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Bryn Mawr College Exhibit Files, 1911-2022 (bulk)

Extent:: 20 linear ft.
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Held at: Bryn Mawr College [Contact Us]

National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges records, 1926-2023 (inclusive)

Extent:: 47.50 linear feet (73 boxes and 1 tube) and 3.99 gigabytes
Abstract:: The National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) was founded in 1926 to provide continuing legal education to bankruptcy judges and lawyers, to advise Congress on pending bankruptcy legislation, and to promote greater understanding of existing bankruptcy law. The NCBJ collection, 1926-2023, includes administrative files, meeting materials, publications, and photographs.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

American Law Institute websites collection, 2019-2023 (inclusive)

Extent:: 186.5 gigabytes and 7 websites
Abstract:: This is an archive of websites related to the work of the American Law Institute [ALI]. The American Law Institute is the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. This collection contains web archives of the ALI's website, the ALI's social media accounts, and the ALI's Continuing Legal Education program.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Kay Lahusen papers, 1961-2021 (inclusive)

Extent:: 23.84 linear feet (39 document boxes, 2 photo boxes, 1 record carton, 1 custom keepsakes box, 4 flat boxes, 2 oversized flat boxes, 1 oversized folder, and 2 oversized framed items.)
Abstract:: Katherine "Kay" Lahusen (1930–2021) was a photojournalist, author, activist, and longtime partner of Barbara Gittings (1961–2007), considered by many to be the mother of the LGBT movement in the United States. Lahusen's photography and activism was integral to the organizing work of Gittings and fellow activist Frank Kameny. The Kay Lahusen papers are comprised primarily of content Lahusen retained, created, or consumed in the fourteen years following Barbara Gittings' death in 2007 until her own passing in 2021.

Held at: John J. Wilcox, Jr. LGBT Archives, William Way LGBT Community Center [Contact Us]

Peace History Society Records, 1963- (inclusive)

Extent:: 11 linear ft. (11 linear ft.)
Abstract:: The records of the Peace History Society contain minutes, mailings, annual brochures, general correspondence, papers presented at its conferences, documents about PHS projects and its monthly journal Peace and Change, and audiotapes. Correspondents include Charles Barker, Berenice A. Carroll, John. W. Chambers, Charles Chatfield, Hilary Conroy, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Sandi E. Cooper, Charles DeBenedetti, Michael A. Lutzker, William L. Neumann, Arthur I. Waskow, Ralph Edward Weber, and Lawrence S. Wittner.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Collected Records, 1933-1972 (inclusive) 1933-1951 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.25 linear ft. (3 linear in.)
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Campaign for UN Reform Collected Records, 1976- (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.17 linear ft. (2 linear in.)
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Clamshell Alliance Collected Records, 1974- (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Institute for Policy Studies Collected Records, 1962- (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Abstract:

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Bradford Lyttle Papers, 1954- (inclusive)

Extent:: 49.75 linear ft. (49.75 linear ft.)
Abstract:: Bradford [Brad] Lyttle is a long time leading peace activist involved in the promotion of nonviolence for social change and the elimination of war and nuclear weapons. Lyttle was the organizer of the San Francisco to Moscow walk in the 1960-1961, to highlight the message of disarmament and nonviolent resistance and bringing together U.S. and Soviet citizens together during the height of the Cold War. He went on to organize and participate in other marches and protests, including the Quebec - Washington - Guantanamo Walk for Peace, during which he and twenty other marchers were jailed by police in Albany, Georgia. During the Vietnam war Lyttle coordinated many organizations and demonstrations against the war. In 1983 he founded the United States Pacifist Party and ran for president in the 1984 elections. Lyttle continues to work for peace around the world. He has been a war tax resister, worked with peace projects and refugees in Bosnia and Croatia, and has been arrested many...(see more)

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

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