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Archival collections are listed alphabetically below;
see notes under each collection for
restrictions, microfilm availability, and online finding aids
Palmer,
T. Vail
1 folder (.125 in):
Quaker; conscientious objector;
the first non-registrant held under the 1948 Selective Service Act; sentenced
to a year and a day in prison.
News articles.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Collection, 1913-1948.
.5 linear in.
Born in
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Papers, 1946-1976.
1.5 linear ft.
Quaker, mechanical engineer and professor; born in Vienna, Austria; emigrated
from Germany to U.S. in 1938; founder and first president of Society for Social
Responsibility in Science; chairman of the National Friends Conference on Race
Relations, the American Friends Service Committee's Race Relations Committee,
and the Committee on Fair Employment;
professor and professor emeritus of Columbia University.
Articles and speeches by Paschkis; citation for the Max Born Memorial Medal; constitution and bylaws (1956), pamphlets, newsletters, and other materials relating to Society for Social Responsibility in Science; periodicals and occasional papers from other organizations including Club of Rome; reprints from American Society of Mechanical Engineers; and a small quantity of correspondence (1971-1976) in German and English. Topics include zero growth economy, technology and society, nuclear disarmament, and Christian pacifism. Correspondents include Richard L. Deats, Carl Dreher, William F. Hewitt, Alice Mary Hilton, Heinrich Mugdan, Norman E. Polster, Michael J. Rabins, Hans Sachsse, Georg Wolfgang Schimpf, G. Gustav Van Beers, Clarence C. Walton, and Walter Weisskopf.
Records, 1959-1963.
6.25 linear ft.
Began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at
Constitution, committee minutes and memos, correspondence with individuals
and other peace groups (1959-1963), financial records, position papers, newsletters,
press releases, and leaflets, relating to the center's work of public witness
and nonviolent action in
Records, 1868-1944.
Organized in 1867 in reaction to the Civil War by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings; incorporated in 1894 in Indiana for the purpose of promoting peace; grew to include all thirteen yearly meetings of the Five Years Meeting; headquartered in Richmond, Indiana; governed by a seven-man Board of Directors elected by representatives of each of the thirteen yearly meetings; among the leaders of the Peace Association were Daniel Hill, president or secretary from 1867 until his death in 1899, and his successor Allen D. Hole, president until 1927; affiliated with the American Peace Society in 1914; the Peace Association attempted to teach Friends and others that war is unchristian, inhumane, and unnecessary through the publication and dissemination of peace literature, the organization of public meetings and lectures, and the awarding of prizes for essay on peace topics; organization changed its name to the Peace Board of the Five Years Meeting in 1940, apparently continuing to function thereafter as a committee of the Five Years Meeting; published Messenger of Peace, a monthly periodical from 1870 to 1894 and from 1900 to 1933; from 1933 to 1943 it appeared as a supplement to The American Friend.
Includes scattered annual reports (1913-1929), scattered minutes (1912-1940), correspondence (1914-1935, 1943), scattered financial records, publications of the Association, and Messenger of Peace (1871-1894, 1900-1943). The bulk of the collection is correspondence, consisting mostly of carbon copies of letters sent out by Allen D. Hole. Other correspondents include John R. Cary, Theodore Foxworthy, W. Spencer Hadley, Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, Rufus M. Jones, Ray Newton, Levi T. Pennington, and Walter C. Woodward.
Available on microfilm (3 reels)
on interlibrary loan from the
1 folder (.125 in):
Operated by the American Friends Service Committee; runs Peace Education programs in and around Miami, Florida.
Letter.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Peace Council of
Collection, 1935-1944.
5 linear in.
Organized as the Frankford Peace Council, this was an interdenominational
peace group growing out of the joint concerns of Frankford (
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
1 folder (.125 in):
Small facility that hosts various conferences, workshops, and events.
Letter, flyers.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Peace Now Movement
Collection, 1941-1949, 1943-1945.
2.5 linear in.
Peace Now was a pacifist movement begun in
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Records 1915-[ongoing].
39 boxes ; 26 linear ft.
Pendle Hill is a Quaker study center
located in Wallingford,
This collection includes the records
of Pendle Hill, a Quaker study and cooperative living
center, and of its predecessor, the
Organized into ten series: I. Official records; II. Staff and student files, arranged alphabetically; III. Minutes; IV. Material on the
Collection, 1908-1926.
2.5 linear in.
Held in
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Collection, 1943-1952.
3 linear in.
