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A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia
Dates:
1935-1944
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Philadelphia Peace Council Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Peace Council-(1937-ca. 1943)
Abstract
Includes constitution (1938), minutes (1937-1943), correspondence (1937-1943), form letters, financial records, leaflets, speeches, releases, membership lists, bulletins (1938-1941), clippings, and other records. Correspondents include Maria Biasone, Orton S. Clark, Frederick J. Libby, Allen S. Olmsted, Daniel A. Poling, and Richard R. Wood.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1937-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Philadelphia Peace Council Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Peace Council-(1925-ca. 1932)
Abstract
Includes scattered minutes (1924-1932), scattered correspondence (1924-1928), form letters, statements, membership lists, bulletins (1925-1928) and materials relating to several conferences on the teaching of history, and other records, of the first Philadelphia Peace Council (1922-ca. 1932), earlier known as Philadelphia Council for World Peace. Correspondents include J. Howard Branson, Sophia H. Dulles, Harold Evans, Agnes M. Irwin, Frederick J. Libby, Allen S. Olmsted, and Richard R....
Dates:
1924-1931
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
United Peace Chest of Philadelphia Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-194
Overview
The United Peace Chest of Philadelphia coordinated and integrated Philadelphia organizations interested in promoting international peace. The name was often shortened to "United Peace Chest." The UPC was founded in 1938, though it was conceptualized in 1936 at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Dates:
1935-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Names
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 3
- Olmsted, Allen S. (Allen Seymour), 1888-1977 2
- Wood, Richard R. (Richard Reeve), 1897-1982 2
- A Quaker Action Group 1
- Beheiren 1
- Biasone, Maria 1
- Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
- Branson, J. Howard 1
- Braxton, John Worth 1
- Butterworth, Harrison 1
- Champney, Horace 1
- Clark, Orton S. 1
- Coffin, Jerry D. 1
- Cowley, Christopher 1
- Drath, Phillip 1
- Dulles, Sophia H. 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Ede, Roderick 1
- Evans, Harold, 1928- 1
- Fifth Avenue Peace Parade Committee 1
- Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 1
- Frankford Peace Council 1
- Geiger, Nicola 1
- Geiger, Walton 1
- Horton, Robert, 1900-1991 1
- Irwin, Agnes M. 1
- Kalish, Donald 1
- Lakey, George 1
- Lee, Kenneth, 1944- 1
- Legg, Samuel 1
- Lester, Muriel, 1883-1968 1
- Levering, Robert, 1944- 1
- Lyttle, Bradford 1
- Massar, Ivan 1
- Mimms, William R. 1
- Moody, Roger 1
- Nelson, Beryl Herbert 1
- Parkman, Patricia 1
- Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia 1
- Philadelphia Council for World Peace 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1925-approximately 1932) 1
- Philadelphia Peace Council (1937-ca. 1943) 1
- Poling, Daniel A. (Daniel Alfred), 1884-1968 1
- Reynolds, Earle L. 1
- Rocket, Writer 1
- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 1
- Shivers, Lynne 1
- Smiley, Glenn E. 1
- Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) 1
- United Peace Chest of Philadelphia 1
- Vietnam Moratorium Committee (U.S.) 1
- Walker, Charles C. 1
- Warren, Emlyn 1
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 1
- Wood, J. Duncan (John Duncan) 1
- Zietlow, Carl P. 1 ∧ less
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