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Mary Jo and Walter Uphoff Collected Papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
CDG-A.Uphoff, Mary Jo and Walter
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
1.25 linear ft. (15 linear inches.)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Mary Jo and Walter Uphoff Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Date:
1934-1991 (inclusive)
Creator:
Uphoff, Mary Jo, Uphoff, Walter Henry, 1913-1998, Harbottle, Michael, and Uphoff, Norman Thomas
Abstract:
Mary Jo Uphoff was involved with Youth Committee Against War (of the Keep America Out of War Congress). Walter Uphoff was a labor historian and author of Kohler On Strike.

Mary Jo Uphoff was involved with Youth Committee Against War (of the Keep America Out of War Congress). Walter Uphoff was born February 28, 1913, in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin and studied at the University of Wisconsin (B.S., 1934; Ph.D., 1935). He married Mary Jo Weiler in 1938 and joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1951. He was a labor historian and author of Kohler On Strike. Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff moved to Colorado in 1961. After retirement in 1976, they pursued their interest in psychical research. Walter Uphoff died in 1998.

This collection consists of correspondence (1934-1991), especially regarding peace research and education. It includes Mary Jo Uphoff's involvement with Youth Committee Against War (of the Keep America Out of War Congress), documents from Walter Uphoff's part in founding of the Peace Research Organization Fund (PROF), 1963-1966, the Wisconsin Committee Against Peacetime Conscription (1944-1945), and involvement with peace movements in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Colorado. It also includes information about labor and student dissent to the Vietnam War. Correspondents include Brigadier-General Michael Harbottle, and their son, Norman Thomas Uphoff.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.

Gift of Mary Uphoff, 2003-2004 (acc. 00A-043, 04A-030).

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This collection was processed by Swarthmore College Peace Collection staff; checklist created by Anne M. Yoder, Archivist, March 2004; updated May 2007.

Most of the Uphoff papers are located in the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Wisconsin Historical Society.

    Reel-to Reel Tapes removed to Audiovisual Collection:
  1. 01/ National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace, University of Chicago (Illinois), November 11-12, 1967: Senator Eugene McCarthy speaking
  2. 02/ National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace, University of Chicago (Illinois), November 11-12, 1967: Senator Eugene McCarthy speaking (continued); Victor Reuther speaking
  3. 03/ World Peace Broadcasting Foundation (Des Moines, IA): Fred Warner Neal, William Plymat and Chester Bowles, n.d.
  4. 04/ Bob Pickus speaking on "Turn Toward Peace," 1962 (April 5)
  5. 05/ PAF: John Swomley speaking, undated
  6. 06/ Friends Committee on National Legislation: Peace Day, May 1961
    Phonodisc / Record (45 RPM) removed to Audiovisual Collection:
  1. "The Nuclear Beauty Parlor" (Side A); "Re Styles and the Final Rinse" (Side A); "Awake" (Side B)

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None.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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None.

Collection Inventory

Mary Jo: Correspondence, 1940-1991.
Box 1
Mary Jo: Work as Educational Director of Farmers Equity Union, 1939-1941.
Box 1
Mary Jo: Involvement with Youth Committee Against War, 1939-1941.
Box 1
Mary Jo: Involvement with Boulder Women for Peace, 1961-1962.
Box 1
Mary Jo: Involvement with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom [WILPF]: Boulder (Colorado) Branch, 1966-1968.
Box 1
Mary Jo: Miscellaneous efforts / writings.
Box 1
Walter: Correspondence, 1934-1991.
Box 1
Walter: Correspondence etc. re: formation of proposed North American Peace Research Society, 1963-1964.
Box 1
Walter: Correspondence with Brigadier-General Michael Harbottle, 1984.
Box 1
Walter: Letters of concern written re: Judge Miles Lord's comments on militarism, 1985.
Box 1
Walter: Speaking engagements / speeches.
Box 1
Walter: Radio talk for the Wisconsin Peace Council, July 25 (no year).
Box 1
Walter: Attendance at 3rd European Peace Research Conference, Vienna (Austria), 1966 (September).
Box 1
Walter: Miscellaneous efforts / writings.
Box 1
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Boulder [Colorado] Peace Center [also called Community Peace Center], 1962-1967.
Box 1
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Boulder [Colorado] Peace Center: peace essay contest, 1962.
Box 1
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Minnesota Turn Toward Peace Center, 1962-1963.
Box 1
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Peace Research Organization Fund [PROF]: general, 1963-1966.
Box 2
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Peace Research Organization Fund [PROF]: correspondence, 1965-1966.
Box 2
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Peace Research Organization Fund [PROF]: organizational documents, 1963.
Box 2
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Peace Research Organization Fund [PROF]: organizational documents, 1964-1966, undated.
Box 2
Mary Jo and Walter: Involvement with Wisconsin Committee Against Peacetime Conscription, 1944-1945.
Box 2
Norman Thomas Uphoff [son]: Involvements, 1962-1966.
Box 2
Reference/Subject Files: Peace groups/activities in Colorado.
Box 2
Reference/Subject Files: Peace groups/activities in Minnesota.
Box 2
Reference/Subject Files: Peace groups/activities in Wisconsin.
Box 2
Reference/Subject Files: Youth Committee Against War (of the Keep America Out of War Congress).
Box 2
Reference/Subject Files: National Youth Anti-War Congress.
Box 2
Reference/Subject Files: Universities Committee on the Problems of War and Peace [Detroit, Michigan].
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Turn Toward Peace [New York, New York].
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Peace education: college courses.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Peace education: course "The Problems and Prospects for Peace" at University of Colorado, 1965.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Typescript "Peace Education Directory", 1940.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Open hearings re: Vietnam, 1965.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Booklet "Bahá'i Teachings on Economics", aproximately 1934.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Civil defense: air raid shelters, etc.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Student dissent to war in Vietnam.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Trade union opinion re: Vietnam Conflict, 1966.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Typescript "Post Traumatic Stress Disorders of Vietnam Veterans: A Proposal for Research and Therapeutic Healing", 1987.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Miscellaneous.
Box 3
Reference/Subject Files: Miscellaneous.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

[4 folders]

Reference/Subject Files: Miscellaneous.
Box 4

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