Main content

League of Nations Association Collected Records

Notifications

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.League of Nations Association
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
2.5 linear ft. (30 linear in.)
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Identification of item], in the League of Nations Association Collected Records (CDGA), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Date:
1916, 1922-1945 (bulk)
Creator:
League of Nations Association (U.S.), Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945, Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961, and Loeb, William, 1866-1937
Abstract:
The American Association for International Cooperation and the League of Nations Non-Partisan Committee merged on January 10, 1923 to become the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. This name was shortened in 1929 to become the League of Nations Association. The organization was inactive during WWII. After the war, it was revived as the United Nations Association.

The American Association for International Cooperation and the League of Nations Non-Partisan Committee merged on January 10, 1923 to become the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. This name was shortened in 1929 to become the League of Nations Association. The organization was inactive during WWII. After the war, it was revived as the United Nations Association.

The collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence and publications of the organization. Of particular note is the material concerning the efforts of Florence Kitchelt in Connecticut to have the film "Hell and the Way Out" shown in many movie theatres in towns and schools as a teaching tool about the effects of war. The correspondents in the Connecticut Branch material include Carrie Chapman Catt, Sidney Gulick, William Loeb Jr., Raymond Fosdick, Ray Newton, Walter Van Kirk and Sir Herbert Ames.

The collection includes meeting minutes, correspondence and publications of the organization. Of particular note is the material concerning the efforts of Florence Kitchelt in Connecticut to have the film "Hell and the Way Out" shown in many movie theatres in towns and schools as a teaching tool about the effects of war. The correspondents in the Connecticut Branch material include Carrie Chapman Catt, Sidney Gulick, William Loeb Jr., Raymond Fosdick, Ray Newton, Walter Van Kirk and Sir Herbert Ames.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the archives of the League of Nations Association.

Acquisitions information is unknown.

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

Processed by SCPC staff. Checklist created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, January 1999.

Allen Olmstead Papers (DG 095)

Organization
Subject

Publisher
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Access Restrictions

None.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Use Restrictions

None.

Collection Inventory

American Association for International Cooperation, 1916, 1922 - 1924.
Box 1
League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, 1923-1928.
Box 1
League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, January 1929.
Box 2
League of Nations Association, 1929-1934.
Box 2
League of Nations Association, 1935 - 1942, 1945, undated.
Box 3
League of Nations Association, Midwest Office (Chicago), circa 1930 - 1937.
Box 3
League of Nations Association, New England Model League of Nations, 1932-1938.
Box 4
California Branch, Northern (San Francisco), undated.
Box 4
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): History and purpose.
Box 4
Connecticut Branch (New Haven), 1924-1926.
Box 4
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): Film "Hell and the Way Out": General material, reports, correspondence, etc., 1926 (March) - 1927 (March).
Box 4
Connecticut Branch (New Haven), 1927.
Box 4
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): [directed by Florence Kitchelt], 1928 - 1943, undated.
Box 5
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): [directed by Florence Kitchelt]: Maryland Branch (Baltimore), 1929-1935.
Box 5
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): [directed by Florence Kitchelt]: Massachusetts Branch (Boston), 1923-1938.
Box 5
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): [directed by Florence Kitchelt]: New Jersey Branch, 1927.
Box 5
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): [directed by Florence Kitchelt]: New York Branch, Greater (New York City), 1931-1936.
Box 5
Connecticut Branch (New Haven): [directed by Florence Kitchelt]: Pennsylvania Branch (Philadelphia), 1923-1937.
Box 5
Newsletters: "Branch News", 1937 (March) - 1940 (May).
Box 6
Newsletters: "Bulletin", 1923 (February - June).
Box 6
Newsletters: "Digest of American Editorial Comment", 1928 (February) - 1931 (July).
Box 6
Newsletters: "The International Scene", 1936 (April) - 1939 (July).
Box 6
Newsletters: "League of Nations News", 1926 (December) - 1931 (August).
Box 6
Scope and Contents

incomplete set

Newsletters: "Round the World With the League of Nations", 1927-1932.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

incomplete set

Newsletters: "Speakers' Notes", 1933 (January - May).
Box 6
Pamphlet Series: #1-4, 1923.
Box 6
Pamphlet Series: "Educational Publications" #1-10, 1926-1931.
Box 6

Print, Suggest