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Emergency Peace Federation Collected Records

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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-A.Emergency Peace Federation
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (5 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Identification of item], in the Emergency Peace Federation Collected Records ( CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1914-1917 (inclusive)
Creator:
Emergency Peace Federation (U.S.)
Abstract:
The Emergency Peace Federation was organized to oppose U.S. drift into the the first world war. In July 1917 the Federation merged with the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace.

The Emergency Peace Federation was organized by George Foster Peabody, Louis P. Lochner, and Lella Secor Florence, and assisted by Emily Greene Balch, William I. Hull, David Starr Jordan, and Fanny Garrison Villard in the first years of World War I. It was a hastily assembled peace coalition that sought to oppose U.S. drift into the war. EPF members promoted the idea of a lasting and durable peace and encouraged President Woodrow Wilson to mediate between warring nations. In July 1917 the Federation merged with the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace.

This collection was arranged by the donor and remains in that order.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

Todd Pfannestiel, 2003 [Acc. 03A-048].

For the catalog record for this collection, and to find materials on similar topics, search the library's online catalog.

Processed by, and finding aid created by, Anne M. Yoder, Archivist.

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Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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None.

Copyright has not been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Copyright has been retained by the creators/authors (or their descendants), in this collection, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Please contact the SCPC Curator for further information.
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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Provenance and detailed index of the collection.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. History and goals.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Formation of EPF.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Financial records.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1917 (February).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1917 (March).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1917 (April).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1917 (May 1 -19).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1917 (May 20 - 31).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, undated.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Media coverage: Newspaper clippings, 1917.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work, 1917.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work: Protest demonstrations in Washington, DC and New York, New York, 1917.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Program work, 1917, undated.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous items.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous items: from Rebecca Shelley collection at Labadie Library.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Reference material.
Box 1

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