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Theodore Brinton Hetzel Collection

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Theodore Brinton Hetzel (1906-1990) was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and attended Westtown School and Haverford College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1928. He completed graduate studies in mechanical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, the Technical University of Munich (Germany), and Penn State University. He returned to Haverford College in 1936 as an engineering professor, remaining on the faculty until 1972. Hetzel served on the Indian Committees of the American Friends Service Committee and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. In 1955, the Indian Rights Association asked him to join its board of directors. In 1969 the Association appointed him its executive director and editor of its publication Indian Truth. In 1971 Hetzel was named its general secretary. Adopted by the Seneca Indians, he was given the Indian name "Our friend." A semi-professional photojournalist, Hetzel was a contract photographer for Haverford College for a number of years; he also took many photographs of peace and anti-war activities in the Philadelphia area and in Washington, D.C., beginning in the late 1950s.

[information from Haverford College]

This collection consists entirely of photographs of peace and anti-war events in the Philadelphia or Washington, DC areas, taken by Theodore Brinton Hetzel, except for one folder of biographical information in the CDG-A section.

For photographs owned by Haverford College, see http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/aids/hetzel/hetzel1168.pdf

Photographs are arranged first by size, and then chronologically.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these materials.

Gift of Theodore Brinton Hetzel, 1982 [Acc. 82A-006]; Rebecca Wills Hetzel, 1992 [Acc. 92A-107, Acc. 92A-111]

This collection was processed by SCPC staff. This finding aid was created by Wendy Chmielewski in July 2012, and updated by Anne Yoder in May 2013 and Grace Diliberto in April 2022.

Photos were removed to the Photograph Collection.

Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Copyright has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Please contact the SCPC Curator for further information.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

SSKS Annual Meeting at Swarthmore College: William T. Scott, Ralph Collier (WCAU), Victor Pashkis, Senator Ralph E. Flanders, September 9, 1956.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Circle of demonstrators at city plaza (Philadelphia), March 1958.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

March for Peace from Philadelphia to the United Nations in New York City, March 29, 1958.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 5 4"x6" photos. These photos were taken in Philadelphia.

Vigil at the Nike site (Edgmont, Pennsylvania), December 23, 1958.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 4"x6" photos.

Hubert H. Humphrey Jr. (in center), with others, circa 1958-1968.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Picnic scene, August 1959.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Vigil at Fort Detrick against preparations for germ warfare (Frederick, Maryland), August 29, 1959.
Box Slide binder Box 1 Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 slides, 3 4"x6" photos, and 1 8"x10" photo.

Demonstrations and marches at various venues (Washington, D.C.), circa September 1959.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 14 slides.

Line of people outdoors with sign "Military power does not bring security", 1960.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Quakers at the Pentagon [Quaker Peace Witness?] (Washington, D.C.), November 13, 1960.
Box 1 Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 5 4"x6" photos and 2 8"x10" photos.

Polaris Missile demonstration at the Franklin Institute (Philadelphia), February 22, 1961.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 13 4"x6" photos. Images show people marching and demonstrating in the rain and with a sign reading "Grapes from Thorns? Figs from Thistles? Peace from Armaments?"

Demonstration protesting the US-USSR missile race outside of General Electric's Missile and Space Vehicle Department (Philadelphia), April 1, 1961.
Box 1 Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 12 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

Committee for Nonviolent Action Walk for Peace, San Francisco to Moscow, May 21, 1961.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 26 4"x6" photos. These photos were taken in Philadelphia.

Seneca American Indians and Philadelphia Quakers protest the Kinzua Dam, August 1961.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 8 4"x6" photos.

Demonstration for a nuclear test ban (Philadelphia), March 5, 1962.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 15 4"x6" photos.

Walk in support of talks in Geneva against anti-nuclear tests (Philadelphia), April 1962.
Box Slide binder Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 15 slides and 13 4"x6" photos.

Anti-war and anti-nuclear testing demonstration and march (Washington, D.C.), April 29, 1962.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 33 4"x6" photos. This demonstration included Wilbur Lew, Howard Taylor Jr., Henry Cadbury, George Willoughby.

Counter-demonstration with signs accusing peace demonstrators(?) of being communists and Nazis, April 29, 1962.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Outdoor peace gathering by tents with a panel of speakers, September 1962.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 4"x6" photos.

