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Women's Peace Union Records, 1921-1940
Collection: DG 044
Contact Information
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
500 College Avenue,
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399
U.S.A.
Telephone: (610) 328-8557 (Curator);
Fax: (610) 328-8544
Email: wchmiel1@swarthmore.edu (Curator);
URL: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
Descriptive Summary
Repository
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.
Creator
Women's Peace Union
Title
Women's Peace Union Records
Inclusive Dates
1921-1940
Call Number
DG 044
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
11.25 linear feet [papers only]
Abstract
The Women's Peace Union was founded in August 1921 to
encourage the formation of a peace group to encompass all the women of the
western hemisphere, to work for complete disarmament and the abolition of all
constitutional and legal sanctions for war. Records in the Swarthmore College
Peace Collection are those of the United States branch
Administrative Information
Restrictions to Access
None
Usage Restrictions
None
Alternate Form of Material
Yes, microfilm reels 88:1-26
Acquisitions Information
Gift of Women's Peace Union, via Tracy D. Mygatt, 1942 [Acc. No. 42-056]; via Frances M. Witherspoon, 1947 [Acc.
No. 47-016]
Processing Information
Processed by Peace Collection staff; this finding aid updated by Wendy E. Chmielewski, August 2011.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Women's Peace Union Records (DG 044), Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Copyright Notice
Copyright is was transferred by the staff of the Women's Peace Union to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Other authors of items in these records, or their descendents, have retained copy right, 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.
See tripod record
Historical Background
The Women's Peace Union was founded in
1921 at a meeting of American and Canadian women in Niagara Falls. The Women's
Peace Union for the Western Hemisphere that resulted from this conference had
branches in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and several other Latin American
countries. Each group worked for complete disarmament and for the abolition of
legal sanction for war.
The Women's Peace Union ascribed to a pledge
that advocated noncooperation with any war effort. To this end, in 1926, the
members of the U.S. section of the WPU drafted an amendment that would make the
waging of war unconstitutional. The WPU gained the support of Senator Lynn J.
Frazier of North Dakota, who introduced the amendment in every session of
Congress from 1927 until 1940. Of the many women who worked in the WPU Caroline
Lexow Babcock was especially active in the early Congressional lobbying
campaigns. Tracy D. Mygatt, another absolute pacifist, worked with the WPU from
its inception and was instrumental in representing the organizations work
against conscription from 1939 to 1940.
Collection Overview
The records of the Women's Peace Union in the
Swarthmore College Peace Collection are those of the U.S. Branch.
Correspondence makes up a large part of the collection. There are also minutes
from meetings, reports, form letters, WPU literature, information on the
history of the Women's Peace Union, petitions, and material on the Frazier
amendment.
Correspondents and others in the collection include Jane
Addams, Caroline Lexow Babcock, Elizabeth Black, Katherine Devereux Blake,
Elinor Byrns, Lynn J. Frazier, Yella Hertzka, Lida Gustava Heymann, Jessie
Wallace Hughan, Frieda L. Lazarus, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Tracy D. Mygatt, Rosika
Schwimmer, Lydia G. Wentworth, Mary E. Winsor, and Frances M. Witherspoon.
Re-File Box, received 1997-1998
Detailed Description of the Collection
Box 1 [Reel 88.1]
History, Minutes, Resolutions,
1922-1930
Office System, and Agreement on Renting Office in,
1928
History of the Women's Peace Union
Minutes, 1922
Minutes, 1923
Minutes, 1924
Minutes,
1925
Minutes, 1926
Minutes, 1927
Minutes, 1928
Minutes, 1929
Minutes,
1930
Box 2 [Reel 88.2]
Minutes, Press Releases, Form Letters,
1921-1940
Minutes, 1931
Committee for Total Disarmament
Minutes, 1935
Minutes, 1936
Minutes,
1937
Minutes, 1938
Minutes, 1939
Press Releases
Minutes of Geneva Committee
Women's Peace Union Form Letter and Releases,
1921-1940
Box 3
Women's Peace Union
Literature
Literature (folder 1)
Literature
(folder 2) [Reel
88.3]
Literature
(folders 3 to 10)
Box 3a
Women's Peace Union Literature
and Bulletins
Political
Bulletin
No More War Bulletin,
1922
Peace Plans, 1924
Box 4
Women's
Peace Union Petition, Speeches
Women's Petition, 1928, 1940
Babcock's Speeches
Tracy D. Mygatt's Speeches
I. Palmer's Speeches
Radio Speeches
Inter-American Conference, Buenos Aires,
1936-1938
North Dakota Campaign,
1927-1928 [Reel 88.4
]
Frazier Hearings, 1927-1929
Box 5
Frazier Hearings and Amendments, Correspondence
Frazier Amendment Congressional Hearings and
Resolutions, 1926-1939
Frazier Hearing, April 12,
1930 [Reel 88.5
]
Fish and
Ludlow, Congressional Resolutions, 1937-1938
Sample Correspondence with Candidates in
Different States, 1924-1926
Box 6
Correspondence--Frazier, and
Correspondence--A. 1926-1937;
Frazier, 1926-1937
A, 1921-1925
A, 1926
A, 1927
A, 1928
A,
1929 [Reel 88.6]
A,
1930
A,
1931
Anthony, Helen, 1921-1931
Box 7
Armistice Day (Radio Celebration),
1927
Ashby,
Isabel, 1921-1931
B, 1921-1925
B, 1926
B, 1927
[Reel 88.7]
B, 1928
B, 1929
Box 8
B, 1930
B, 1931
Babcock, E.S.,
1924-1931
Baer, Gertrude, 1922-1930 [Reel 88.8]
Barker, Mrs. Christine,
1921-1929
Black, Elisabeth, 1922-1930
Blake, K. Devereux,
1922-1929
Box 9
Brokaw,
V.B., 1926-1931
Byrns, Elinor, 1923-1931 [Reel 88.9]
C, 1921
C, 1922
C, 1923
C, 1924
C, 1925
Box 10
Correspondence C,
(Continued)1921-1931
C,
1926
C,
1927
C, 1928 [Reel 88.10]
C, 1929
C, 1930
C, 1931
Churches, 1923-1926
Colleges, 1925
Committee on Militarism in Education,
1926-1931
Cook, Mrs. Elisabeth C.
