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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
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
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- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
- Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898 1
- Balch, Francis Noyes, 1873- 1
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Cheever, Helen 1
- Clark, Hilda 1
- Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 1
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Duchêne, Gabrielle 1
- Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
- Innes, Kathleen Elizabeth Royds 1
- James, Ada L. 1
- James, William, 1842-1910 1
- Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 1
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 1
- Karsten, Eleanor Daggett, -1946 1
- Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932 1
- Kellor, Frances, 1873-1952 1
- Kind, Bessie 1
- Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932 1
- Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 1
- Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956 1
- Lowrie, Kathleen Jennison 1
- Marshall, Catherine E. 1
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 1
- Pendleton, Ellen F. (Ellen Fitz), 1864-1936 1
- People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 1
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 1
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 1
- Robins, Margaret Dreier 1
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 1
- Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1861-1954 1
- Sears, Amelia 1
- Shelley, Rebecca, 1887-1984 1
- Smith, Mary Rozet, -1934 1
- Starr, Ellen Gates 1
- Stevens, Alzina P. 1
- Swanwick, Helena M. (Helena Maria), 1864-1939 1
- Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 1
- Taussig, Florence G. 1
- Taylor, Lea Demarest 1
- Vernon, Mabel 1
- Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 1
- Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943 1
- Webb, Sidney, 1859-1947 1
- Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. International Office 1
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 1
- Woods, Amy 1
- Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 1 ∧ less
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