Record Source: Other PACSCL Partners / Subject: Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1950">1950</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1999">1999</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Edward Thomas and Margaret Loring Thomas Collected Papers, 1917-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (3 linear in.)
Abstract:: Edward Thomas was a chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City. His wife Margaret Loring Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before marriage. Both were activist, pacifist Quakers.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Peacemaker Movement Collected Records, 1948-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.5 linear ft. (30 linear in.)
Abstract:: A group working on nonviolence from the late 1940s through the 1970s, particularly as it was expressed through tax refusal.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Ada Wardlaw Collected Papers, 1937-1963 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.17 linear ft. (2 linear in.)
Abstract:

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

David Thoreau Wieck Collected Papers, 1942-1969 (inclusive) 1943-1950 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes prison correspondence, 1943-1946, and post-prison writings.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Henry LeRoy Finch Papers, 1933-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.7 linear ft. (2.7 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Henry Leroy (Roy) Finch Jr. was a pacifist, conscientious objector to World War II, philosopher and writer.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Helen Mears Papers, 1862-1981 (inclusive) 1935-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.63 linear ft. (7.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Helen Mears was a writer and journalist, especially interested in Japan and Asia. Mears first traveled to China in 1925 and ten years later Mears spent nine months in Japan. Out of the trip to Japan she published two books and a series of essays that appeared in The New Yorker. Mears traveled throughout Asia, the Soviet Union, Europe, and parts of South America. After World War II Mears traveled again to Japan served in an official capacity as a member of the U.S. labor advisory committee. From the 1950s through the 1960s Mears wrote occasional articles on southeast Asia, critiquing European and U.S. involvement there. Mears was a board member of the War Resisters League in the 1950s and worked against the H-Bomb. Helen Mears published several books on Japan. These include: Mirror for Americans, Japan, Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1948; Year of the Wild Boar: an American Woman in Japan in 1947.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Albon Man Collected Papers, 1943-1965 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.83 linear ft. (10 linear in.)
Abstract:: Albon Platt Man Jr.,was called up for the draft during World War II, but failed to register because of his conscientious objection to war, and was sentenced to three years in prison in March 1943. He was later involvemented with the Committee for Amnesty, the CCCO, the War Resisters League, and other peace groups.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd Papers, 1965-1995 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8.33 linear ft. (8.33 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, who worked individually and collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles Collected Papers, 1944-1948, 2003, 2007 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:: Includes two oral history interview (4 p., 2007 and 2 p., 2003) of Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles; information about the Civilian Public Service unit at the Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; manuscript "Out of Sight Out of Mind" by Ward C. Miles; information about a psychiatric aide training project conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation under the auspices of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas in 1948; reference material about mental hospitals and psychiatric aide training, including a manuscript "Sweet Dreams and Stale Delusions" by Leonard Edelstein (1945).

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Lee Stern Papers, 1936-1992 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 linear ft. (2 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Lee Stern (1915-1992), was a Quaker pacifist, conscientious objector to war, involved in peace groups and organizations, and a teacher of nonviolence.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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