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Archival collections are listed alphabetically below; see notes under each collection for
restrictions, microfilm availability, and online finding aids

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: U.S.

Park, Alice Locke
Collection, 1913-1948.
.5 linear in.

Born in Boston in 1861 of New England Quakers; her activism grew from her concerns for woman's suffrage, humane education and peace. She traveled and lectured extensively on these topics, and represented the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom on the Henry Ford Peace Ship, 1915-1916. She was a pacifist, Socialist, vegetarian, and a member of the Humane Society, National Child Labor Committee, and the Housewives Union. Much of her public life was as a suffragist both in the United States and Great Britain.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S.

Paschkis, V. (Victor), 1898-1991
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.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 119.

Peace Action Center (Washington, D.C.)
Records, 1959-1963.
6.25 linear ft.

Began in 1961 as a continuation of the vigil at Fort Detrick, Md. (1959-1961) which urged abandonment of biological weapons and appealed for the conversion of the fort into a world health center; included cooperative living quarters for the staff of religious pacifists, mostly Quakers; disbanded fall 1963.

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 Washington, D.C., nonviolent action training programs, and community peace education. Correspondents include PAC staff including Lawrence Scott, director, and Jack L. Bagley, Sarah Bishop, Florence Y. Carpenter, Bertha Faust, William R. Martin, Gelston McNeil, and Patricia Parkman. Other correspondents include Ross W. Anderson, Albert Bigelow, Elizabeth J. Boardman, Helen H. Corson, Don DeVault, Ross Flanagan, Norman K. Gottwald, Hugh B. Hester, Bradford Lyttle, A.J. Muste, Tracy D. Mygatt, Vernon Nash, Stephen D. Pfeiffer, Barbara L. Reynolds, Bayard Rustin, Willard Uphaus, Charles C. Walker, Robert Wayland-Smith, George Willoughby, and Wilmer J. Young.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 93.

Peace Association of Friends in America
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 Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection, DG 027; use microfilm Reel 80.1-80.3

Peace Center of Miami
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 Northeast Philadelphia
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 (Philadelphia) Friends who were members of the Quaker meetings at Oxford and Penn Streets and Unity and Waln Streets. In order to include a broader group of denominations as well as a wider geographic area, the name was changed to the Peace Council of Northeast Philadelphia. Walter C. Longstreth, a leading Philadelphia Quaker, and Wayne Dockthorn of the Fellowship of Reconciliation were among the leaders who enlisted participation by ministers from churches in the area. Monthly meetings, peace rallies, and special speakers were among the Council's

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S.

Peace House (Greenloaning, Scotland)
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 Philadelphia, moving later to New York City, and eventually to Cambridge, Mass. Its objective was educational, including a campaign of 20,000 appeals to President Franklin Roosevelt for an immediate declaration of American Peace Aims. Officers were: the Chairman, Dr. George Hartman of Harvard; Executive Secretary Bessie Simon, formerly of the America First Committee; and Dorothy Hutchinson, a Quaker author and public speaker for Peace Now. Their activities apparently ceased with the chairman's adverse reaction to the way the movement was portrayed in the press, including charges (unfounded) of sedition.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S.

Pendle Hill (School : Wallingford, Pa.)
Records 1915-[ongoing].
39 boxes ; 26 linear ft.

Pendle Hill is a Quaker study center located in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1930 out of an earlier Quaker institution, the Woolman School. The Woolman School was established in 1915 under the care of the General Conference Committee of the Seven Yearly Meetings (Hicksite). In 1917, it was reorganized as a joint enterprise of Hicksite and Orthodox Friends, and was governed by a Board of Managers. The Woolman School was incorporated in 1918. In 1928, it was reorganized as a non-degree granting graduate level study and retreat center. In 1930, the name was changed to Pendle Hill and it was moved to its present location. In addition to offering classes and lectures, Pendle Hill publishes pamphlets and other writings on religious and social concern.

This collection includes the records of Pendle Hill, a Quaker study and cooperative living center, and of its predecessor, the Woolman School.  The records include minutes, student and staff files, course material, financial records, correspondence, and related papers. Of particular interest are the correspondence files of the Joseph and Edith Platt, Henry T. Hodgkin, Howard and Anna Cox Brinton, D. Robert Yarnall, and the Board Of Directors. Topics of particular interest include the 1998 Conference on "Friends and the Vietnam War."

