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Lynne Shivers Papers
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Born in Camden, New Jersey on June 21, 1941, Lynne Shivers was an advocate of peace throughout her life until her death on February 3, 2015. She was a founding member of Movement for a New Society and its Philadelphia Life Center, through which she did work for social change, with an emphasis given to peace and nonviolence. She traveled for peace work often, to Iran and Northern Ireland and eventually to Japan, where her work led her to become director of Hiroshima's World Friendship Center in 1986. She also worked for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. She wrote about social issues and peace activism both for Movement for a New Society publications and for outside publications. In 1979, she began teaching American and English Literature at the Community College of Philadelphia's, where she incorporated literature about peace and nonviolence into her curriculum. She retired from her Assistant Professor position in 2005 and lived the rest of her life in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
This collection contains the personal papers of Lynne Shivers and her work from roughly the 1960s onward. It includes biographical and family material, material on her peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, journals she kept from the 1960s until 2014, and information about her teaching career. This collection also includes correspondence to and from Lynne Shivers and literature she collected out of personal interest. Files concerning Shivers's work with Movement for a New Society may be found in that collection in the Peace Collection.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers.
Gift of Estate of Lynne Shivers, June 2015 [Acc. 2015-031].
Processed by Grace Baker in Summer 2015.
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- Audiovisual items
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- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Quaker women -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Peace Movements -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Nagasaki-shi
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Collection Inventory
Archival Resource Key. Notebook: Lynne Shivers - Interviews I.
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Archival Resource Key. Notebook: Lynne Shivers - Volume 2 Interviews.
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Archival Resource Key. Notebook: Lynne Shivers - Volume 3 Interviews.
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Archival Resource Key. Birth and Death Certificate.
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Archival Resource Key. Family Genealogy and Isaac Barrow.
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Archival Resource Key. Lynne's Grandparents [photos removed].
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Archival Resource Key. Personal.
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Archival Resource Key. Mindfulness Lilac Breeze Sangha #2.
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Archival Resource Key. Laughing Pixies Sangha.
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Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Mindfulness.
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Archival Resource Key. Masters for Star Power.
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Archival Resource Key. Genealogy.
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Archival Resource Key. Correspondence.
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Archival Resource Key. Letters to Marion Rannels.
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Archival Resource Key. Email Correspondence Miscellaneous.
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Archival Resource Key. Lynne Shivers – Letters.
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Archival Resource Key. Letters Movement for a New Society.
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Archival Resource Key. Letters, Articles to Wine.
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Archival Resource Key. Willoughby Letters.
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Archival Resource Key. Letters from (and to) Peter.
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Archival Resource Key. Printed email correspondence.
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Archival Resource Key. British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Campaign - correspondence and letters of support.
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Archival Resource Key. Printed email correspondence.
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Archival Resource Key. Quotations, clippings.
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Archival Resource Key. Printed reading.
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Archival Resource Key. To Do's.
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Archival Resource Key. Strategy.
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Archival Resource Key. Shivers: Notes, etc.
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Archival Resource Key. University of Alberta, 1985 (July).
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Archival Resource Key. Sharp Stuff.
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Archival Resource Key. Essays.
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Archival Resource Key. Packets.
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Archival Resource Key. Community College of Philadelphia copies.
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Archival Resource Key. Willoughby Papers.
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Archival Resource Key. India Trip, 2004.
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Archival Resource Key. Freire.
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Archival Resource Key. Correspondence.
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Archival Resource Key. My teaching.
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Archival Resource Key. ML King.
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Archival Resource Key. Nonviolent Pledge.
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Archival Resource Key. Nature.
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Archival Resource Key. China.
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Archival Resource Key. Middle East American Friends Service Committee Trip, 1975.
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Archival Resource Key. Northern Ireland.
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Archival Resource Key. I Ching.
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Archival Resource Key. Iran Trip.
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Archival Resource Key. Essays.
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Archival Resource Key. Publications on activism.
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Archival Resource Key. Atomic Bomb/Hydrogen Bomb.
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Archival Resource Key. Atomic Bomb.
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Archival Resource Key. Nagasaki Article (new).
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Translations.
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Archival Resource Key. Pope's visit.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroma morishata poems about Hiroshima.
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Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Japanese/Korean Newspapers in English.
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Archival Resource Key. Japan Trip, 1995.
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Archival Resource Key. Accounts of Hiroshima.
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Archival Resource Key. Hibakusha Stats.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
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Scope and Contents
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Archival Resource Key. Articles on atomic bomb survivors.
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Archival Resource Key. My research.
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Archival Resource Key. Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Book: Hiroshima Mon Amour.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Info/Articles.
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Archival Resource Key. Teaching materials.
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Archival Resource Key. "Nagasaki Dust" Play manuscript.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Book.
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Archival Resource Key. Articles.
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Archival Resource Key. Packet: Day One: Before Hiroshima and After.
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Archival Resource Key. Religion and Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. [omega] to nuclear war.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Clips.
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Archival Resource Key. Literature.
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Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous.
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Archival Resource Key. Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki Exhibit Smithsonian.
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Archival Resource Key. Hibakusha.
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Archival Resource Key. Barbara Reynolds.
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Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Official Hiroshima/Nagasaki Statements.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima Harada etc.
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Archival Resource Key. General.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki memorial collection catalogues.
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Archival Resource Key. Hibakusha.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Hiroshima/Nagasaki 102.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1972, 1977-1978.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1979-1980.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1981.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1982-1983.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1984.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1985-1986.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1987-1988.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1989-1990.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1991, 1994.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1996-1997.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 1998, 2003.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 2004, 2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Calendars, 2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Address Books.