Cope, Mrs. Walter
Cox, Lucy, 1926-1931
Box 11
D,
1921-1925
D, 1926
D, 1927
D, 1928
D, 1929 [Reel 88.11]
D, 1930
D, 1931
Dennett, Mary W.,
1928-1931
Doukhobors, 1929-1930
E, 1922-1925
E, 1926
E, 1927
E, 1928
E, 1929
E, 1930
E, 1931
English Parliament,
1926-1930
Box 12
Embassy Letters,
1926-1927
F, 1922-1925
F, 1926
F, 1927
F, 1928
F, 1929
F, 1930
F, 1931
Fendall, M.C., 1924-1925
Flanagan,
1926-1928 [Reel 88.12]
Floyd, William
G,
1921-1925
G, 1926
G, 1927
G, 1928
Box 13
G,
1929
G,
1930
G,
1931
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1923-1931
H, 1921-1925
H,
1926 [Reel 88.13]
H,
1927
H,
1928
H,
1929
H,
1930
H,
1931
Box 14
Heimisch, Isabel, 1928-1931
Heymann, Lida Gustava,
1926
Hoover, 1929
Hughes, Miss Ruby, 1926-1930
I,
1921-1925
I, 1926
I, 1927
I, 1928
I, 1929
I, 1930
I, 1931
J, 1921-1925 [Reel 88.14]
J, 1926
J, 1927
J, 1928
J, 1929
J, 1930
J, 1931
K, 1921-1925
K, 1926
K, 1927
Box 15
K, 1928
K, 1929
K, 1930
K, 1931
L, 1921-1925
L, 1926
L, 1927 [Reel 88.15]
L, 1928
L, 1929
L, 1930
L, 1931
La Follette, R.,
1925-1929
Lazarus, Freida, 1927-1930
League to Abolish Capital Punishment,
1925-1928
Leber, Alma, 1922-1931
Ledletter, Florence,
1928-1930
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1925-1931
Box 16
M, 1925
M, 1926
M, 1927
M, 1928
M, 1929
M,
1930 [Reel 88.16]
M,
1931
Magazines, 1927
Mobilization Day, 1924
N,
1921-1925
N, 1926
N, 1927
N, 1928
Box 17
N, 1929
N, 1930
N, 1931
No More War Demonstration (United States),
1922-1923
No More War Movement (England),
1922-1930
National Council for Prevention of War,
1921-1930
O'Day, Caroline [Mrs. Daniel] [Reel 88.17]
O, 1926
O, 1927
O, 1928
O, 1929
O, 1930
O, 1931
P, 1922-1925
P, 1926
P, 1927
P, 1928
Box 18
P,
1929
P,
1930
P,
1931
Pacifist Action Committee,
1930-1931
Palmer, Ida, 1922-1930
Park, Alice,
1921-1931 [Reel 88.18]
Pennsylvania Committee for Total Disarmament,
1930-1931
Peace Weekday, 1926-1927
R, 1921-1925
R, 1926
R, 1927
R, 1928
Box 19
R, 1928
Jeannette Rankin's Speeches
R,
1929
R, 1930 [Reel 88.19]
R, 1931
S, 1921-1925 [2 folders]
S, 1926
Box 20
S, 1927
S, 1928 [Reel 88.20]
S, 1929
S, 1930
S, 1931
Schellenberg, Mrs. M.,
1928-1930
Spencer, Fannie Bixby, 1921-1926
Stöcker, Helene,
1923-1935
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1923-1929
Strong, Sydney Dix
Box 21
T,
1921-1925
T, 1926
T, 1927
T, 1928
T, 1929
T, 1930 [Reel 88.21]
T, 1931
Tone, Gertrude,
1921-1930
Torrence, Olivia, D. 1923-1931
Box 22
U-V, 1921-1925
U-V, 1926
U-V, 1927
U-V, 1928
U-V, 1929
U-V, 1930
U-V,
1931 [Reel 88.22]
W,
1921-1925
W, 1926
W, 1927
W, 1928
W, 1929
Box 23
W,
1930
W,
1931
War
Resisters International, 1922-1924
War Resisters International
1926-1931
Wellock,
Wilfred, 1925-1929
Wentworth, Lydia,
1922-1931 [Reel 88.23]
Winsor, Mary, 1922-1930
Box 24
X-Y-Z,
1921-1925
X-Y-Z, 1926
X-Y-Z, 1927
X-Y-Z, 1928
X-Y-Z, 1929
X-Y-Z, 1930
X-Y-Z, 1931
1932
1933
1934
1935 [Reel 88:24]
January-June 1936
July-December
1936
January-June 1937
July-December 1937;
1938
Box
25
1938
1939 [Reel 88:25]
1940
Newspaper Correspondence
Newspaper Clippings
Scrapbook-Newspaper Clippings,
1922-1929 [Reel 88.26]
Scrapbook-Newspaper Clippings,
1928-1930
Re-File Box [on-site]
Material from Re-File Box, 1997
Material from Re-File Box, 1998