The Philadelphia Council
for Conscientious Objectors was formed jointly by the American Friends Service
Committee and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in May
1943 by Philadelphia area pacifists concerned with the needs of conscientious
objectors and their families. It preceded the Central Committee for Conscientious
Objectors but overlapped it in functions. Council members offered character
testimonials at court hearings for C.O.s. The Council's
activities were suspended in 1952.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
1 folder (.125 in):
Worked on peace education; folded into a new Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committee in 1916.
Pamphlets, letters.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Collection, 1962-1970.
2.5 linear in.
Described as "a
facility to assist citizens desiring a place to think, learn, and work for peace,"
the
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Records, 1970-[ongoing].
8.5 linear ft.
The
Includes correspondence, administrative files, court records, financial records, minutes of meetings, periodicals, and reference files.
Collected Materials On The Quaker Peace Testimony,
1780-1917, 1861-1867.
1 folder.
The peace testimony
is central in the belief and religious history of Quakers. During the
This collection contains typed extracts on meeting minutes in which the Quaker stance in war and conscientious objection are discussed. Most materials relate to Quaker activities in the U.S. Civil War.
Records [Ongoing].
Swarthmore preserves the records of Friends Peace Committee and the Meeting for Social Concerns.
Where available, access is through microfilm.
Some records are available in microfilm, for use in the repository only.
Collected Papers of Bertram Pickard and Irene Pickard,
1918-1972.
15 linear in.
Bertram Pickard: internationalist;
peace leader; Quaker; official for Society of Friends and United Nations organizations,
including the Friends Peace Committee of the London Yearly Meeting, the Friends'
Service Council, the Friends Geneva Centre, and the Economic and Social Council
of the United Nations; a founder of the Quaker Press Service, later called the
World Outlook Press Service; lived in Great Britain, Switzerland, and the United
States.
Includes correspondence, reports, writings of Bertram Pickard, reference
files, files of releases of the Quaker Press Service and the World Outlook Press
Service.
Pidgeon, Mary Elizabeth,
1890-1979
Papers, 1769-1979.
23 linear ft.
Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
was born into an extended Quaker family which lived for generations in Clarke
and Loudon counties, Virginia. She moved beyond the Virginia Quaker community
to a career in the women's movement, first as a campaigner for women's suffrage
(1917-1920), then as an educator and political activist in
Chiefly personal and professional papers of Mary Elizabeth
Pidgeon (1890-1979), including correspondence, diaries,
papers relating to activities as student and teacher at University of Virginia,
publications and research reports, reminiscences, financial records, and notes,
relating to her activities as suffragette and involvement with National League
of Women Voters, educator and political activist in Virginia (1920-1928), and
work (1928-1956) as research economist for U.S. Women's Bureau; together with
correspondence, diaries, legal and financial papers, genealogies, albums, essays,
poetry, pictures, and other papers of the Pidgeon,
Williams, and allied families. Topics include family life, the Civil War, Hopewell
Monthly Meeting, and education of family members at
See related papers below.
Pidgeon, Mary Elizabeth,
1890-1979
Schlesinger Library Papers,
1906-1979
7 boxes ; 3.5 linear ft.
The collection contains personal and professional papers of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon at the Schlesinger Library, including family and other correspondence and papers relating to her activities as student, suffragette, and in her professional and organizational work.
Organized in seven series: 1. Biographical and pictorial; 2. Family correspondence; 3. Other correspondence; 4. Diaries, finances and notes; 5.School papers; 6. Professional and organizational work; 7. Miscellaneous printed materials.
Researchers should see also Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon Family Papers, RG5/123. This larger, overlapping collection contains personal and professional papers of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon as well as family papers. The collections are catalogued as two separate collections, but the finding aids refer to related material.
1 folder (.5 in):
British Quaker; chairman of
the Friends Peace Committee (
Pamphlets.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
Post Family Papers, 1742-1908.
25 folders.
Mary and Joseph Post
were members of the Society of Friends and active in a number of 19th century
reform movements including abolition, peace, and women's rights. Joseph, the
son of Edmund and Catharine (Willits) Post of Westbury,
Correspondence received by Mary and Joseph Post from 1833 to
1882. Also includes a letter from Elias Hicks to Willet Robbins, a letter received
from the English Quaker minister, Martha Routh (1782),
and a number of family deeds and other papers. Correspondents of Joseph and
Mary Post include Anna Greene, John Ketcham, Amy (Kirby)
and Isaac Post, Joseph Dugdale, James and Lucretia
Mott, and Cyrus Peirce. Topics include the illness of Priscilla Cadwallader, "modern" abolitionism, spiritualism
and the "
Papers, 1960-1997.