Organized into ten series:  I. Official records; II. Staff and student files, arranged alphabetically; III. Minutes; IV. Material on the Woolman School and its alumni organization; V. Pendle Hill records (bulk 1928-1940), including the files relating to Henry T. Hodgkin, D. Robert Yarnall, Joseph Platt, and the Brintons, in addition to histories and course materials; VI. Financial records from 1914 to the present; VII. Correspondence, primarily from the 1930s and arranged generally alphabetically by recipient; VIII. Miscellaneous material; IX. Publications deposited by Pendle Hill; X. Conferences and special programs.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG4/066 and Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: U.S.

Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society
Collection, 1908-1926.
2.5 linear in.

Held in Philadelphia, May 1908, the Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Conference set up an executive committee which founded the Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society on December, 1909. Early in 1912, the Society became a branch of the American Peace Society, but as a result of a change in the latter's constitution in 1915 the Pennsylvania group withdrew. The Pennsylvania Arbitration and Peace Society reported branches in Pittsburgh, Titusville, Cumberland Valley, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia. Prominent leaders, all Quakers, included William I. Hull, Albert J. Linton, J. Augustus Cadwallader and Stanley R. Yarnall. The Society's active work ended during World War I. Yarnall reported in 1946 to the Peace Collection that the main body of the Society's papers were destroyed due to deterioration about 1921. The records in the Peace Collection may represent the extant information on this group.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S.

Philadelphia Council for Conscientious Objectors
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.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Philadelphia Peace Association of Friends
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

Philadelphia Peace Center
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 Peace Center was formed under the sponsorship of Friends Peace Committee of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.  In 1965, direct connection with the Friends Peace Committee was terminated, representing a more ecumenical outreach in coordinating peace groups in the Philadelphia area.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Philadelphia War Tax Resistance
Records, 1970-[ongoing].
8.5 linear ft.

The Philadelphia War Tax Resistance was an outgrowth of A Quaker Action Group, which was an associate member of the War Resisters League and of the Society of Friends. As part of a national movement known as War Tax Resistance, the local group became known as Philadelphia War Tax Resistance/War Resisters League in 1975. It was one of 190 centers for the national organization.

Includes correspondence, administrative files, court records, financial records, minutes of meetings, periodicals, and reference files.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 182.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
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 U.S. Civil War, American Quakers debated the issues of pacifism and conscientious objection, and many Quakers suffered fines or imprisonment for their refusal to bear arms.

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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, SC/095.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Friends Peace Committee

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Social Concerns

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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG2/Ph.

Pickard, Bertram, 1892-1973 and Irene Pickard
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.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, Foreign. Gt. Britain,.

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 Virginia (1920-1928) and finally as a research economist for the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor (1928-1956). She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1913, taught school briefly, and received an M.A. from the University of Virginia in 1923. During her retirement years, Pidgeon became active in the work of the Society of Friends.

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 Alexandria Boarding School, Alexandria, Va., Earlham College, Richmond, Ind., George School, Bucks County, Pa., Swarthmore College, and Taylor Academy, Wilmington, Del.  Persons represented include Pidgeon's grandfathers, William Williams (1816-1893) and Samuel Lukens Pidgeon (1817-1902), her mother, Susan Talbott Williams Pidgeon (1860-1942), her sister, Dorothy Everett Pidgeon Berry, and Hanna Conrow Williams Tomlinson.

See related papers below.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG5/123.

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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG5/124.

Pollard, Francis E.
1 folder (.5 in):

British Quaker; chairman of the Friends Peace Committee (Great Britain).

Pamphlets.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Post, Mary, 1806-1892
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, Long Island, married Mary W. Robbins, the daughter of Willet and Esther (Seaman), in 1828. Joseph's brother, Isaac Post, was also involved in reform; he and his wife, Amy Kirby Post, were prominent in the spiritualist movement in upstate New York.

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 "Rochester rappings," fugitive slaves in Rochester, the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, Rowland Johnson, the ministry of Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and related topics.

LOCATION: FHL manuscript collection, SC/176.

Price, Charles C., b. 1913
Papers, 1960-1997.
22.5 linear in.

Charles C. Price; professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania; Quaker; peace, environmental action and world federalism advocate, and president of World Federalists; graduate of Swarthmore College, class of 1934.

Includes papers documenting Charles C. Price's work for peace, world federalism, and environmental protection.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Price, William Webb, 1892-1961
Papers, 1917-1923.
1 linear ft.

Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pa.

Chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material, relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG5/126.

Providence Monthly Meeting of Friends (Media, Pa.).  Social Action Committee Miscellaneous Records, 1981-1983.
7 items in folder.

