Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399, USA

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PART II: WILPF INTERNATIONAL OFFICE (Geneva, Switzerland)

Scope, Contents & Arrangement

Appendix A: List of Officers & Staff

Appendix B: Historical Introduction (by Eleanor Barr, 198_)

Appendix C: List of International Congresses

Note to researchers: Be sure to search the entire WILPF checklist for more information on your
person/topic of interest, which might be contained in other parts/series, or in other SCPC archival
collections.

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CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION

Box 1 [not on mf] on-site
Miscellaneous Material
Memos from women at International Congress of Women (The Hague, April 28 - May 01, 1915) re:

proposed conference of netural nations

"The Prayer of the Nations" by Julia Grace Wales (in 4 languages)
Maison Internationale, Geneva, Switzerland: 1919-1939 guest-book (photocopy); 3 postcards with image

of building

Pamphlet "A new peace: report of the International Conference of Women at the Hague, 7 to 9 December

1922" [catalogued]

"Economic Aspects of a New International Order," addresses by Marguerite Dumont and Emily Greene

Balch at 1924 International Congress

Visit to Philadelphia by 25 foreign delegates (to 1924 International Congress); list of U.S. delegates (to

1924 International Congress?)

Jane Addams' note to Walter Page (04/25/1915), and hand-written note (1925)
Alice Thatcher Post passports (1925, 1929); ship passenger lists (1915, 1919); writings [see also 1915

International Congress of Women at the Hague for Post's working copies of documents]

Delegate tickets of Mildred Scott Olmsted to 1929 and 1937 International Congresses; invitation received

during 1970-1971 International Congress

Delegate ticket of Hannah Clothier Hull to 1932 International Congress
Constitution/Bylaws/Rules of Order for WILPF, as amended at 1934 International Congress
Delegate ticket of Ellen Starr Brinton to 1937 International Congress

Notes re: original and photocopied material deaccessioned from the SCPC and sent to Boulder in April

1997

Box 2 [not on mf] on-site
[Note: copies of circular/international letters were only kept if they had not been microfilmed]
Circular Letters
No. 1-25 (Nov. 1934 - May 1936)
No. 1-10 (May 1936 - May 1937)
No. 2-12 (Sept.-Dec. 1937)
No. 1-27 (Jan.-Dec. 1938)
No. 1-22 (Jan.-Dec. 1939)
No. 1-4 (March-Aug. 1940)
No. 1-19 (Sept. 1946 - May 1949)
No. 1-11 (Oct. 1949-Sept. 1950)
G.B. [Gertrude Baer] International Letters
No. 1/1955-1956 - 3/1958 (Oct. 1955 - Dec. 1958)

Box 3 (1/2 box) [not on mf] on-site
E.Z. [Else Zeuthen] Circular Letters
No. 1/1962 - No. 6/1963 (Jan. 1962 - Oct. 1963), No. 3 (11/19/1956), No. 5 (01/17/1957), No. 6 (11/21/1961)
No. 1/1964 - No. 3/1965 (Jan. 1964 - June 1965)
D.H. [Dorothy Hutchinson] Circular Letters
No. 2 (1965), No. 2-3 (1968)
E.B. Circular Letter
No. 5 (1969)

Box 4 (1/2 box) [not on mf] on-site
Biographical Material re: WILPF International staff/leaders
International WILPF directories / officers' lists, 1968-
International biographies

Collective
Misc., A-Z
Augspurg, Dr. Anita (Germany)
Aull, Maria
Baer, Gertrude (Germany)
Ballantyne, Edith (Switzerland)
Brittain, Vera (Great Britain)
Bruin, Janet (Switzerland)
Capy, Marcelle (France)
Courtney, Kathleen D. (Great Britain)
Cusden, Phoebe E. (Great Britain)
Duchêne, Gabrielle (France)
Harrison, Agatha (Great Britain)
Heymann, Lida Gustava (Germany)
Höjer, Signe (Sweden)
Hoppstock-Huth, Magda (Germany)
Hussey, Mauricle (Great Britain)
Jacobs, Dr. Aletta H. (The Netherlands)
Jodai, Tano (Japan)
Jouve, Andree (France)
Ligt-Van Rossem, Catherina Lydia de (Switzerland)
Macmillan, Chrystal (Great Britain)
MacPhail, Agnes (Canada)
Mohr, Marie Lous (Norway)
Myrdal, Ava (Sweden)
Nayar, Dr. Sushila (India)
Ragaz, Clara (Switzerland)
Rolland, Madeleine (France)
Schwimmer, Rosika (Hungary)
Tiller, Phyllis M. (Great Britain)
Trocmé, Magda (France)
Zeuthen, Else (Denmark)

Box 5 on-site [and on mf reel 141.1] (Click here for more information about the Congress Reports available on microfilm)
International Congress Reports
Background Information re: Congresses
Congress Reports #1-3 (1915-1921)

Box 6 on-site [and on mf reel 141.1 (1924) & reel 141.2 (1926-1949)]
International Congress Reports
Congress Reports #4-11 (1924-1949)

Box 7 on-site [and on mf reel 141.2 (1953) & reel 141.3 (1956-1983)]
International Congress Reports
Congress Reports #12-22 (1953-1983)

Box 8 on-site [and on mf reel 141.3 (1986) & reel 141.4 (1989-1998)]
International Congress Reports
Congress Reports #23-27 (1986-1998)
Congress Report "Water, Woman, Peace," 2004 [not on mf]