22.5 linear in.
Charles C. Price; professor
of chemistry at the
Includes papers documenting Charles C. Price's work for peace, world federalism, and environmental protection.
Papers, 1917-1923.
1 linear ft.
Quaker
architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley,
Chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with
Friends War Victims Relief Committee in
7 items in folder.
Correspondence and other records of the Social Action Committee, 1981-83, relating to the peace testimony.
1 folder (.125 in):
Operated an emergency maternity hospital in
France near the front during World War I; performed relief work in Vienna and
the Ruhr Valley between the wars; chairman of the Friends Service Council’s
France and Switzerland Committee; vice chairman of the Friends Germany Emergency
Committee; worked for Friends agencies and also the International Commission
for the Assistance of Child Refugees up to World War Two; returned to France
to do more aid work after World War II; involved with the Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom.
Pamphlets.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
also FHL PG 7
1 folder (.125 in):
One of several international Quaker centers under the direction of the Friends Council for International Service and the American Friends Service Committee.
Pamphlet.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1 folder (.125 in):
Canadian Quaker organization;
educates the public about prisons.
Pamphlet, flyers.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Quaker Conference on Investments
1 folder (.25 in):
Held November 2, 1972; organized by the Friend Coordinating Committee on Peace; discussed socially responsible investing for individual Friends and trustees of Friends organizations.
Report, letter.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
1 folder (.5 in):
One of two sites of the Quaker United Nations
Office, a non-governmental organization run by the Friends World Committee for
Consultation to voice Quaker concerns on the international stage.
Newsletters.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1 folder (.25 in):
British Quaker organization; created by the merger of the Friends Service Council and the Peace and International Relations Committee; became Quaker Peace and Social Witness in 2001; umbrella for British Quaker service.
Pamphlets.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Quaker Peace Centre
1 folder (.125 in):
Located in Cape Town, South Africa; opened in 1988; offers self-help training, projects for the unemployed, and workshops on non-violence, conflict resolution, and mediation; a Resource Centre for Peace Education.
Pamphlet, report.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
1 folder (.5 in):
Created by the Friends Association for Higher Education in 1986 based on Kenneth
Boulding’s proposal that there should be a network
of Quaker scholars and a Quaker research center.
Newsletters, letters.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Collection, 1970-[ongoing].
5 linear in.
Based at the United
Nations; sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee; works to represent
Quakers worldwide through both the New York and Geneva Quaker Houses; activities
include attendance at UN meetings, consultation with UN delegates and discussion
with other non-governmental organizations. The Office represents the Friends
World Committee on Consultation as well as AFSC.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Quaker Witness & Wait-In for the Unconditional
Relief of All Who Suffer in
1 folder
An effort to convince the United States government to allow Quaker organizations to send aid to Vietnam, culminating in a week long wait-in at various State Department offices in the week before Christmas, 19?? [undated]
Published appeal.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
1 folder (.125 in):
Organized meeting and vigil to end the Vietnam war; held in Lafayette Park,
Washington, D.C. May 9-11, 1970.
Flyer, letters.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Read, James Morgan, 1908-1985
Papers, 1951-1987.
12 boxes (6 linear ft.).
James Read was a Quaker
and President of
The bulk of the collection documents James Read's
work as a consultant after 1974. His diaries date from his association with
Organized into series : 1. Biographical material; 2. Correspondence,
1950-87; 3. Diaries, 1961-82; 4. Speeches and seminar presentations, 1960-84;
5.Published articles, 1950-85; 6.
3 folders (1 in):
The Religious Society of Friends
in
Letters (in German and English), pamphlets (in German and English).
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1 folder (.25 in):
The Religious Society of Friends
in
Pamphlets, statements, appeals.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
Collection, 1948-1970.
1 linear in.
Barbara
Reynolds was a Quaker and pacifist who founded the World Friendship Center in
Hiroshima,
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
2 folders (1 in):
Convinced Quaker; educator; concerned with
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and nuclear weapons; organized a 1962 visit of Hibakusha (a-bomb survivors or ‘explosion affected people’)
to the United States and Europe; entered the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s
H-bomb test site aboard his yacht Phoenix
in 1958; later used the Phoenix in
an unsuccessful attempt to carry letters from Hiroshima to the Soviet Union,
and in a successful attempt to deliver medical supplies to North Vietnam.
