Records of WILPF, Woman's Peace Party DG 043, Series A, Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399, USA
PART I: WOMAN'S PEACE PARTY, 1915-1920
SERIES A: HISTORICAL RECORDS
Historical Introduction

Scope, Contents & Arrangement

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Issues of Four Lights, newsletter of the New York City branch of the Woman's Peace Party

CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION

Box 1 [on mf reel 12:1] off-site
Outline History by Lucia Ames Mead, [1920?]
Registration Book; Conferences and Annual Meetings, 1915-1917
Organization Conference, Washington (DC), Jan. 1915: Meeting minutes, etc.
Platform; addresses (speeches)
Membership lists
Correspondence
Annual Meeting, Washington (DC), Jan. 1916: Meeting minutes, Sessions 1-3
Meeting minutes, Sessions 4-5
Proceedings of mass meeting
Hearings before Congressional Committees
Constitution [see Box 9 for printed copy of constitution adopted January 08, 1916]
Literature, Membership Lists, etc.
Printed Report (Year Book)
Second Annual Meeting, Washington (DC), Dec. 1916 Third Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (PA), Dec. 1917: Meeting minutes
Correspondence
Fourth Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (PA), Nov. 1919 Box 2 [on mf reel 12:2] off-site Executive Council: Meeting minutes, 1915 Executive Council & State Chairmen Meeting, New York, Nov. 1915: Reports, resolutions, etc. Executive Board: Meeting minutes, 1916
Meeting minutes, 1917
Meeting minutes, 1918
Meeting minutes, 1919
Resolutions, 1915-1919 National Office Secretary: Reports, 1916-1917 State Chairmen, 1915-1918: Correspondence, releases, membership lists, etc. Legislative Committee: Meeting minutes, releases, reports, 1916-1919
Resolutions endorsed, 1915-1916
Literature, etc., 1916-1919
Financial records, 1915-1918
Releases (form letters), 1915-1919
Box 3 [on mf reel 12:3] off-site Registration Book, WPP National Headquarters, Chicago (IL) International Congress of Women at The Hague: American Delegation, 1915 International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace: American Committee, 1915-1919 Literature, etc., 1915 Four Lights (periodical), New York City branch, 1917, 1919 National tour of The Trojan Women, Chicago (IL) Little Theatre Company, 1915 [see also Series B,1, Box 12;: & Photograph Collection]
Newsclippings, 1915-1919
Box 4 [on mf reel 12:3] off-site State Branches, 1915-1919: California Branch
Chicago Branch
Connecticut Branch
New Jersey Branch
Pennsylvania Branch -- Meeting minutes, membership lists
Pennsylvania Branch -- Finances; bills and correspondence
Pennsylvania Branch -- Bank account books
Pennsylvania Branch -- Literature, etc.
Washington (DC) Branch -- Annual reports, Executive Committee meeting minutes
Washington (DC) Branch -- Meeting minutes, correspondence
Washington State Branch
Box 5 [on mf reel 12:4] off-site State Branches, 1915-1919: New York Branch (State & City) [name changed to Woman's International League in June 1918] -- Constitutions, 1917-1919