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Scope and Contents
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1966-1967.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1978-1979.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1969, 1971, 1984.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1985.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1985-1986.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1987, 1989.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1989-1990.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, -1991.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1991-1992.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1995.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1996.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1997.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 1999.
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Scope and Contents
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2001, 2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2006, 2010.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2010.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2011.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2011-2012.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2013.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals, 2013-2014.
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Archival Resource Key. Stenographer's books, undated.
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Scope and Contents
[3 folders]
Archival Resource Key. Journal, undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Journal China/Japan Seminar.
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Scope and Contents
[2 folders]
Archival Resource Key. Journal, undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Journal "BREADLOAF", "Freire Notes".
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Archival Resource Key. Diary, typewritten L. Shivers Poetry book, postcards from Nagasaki, 1976.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals: Memo book, "Getting Published" seminar, undated.
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Archival Resource Key. Journals: Journalism, New Bedford Training Notes.
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Archival Resource Key. Teaching Materials: Nuclear Studies Literature and Culture.
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Archival Resource Key. Collected Essays and Speeches.
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Archival Resource Key. Reports of Training sessions.
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Archival Resource Key. Reprinted Book: A World Peace Guard.
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Archival Resource Key. Star Power.
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Archival Resource Key. Iran.
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Archival Resource Key. Translations.
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Archival Resource Key. Barbara Reynolds Monument.
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Archival Resource Key. Willoughby Memories.
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Archival Resource Key. Willoughby Article.
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Archival Resource Key. Rachel.
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Archival Resource Key. [Binder of L. Shivers's Notes].
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Archival Resource Key. Hare reports.
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Archival Resource Key. Chestnut Hill Retreat.
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Archival Resource Key. Samples – Leaflets and Pamphlets.
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Archival Resource Key. Manuals.
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Archival Resource Key. Iran, 1979.
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Archival Resource Key. 116 additional papers.
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Archival Resource Key. Check Lists.
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Archival Resource Key. Clippings.
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Archival Resource Key. Community College of Philadelphia Conflict Resolution committee papers.
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Archival Resource Key. Lynne Shivers – Papers.
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Archival Resource Key. Movement Action Plan.
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Archival Resource Key. Printers.
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Archival Resource Key. Barbara Reynolds.
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Archival Resource Key. Whitman.
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Archival Resource Key. Northern Ireland.
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Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous.
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Archival Resource Key. Herz/Shibata.
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Archival Resource Key. Funding requests.
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Archival Resource Key. Barbara Reynolds U.S. Trip, 1982.
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Archival Resource Key. Bibliographies.
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Archival Resource Key. Movement for a New Society Network Meeting, 1988.
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Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous Notes.
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Scope and Contents
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Archival Resource Key. Packet: Macro skills sharing weekend.
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Archival Resource Key. Co-Counseling notebooks: My Notebook as a Counselor.
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Archival Resource Key. Co-Counseling notebooks: My Notebook as a Client.
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Archival Resource Key. The Mindfulness Bell, Summer-Fall 1992.
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Archival Resource Key. The Mindfulness Bell, Winter 2005-2006.
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Archival Resource Key. Insight, Spring 2002.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: The Official Catalogue of the Contents of Dove Cottage.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: Violence, Nonviolence, and the Struggle for Social Justice.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: The Songs of Hiroshima, An Anthology.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: The songs of Hiroshima, when Hiroshima is spoken of.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: The songs of Hiroshima, when Hiroshima is spoken of (aldonajo) esperanta trad 2.
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Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet: World Friendship Center.
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Archival Resource Key. Pamphlet: Organization and Strategy: Organizational lessons from SDS and Critique of a Mass Party Strategy by Bob Irwin.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: Plan of Daisen-in and Daitoku-ji.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: Information briefing – Jerusalem.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: Appeals from Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: This is how A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: Saplings of Gandhi on Western Soil.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: My Mother Died in Hiroshima.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: A Collection of Messages by Distinguished Visitors to Hiroshima.
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Archival Resource Key. Booklet: Author Index of the Commonweal Collection.
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Archival Resource Key. Reference file: Intentional communities.
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Archival Resource Key. Biographical information; media coverage.
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Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1966-1980.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: published articles, 1969-1979.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: published articles, 1980-2000.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: article "Why Quaker Action Groups" ("The Friend" England), July 1971.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: article "The Philadelphia Life Centre" ("The Friend" England), August 1972.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: article "Saidie Patterson: Peacemaker" ("daughters of Sarah"), March/April 1979.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: article "Leadership and Meeting Facilitation, and Conflict Resolution", 1983.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: article "An Open Letter to Gandhi" ("Ghandi Marg #60"), March 1984.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: book reviews.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: response included in booklet "Where Do We Go From Here..." (A.J. Muste Memorial Institute), 1985.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: editing of "Directory of Trainers" (North American Nonviolence Training Network), 1979.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: co-authorship of pamphlet "Training for Nonviolent Action" (WR1), 1970.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: co-authorship of pamphlet "Training für gewaltlose Aktionen" (WR1), 1971.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: papers "Analysis of Conflict Situation within a Quaker Action Group" , 1967-1968.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: paper "Analysis of a Peace Agency: A Quaker Action Group", 1968.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: paper "WIN Magazine (1966-1983)", circa 1984.
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Archival Resource Key. Writings: papers; unpublished articles and reports [see also correspondence folder].
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Archival Resource Key. Notebook of notes from seminar on nonviolence "Anatomy of Metropolis", 1967.
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