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Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-095
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the Allen S. Olmsted papers is correspondence (1898-1977). Most of these are carbon copies of letters dictated by Olmsted and filed in subject transfer files at his law offices in Philadelphia and Media (Pennsylvania) [note: there are also many letters from Allen Olmsted in the papers of his wife, Mildred Scott Olmsted (DG 082)]. Correspondents include Brent Dow Allinson, Gertrude Baer, Emily Greene Balch, Roger Nash Baldwin, Witter Brynner, Joseph S. Clark, Sophia H. Dulles,...
Dates:
1898-1986
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Osborn, Joseph C
Abstract
Collection includes biographical information, correspondence, information about Osborn's academic work at Purdue University, 1936-1942, and about his draft orders and conscientious objection status; and information about Osborn's time in Civilian Public Service and CPS reunions in 1983 and 1986.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1936-1986
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Pacifist Service Units
Scope and Contents
Newsletters, reports, and pamphlets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1941-1949
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Page, Kirby
Abstract
Includes documents about Kirby Page, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sherwood Eddy, the Fellowship for a Christian Social Order, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Christian Way, Keep America Out of War, the Emergency Peace Campaign, conscientious objection, the World Court, socialism, and pacifism.
Dates:
Majority of material found within ca. 1920-1957
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-251
Abstract
This collection contains materials relating to Pauline Gardner Palmer and the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
Dates:
1940-1954
Collection
Identifier: BMC-1976-20
Abstract
Marcelle Parde (1891-1945) was a Bryn Mawr College French professor and leader of a French Resistance unit in WWII. This collection includes miscellaneous correspondence, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and official documents.
Dates:
1919 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1950
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Now Movement
Dates:
1941-1949; Majority of material found within 1943-1945
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG7-028
Abstract
Anne Jackson Perkins was born May 10, 1925, and died June 7, 2010. She attended Swarthmore High School, and later Guilford College and the University of Delaware, though she did not complete her bachelor’s degree. She worked as a librarian at Swarthmore College’s McCabe Library until she retired in 1988, and lived with her mother and sister until the ends of their lives. She never married, and her diaries often talk about romance, loneliness, mental and physical illness, dislike of family...
Dates:
1939 - 2009
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M67
Abstract
The Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women (PCAW) was founded in 1916 by sixteen women advertising executives. The Club participated in charitable efforts, offered advertising courses, published a newsletter (Ad-Land News), and hosted social events throughout its history. These efforts garnered national recognition for PCAW as a leading advertising organization. It also won them recognition locally as an organization committed to helping the community through scholarships and charitable...
Dates:
1916 - 1984
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Council for Conscientious Objectors