Pamphlets, news articles (in Japanese and English), published articles,
letters, flyers, misc. publications and manuscripts.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Collection, 1929-1953.
2 linear in.
Grace Rhoads, recipient
of a Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1933, was a world-traveling
activist for the causes of children's relief and education, peace and international
goodwill. She was associated with the American Friends Service Committee for
Freundschaftsheim, a community founded by Pastor Wilhelm
Mensching in
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Collection, 1819-1844.
5 items.
Founded
in 1818 as the "Rhode-Island and
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
1 folder (.125 in)
1940-1942
Quaker brothers; both jailed for refusing to register with the Selective Service
during World War II
Legal papers, news articles.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Richardson, Channing Bulfinch, 1917-
Collection, 1968-1972.
1 linear in.
Quaker and conscientious
objector serving in Civilian Public Service during World War II; involved in
draft counseling during the Vietnamese Conflict; professor at
Correspondence includes letters responding to requests for support of conscientious objector status applications written by former students and/or Quaker acquaintances. He wrote letters on their behalf to various draft boards.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Papers, 1905-1934.
1 linear ft.
Born in Newcastle upon
Tyne, England; M.A. degree from Cambridge University; science instructor, lecturer,
author, pacifist, Quaker; visited British prisoner of war camps during World
War I; promoted disarmament, internationalism, world government, and war tax
resistance; as a member of the Emergency Committee of the Society of Friends
during World War I, he visited and gave assistance to enemy aliens imprisoned
in England; was particularly interested in the relationship of natural phenomena
to political events.
Includes correspondence (1911-1934), writings by Hugh Richardson
including manuscripts of articles, letters to the editor, and travel journals
(1921-1931); of special note are letters (1917-1918) from and about German war
prisoners in the
1 folder (.25 in):
Quaker; scientist, researcher,
and philosopher of peace.
Biography.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Records, 1930-1950.
1.75 linear ft.
Small local peace group
begun in 1930 to stimulate popular education and public opinion with a view
to the prevention of war; officers included Kathleen Whitaker Sayre, McCarrell H. Leiper, and Walter
B. MacKellar; admitted to the National Peace Conference
in 1937; carried on relief work during World War II through the American Friends
Service Committee; dissolved in 1950.
Annual reports (1932-1949), minutes (1930-1950), correspondence (1931-1949),scattered financial reports, fliers, clippings, memoranda, and other materials, relating to the activities of the association including sponsorship of public dinner meetings with prominent peace speakers, sending peace literature to schools, churches, and synagogues, holding essay contests, sending resolutions to government leaders, sending delegates to peace conferences, and sponsoring the Youth Peace Group, and its relationship with National Peace Conference and its relief work through American Friends Service Committee during World War II. Persons represented include former presidents McCarrell H. Leiper and Walter B. MacKellar and executive secretary Kathleen Whitaker Sayre. Correspondents include Ralph A. Gamble and Caroline O'Day.
2 boxes ; 1 linear ft.
The Rogerenes
were members of a pacifist religious sect founded by John Rogers (1648-1721)
in
The Rogerenes of New England collection contains research materials
and some original manuscript and published works by the Rogerenes which were collected by Ellen Starr Brinton during her tenure as Curator of the Swarthmore College
Peace Collection, 1935-1951. She wrote several articles on the sect and compiled
an extensive bibliography of sources.
Organized into five series: 1. Correspondence and papers relating to Ellen Starr Brinton's Rogerene bibliography; 2. Rogerene reference material; 3. Ida Whipple Benham; 4. Rogerene writings; 5. Pictures.
1 folder (.25 in):
British Quaker; opposed war; supported disarmament.
Pamphlets.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1 folder (.25 in):
British Quaker; treasurer of the Peace Pledge
Pamphlet.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Collection, 1947-1987.
2 linear in.
Bayard Rustin was a
Pennsylvania-born, African-American Quaker who was concerned with 
nonviolence,
socialism, civil rights, race relations, and international relations. He was
connected with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee,
War Resisters League, Congress of Racial Equality, and Committee for Nonviolent
Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation. He was imprisoned during World
War II for draft refusal based on his absolute pacifism.
Biographical information, writings, speeches,
1970 testimonial dinner; audiocassette of Rustin singing.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this individual.
1 folder (.125 in):
British Quaker; physician; long time Labour M.P. (House of Commons); opposed imperialism; went on a lecture tour of 20 U.S. cities in 1936 on behalf of Emergency Peace Campaign.
Pamphlets.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1 folder (.125 in):
Quaker; twice jailed for refusing to register for the draft in World War II.
