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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 life--through...
Dates:
1842-1961; Majority of material found within 1875 - 1961
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Anna Melissa Graves Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-015
Abstract
Anna Melissa Graves was a writer, teacher, world traveler, and internationalist. From the 1920s to the 1940s Graves traveled through Africa, Central and South America, China, Europe, and the Middle East. She taught school in many of these places and maintained a voluminous correspondence with the teachers, acquaintances, and former students she met on her travels.
Dates:
1919-1953
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. In...
Dates:
1889-1958
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Dorothy H. Hutchinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-125
Abstract
Dorothy Hewitt Hutchinson (l905-l984) began to gain influence in the peace movement when her pamphlet A Call to Peace Now was printed by the Friends in l943. That summer, Hutchinson and a small group of people started the Peace Now Movement, using her pamphlet to rally support for the principle of a negotiated settlement rather than unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. This group included George W. Hartmann, a psychology professor at Columbia, and John Collett. Hutchinson also worked to...
Dates:
1942-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, International Office Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-043-part II
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1915-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 4
- Heymann, Lida Gustava, 1868-1943 4
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 4
- Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 3
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 3
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
- Doty, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie), 1877-1963 3
- Drevet, Camille 3
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 3
- Jacobs, Aletta H. (Aletta Henriette), 1854-1929 3
- Mead, Lucia True Ames, 1856-1936 3
- Ragaz, Clara 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Geneva, Switzerland (International Office) 3
- Woods, Amy 3
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 2
- Ballantyne, Edith 2
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 2
- Courtney, Kathleen, Dame, 1878-1974 2
- Duchêne, Gabrielle 2
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
- Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970 2
- Hartmann, George W. (George Wilfried), 1904-1955 2
- Jōdai, Tano, 1886-1982 2
- Kellogg, Paul Underwood, 1879-1958 2
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
- Nayar, Sushila, 1914-2001 2
- Post, Alice Thacher, 1853-1947 2
- Pye, Edith M. (Edith Mary) 2
- Ramondt-Hirschmann, Cor 2
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 2
- Sheepshanks, Mary, 1872-1958 2
- Starr, Ellen Gates 2
- Vernon, Mabel 2
- Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940 2
- Woman's Peace Party 2
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 2
- Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947 2
- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 1
- Addams, John Huy, 1822?-1881 1
- Albizu Campos, Pedro, 1891-1965 1
- Angell, Norman, 1874-1967 1
- Arnett, Katharine M. (Katharine McCollin) 1
- Augspurg, Anita, 1857-1943 1
- Aull, Maria 1
- Baber, Zonia 1
- Balabanoff, Angelica, 1878-1965 1
- Balch, F. V. (Francis Vergnies), 1839-1898 1
- Balch, Francis Noyes, 1873- 1
- Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935 1
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929 1
- Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 1
- Boulding, Elise 1
- Bowen, Louise de Koven, 1859- 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Brown, A. Barratt 1
- Bruin, Janet, -1996 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961 1
- Calkins, Mary Whiton, 1863-1930 1
- Capy, Marcelle, 1881-1962 1
- Cary, Stephen G. 1
- Cheever, Helen 1
- Clark, Hilda 1
- Clark, Roderic Kendall 1
- Collett, John A. (John Albert), 1911- 1
- Coman, Katharine, 1857-1915 1
- Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments (1932-1934) (Geneva, Switzerland) 1
- Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965 1
- Cusden, Phoebe E. 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Dudley, Helena Stuart 1
- Elliot, Martha Helen 1
- Ely, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), 1854-1943 1
- Fisher, Katharine Ward 1
- Gjermoe, Johanne Ruetz 1
- Glücklich, Vilma 1
- Goicochea, E. J. 1
- Grimes, Louis Arthur, 1883- 1
- Harrison, Agatha 1
- Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl, 1895-1979 1
- Hertzka, Yella, 1873-1948 1
- Hickie, Dorothy 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hommel, Dorothy O. 1
- Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 1
- Hoppstock-Huth, Magda 1
- Hudson, Manley O. (Manley Ottmer), 1886-1960 1
- Huebsch, B. W. (Benjamin W.), 1876-1964 1
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Hussey, Mauricle 1
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 1
- Höjer, Signe 1
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952 1
- Innes, Kathleen Elizabeth Royds 1
- Isono, Fujiko, 1918- 1
- James, Ada L. 1
- James, William 1
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