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National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Carrie Chapman Catt papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00031
Abstract Suffragist, president, National American Women Suffrage Association, and pacifist. Papers relate primarily to Catt's public life, primarily her work as president of both the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. There is a significant amount of material pertaining to her peace activities. There is also a rich collection of photographs, including many of the Women's Land Army, created in Great Britain during World War II to aid in the war...
Dates of Materials: 1880-1958
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Harriet Bliss Ford papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00059
Abstract Civic leader; editor; YWCA executive; Red Cross official; and Trustee, Smith College. The correspondence and subject files of the Ford Papers document her work with Century Magazine and her political and intellectual life during her residence in Northampton, Massachusetts. Included is material written and published by Ford for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), and manuscripts of her speeches and writings. Notable correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt; Grace Coolidge;...
Dates of Materials: 1899-1953
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Josephine Schain papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00139
Abstract Settlement house worker, suffragist, pacifist, and international relations specialist. Papers focus primarily on Schain's involvement in a host of women's organizations, the purpose of which was advocacy of international peace through cooperative enterprise among nations. Types of material include radio broadcasts scripts, speeches, photographs, articles, and other writings. Notable correspondents include Margaret Corbett Ashby, Mary Ritter Beard, Carrie Chapman Catt (extensive), Newton...
Dates of Materials: 1907 - 1960
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Peace collection

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00437
Abstract Peace activists. The Peace Collection is comprised largely of published materials documenting the work of women's peace activism from the early nineteenth century to the 1980s. The bulk of the collection dates from 1925 to 1977 and focuses on U.S. and international peace organizations, and individual women leaders in peace movements. Types of material include organizational records, newspaper clippings, articles, periodicals, pamphlets, flyers, biographical articles, writings,...
Dates of Materials: 1825-1984
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Rhoda Elizabeth McCulloch papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00098
Abstract

Editor; YWCA worker; Women's rights advocate; Pacifist. Papers include McCulloch's published writings and notes on education, religion, social progress, working women, marriage and the women's movement; speeches; biographical material; memorabilia; photographs; a scrapbook kept by McCulloch's mother; and writings by close friend and pacifist Henrietta Roelofs.

Dates of Materials: 1884-1978; Majority of material found within 1915-1944
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History

Vera Wadsworth Beggs papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00015
Abstract

Pacifist; Suffragist; Civic leader; International relations specialist. This small collection of Vera Beggs' papers includes extensive correspondence to and from Carrie Chapman Catt describing women's rights and peace activism and organizations.

Dates of Materials: 1932-1969
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History
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