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Anna Melissa Graves Papers, 1919-1953 (inclusive)

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8.5 linear ft. (8.5 linear ft.)
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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.

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Hannah Clothier Hull Papers, 1889-1958 (inclusive)

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3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)
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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).

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Dorothy H. Hutchinson Papers, 1942-1980 (inclusive)

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5.25 linear ft. (5.25 linear ft.)
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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 promote the United Nations and helped organize a local chapter of the United World Federalists Hutchinson was active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and became president of the U.S. Section of WILPF in l96l, serving until l965. She then served as chairman of International WILPF from l965 until l968. Hutchinson was an activist in civil rights and civil liberties as well as in the peace movement.

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Lella Secor Florence Papers, 1915-1936 (inclusive)

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.5 linear ft. (.5 linear ft.)
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Lella Secor Florence became a pacifist while serving as a journalist on the Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916) and then participated in several peace organizations focused on keeping the United States out of World War I. She was active in the British section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and in the birth control movement there and wrote Birth Control on Trial.

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Kate Kelsey Collected Papers, 1914-1919 (inclusive)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
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Collection includes two letters; "Diary of the War" an English translation of news items from "Dresdner Nachtrichten" and "Dresdener Anzeiger"; and articles and half-tone images about World War I from U.S. and foreign periodicals.

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Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, 1878-1917, 1984, 1986, 1992 (inclusive)

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0.5 linear ft. (.5 linear ft.)
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Belva Ann McNall Lockwood (1830-1917), was the first woman attorney to practice before the Supreme Court. She personally lobbied members of Congress to pass a special act admitting women to the bar of the Court, and first practiced before the Court in 1879. Lockwood ran for the U.S. presidency in 1884 and 1888, being the first woman to have a complete, national campaign for that office. From the 1870s onward Lockwood was active with the radical peace group, the Universal Peace Union, representing the organization at several international peace congresses.

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Another Mother for Peace Records, 1964-1978 (inclusive) 1964-1978 (bulk)

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5.5 linear ft. (5.5 linear ft.)
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Another Mother for Peace was a women's peace group born from the antipathy to the war in Vietnam, based in Los Angeles, California. The stated purpose of this non-partison, non-profit organization was "to educate women to take an active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between nations, people and ideologies." AMP closed its offices in January 1986.

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A. Ruth Fry Papers, 1905-1957 (inclusive)

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1 linear ft. (1 linear ft.)
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[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on April 26, 1962.

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Emily Greene Balch Papers, 1842-1961 (inclusive) 1875-1961 (bulk)

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25.75 linear ft. (58 boxes)
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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 disarmament; internationalization of important waterways, aviation, and the polar regions; drug control; and the elimination of the causes of discontent and conflict among peoples.

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Hannah J. Bailey Papers, 1836-1923 (inclusive)

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2.5 linear ft. (2.5 linear ft.)
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Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer,temperance leader, superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1887 to 1916, president and business manager of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association, the publishing arm of the WCTU, president of the Maine Woman Suffrage Association (1891-1899), and a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Included in her papers is material that reflects her personal and professional interests through correspondence and published/unpublished writings, as well as photographs and memorabilia.

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Dorothy Medders Robinson Papers, 1946-1978 (inclusive)

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.5 linear ft. (.5 linear ft.)
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Dorothy Medders Robinson was president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section, from 1941 to 1946. She also served as the delegate to the WILPF International Congress in Luxembourg in 1946. Robinson was a chair of the Jane Addams Peace Association and the Jane Addams Hall of Fame Committee.

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Katherine Devereux Blake Collected Papers, 1911-1950 (inclusive)

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0.42 linear ft. (1 box)
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Katherine Devereux Blake was a suffragist and peace activist through the first half of the twentieth century. She was a member of the Ford Peace Expedition in 1915-1916, served on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and its international executive board, and was the chief speaker for the Disarmament Caravan, which toured 9,000 miles in 1931.

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Helen Hoy Greeley Collected Papers, 1927-1935 (inclusive)

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0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
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Helen Hoy Greeley ( 1878 to 1965), was a suffrage activist, legislative counsel, lawyer, political organizer, and worker for environmental protection. In the 1920 and 1930s Greeley was connected with the Interorganization Council on Disarmament, and the Women's Consultative Committee on Nationality created by the Council of the League of Nations.

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Lola Maverick Lloyd Collected Papers, 1915-1944 (inclusive)

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0.08 linear ft. (1 linear in.)
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Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, notices, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, conference notes, and newspaper reprints. Includes information about Rosika Schwimmer and the Ford Peace Expedition.

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Mildred Scott Olmsted Papers, 1881-1990 (inclusive) 1907-1990 (bulk)

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14 linear ft. (28 boxes)
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Mildred Scott Olmsted, peace activist and suffragist, was born in Glenolden, Pennsylvania, in 1890. In 1922, Olmsted became Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). From 1934 onward she assumed national positions with the organization. In 1946, Olmsted became National Administrative Secretary and held that position (until her retirement in 1966. She remained active as Executive Director Emerita of WILPF and also served on its International Executive Committee from 1937 until 1953. Mildred Scott married Allen S. Olmsted, II, in 1921 and the couple had one child and adopted two more. Mildred Scott Olmsted died in 1990 at the age of 99.

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Dorothy Detzer Papers, 1913-1981 (inclusive)

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3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)
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Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.

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Jane Addams Papers, 1838- (inclusive) 1880-1935 (bulk)

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130 linear ft.
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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.

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Kay Camp Papers, 1955-2006 (inclusive)

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17.5 linear ft. (17.5 linear ft.)
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Katherine Lindsley Camp was born in 1918 [1919?], Mt. Kisco New York. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College (Class of 1940). Camp was elected president of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1967, and served as international president, 1974-1980. In addition Camp was founder of the Citizens Bi-Racial Study Group; former president of the Pennsylvania Women's Political Caucus; made unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1972 on the Democratic ticket in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; member of the Society of Friends. Her papers include biographical information, personal correspondence, and involvement with numerous peace groups, as well as political activities.

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Codepink Collected Records, 2003-2011 (bulk)

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1.88 linear ft. (4 hollinger boxes and 1 photo box of processed materials. an additional 5.5 linear feet are accessioned but unprocessed [2024-02-08].)
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Includes letters, flyers, reports, printed emails, and materials from local branches.

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

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5.7 linear ft. (5.7 linear ft.)
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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.

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