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Sylvia Metzler Papers

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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:
DG.283
Repository:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Extent:
11 linear ft.
Language:
English
Date:
1969-2019 (inclusive)
Creator:
Metzler, Sylvia
Abstract:

files of Sylvia Metzler

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Biographical information.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Media coverage.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Service of installation, February 1990.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Personal calendar, 1989.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Letters written, 1984-2000.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Letters written: "Newsletter" #1-10, December 1989 – January 1992.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters from Sylvia's children and grandchildren, 1990-1991 circa.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters from Sylvia's brother Bill, 1990-1991.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters from Sylvia's parents and Uncle Denny, undated.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1980.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1985.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1986.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1987.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1988.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1989.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, January-April 1990.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, May-July 1990.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, August-December 1990.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received from Jerilyn Bowen (WILPF), 1990-1991.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1991.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1992.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1993.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1994.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1995-1996.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1997.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 1998-1999.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, 2000-2006.
Box 5
Archival Resource Key. Correspondence: letters received, undated.
Box 6

Archival Resource Key. Notes made.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Fundraising, 1987-1999.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Talks given; writings; Letters to the Editor written.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Audiocassettes made.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Contact/mailing lists.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Action/notes re: Nicaragua.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with Norristown Area Coalition for Action, 1969-1971.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Suit brought against Montgomery County school districts for drug testing for 8th graders, 1972.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with Brethren Volunteer Service, 1980-1990 circa.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Study tour of Nicaragua Health Care Sector [photographs removed], 1984.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Actions and arrests, 1985-1989.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with local groups working re: Nicaragua, 1985-2000 circa.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Civil disobedience at Willow Grove Naval Air Station (September 22, 1985), 1986.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Civil disobedience at Willow Grove Naval Air Station (September 22, 1985) – media coverage, 1985-1986.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America, 1986-1990 circa.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with SHARE, 1988.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Clearness session re: Nicaragua, 1988.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Trip to Nicaragua for course, July-August 1988.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Actions and arrests, 1990-1992.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Attendance at Hospital Bautista event (?), Managua, Nicaragua, 1990.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Attendance at WILPF Gertrud Baer Seminar, San Jose, Costa Rica, August 1-5, 1990.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with / attendance at Fast and Vigil for Peace in the Middle East for Managua Moravian Church, February 1991.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Philadelphia Human Needs delegation to Nicaragua [organized by Sylvia, and/or participated in?], August 1991.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Re-entry retreat, May 3, 1992.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Participation in Nicaragua/Philadelphia Friendship Delegation to Managua, Nicaragua, April-May 1992.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Participation in Anti-Drug Delegation to Nicaragua, November 1992.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with Clinica Medica Morava, 1992-1997 circa.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Participation with Nicaragua/Philadelphia Friendship Delegation to the U.S., April-May 1994.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Participation with Se Puedo / It Can Be Done delegation of Nicaraguans to the U.S., June-July 1996.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Civil disobedience and arrest at "The Death Penalty on Trial" (October 20, 1997), 1997-1998.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Protest against the death penalty and arrest and jail sentence, 1998.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Prison journal kept, April 29, 1998 – May 8, 1998.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Trip to Nicaragua, November 18-27, 2000.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with MEDNICA: meeting minutes, 2000-2007.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Involvement in finding supplies: paperwork for shipments and deliveries of medicine, 2001-2009.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Visit to the Middle East as part of two-week CPT delegation, September 2002.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Visit to the Middle East as part of two-week CPT delegation: notebook kept, September 2002.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Civil disobedience and arrest for protesting Iraq War (March 20, 2003), 2003-2004.
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Archival Resource Key. Actions and arrests, 2003, 2006-2007.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Death of Juanita de Mendoza, February 2004.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Participation in delegation to Nicaragua, 2005.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with Philadelphia Area Committee to Defend Health Care, 2005-2007.
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Archival Resource Key. Participation in Med-Nica trip, November 2006.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Involvement in finding supplies for Accion Medica Cristiana, 2006-2012.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Participation in trip to Nicaragua, November 2007.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Involvement in Betania Community water tank project, 2007-2008.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with HCAP (Health Care for All Philadelphians), 2008-2010.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with Save the Date auction fundraiser, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 12, 2009.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Participation in delegation to Honduras, 2009.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Participation in MedNica delegation to Nicaragua, April 20-28, 2013.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Interest in [involvement in?] "Fracking: Health Care Implications for Nursing", 2013-2015.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Participation in trip to Nicaragua, 2014.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Involvement with HEAP (Health Care for All Philadelphians), 2016-2019.
Box 4
Archival Resource Key. Participation in trip to Nicaragua, November 2017.
Box 4

Archival Resource Key. Reference material: booklet "Fundamentals of Co-Counseling Manual (Elementary Counselors Manual) [3rd edition], 1982.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: booklet "Toward a Nonviolent Economics" by Charles Gray, 1989.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Jennifer Casola's arrest in El Salvador, 1989.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Clinica Iglesia Morava de Managua, Nicaragua – report, 2000.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Clinica Morava-Managua, Nicaragua – reports, 2002, 2005-2008.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Moravian clinic, Nicaragua – medical reports, 2006-2013.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Montgomery County Citizens Concerned About Central America.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Pledge of Resistance Philadelphia.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: Israel.
Box 6
Archival Resource Key. Reference material: miscellaneous material [4 folders].
Box 6

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