljord, Stella Crossley 1
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- Eastman, Crystal, 1881-1928 1
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- Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 1
- Fowler, Eleanor 1
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- Freeman, Ruth, 1901- 1
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- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Gage-Colby, Ruth 1
- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
- Hasegawa, Marii 1
- Hayes, Dorothy M. 1
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 1
- Hinton, Carma 1
- Holmes, Margaret 1
- Holmes, Marian H. 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Ivey, Anne 1
- Jane Addams Peace Association 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Libby, Faith Ward, 1902- 1
- Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
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- Midgley, Jane 1
- Moore, Carol V. 1
- Mueller, Melva 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain) 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
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 1
- Samuel, Pat 1
- Sewall, May Wright, 1844-1920 1
- Shannon, K. Patricia 1
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 1
- Starr, Ellen Gates 1
- Stockwell, Maud C. 1
- Surles, Flora Belle, 1887-1971? 1
- Swarthmore College. Peace Collection 1
- Van Voris, Jacqueline 1
- Vernon, Mabel 1
- Villard, Fanny Garrison, 1844-1928 1
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
- War Resisters' International 1
- Warbasse, Agnes D. (Agnes Dyer), 1877-1945 1
- Weideman, Elizabeth W. 1
- Williams, Mary Wilhelmine, 1878-1944 1
- Winsor, Mary, 1869-1956 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Pennsylvania Branch 1
- Women's Peace Campaign 1
- Women's Peace Society 1
- Woods, Amy 1
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