Creator: Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Ellen Starr Brinton Papers, 1895-1980 (inclusive) 1933-1954 (bulk)

Extent:: 1.45 linear ft. (1,45 linear feet)
Abstract:: Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Papers, 1914-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana was a writer and pacifist who taught comparative literature at Columbia University from 1912 until 1917. Dana lost his teaching post as an opponent of American participation in World War I. Dana continued to advocate civil liberties and the rights of conscientious objectors.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Edwin D. Mead and Lucia Ames Mead Papers, 1876-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5.7 linear ft. (5.7 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Edwin D. Mead (1849-1937), and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936), were both leading pacifists, writers, and social reformers of the U.S. and international peace movement. Edwin Mead directed the work of the World Peace Foundation and participated in many international peace congresses. He was an American delegate to the International Peace Bureau. Mead helped found the School Peace League and was a prominent member of the American Peace League. Lucia Ames Mead was a leading member of many feminist and pacifist organizations, including the Woman's Peace Party. Mead was a delegate to the founding conference of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and served as a vice-president on the board of the National Council for Prevention of War. She was also an officer of the National Council of Women of the United States, and was a member of many U.S. feminist associations.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Emergency Peace Campaign Records, 1936-1937 (inclusive)

Extent:: 88.75 linear ft. (88.75 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Initiated in late 1935 by the American Friends Service Committee and other pacifists; originally planned as a two-year campaign to rally peace, religious, labor, African-American and student groups; aim was to organize a national campaign to promote peace principles in the face of preparation for war in Europe, and to keep the United States out of war; may have been preceded by the Emergency Peace Committee (1931-1933), though this has not been documented. The first EPC office opened in February 1, 1936. Ray Newton served as Executive Director; other staff members were Baruch Braunstein, Harold Chance, and Kirby Page. The EPC disbanded at the end of 1937, its work continued by the National Peace Conference.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

George Nasmyth and Florence Nasmyth Papers, 1911-1937 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.46 linear ft. (17.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: George W. Nasmyth was educated at Cornell, Berlin, Gottingen, Heidelburg and Zurich. He dedicate his life to the cause of international understanding and peace. In 1919, he attended the Paris Peace Conference, and to organize the first meeting since the outbreak of the war of the World Alliance for Friendship Through the Churches. He died of a typhus infection at the age of 39, on September 20, 1920. Florence Nasmyth was a writer on peace issues.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Devere Allen Papers, 1809-1978 (inclusive) 1910-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 138 linear ft. (138 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Records, 1915- (inclusive)

Extent:: 392 linear ft.
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 others; also contains approximately 2150 photographs and/or negatives, periodicals, posters, banners, scrapbooks, postcards, graphics, audiovisual material, campaign buttons, lapel ribbons and pins, bumperstickers and other stickers, and other memorabilia.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

American Union Against Militarism Records, 1915-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.75 linear ft.
Abstract:: In 1915 a group of New York pacifists and near-pacifists organized the "Anti-militarism Committee" to combat the war spirit of the time. Activities included lobbying, publishing, a lecture campaign, and the establishment of a Civil Liberties Bureau. The most notable achievements were the work in the successful effort to avert war with Mexico in 1916 and the encouragement of opposition to peacetime conscription following World War I. The office was raided by the government and American Union Against Militarism publications were sometimes stopped by the postal authorities but the organization continued unintimidated.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Anna Melissa Graves Papers, 1919-1953 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8.5 linear ft. (8.5 linear ft.)
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.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Hannah Clothier Hull Papers, 1889-1958 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)
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 the following year Hannah Clothier married William Isaac Hull, a fellow pacifist and professor of political science at Swarthmore. Hannah Clothier Hull worked in the woman suffrage campaign and women's rights, had some interest in temperance, was a member of the Friends Peace Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was on the board of the American Friends Service Committee (1928-1947).

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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