New York Branch (State & City) -- Principles, policies, programs, 1915-1919; New York Branch (State & City) -- Officers' lists (Letterhead), 1915-1919; New York Branch (State & City) -- Meeting minutes (State & City), 1916, 1918-1919 [see Box 9 for meeting minutes, Nov.-Dec. 1917]; New York Branch (State & City) -- Resolutions, 1915-1919; New York Branch (State & City) -- Finances, 1916-1918; New York Branch (State & City) -- Releases (NY State), 1918-1919; New York Branch (State & City) -- Releases (NY City), 1916-1918; New York Branch (State & City) -- Press releases (NY State), 1915, 1917-1919; New York Branch (State & City) -- Press releases (NY City), 1915-1918; New York Branch (State & City) -- Legislative work, 1915-1918; New York Branch (State & City) -- Literature, 1915-1919; New York Branch (State & City) -- Correspondence re: Four Lights, 1917 (NY City); New York Branch (State & City) -- Newsclippings, 1916
Box 6 [on mf reel 12:5] off-site State Branches, 1915-1919: Massachusetts Branch [name changed to League for Permanent Peace in March 1918] -- Membership, 1915-1917
Massachusetts Branch -- Organization, policy, meeting minutes, 1915-1917; Massachusetts Branch -- Form letters and releases from Executive Committee, 1915-1918; Massachusetts Branch -- Committee reports; Massachusetts Branch -- Alice Masaryk Committee; Massachusetts Branch -- Poster Committee; Massachusetts Branch -- Correspondence, 1915-1918; Massachusetts Branch -- Study classes, talks, conferences, etc., 1915-1918; Massachusetts Branch -- Misc. literature, 1915-1917; Massachusetts Branch -- Literature written by Lucia Ames Mead for the Woman's Peace Party
Box 7 [on mf reel 12:6] off-site State Branches, 1915-1919: Massachusetts Branch -- Report on stereopticon lecture tour, 1917; Massachusetts Branch -- Essay contest, 1917; Massachusetts Branch -- Reference material: Congressional reprints, 1916-1917; Massachusetts Branch -- Reference material: Government publications, 1917-1919; Massachusetts Branch -- Reference material: U.S. Congress resolutions and laws, 1916; Massachusetts Branch -- Reference material: Misc., 1918
Box 8 [on mf reel 12:7] off-site State Branches, 1918-1920: Massachusetts Branch -- Policy resolutions, meeting minutes, membership, 1918-1920; Massachusetts Branch -- Reports of annual meetings, 1918, 1920; Massachusetts Branch -- Committees (esp. Legislative), 1918-1920; Massachusetts Branch -- Conferences, study classes, 1918-1920; Massachusetts Branch -- Misc. literature and pictures, 1918-1920; Massachusetts Branch -- Correspondence, form letters, releases, 1918-1920
Box 9 [on mf reel 12:7] on-site Addendum (material from various sources): Constitution, 1916
Membership lists, 1917-1918
Misc. literature, 1915, 1918
Addendum (material from Emily Greene Balch): Historical memorandum on the proposal for continuous mediation by neutral governments in case of war, n.d.
Statements, resolutions, form letters, 1917 Newsclippings, 1916-1917 New York Branch -- Meeting minutes, 1917 New York Branch -- Releases, reports, Massachusetts Branch -- Literature, 1916 Box 9 [not on mf] on-site Resolutions, 1916 Chicago (IL) Branch: Meeting minutes & treasurer's reports, 1915-1919
Address book
Correspondence
Massachusetts Branch: Misc. literature New York Branch: Misc. literature Pennsylvania Branch: Correspondence, 1915, 1917 Miscellaneous Box 10 [not on mf] on-site Photocopy of scrapbook of newsclippings re: Massachusetts Branch activities [original in FHL Cage]
SERIES B,1: CORRESPONDENCE, NATIONAL OFFICE, CHICAGO (IL), 1915-1919
Box 1 [on mf reel 12:8] off-site Correspondence: "A" Misc., 1915
"A" Misc., 1917-1918
Abeel, Ella J., 1915-1918
Abeel, Ella J., 1915-1916
Addams, Jane, 1915
Addams, Jane, 1916
Addams, Jane, 1917
American Committee on War Finance, 1917
American Union Against Militarism, 1916-1917
Arkansas Branch, 1916