Correspondence and other records of the Social Action Committee, 1981-83, relating to the peace testimony.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG2/Ph/P7.

Pye, Edith, 1876-1965
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. Great Britain

also FHL PG 7

Quaker Centre in Geneva

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. Switzerland

Quaker Committee on Jails and Justice
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

Quaker House
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. Switzerland

Quaker Peace and Service
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

Quaker Studies on Human Betterment
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: U.S.

Quaker United Nations Office
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.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Quaker Witness & Wait-In for the Unconditional Relief of All Who Suffer in Vietnam
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: U.S.

Quaker Worship for Peace
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 Wilmington College from 1960-1969. He also served as the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner from 1951-60, and was a Vice President of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation from 1969 until his retirement in 1974.

The bulk of the collection documents James Read's work as a consultant after 1974. His diaries date from his association with Wilmington College.  Areas of particular interest include the establishment of Soviet-American dialogue and the Dartmouth and Soviet-American Writers Conferences, U.S./Canadian relations and the Lester B. Pearson Conference, the American Friends Service Committee, and the U.N. (non-governmental organizations).

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. Kettering Foundation, 1969-82; 7. AFSC, 1979-84; 8. Other activities, 1976-85; 9. Miscellaneous.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG5/128.

Religiöse Gesellschaft der Freunde
3 folders (1 in):

The Religious Society of Friends in Germany.

Letters (in German and English), pamphlets (in German and English).

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Germany

Religious Society of Friends in New Zealand

1 folder (.25 in):

The Religious Society of Friends in New Zealand.

Pamphlets, statements, appeals.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. New Zealand

Reynolds, Barbara Leonard
Collection, 1948-1970.
1 linear in.

Barbara Reynolds was a Quaker and pacifist who founded the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima, Japan. She was highly regarded in the Japanese peace movement; after her return to the U.S. she helped establish the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Collection in the Wilmington College Peace Resource Center, Wilmington, Ohio. In 1958, she sailed with Earle Reynolds on the yacht Phoenix into a nuclear bomb testing area of the Pacific. In 1962 she conducted the Hiroshima Peace Pilgrimage, a year-long world tour with two victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Reynolds, Earle 1910-1998
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: U.S.

Rhoads, Grace Evans, b. 1900
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 Böckburg, Germany. She was very active with the New Jersey Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the WILPF Committee on Conscientious Objectors and the Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription. She was a field secretary for the American Friends Service Committee prior to her WILPF work.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Rhode Island Peace Society
Collection, 1819-1844.
5 items.

Founded in 1818 as the "Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations Peace Society," later called the Rhode Island Peace Society. Following the founding of the Massachusetts Peace Society in 1815, and influenced by Noah Worcester's tract The Solemn Review of the Custom of War, Moses Brown and George Benson initiated the movement which led to the founding of the Rhode Island Peace Society. Brown was a Quaker, but doubted the wisdom of having Quakers in control of the proposed Society. The Rhode Island Peace Society declined after 1825 following the deaths of its charter members, though records indicate its existence up to 1860.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the records of this organization.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Richards, Frederick (b. 1919) and William Richards
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: U.S.

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 Hamilton College.

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.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Richardson, Hugh, 1864-1936
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 Isle of Man and elsewhere and scattered issues of newspapers in German printed in the camps for enemy aliens. Correspondents in the collection include Horace G. Alexander, Carl Heath, and L. Oppenheim.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 32.

Richardson, Lewis Fry, 1881-1953
1 folder (.25 in):

Quaker; scientist, researcher, and philosopher of peace.

Biography.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: U.S.

Rockland County Peace Association (Rockland County, N.Y.)
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.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 121.

Rogerenes Of New England collection
2 boxes ; 1 linear ft.

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, Connecticut. Sometimes called Rogerene-Quakers, they were not members of the Society of Friends.  However, their pacifist religious doctrines and worship practices were strongly influenced by Quakers, especially William Edmundson, a Friend from Ireland who visited in1675.  During the early New England period, the sect was persecuted because it denounced the limitations placed on freedoms of worship and conscience.  The Rogerenes were active in the abolition movement and in founding the Universal Peace Union. In the 1880s, the group called itself the Quaker Society of New London.  Their numbers dwindled by the end of the 19th century. Prominent Connecticut family names associated with the Rogerenes include Waterhouse/Watrous, Rogers, Crouch, Bollet, Whipple, and Chapman.

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.

LOCATION: FHL: Archives MSS/053.