Outdoor labor and peace gathering with Pete Seeger at United Steelworker's Local, September 1962.
Box Slide binder Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 slides and 7 4"x6" photos. Includes one image of a counter-demonstration accusing Pete Seeger of communism.

Demonstration with sign "No War Over Cuba!" (Philadelphia), October 25, 1962.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 12 4"x6" photos.

"Alternates" demonstration in office of Representative War.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Peace demonstrations, April 1963.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 9 slides.

Peace demonstration in front of Independence Hall (Philadelphia), April 13, 1963.
Box 1 Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo and 1 8"x10" photo.

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (Washington, D.C.), August 28, 1963.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 22 4"x6" photos.

Civil rights demonstration at Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.), September 1963.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 17 slides. Features the sign "No U.S. Dough to Help Jim Crow Grow."

FUNL [FCNL?], October 1963.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Anti-war speaker, unknown location [Philadelphia?], November 1963.
Box Slide binder Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 slide and 2 4"x6" photos.

Snowy scene [unknown location or event], January 1964.
Box Slide binder Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 slide and 2 4"x6" photos.

Christian Walk for Peace (Philadelphia), May 1964.
Box Slide binder Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 4 slides and 11 4"x6" photos.

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration (Philadelphia), December 1964.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 7 4"x6" photos. Peace Pilgrim visited this demonstration.

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration, with sit-in outside recruiting office (Philadelphia), February 1965.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 20 4"x6" photos.

Pro-Vietnam War demonstration, March 1965.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 4"x6" photos.

Delaware County Main-Line NAACP march (Ardmore, Pennsylvania), March 20, 1965.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 7 4"x6" photos.

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration (Washington, D.C.), April 17, 1965.
Box Slide binder Box 1 Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 33 slides, 26 4"x6" photos, and 3 8"x10" photos. This demonstation included I.F. Stone and Judy Collins.

Interfaith Witness on Vietnam demonstration (Philadelphia), July 1965.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 8 4"x6" photos.

Heated town meeting, government /military panel, or some other local political event, November 7, 1965.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 21 4"x6" photos.

March on Washington for Vietnam negotiations with 35,000 participants, November 27, 1965.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes 31 4"x6" photos.

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration (Washington D.C.), December 1965.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 26 slides.

Demonstration at Boeing plant,(Morton, Pennsylvania), December 29, 1965.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 19 4"x6" photos.

U.S. Capitol (Washington, D.C.), April 1966.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 slide.

WILPF meeting with Josiah Thompson speaking and many counter-demonstrators present (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), April 24, 1966.
Scope and Contents

Includes 15 4"x6" photos.

Veterans for Peace march at the White House (Washington, D.C.), May 15, 1966.
Box Slide binder Box 1 Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 30 slides, 24 4"x6" photos, and 1 8"x10" photo.

Bucks County Peace Fair (Lambertsville, New Jersey), September 5, 1966.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 4"x6" photos.

World Day of Prayer for Peace, October 1966.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Anti-draft demonstration (Philadelphia), October 15, 1966.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 10 4"x6" photos.

Christmas anti-Vietnam War vigil for Peace on Earth, December 22, 1966.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 9 4"x6" photos.

Charles C. Walker addressing a peace rally and calling for an end to the Vietnam War in front of City Hall (Philadelphia), 1966.
Box 6
General

Acc. 2014-046

Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Collecting contributions for the Phoenix voyage and for Canadian Friends medical relief fund at a Friends meetinghouse (Philadelphia?), March 29, 1967.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Haverford College anti-Vietnam War demonstration, April 1967.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 10 slides.

Anti-War Mobilization (New York City), April 15, 1967.
Box 1 Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 7 4"x6" photos and 2 oversized photos.

Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges anti-Vietnam War demonstration, May 1967.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 10 slides.

Silent Vigil for Peace in Vietnam at City Hall (Philadelphia), May 31, 1967.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 4 4"x6" photos.

Anti-Vietnam War demonstration (Washington, D.C.), October 21, 1967.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 61 4"x6" photos. Includes Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Villanova students with a crowd by the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial.

The Phoenix [boat] in Hong Kong with crew, November 18, 1967.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 4"x6" photos. The crew included Bob Eaton. Photo by Jon Hetzel.