Arts Committee, 1915-1917 [see also Holbrook, Miss Florence]
"B" Misc., 1915
"B" Misc., 1917
"B" Misc., 1918
Branches, Misc., 1917-1918
Balch, Emily Greene, 1917-1918
Balch, Emily Greene, 1919
Box 1 [on mf. reel 12:9] off-site Correspondence: Breckinridge, S., 1915-1918
"Ca-Collins", Misc., 1915
"Cool-Cunningham", Misc., 1915
Box 2 [on mf reel 12:9] off-site Correspondence: "Ca-Cliff", Misc., 1916
"Co-Cu", Misc., 1916
"C", Misc., 1917
Cadwallader, J. Augustus, 1915-1917 (Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society)
California Branch, 1915-1918 (Mrs. C. E. Cumberson)
California Branch, 1915-1918
Box 2 [on mf reel 12:10] off-site Correspondence: Central Organization for a Durable Peace, 1917-1918
Chase, Miss Mary N., 1915-1917
Chicago Conference Committee on Democracy and Terms of Peace, 1917
Chicago Branch, 1917-1918
Chicago Branch, 1915-1916
Box 3 [on mf reel 12:10] off-site Correspondence: Church Peace Union, 1914-1916
Cincinnati Branch, 1915-1918
Civil Liberties Bureau, 1917-1918
Cleveland, Ohio, Branch, 1916 (Mrs. T. H. Bushnell)
Colorado Branch, 1916-1917
Committee for Democratic Control, NY, 1917
Conference of Oppressed or Dependent Nationalities, 1916
Conference of Peace Organizations, NY, 1916-1917
Connecticut Branch, 1915-1917
Conscientious Objectors, 1917-1918
County Institutes, 1916
"D" Misc., 1915
"D" Misc., 1916
Contributions, 1917-1918
"D" Misc., 1917
"D" Misc., 1918
Debates, 1916
Dehydrating food, 1917
Delaware Branch, 1915-1918 (Wilmington)
"E" Misc., 1915
"E" Misc., 1916
Box 4 [on mf reel 12:10] off-site Correspondence: "E" Misc., 1917
"E" Misc., 1918
Eastman, Crystal, 1916-1917 [see also New York City Branch]
Emergency Anti-War Committee, Chicago, 1917
Box 4 [on mf reel 12:11] off-site Correspondence: Emergency Peace Federation, NY, 1917
Evans, Mrs. E. Glendower, 1915-1918
Executive Board, 1915-1916
Executive Board, 1918-1919
Executive Board, 1917
Exhibit, Chicago (IL), 1916
"F" Misc., 1915
"F" Misc., 1916
"F" Misc., 1917
February 22, 1916
FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation), 1916-1917
Forbes, Mrs. J. Malcolm, 1916-1917
"F" Misc., 1918
Ford Peace Expedition, 1915-1916
Box 5 [on mf reel 12:11] off-site Correspondence: "G" Misc., 1915 [note: this folder was filmed twice; second filming is incomplete]
"G" Misc., 1916
Box 5 on mf reel 12:12] off-site Correspondence: "G" Misc., 1917
Gale, Zona, 1915-1917
Gamble, Miss Alma F., 1915
Gamble, Miss Alma F., 1916
Gamble, Miss Alma F., 1917-1918
German-Americans, 1917
Grueninger, Mrs. Clara E., 1915-1917
"H" Misc., 1915
"Ha" Misc., 1916
"He-Hy" Misc., 1916
"Ha-He" Misc., 1917
Box 6 [on mf reel 12:12] off-site Correspondence: "Hi-Hu" Misc., 1917
"H" Misc., 1918
Holbrook, Miss Florence, 1915-1917
Horton, Miss Clara, 1915-1916 (Canada)
Box 6 [on mf reel 12:13] off-site Correspondence: "I" Misc., 1915-1917
International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1914-1915 (Carrie Chapman Catt)
Indiana Branch, 1915-1916
Iowa, 1915-1916
"J" Misc., 1915
"J" Misc., 1916
"J" Misc., 1917-1918
Jordan, David Starr, 1915-1917 [see also Speakers]
"K" Misc., 1915
"K" Misc., 1916
"K" Misc., 1917-1918
Karsten, Mrs. Eleanor D., 1916-1917
Kellogg, Paul U., 1915-1917
Kentucky, 1915-1916
Box 7 [on mf reel 12:13] off-site Correspondence: "L" Misc., 1915
"L" Misc., 1916
"L" Misc., 1917-1918
Box 7 [on mf reel 12:14] off-site Correspondence: League for Democratic Control, 1917
League to Enforce Peace, 1916-1917
Leckie, Katherine, 1915
Legislative Committee, 1916-1919
Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1915-1918
Liberty Defense Union, 1918
Libraries, 1915-1917 -- Requests for literature
Libraries, 1915-1918 -- Requests for data on military training
Lochner, Louis P., 1916-1917 [see also Ford Peace Expedition; People's Council for Democracy and Peace]
Lockwood, Dr. Belva, 1915
Louisiana Branch, 1915-1916
"M" Misc., 1915
"M" Misc., 1917
Massachusetts Branch, 1917-1918
Mead, Lucia Ames, 1914-1918
Michigan Branch, 1915-1917 (Mrs. Frederick H. Holt, Miss Letta Thomas)
Box 8 [on mf reel 12:14] off-site Correspondence: Military Training Resolutions, 1916
Minnesota Branch, 1915 (Miss Marion Haines)
Minnesota Branch, 1915-1917 (Miss Mary C. Judd)
Minnesota Branch, 1915-1917 (Miss Hope McDonald)
Missouri Branch (St. Louis), 1915-1917
Montana Branch, 1915-1917 (Mrs. James F. Denison; Teresa O'Donnell)
Box 8 [on mf reel 12:15] off-site Correspondence: "Mc" Misc., 1915-1916
"Mc" Misc., 1917-1918
"N" Misc., 1914-1915
"N" Misc., 1916
"N" Misc., 1917-1918
Nasmyth, George W., 1917 (League to Enforce Peace, Mass. Branch)
National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. 1915 (Dr. Anna Howard Shaw)
National Council of Women, 1915-1916
Neutral Conference Committee, 1916-1917
New Jersey Branch, 1915-1918 (Mrs. Harold S. Buttenheim and Mrs. Clara S. Laddey)
Box 9 [on mf reel 12:15] off-site Correspondence: New York City Branch, 1915-1916 [see also Eastman, Crystal]
New York City Branch, 1917 [see Box 17; folder is misfiled in correspondence of New York City Branch]
New York City Branch, 1918
Nevada Branch, 1916-1917
New York Conference, Nov. 19-20, 1915
North Dakota Branch, 1915-1917 ( Mrs. C. A. Finch)
"O" Misc., 1915
"O" Misc., 1916
"O" Misc., 1917
Ohio Branch, 1915-1917 [see also Cincinnati Branch & Cleveland Branch]
Open Forum, 1916
Oregon Branch, 1916
"P" Misc., 1915
"P" Misc., 1916
Box 9 [on mf reel 12:16] off-site Correspondence: "P" Misc., 1917
"P" Misc., 1918
Peace schemes, 1917
Box 10 [on mf reel 12:16] off-site Correspondence: Pennsylvania Branch, 1916-1918 (Hannah C. Hull)
Pennsylvania, Main Line Branch, 1916-1917
Pennsylvania, West Chester Branch, 1916-1918 (Sarah Leeds)
People's Council for Democracy and Peace, NY, 1917-1918 (Louis P. Lochner)
People's Program of Preparedness, 1916-1917
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Peace Committee (4th & Arch Sts.), 1916-1917
Physical Education Bill, 1916-1917
Post, Alice Thacher, 1915
Post, Alice Thacher, 1916
Post, Alice Thacher, 1917-1918
Price, Lucien, 1916-1917 (Boston Globe)
Public Affairs Information, 1916-1917
Propaganda Committee, 1918
"Q" Misc., 1916-1917
"R" Misc., 1915
"R" Misc., 1916
"R" Misc., 1917
"R" Misc., 1918
Republican Convention, 1916
Resolutions, 1914-1915
Rhode Island Branch, 1915-1916
Romeike, Henry (Clipping Bureau), 1915
Rublee, Mrs. Juliet Barrett, 1916
Box 11 [on mf reel 12:17] off-site Correspondence: "S" Misc., 1915
"S" Misc., 1916
"Sa-Se" Misc., 1917
"Sm-Sw" Misc., 1917
"S" Misc., 1918
Schontz, Miss Eva M., 1915-1916
Schutze, Mrs. Eve, 1916
Schwimmer, Mme. Rosika, 1915
Sewall, Mrs. May Wright, 1915-1917
South Dakota, 1915-1916
Speakers, 1915-1916
Spencer, Mrs. Anna Garlin, 1915-1918
Stoy, Miss Grace W., 1915 (Anniston, Alabama)
Box 12 [on mf reel 12:17] off-site Correspondence: "T" Misc., 1915-1916
The Trojan Women, 1915 -- Correspondence and finances [see also Series A, Box 3; & Photograph Collection]
"T" Misc., 1917-1918
