Papers, 1895-1980 1933-1954.

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Papers, 1895-1980 1933-1954.

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Personal correspondence (1935-1953), travel journals, address books, notes, and manuscripts and typescripts of articles and related correspondence and research notes. Includes material about a trip to Europe in 1948 to secure endangered records of peace organizations, correspondence relating to Cuban-American relations (1935-1937), and her efforts to secure exit visas from Czechoslovakia for Rosa Kulka, a Jewish pacifist, and her family in the late 1930s. Topics of her research include Daughters of the American Revolution, Elihu Burritt, Benjamin West's peace treaty paintings, the Universal Peace Union, and Mexican-American relations, as well as notes for a biography of Jane Addams and a manuscript draft of Brinton's unpublished work on the American peace movement, Dreamers of Dreams. Correspondents include Emily Greene Balch, Heloise Brainerd, Benny Cederfeld, A. Ruth Fry, Rosa Kulka, Paul Vanorden Shaw, Phyllis M. Tiller, Herminio Portell-Vilá, Elizabeth Wheeler, and Lyra Trueblood Wolkins.

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Wheeler, Elizabeth A.

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Tiller, Phyllis M.

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Cederfeld, Benny

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Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969

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Internationalist; fostered cultural interchange between the United States and Latin America; active with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; b. 1881 in Vermont; d. Oct. 1969. From the description of Collection, 1900-1971. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 26945367 ...

Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961

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Pacifist and worker for social reform, Balch was involved in many humanitarian and civic organizations, including the Boston Women's Trade Union League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Papers, 1915-1947 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007140 Peace leader. President of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. Section (1928-1933). Received Nobel Peace Prize (1946). ...

Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954

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Quaker, feminist, internationalist, and first curator (1945-1951) of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection). From the description of Papers, 1895-1980 1933-1954. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 19003356 The Rogerenes were members of a pacifist religious sect founded by John Rogers (1648-1721) in New England in the late 1670s. The Rogerenes settled around New London County, Connecti...

Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1898-

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Portell-Vilá, Herminio 1901-1992

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Trueblood, Benjamin Franklin, 1847-1916

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Universal Peace Union

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Founded in 1866 to remove the causes of war; championed causes such as international arbitration, arbitration in labor disputes, and such causes as suffrage, temperance, anti-militarism, and Indian rights. Alfred H. Love (1830-1913) was a principal organizer and served for many years as president of the UPU and of the Pennsylvania Peace Society. The UPU was dissolved in 1920. From the description of Records, 1846-1938 (bulk) 1867-1923 [microform]. (Swarthmore...

Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879

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American reformer and linguist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Birmingham, to [Freeman H. Morse], 1869 May 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131472 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Springfield, Massachusetts, to Freeman H. Morse, 1854 Jan. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131738 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Britain, Connecticut, to the Rev. W.H. Ward, 1873 Jan. 04. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2...

Kulka, Rosa,

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Shaw, Paul Vanorden, 1898-

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West, Benjamin, 1738-1820

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American-born artist who was a charter member of the Royal Academy. From the description of ADS, 1819 November 12 : Kings Warehouse Customs, London. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 16853753 American historical painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to "Sir", a gentleman with whose family his "friend and Relation Joshua Gilpin" is forming a connection in marriage, 1800 Jun. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 2705...

Wolkins, Lyra Trueblood

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Swarthmore College. Peace Collection.

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