Street demonstration [unknown event or location], December 1967.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 slides.

Demonstration against housing discrimination on the Main Line (Delaware County, Pennsylvania), December 2, 1967.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 13 4"x6" photos.

"resistance, december 4": speakers in church, December 4, 1967.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 8 4"x6" photos.

Anti-war / anti-draft demonstration (Philadelphia), December 6, 1967.
Box 1 Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 31 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

Anti-demonstrator, December 21, 1967.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

"Do Friends support racism?", March 1968.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Anti-induction demonstration at recruiting station (Philadelphia), April 9, 1968.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 22 4"x6" photos. Includes a close-up image of a young man burning a draft card.

Peace march (Philadelphia), April 27, 1968.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 12 4"x6" photos.

Resurrection City (a.k.a. Tent City) (Washington, D.C.), June 8, 1968.
Box Slide binder Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 29 slides and 43 4"x6" photos. Includes shacks and occupants of anti-poverty demonstration /occupation in the shadow of the Washington Monument.

Philadelphia Student Mobilization Committee march by City Hall with sign "Bring the GIs Home Now!" (Philadelphia), August 10, 1968.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 13 4"x6" photos.

McCarthy for President! Rally in convention hall (Philadelphia), August 15, 1968.
Box 1 Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 4"x6" photos and 4 8"x10" photos.

Unknown, September 1968.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Demonstration for Biafra and against anti-British colonialism, January 10, 1969.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 8"x10" photos.

Signs outside of University of Pennsylvania Dean's Office, February 1969.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Image of oil painting of Martin Luther King, Jr., February 15, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

Vigil/demonstration (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), April 4, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 4"x6" photos.

Reading names of those killed in Vietnam in the offices of the Philadelphia Draft Board, April 4, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 11 4"x6" photos.

Unknown, April 22, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Anti-War demonstration (Philadelphia), May 1, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 17 4"x6" photos.

AFSC/Quaker Witness Against the War peace demonstration/vigil at the White House (Washington, D.C.), May 5, 1969.
Box Slide binder Box 1 Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 31 slides, 62 4"x6" photos, and 5 8"x10" photos. The demonstration included Gilbert White (AFSC Board Member; President of Haverford College) and Bronson Clark (AFSC Executive Secretary).

AQAG (A Quaker Action Group) sponsorship of reading of the names of those killed in Vietnam on the U.S. Capital steps (Washington, D.C.), June 18, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 31 4"x6" photos and 1 oversized photo.

Demonstration at U.S. Courthouse in support of draft resister Bob Eaton (Philadelphia), August 27, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 29 4"x6" photos. This demonstration included Larry Gara, Shirley Chisholm, and Edward Koch.

WRI (War Resisters International) 13th Triennial Conference opening session (Haverford, Pennsylvania), August 28, 1969.
Box 1 Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 41 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

Anti-war demonstration (Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), September 6, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 6 4"x6" photos.

Vietnam Moratorium candlelight vigil, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 11 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo. The vigil included Bayard Rustin.

Unidentified demonstration with the sign "Straight Middle-Class Types for PEACE" (Haverford News Photo), November 5, 1969.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Large march/demonstration for a Vietnam Moratorium (Washington, D.C.), November 15, 1969.
Box Slide binder Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 10 slides, 24 4"x6" photos, and 1 8"x10" photo.

Labor Day rally, Independence Hall (Philadelphia), 1960s.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Peace demonstration in center city (Philadelphia), April 15, 1970.
Box 2 Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 13 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

Speaker at Independence Hall at an unidentified event (Philadelphia), April 21, 1970.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 9 4"x6" photos.

Earth Day concert in Fairmount Park (Philadelphia), April 22, 1970.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 13 4"x6" photos.

Press conference with Eugene McCarthy and others, May 7, 1970.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 5 4"x6" photos.

Anti-war demonstration and gathering with speakers at Independence Hall (Philadelphia), May 8, 1970.
Box 2 Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 24 4"x6" photos and 3 8"x10" photos.

Student strike office at Harvard University, May 29, 1970.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Outdoor concert, September 7, 1970.
Box Slide binder Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 9 slides and 21 4"x6" photos. The concert included Jane Fonda and Marti Rogers.