News articles.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
1 folder (.125 in):
Quaker: conscientious objector in World War
II; drove an ambulance for the American Field Service; received the Order of
the
New articles.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Satterthwait,
Charles Sr.
1 folder (.125 in):
Birthright Quaker; left the Society of Friends
to register for the draft during World War II; served as a lieutenant in the
Army Corps of Engineers; father of Arnold Chase and Charles Jr. (above).
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Papers, 1845-1851, [n.d.]
3 folders.
This collection consists of documents relating to the withdrawal of Elizabeth Sellers from the Society of Friends and her subsequent disownment. Included is a letter from to Darby Monthly Meeting explaining her reasons for leaving the Society of Friends. In the letter she accuses Quakers of failing to take action on issues of temperance, pacifism, and abolition. Also included are genealogical notes on the Sellers family.
3 boxes (14 in):
Political activist; founder and senior scholar of the Albert Einstein Institution; long-time advocate of non-violent civil disobedience and civilian-based defense; author.
News articles, pamphlets, flyers,
letters, excerpts from manuscripts, manuscript of his book Politics of Nonviolent Action.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
1 folder (.125 in):
Leading Quaker; president of
Pamphlets.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
1 folder
Quaker; professor; opposed the H-bomb and favored disarmament; was denied a permanent position at Stanford University in 1958, in a controversial decision.
Pamphlets, flyers, news articles.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
1 folder
Long time activist; writer; member of the
board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; went to the
News articles.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
12.5 linear in.
Collection is a variety of materials relating to the peace
activities and concerns of the Society of Friends in the
The bulk of the collection is in printed or mimeographed form, with some typed or photocopied items also present. Included are pamphlets, tracts, leaflets, articles and reprints, reports, speeches, statements, form letters, announcements and papers relating to conferences and other meetings, and clippings. The collection was microfilmed in 1979. In 2003, a large amount of material duplicated elsewhere in the Peace Collection was removed, so that the material in the boxes no longer corresponds to the material on the microfilm. Primary source material was transferred to the appropriate record group in Friends Historical Library.
Available on microfilm (5 reels)
on interlibrary loan from the
5 reels of microfilm.
Collection is a variety of materials on microfilm relating
to the peace activities and concerns of the Society of Friends in the
Microfilm reproduction of originals in:
Collection, 1910-1979, (bulk) 1925-1979.
4 linear ft.
Edith Solenberger;
a Quaker from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, graduated from
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official
repository for the papers of this individual.
1 folder (.125 in):
British Quakers; planned to sail a fishing
boat into the
News articles.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1 folder
Quaker; delegate to the 1908 Peace Conference
in
Letter.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
1 folder
Quaker; emigrated from the
Pamphlets, articles, quiz.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
Records, 1944-1989.
3 folders
Records of the Peace Committee of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, also called the Peace & World Order or Peace & Social Order Committee, 1944-1989. Includes: Minutes and miscellaneous records, 1944-50, Displaced Persons, 1950, and Correspondence, 1954-89.
Minutes, 1980-1994.
3 folders
Minutes of the Refugee Committee of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, 1980-1994. Includes: 1980-84, 1985-88, and 1989-94. Stored in box with Peace Committee records.
Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of
Friends). Sanctuary Committee
Miscellaneous Records, 1985-1988.
1 folder.
Miscellaneous records of the Sanctuary Committee of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, 1985-1988. Includes: minutes, correspondence, and publicity. Stored in box with Peace Committee records.
Miscellaneous Re-Investment And Low-Cost
Housing Records, 1987-1989.
1 folder.
Miscellaneous re-investment and low-cost housing records of the Social Concerns Committee of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, 1987-1989. Includes: minutes of the Committee on Social Concerns, 2mo 1987, 1mo 1988, & 1mo 1989,mailings, and publicity. Stored in box with Peace Committee records.
Miscellaneous Records, 1949-1980.
2 folders.
Miscellaneous records of the Social Order Committee of Swarthmore Monthly Meeting, 1985-1988. Includes: minutes (gaps), correspondence, and publicity. Stored in box with Peace Committee records.
1 folder (.125 in):
British Quaker; spent much of her life in
India; was a friend of Rabindranath Tagore, Mohandas Gandhi, and C.F. Andrews; member of the General
Committee of the Indian Fellowship or Reconciliation; attended the World Pacifist
Meeting, 1949-1950.
Biographical information.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1936
1 folder
Birthright Quaker; fought in World War I,
but decided that Quakers were correct in their opposition to war; wrote pamphlets
to discourage youth to oppose war.