Rowntree, Joshua, 1844-1915
1 folder (.25 in):

British Quaker; opposed war; supported disarmament.

Pamphlets.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Rowntree, Maurice, 1882-1944

1 folder (.25 in):

British Quaker; treasurer of the Peace Pledge Union; author.

Pamphlet.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

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. Rustin is pictured at right, with Brad Lyttle (later to be a leader of the Committee for Nonviolent Action).

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.

LOCATION: Peace Collection Collected Document Groups, U.S..

Salter, Alfred, 1875-1945
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. Great Britain

Satterthwait, Arnold Chase, b. 1920

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: U.S.

Satterthwait, Charles Jr.

1 folder (.125 in):

Quaker: conscientious objector in World War II; drove an ambulance for the American Field Service; received the Order of the British Empire.

New articles.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: U.S.

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: U.S.

Sellers, Elizabeth, 1821-1898
Papers, 1845-1851, [n.d.]
3 folders.

Elizabeth Sellers was a Quaker. She was born in Philadelphia in 1821, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Sellers. She was disowned from Darby Monthly Meeting in 1851, and died in 1898.

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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, SC/115.

Sharp, Gene
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: U.S.

Sharpless, Isaac, 1848-1920

1 folder (.125 in):

Leading Quaker; president of Haverford College from 1887 to 1917.

Pamphlets.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: U.S.

Sibley, Mulford Q.

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: U.S.

Silver, Regene

1 folder

Long time activist; writer; member of the board of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; went to the Soviet Union in 1984 with a group of seven other women.

News articles.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: U.S.

Society of Friends, collected peace materials, 1827-1976
12.5 linear in.

Collection is a variety of materials relating to the peace activities and concerns of the Society of Friends in the United States.  Materials from the monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings throughout the U.S. are included, together with items issued by various Quaker committee and organizations.

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 Swarthmore College Peace Collection. See notes in next entry.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 033; use microfilm, Reel 83:1-83:5

Society of Friends, collected peace materials, 1827-1983
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 United States.  Materials from the monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings throughout the U.S. are included, together with items issued by various Quaker committee and organizations. 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. Primary source material on the microfilm includes: minutes and reports (1887-1915) of the Whitewater (Indiana) Quarterly Meeting Peace Committee; correspondence (1897-1900) of William Wood, chairman of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting Committee on Peace and Arbitration; correspondence and form letters (1916-1931) of Edward Thomas, chairman of the New York Yearly Meeting Peace Committee; and minutes (1921-1922) of the Friends International Disarmament Council.

Microfilm reproduction of originals in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection; available on microfilm (5 reels; 35 mm.) on interlibrary loan from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

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MICROFILM: Reels 85.1-85.5

Solenberger, Edith R., 1886-1976
Collection, 1910-1979, (bulk) 1925-1979.
4 linear ft.

Edith Solenberger; a Quaker from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, graduated from Radcliffe College with A.B. and A.M degrees. She was a Co-Clerk at Lansdowne Friends Meeting, and a founder of the Lansdowne-Upper Darby branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serving as chairman. She was WILPF's referent on American Indians in the 1950s. Her interests were broad, including the peace movement, the draft, conscription of women, women in prison, the Japanese Peace Treaty (1951), the United Nations, the "fifth column" (the U.S. Communist Party), venereal disease in the armed services, and academic freedom. She made several trips to British Columbia where she was befriended and honored by the Doukhobors.

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of this individual.

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LOCATION: Peace Collection Archives, DG 176.

Steele, Harold & Sheila Steele
1 folder (.125 in):

British Quakers; planned to sail a fishing boat into the Christmas Island H-bomb test zone in 1957.

News articles.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Great Britain

Stephens, Phebbie

1 folder

Quaker; delegate to the 1908 Peace Conference in London.

Letter.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: U.S.

Stieren, Carl

1 folder

Quaker; emigrated from the United States to Canada during the Vietnam war; draft resister.

Pamphlets, articles, quiz.

LOCATION: Peace Collection: Collected Document Groups: International. Canada

Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends). Peace Committee
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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives, RG2/Ph/S9.

Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends). Refugee Committee
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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives,  RG2/Ph/S9.

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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives,  RG2/Ph/S9.

Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends). Social Concerns Committee
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.

LOCATION: FHL Archives,  RG2/Ph/S9.

Swarthmore Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends). Social Order Committee
Miscellaneous Records, 1949-1980.
2 folders.

Miscellaneous records of the Social Order Committee of Swarthmore