Anti-war march (Washington, D.C.), April 24, 1971.
Box 2 Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 50 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

George McGovern, April 18, 1972.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

March and concert with folk singers (Philadelphia), May 4, 1972.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 20 4"x6" photos.

Joan Nicholson, May 27, 1972.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Anti-Nixon and anti-Frank Rizzo demonstration (Philadelphia), October 20, 1972.
Box 2 Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 20 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

Dan Ellsberg on television, June 1, 1972.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Quaker mail drive at post office with others marching outside and sign "Quakers say enough napalm politics. Sign now for peace.", November 4, 1972.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 9 4"x6" photos.

Dr. William Davidon speaking at podium, circa 1972.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 4"x6" photos.

FCNL convention(?), March 24, 1973.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo. Includes Ed Snyder and E. Raymond Wilson.

Women Strike for Peace demonstration/petition signing against Nixon, July 25, 1973.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 7 4"x6" photos.

David Richie and Mary(?) Richie, April 24, 1974.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Pphotos of paintings and posters of William Penn's Treaty with the Native Americans/The Peaceable Kingdom, June 22, 1974.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 8"x10" photos.

Elderly woman holding sign "Women must say STOP!" and petition signers, March 7, 1975.
Box 2 Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 4"x6" photos and 1 8"x10" photo.

Demonstration to end FBI occupation at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, July 3, 1975.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 8"x10" photos.

Young people making posters(?), October 26, 1975.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 4"x6" photos.

Production(?) of the newspaper "Delaware Spectator", December 17, 1975.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 8"x10" photos.

Men at display table on street near City Hall with the billboard "We've carried the rich for 200 years. Let's get them off our backs! Demonstrate Phila. July 4th. 10 a.m. North side, City Hall, 426-1505. Rich Off Our Backs - July 4th Coalition. We won't fight another rich man's [war?]." (Philadelphia), May 26, 1976.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Several people at Congress for World Unity, May 26, 1976.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 4"x6" photos.

Players in make-up with banner "Quaker Street Theater", June 17, 1976.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Behind-the-scenes view of puppeteers for "Castles, Kings Things" (Lenton's Puppets), August 31, 1976.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Pro-Jimmy Carter/pro-Democratic Party rally (Philadelphia), October 29, 1976.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 6 4"x6" photos.

Circle of protestors at Stop the B-1 Bomber demonstration, January 22, 1977.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Small group of protestors with signs about the federal budget and the B-1 bomber, circa April 15-23, 1977.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Street demonstration (?) [unknown location or event], May 1977.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 slide.

Self-portrait, circa 1978.
Box 7.0
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Demonstrators in front of large church or courthouse with the sign "Silence for Peace", May 31, 1982.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

American Friends Service Committee relief packages [unknown location or event], July 1977.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 slide.

Indoor organizational office [unknown location or event], August 1977.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 slides.

"Religious Vigil: An Appeal to the People of Philadelphia", April 1978.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 slide.

Peace Fair with singers and children, April 19, 1980.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 4 4"x6" photos.

Street vigil or demonstration (Philadelphia ?) [unknown location or event], March 1981.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 2 slides.

Swarthmore Peace Vigil at church or courthouse (West Chester, Pennsylvania), May 31, 1982.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 6 4"x6" photos.

Furniture on the street [unknown location or event], October 1983.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 3 slides.

Peace and pro-immigration demonstration (Philadelphia) [unknown date or event], April 1985.
Box Slide binder
Scope and Contents

Includes 12 slides.

View of nuclear power plant (Salem, New Jersey), December 1986.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Demonstration on sanctuary for refugees from Central America, circa 1980s-1990s.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 5 8"x10" photos.

Rally for Barry Goldwater, undated.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 4 8"x10" photos.

Shapp for Governor trailer, undated.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Senator Ted Kennedy, undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Friends Center reflected on side of glass-paneled building (Philadelphia), undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Alice Herz with sign "LBJ - 31,000. Nixon - 7,000. Over 1,000000 Vietnamese" (during Counting the Cost demonstration?), undated.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 8"x10" photo.

Devi Prasad, undated.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1 4"x6" photo.

Partially identified or unknown, undated.
Box 2 Box 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 18 4"x6" photos, 1 8"x10" photo, and 1 oversized photo.

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