Pamphlet.
Collection, 1916-1935, 1916-1918.
1 linear in.
Fred W. Taylor, a lawyer, was a Quaker who pursued
an extensive World War I war debt recovery plan through correspondence with
national business leaders and international decision makers. The plan and their responses comprise this collection.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Family Papers, 1869-1943.
1 linear ft.
British-American
Quaker, of
Correspondence, diaries (8v., 1894-1896, 1936-1944), the earlier ones describing a trip to England and Europe taken by Thomas and her husband, Richard Henry Thomas (1854-1904), a Baltimore physician, drawings, notes, albums, poems, and photos; together with notebook (1869-1871), of Richard Henry Thomas while a student at Haverford College, Haverford, Pa., article and related materials concerning the couple's daughter, Henrietta Martha Thomas (1879-1919) and her World War I pacifist service in Germany and Austria, and material relating to the history of the Braithwaite and Thomas families.
Collected Papers Of Edward Thomas And Margaret
Loring Thomas, 1917-1952, 1919-1945.
3 linear in.
Edward Thomas was a
chemist and chemical patent lawyer in New York City; his wife Margaret Loring
Thomas had been active in settlement work and a teacher of home economics before
marriage; both were activist, pacifist Quakers.
Includes Edward Thomas's correspondence on behalf of refugees and
prisoners of war, 1917-1918, through the Emergency Committee for the Assistance
of Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians in Distress; correspondence with conscientious
objector Harold Blickenstaff, 1943-1945; writings
of Edward and Margaret Thomas; and material about the
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official
repository for the papers of these individuals.
Papers, 1939.
1 folder.
Grace A. Thomas, a graduate
of Westtown Boarding School, taught physical education at Russell Sage College
in Troy, NY.; lectured to students on the Quaker peace testimony.
This collection includes a 1939 article published by Grace A. Thomas in The Friend, entitled "The Quaker Attitude Toward War." Also included are letters from Henry J. Cadbury and E. S. Palmer regarding this article.
1 folder (1 in):
Quaker; involved in opposing every major conflict since World War Two; against nuclear weapons.
Letters, news articles, flyers, pamphlets, other documents.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
1 folder (.125 in):
Founded in 1969; involved
in helping make it easier for families of prisoners to visit them; runs a center
for the elderly; lends a minibus to other organizations; adopted a family of
Vietnamese boat people; runs Quaker Cottage, an activity center for children
from West and North Belfast; supports holidays for parents under stress; works
with youth who have suffered from violence.
Pamphlet.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Records, 1846-1938; (bulk)1867-1923
12.5 linear ft.
Founded in 1866 to remove the causes of war;
championed 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 years as president of the UPU; many members,
including Alfred H. Love, were Quakers; dissolved in 1920.
Records (1866-1920) of Universal Peace Union including minutes (1891-1920), scattered correspondence, membership lists, financial and serial subscription records, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and photos; together with diaries (1848-1912) and other personal papers of Alfred H. Love and a small collection of personal papers (ca. 1891-1915) of Mary Frost Ormsby Evans. Includes material relating to Pennsylvania Peace Society. Correspondents include Clara Barton, Carter, Amanda Deyo, Mary Frost Ormsby Evans, Julia Ward Howe, Belva A. Lockwood, and Alfred H. Love. Includes the following periodicals: Philadelphia Tribune, vol. 5, no. 3 (Nov. 1867); The Bond of Peace (1868-1871); The Voice of Peace (1872-1882); and The Peacemaker and Court of Arbitration (1882-1913) as well as related peace pamphlets, reports and the Universal Peace Union periodical for children: Leaflets for Peace for Children (1879-1882).
The repository also has microfilm (19 reels)
of the collection (excluding oversize material) available for interlibrary loan.
Collection, 1930-1955.
.5 linear in.
Caroline Foulke
Urie had been a resident of Jane Addams' Hull House,
where she introduced the Montessori kindergarten method into the
Manuscript essay "Jane Addams' Personality", and letters from Jane Addams.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Collection, 1957-1983.
1 linear in.
Quaker; was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in
World War II; was on the field staff of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (1948-1960);
served as College Program Director for the Middle Atlantic Region of the American
Friends Service Committee; was Director of Field Studies for the Nonviolent
Action Research Project, Haverford College (1970s). He had been an originator
of the Appeal and Vigil at
Miscellaneous items including biographical material about Charles Walker, newsletters, photocopies of short articles and reports.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
1 folder (.125 in):
Supports Friends who wish to take action with regard to their tax dollars that are used for military spending.
