Rosika Schwimmer papers, 1890-1983 (bulk 1904-1948).

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Rosika Schwimmer papers, 1890-1983 (bulk 1904-1948).

The Rosika Schwimmer papers, 1890-1948, which constitute the bulk of the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection, document her professional life and personal interests, as well as the activities of prominent colleagues in the pacifist, suffragist, feminist and world government movements. The collection documents Rosika Schwimmer's political activism in women's suffrage and reform movements in Europe prior to World War I; her work with European and American peace movements during and after World War I, especially her role in the Ford Peace Expedition and the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation, 1915-1916; her unsuccessful struggle as a pacifist to obtain American citizenship; and her active lobbying for the formation of a world government. Also; her service as Hungarian minister to Switzerland, 1918-1919; and her co-founding of the World Center for Women's Archives with historian Mary Ritter Beard. Notable correspondents include Jane Addams, Mary Ritter Beard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Henry Ford, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Mihály Károlyi, Upton Sinclair, Baroness Bertha von Suttner, and Schwimmer's associate Edith Wynner, among many other prominent Europeans and Americans.

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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...

World Center for Women's Archives (New York, N.Y.)

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World Center for Women's Archives was an organization established by Rosika Schwimmer and Mary Ritter Beard in the hopes of creating an educational collection which women could consult to learn about the history of women. The center was located in the Biltmore Hotel at 41 Park Avenue in New York City. It closed in 1940, but the efforts made to establish a center to collect records encouraged several colleges and universities to begin develop similar archives of women's history. It was one of the...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation (1916)

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In 1915, Henry Ford agreed to help the pacifist movement and chartered a ship, Oscar II, to sail to Norway, Denmark and Holland. Its mission was to lobby for peace, promote mediation, gather information, organize meetings, and collect signatures on peace petitions. The Henry Ford Peace Expedition, which grew out of the work of earlier pacifist conferences, helped to form the Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation. From the description of Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediati...

Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948

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Schwimmer was a Jewish pacifist and writer, born in Hungary. Her application for American citizenship was denied by the Supreme Court in 1929 on the grounds of her pacifist views. Justice Holmes wrote the dissenting opinion. (United States v. Schwimmer; 49 S. Ct. 448) From the description of Correspondence between Rosika Schwimmer and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1930-1935. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235152187 Public official. From the descr...

International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Congress 1913 : Budapest, Hungary)

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Schwimmer, Franciska

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Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944

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Lola Maverick Lloyd was a pioneer suffragist, pacifist, and friend and associate of Jane Addams with whom she founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. From the description of Collection, 1915-1944. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28329110 Lola Maverick Lloyd, pioneer suffragist and pacifist, graduated Smith College, 1897; married William Bross Lloyd, 1902 (divorced, 1916); four children: Mary, William Jr., Georgia, and Jessi...

Holmes, Oliver W. (Oliver Wendell), 1902-1981

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Hungarian Feminists Association.

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Wynner, Edith

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Schwimmer family.

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Campaign for World Government (Organization)

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Established in 1937, the Campaign for World Government would create a civil world federation open to peaceful, orderly change. From the description of Collection, 1938-1963 1938-1944. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 27057345 The Campaign for World Government was founded in 1937 in New York City by Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) and Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875-1944). The Campaign was the pioneer organization advocating world federal government as the o...

Suttner, Bertha, von (1843-1914).

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Bertha von Suttner; b. 1843, Bertha Sophia Felicita Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau, in Prague; Austrian writer and peace activist; first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize (1905); founder of the Austrian and German Peace Associations; author, lecturer, feminist, influential friend of Alfred Nobel, Andrew Carnegie, Theodor Herzl; d. 1914. From the description of Bertha von Suttner collected papers, 1881-1917, 1993-1995. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id...

Henry Ford Peace Expedition 1915-1916

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED The purpose of the Henry Ford Peace Expedition was to call a conference of delegates from non-combatant countries during World War I. In the winter of 1915-1916, the Ford Peace Expedition carried a delegation of Americans to Norway, Sweden, and Holland to meet with fellow European pacifists. Henry Ford hosted the "Peace Ship," which served as both a vehicle for travel and for collaboration amongst its passengers. BIOGHIST REQUIRED During the months prio...

Karolyi, Mihaly, 1875-1955.

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Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Historian, feminist, and author. Married historian Charles Beard. From the description of Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006703 From the description of Letters, 1937-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008676 Beard was an American author and historian. From the description of Correspondence: [1938?]-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180912 Mary Ritter Bear...

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947

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Industrialist and philanthropist Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, grew up on a farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Mechanically inclined from an early age, he worked in Detroit machine shops as a young man and became an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in 1891. Henry and Clara Jane Bryant, married in 1888, had one child, Edsel, born in 1893. In that same year, Henry tested his first internal combustion engine, and by 1896 completed his first car, the Quadricycle. Ford partnered in ...

Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, suffragist, early feminist, political activist, and Iowa State alumna (1880), was born on January 9, 1859 in Ripon, Wisconsin to Maria Clinton and Lucius Lane. At the close of the Civil War, the Lanes moved to a farm near Charles City, Iowa where they remained throughout their lives. Carrie entered Iowa State College in 1877 completing her work in three years. She graduated at the top of her class and while in Ames established military drills for women, became the first...