Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection, 1912-1950
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection
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Time of Creation of Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948
Biographical History for: Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection
Biographical Note Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was born in Budapest, Hungary, the oldest child of Max B. Schwimmer, a grocer and horse dealer, and Bertha Katscher Schwimmer, member of a distinguished Jewish literary family. She married in 1911 but divorced two years later. An accomplished linguist, fluent in more than half a dozen languages, Schwimmer initially devoted herself to the cause of woman suffrage. She attended the 1904 Berlin meeting of the International Council of Women at which the International Women's Suffrage Alliance was founded. She settled in London in 1911 as press secretary of the Alliance. With the outbreak of World War I, Schwimmer focused her efforts on peace. In 1914 she traveled to the U.S. to speak with President Wilson and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan on behalf of the Alliance's endorsement of neutral mediation of the war. Her flamboyant personality and ardent peace advocacy provided the spark that kindled sentiment for the Woman's Peace Party. She was also influential in organizing the 1915 Congress of Women at The Hague and establishing the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (later Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)). The Ford Peace Ship, the ocean liner sponsored by Henry Ford that sailed to Europe in 1915-16 carrying an unofficial mediation commission, brought its passengers, including Schwimmer, a notoriety that led to her resignation from WILPF in 1918. Upon her return to Hungary, Schwimmer was appointed ambassador to Switzerland. In 1921 she returned to the U.S. where her attempts to resume her career and gain citizenship were thwarted by accusations that she was a spy. Her final citizenship application was denied in 1924 when she refused to affirm her willingness to bear arms in defense of the United States. She remained in the U.S. as an alien for the rest of her life, supported by her old friend and co-worker for peace, Lola Maverick Lloyd. Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875-1944) graduated from Smith College in 1897. A pioneer suffragist and pacifist, in 1915 she co-founded with Jane Addams the Women's Peace Party, and later the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was also a delegate to the Congress of Women at the Hague in 1915 and sailed on Henry Ford's Peace Ship. Lloyd and Schwimmer co-chaired the Campaign for World Government.
Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection consists of duplicates from the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection at the New York Public Library. The material contained here documents primarily the peace activism of Rosika Schwimmer. It includes biographical articles, clippings, correspondence, writings, personal memorabilia, subject files, and photographs. It also includes biographical materials on numerous friends and associates including Lola Maverick Lloyd, Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Henry Ford, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harvey O'Connor, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Franciska Schwimmer.
Feminists--History--Sources
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International cooperation--History--Sources
Pacifists--United States--History--Sources
Peace movements--History--20th century--Sources
Women--International cooperation--History--Sources
World War, 1914-1918--Protest movements--Sources
Women and peace--History--20th century--Sources
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1875-1944
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Campaign for World Government
Henry Ford Peace Expedition (1915-1916)
Contents: finding aid
series
SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS (Rosika Schwimmer)
Correspondence
About Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection at the New York Public Library Annex, 1974-79, n.d.
Rosika Schwimmer, 1934-38
Biographical articles, 1915-59
Writings, 1938-48
Newspaper clippings, 1912-48
Articles by F. Marvin, 1924
Book reviews, 1928-29
Memorabilia, 1914-39
Obituaries, 1948
Mission carrying Wilson's message to Hungary (A Year as a Government Agent, by Vira B. Whitehouse), 1920
Nobel Peace Prize candidate,1948
Photographs of Rosika Schwimmer at home, 1946, n.d.
SERIES II. FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES
Addams, Jane, 1935
Anthony, Susan B. (II), 1936
Balch, Emily Greene, 1915
Bayen, Malaku Emmanuel, 1937
Beard, Mary, 1936
Blake, Katherine, 1938
Bullitt, William, 1940
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1939-47
Caesar, Irving, 1939, n.d.
Davis, Elmer, 1942
Detzer, Dorothy, 1939
Einstein, Albert, 1933
Ford, Henry, 1937-42
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1935-36
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1941
Holtby, Winifred, 1935
Lloyd, Lola Maverick, 1931-41
Lloyd, William B., Jr., 1940
Maverick, Maury (cousin of Lola Maverick Lloyd), 1935-39
O'Connor, Harvey, 1931-53
Paul, Alice, 1936
Roosevelt, Eleanor R., 1940-46
Schwimmer, Franciska, 1944, n.d.
Streit, Clarence K., 1939-41
Villard, Oswald Garrison, n.d.
Wynner, Edith, 1945-50
SERIES III. SUBJECT FILES
Atomic energy, 1945
Griffin Bill, 1932
Marvin, Fred: court case, 1928
The Magnificent Yankee (play about Rosika Schwimmer), inscribed by F. Schwimmer to the Smith College Library, 1946
D.A.R. blacklist, 1928
Miscellaneous, 1935-42
Citizenship case, 1927-32, n.d.
Lusitania sinking, 1935
Miscellaneous foreign publications, 1915-42
World Center for Women's Archives, 1935
Race problems, 1937-46
Rosika Schwimmer's libel case vs. Fred R. Marvin and Commercial Publishing Company: transcripts, 1924-28
SERIES IV. PEACE
[See also OVERSIZE MATERIALS]
Miscellaneous domestic articles, 1924-41
Miscellaneous foreign articles, 1916-42
Nazism, 1936-41
League of Nations, 1938-39
Pacifism, 1916-45, n.d.
Einstein (on peace), 1935
Miscellaneous peace publications, 1915-44
Cartoons, 1941
Peace Ship, 1915
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Correspondence, 1935-56
Newspaper clippings, 1919-31
Church and youth groups on peace, 1928-44
Communism, 1942, n.d.
United Nations, 1944-46
Peace award, 1937
World government, 1924-44
War Resister's League, 1940-48
SERIES V. OVERSIZE MATERIALS
World War I anti-war poster, circa 1914
BOOKS ON SHELF
Tisza Tales by Rosika Schwimmer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1928)