Pamphlet.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Collection, 1937-1963.
2 linear in.
Collection, 1968-[ongoing].
1 linear in.
The Washington Peace
Center was organized in 1963 by District of Columbia peace activists, in cooperation
with the American Friends Service Committee; provides youth programs, conscientious
objector counseling, films, speakers, and workshops on peace topics.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Records, 1962-76.
8 vols. ; .5 linear ft.
Records of
Where available, access is through microfilm.
Access to vols. 3.3 & 3.4 is restricted.
The
Collection, 1966-1967.
.5 linear in.
Begun 1966 in Santa
Barbara, California, by Charles Hubbell, the Weekly Vigil for Peace was a campus
event which, within a year, spread to 118 locations in the U.S. Hubbell was
a member of the Santa Barbara Friends Meeting. The Vigil was a quiet, or silent,
expression of protest against the war in
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.
Papers, 1938-1967.
7.5 linear ft.
Quaker
peace leader; educator and writer.
Correspondence (1940-1967), published articles and transcripts of speeches by Whitney, biographical notes, and other papers, chiefly relating to his activities as friend and counselor to conscientious objectors, particularly those in Civilian Public Service camps. Includes material relating to the Syracuse Peace Council; correspondence relating to the New York State Board for Civilian Public Service and its efforts to counsel and assist conscientious objectors in New York State; information about Civilian Public Service, including correspondence and some minutes (1940-1946); material relating to Whitney's work with American Friends Service Committee as national secretary for peace education and peace consultant, including correspondence (1958-1967), program notes, and reference files; and correspondence with and information about Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors, National Service Board for Religious Objectors, and Pacifist Research Bureau. Correspondents include Stephen G. Cary, Harrop A. Freeman, Paul Comly French, Paul J. Furnas, Philip E. Jacob, Abraham Kaufman, Evan W. Thomas, Robert S. Vogel, Mildred C. Whitney, Harold P. Winchester, and many American Friends Service Committee staff.
Restricted
until 2020. Anyone making
reference to personal information from this collection must disguise it so that
the identity of individuals will not be disclosed.
Collected Papers Of Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm And Paul
A. Wilhelm, 1934-1978.
12.5 linear in.
Paul
A. Wilhelm served in three Civilian Public Service Units: Camp 3, Patapsco,
Md.; Camp 52, Powelsville Md.; and Camp 49,
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official
repository for the papers of Jayne and Paul Wilhelm.
Collection, 1940-1959, 1958-1959.
2.5 linear in.
Quaker peace activist;
World War II conscientious objector; worked for eight years with the Iowa regional
American Friends Service Committee; demonstrated at Fort Gulick in the Canal
Zone (pictured at right); served as an official with the Fellowship of Reconciliation;
in 1958, he took part in the voyages of the Phoenix and Golden Rule, yachts which disrupted atomic testing in the Pacific
Ocean. He and his wife, Lillian, traveled to
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.
Minutes, 1942-1962.
2 v. ; 29 cm. or smaller.
Minutes of the Peace Committee, 1942-1960/1962-63, and 1960-62.
2.5 in.
1916-1919
British Quakers; corresponded with and on
behalf of conscientious objectors in
Letters and pamphlets.
Papers, 1914-1987.
35.25 linear ft.
Quaker peace lobbyist;
helped found the Friends 
Committee
on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until
1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925.
From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section
of the American Friends Service Committee. He
was the author of two books, Uphill for
Peace: Quaker Impact on Congress (1975) and an autobiography, Thus Far On My Journey
(1976). He was married to Miriam Davidson.
The papers of E. Raymond Wilson contain personal and professional correspondence, biographical material, writings including drafts for two books, notes on travel, program of meetings and conferences he attended, a subject file, photographs, scrapbooks, sound tapes, and memorabilia. The papers of his wife Miriam Davidson Wilson (1899-1965) are also in this collection. Correspondents include Horace Alexander, Brent Dow Allinson, Iwao Fred Ayusawa, Roswell P. Barnes, Francis G. Brown, Dorothy Detzer, Harrop A. Freeman, Jeanette Hadley, Ray Newton, James M. Read, Esther B. Rhoads, John Nevin Sayre, Edward F. Snyder, Guy W. Solt, Annalee Stewart, Wilbur K. Thomas, Helen F. Topping, and Walter C. Woodward.
