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Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers, 1914-1948
Collection: CDG-A
Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: (610) 328-8557 (Curator)
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Email: wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu (Curator)
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Descriptive Summary
Repository
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for these papers/records.
Creator
Schwimmer, Rosika (1877 - 1948)
Title
Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers
Inclusive Dates
1914-1948
Call Number
CDG-A
Language of Materials
Materials in English and Swedish (one book)
Extent
5 linear inches [papers only]
Abstract
Rosika Schwimmer was a suffragist and feminist leader from
Hungary who worked internationally. She founded several
Hungarian societies for the advancement of trade unionism, land reform,
feminism, female suffrage and pacifism and worked to promote peace during
World War I. She helped to form a number of U.S. and international peace
groups, including the Emergency Peace Federation, the Henry Ford Peace
Expedition, and the Woman's Peace Party. She received
the World Peace Prize in 1937.
Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
None
Usage Restrictions
None
Alternate Form of Material
None
Acquisitions Information
Unknown
Processing Information
Processed by SCPC staff; checklist prepared by Anne Yoder, March 1999; added to May 2007; this finding aid revised by Eleanor Fulvio, August 2010
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Rosika Schwimmer Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online library/archival catalogs.
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War Resisters League Records (DG 040)
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For photographs of Schwimmer, see also DG 043 as well as a 1929 Oversize Scrapbook (CDG-B Germany)
Small amounts of Schwimmer papers are also in the New York Public Library (Schwimmer/Lloyd Collection), Smith College (Sophia Smith Collection), Hoover Institution, and Harvard Law School Library.
Historical Background
Rosika Schwimmer was born on September 11, 1877 in Budapest, Hungary. She received eight years of formal schooling, as well as private tutoring in music and languages. From the ages of 20 through 37, Schwimmer was a suffragist-feminist leader for women in Hungary and around the world. She founded the Hungarian Feminist Association of women and men to promote trade unionism, land reform, feminism, suffrage and pacifism. Schwimmer toured Europe to lecture on suffrage; under her leadership, suffrage was won in only 16 years (in 1920). For 13 years she edited the Hungarian feminist-pacifist magazine A No [The Woman] . Her other activities included helping to form the Hungarian National Council of Women, organizing the first Women's Trade Union in Hungary, serving as a board member of the Hungarian Peace Society; and leading the national organization of Women Clerks. In addition, Schwimmer participated in drafting legislation for the care of under-privileged children; in recognition of her work, the Minister of the Interior appointed her to the national governing board of child welfare in 1909.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Box 1
Biographical information
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1914-1919 (includes information about the Henry Ford Peace Expedition)
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1920-1926
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1927
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1928 (includes information about court case re: her application for U.S. citizenship)
Legal documents re: citizenship court case, 1927-1928
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1929 (includes information about court case against Fred Marvin and reaction to the denial of her application for U.S. citizenship)
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1930-1936
Receipt of World Peace Prize Award (in 1937), 1937-1938
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1937-1947 (includes pamphlet by Schwimmer "Union Now for Peace or War? The Danger in the Plan of Clarence Streit," Aug. 1939; and pamphlet (2nd ed.) by Lola Maverick Lloyd and Schwimmer "Chaos, War, or a New World Order?," May 1938)
Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize, 1948
Book (in Swedish) by Anna Lenah Elgstrom, Frida Steenhoff and Elin Wagner Den Kinesiska Muren: Rosika Schwimmer's Kamp For Ratten Och Hennes Krig Mot Kriget [The Chinese Wall: Rosika Schwimmer's Struggle for Right and Her War on War] (Stockholm), 1917
Notes re: naturalization, etc. (by Schwimmer?)
Information re: Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection at New York Public Library (and 1980 exhibit)
Material by and about Schwimmer, 1990: article "The Naturalization of Rosika Schwimmer" by Ronald B. Flowers and Nadia M. Lahutsky