Box 12 [on mf reel 12:18] off-site Correspondence: Taussig, Mrs. Florence G., 1917-1919 (Treasurer)
Tennessee Branch, 1915
Texas, 1916
Thomas, Mrs. Harriet, 1915-1916
Thomas, Mrs. Harriet, 1917
Thomas, Mrs. Harriet, 1916-1917 -- Speaking engagements
Thomas, Mrs. Harriet, 1916
University summer lectures
Tower Hill, Wisconsin, Conference, 1916
"U" Misc., 1915-1917
U.S. Senate, 1915-1917
"V" Misc., 1915-1917
Vermont Branch, 1915-1917
"W" Misc., 1915
Box 13 [on mf reel 12:18] off-site Correspondence: "W" Misc., 1916
"W" Misc., 1917
"W" Misc., 1918
Wald, Miss Lillian D., 1914-1917
Washington, DC, Branch, 1915-1917 [see also White, Mrs. John Jay]
White, Mrs. John Jay, 1915-1917
Wilmarth, Mrs. Mary H., 1915-1917 [see also Chicago Branch]
Telegram to President Wilson, 1915
Wales, Miss Julia Grace, 1915-1918
Box 13 [on mf reel 12:19] off-site Correspondence: Wilson, Woodrow, 1916-1918
Wisconsin Branch, 1915-1917 (Miss L. P. Kellogg)
World Peace Foundation, 1915-1917
"X, Y, Z" Misc., 1915-1917
SERIES B,2: CORRESPONDENCE, NEW YORK BRANCH, 1915-1919

Box 14 [on mf reel 12:20] off-site
Correspondence: "A" 1915-1916
"A" 1917-1919
Addams, Jane, 1916-1918
"B" 1915-1917
"B" 1918-1919
Balch, Emily Greene, 1918
"C" 1915-1916
"C" 1917
"C" 1918-1919
"D" 1915-1916
"D" 1917
Box 15 [on mf reel 12:20] off-site Correspondence: "D" 1918-1919
Dennett, Mary Ware, 1917
Doty, Madeleine Z., 1918-1919
"E" 1915-1919
Box 15 [on mf reel 12:21] off-site Correspondence: "E" 1915-1919, cont. (starts with Ei, April 1917)
Eastman, Crystal, 1915-1918
Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 1916-1917
"F" 1915-1919
"G" 1915-1917
"G" 1918-1919
"H" 1915-1916
Box 16 [on mf reel 12:21] off-site Correspondence: "H" 1917
"H" 1918-1919
Hull, Dr. William and Hannah Clothier, 1917-1918
"I" 1915-1919
"J" 1915-1919
"K" 1916-1917
"K" 1918-1919
"L" 1916-1917
"L" 1918-1919
Box 16 [on mf reel 12:22] off-site Correspondence: "L" 1918-1919, cont. (Starts with Li, 1918)
Leach, Mrs. Harry G., 1918-1919
"M" 1915-1916
"M" 1917
"M" 1918-1919
Box 17 [on mf reel 12:22] off-site Correspondence: "Mac/Mc" 1915-1919
Mead, Lucia Ames, 1916-1919
"N" 1915-1919
New York State -- Executive Dept., 1917-1918; Legislative Dept., 1916-1917
New York City Branch, 1917 [note: this folder is misfiled; it should be in Box 9, correspondence of the National Office]
New York City -- Dept. of Education, 1915-1917; Dept. of Health, 1916
"O" 1915-1919
"P" 1915-1919
Pinchot, Mrs. Amos (Gertrude M.), 1916-1919
"R" 1915-1917
"R" 1918-1919
"S" 1915-1916
"S" 1917
Box 18 [on mf reel 12:23] off-site Correspondence: "S" 1918-1919
"T" 1915-1919
"U" 1915-1919 and "V" 1915-1919
United States-- Executive Dept., 1915-1919; Legislative Dept., 1915-1918
"W" 1915-1917
"W" 1918-1919
Wald, Lillian D., 1916-1919
Warbasse, Mrs. James P. (Agnes), 1916-1917, 1919
"Williams" Controversy, 1918 (Mrs. Frank F. Williams)
Woman's Peace Party (National), 1915-1919
Woman's Peace Party (State Branches), 1915-1918
"Y" 1915-1919 and "Z" 1915-1918
Four Lights, newsletter of the New York branch of WILPF: also available on microfilm, Reel 23:01 - 1917 January 27 - 1917 February 6 - 1917 February 10 - 1917 February 24 - 1917 March 10 - 1917 March 24 - 1917 April 7 - 1917 April 21 - 1917 May 5 - 1917 May 19 - 1917 June 2 - 1917 June 16 - 1917 June 30 - 1917 July 14 - 1917 July 28 - 1917 August 11 - 1917 August 25 - 1917 September 8 - 1917 September 22 - 1917 October 6 - 1917 October 20 - 1919 June 12

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