Organized in ten series. Important series are: A. Correspondence; B. Books, journals, occasional papers, manuscripts; D. Meetings, conferences, itineraries; I. Tapes of speeches, conference summaries, etc. Correspondence is in alphabetical order. Series D and I are in chronological order.
1 folder (.5 in):
Convinced British Quaker of Quaker ancestry; author; teacher; interested in worker’s rights; became a Labour pacifist during World War I, dedicated to the cause of peace.
Pamphlets, obituaries, biographies, articles, letters,
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
Records, 1976-1991.
7.5 linear ft.
Psychological
counselor, peace activist, Quaker.
Includes correspondence, flyers, manuscripts, card file, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, periodicals, writings, reference files, audiocassettes, slides, computer diskettes, photographs, and posters, primarily about Wiser's peace and antinuclear activities; includes information about the United Nations Conference on Women and about the Feminist International for Peace and Food, which organized the Peace Tent, held in Nairobi, Kenya in 1985 and Women's Peace Caravans which traveled throughout several countries.
Wood Family Papers, 1784-1874.
1 box ; .5 linear ft.
Samuel Wood (1760-1844)
of
Contains papers from a Quaker family active in 19th century New York
City Friends affairs, compiled by M. S. (Mary Sutton) Wood. Included
are business correspondence concerning the printing
house founded by Samuel Wood and his sons, correspondence from prominent Quakers
concerning work for social causes including abolition, freedmen, prisoners,
First Day schools, and peace. Also included is a scrapbook of genealogical material,
writings, and reminiscences by Mary S. Wood. It includes her reminiscences about
life in
Papers, 1965-2000.
6.66 linear ft.
Dorothea Eleanor Woods;
born in Rochester, New York; Quaker; received a Ph.D. from
Papers include correspondence, pamphlets, periodicals and other notes and research materials by Woods, primarily on child soldiers, also on youth and volunteerism; also includes reference materials and five photographs.
1 folder (.125 in):
Convinced Quaker; opposed vivisection and vaccination.
Pamphlet
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups: International.
1 folder (.125 in):
Located in Hiroshima, Japan;
begun in August, 1965 by Barbara Reynolds; goals include building peace, avoiding
future use of nuclear arms, and helping A-bomb survivors; welcomes newcomers
to Japan; sponsors peace discussion meetings; exchanges peace ambassadors with
other countries; initiates various activities and events is support of the United
Nations and the goal of world peace; cultivates relationships with Korean A-bomb
survivors living in Korea; supported Vietnamese victims of war.
Article.
LOCATION: Friends Historical Library: Pamphlet Group 3
Young, Mildred Binns, b. 1901
Letters from Mildred Binns
Young, 1936-1941.
3 folders.
Mildred Binns
Young was a birthright Quaker born and raised in
This collection includes letters from Mildred Binns Young to W. Wendall Clepper. These letters relate to personal and family news, as well as news of the progress and concerns of the Delta Cooperative Farm, on which she was working at the time.
1 folder (.125 in):
Quaker; teacher; was drafted during World War I, spent three years in France and Poland doing relief and reconstruction work with the American Friends Service Committee as a conscientious objector; lived in Mississippi and North Carolina from 1940 to 1955 working with share croppers and tenant farmers to help them become independent; taught at Pendle Hill; organized the 1961 San Francisco to Moscow March for Peace with A.J. Muste; repeatedly trespassed on Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha Nebraska from 1958 to 1959 to protest nuclear missiles based there, and was arrested many times; participated in the Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick; active in the Arch Street Meeting (Philadelphia) and the American Friends Service Committee until the end of his life, at age 95.
Printed statement.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
also FHL PG 7
Young Friends Committee for Peace
1 folder (.125 in):
Organized a letter writing and public information
campaign called “Mobilize for Peace” for
Newsletter, flyer.
LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected
Document Groups:
Records, 1968-1971.
1.75 linear ft.
The Young Friends of
North America, an open fellowship of Friends between the ages of 18 and 30,
established a Committee on Conscription in the fall of 1968 to facilitate communication
among Friends who were involved with draft resistance; collected information
from members of the Society of Friends who had refused to cooperate with conscription
since the 1940s as well as Friends who were currently imprisoned for draft resistance.
Questionnaires and accompanying statements on the draft and on the concept of sanctuary made by various monthly and yearly meetings of the Society of Friends, epistles, and declarations; together with a small quantity of correspondence addressed to Peter M. Blood, chairman of the committee, and information on draft resistance among members of other denominations, notably Church of the Brethren and the Mennonites.
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