University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
3615 (Accession No. 3615-005)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Seattle Branch
Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, Seattle Branch records
1940-2000
11.71 cubic feet, including
photographs, slides, sound recordings, and videocassettes (13 boxes)
Collection materials are
in English.
Records of a
women's peace organization in Seattle, Washington
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is an
international women's organization devoted to furthering the causes of peace
and justice. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in
1915. Local branches exist to support the objectives of the National Board. The
Seattle Branch was established in 1935. Major emphasis is placed on promoting
nonviolent solutions to world conflict, world disarmament, women's rights, and
racial and economic justice.
Arranged in three series:
- Organizational records, 1940-2000
- Seattle Women Act for Peace records, 1973-1995
- Dawn Steere papers, 1976-1994
Contains records of the Seattle branch of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, including correspondence, minutes, subject files,
newsletters, speeches and writings, nominations, photographs, slides, exhibit
material, video cassettes, audio cassettes, ephemera and scrapbooks, 1940-2000.
Also includes records of Seattle Women Act for Peace, 1973-1995.
Special equipment required to play sound recordings and
videocassettes.
Open to all users.
Special equipment required to play sound recordings and
videocassettes.
Request at UW
Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington
Libraries.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Seattle Branch
records, Accession No. 3615-004. Special Collections, University of Washington
Libraries, Seattle, Washington.
Merger of four accessions: Accession No. 3615-001 received 11/19/1984
from Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Seattle; Accession No.
3615-002 received 5/2/1990 from Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, Seattle; Accession No. 3615-003 received 5/28/1992 from Angeline M.
Larsen; Accession No. 3615-004 received 2/5/2001 from Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, Seattle via Carolyn Canafax.
Processing completed in in June 2001 by Jamie Wamsley and Pat
Nostrand.
Kurose, Akiko
Larsen, Angeline M
Carbray, Mary D
Steere, Dawn R
Angeloff, Alice
Lowry, Mike
Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom--Archives
Seattle Women Act for Peace
Women and peace--Washington (State) --Seattle
Women--Washington (State)--Seattle--Societies and clubs
Women pacifists--Washington (State)--Seattle
Peace movements--Washington (State)--Seattle
Peace--Societies etc
Disarmament--Societies etc
Nuclear disarmament--Societies etc
Social justice--United States
Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
International Relations
Civil Rights
Seattle
Women
Clubs and Societies
Civic Activism
Organizational Records
1940-2000
Arranged by type of record.
Organizational Features
1/1
Bylaws
1977-1979; 1983; undated
1/2
Job Descriptions
undated
1/3
Miscellaneous
undated
1/4
Historical Features
1969-1982
1/5
Outgoing Letters: Form Letter Originals
1980; undated
General Correspondence
1/6
of Angeloff, Alice
1978-1983
1/7
Clinton, William Jefferson (U.S.
President)
1994
1/8
Jackson, Henry M.
1977-1983
1/9
of Kingsbury, Elsie M.
1961-1962; 1964-1965
1/10
of Larsen, Angeline M.
1971-1992
1/11
Lowry, Mike
1979-1986
1/12
Magnuson, Warren G.
1978-1980
1/13
of Pool, Ruth H.
1977-1983
1/14
Pritchard, Joel
1978-1983
1/15
Royer, Charles
1978-1979
1/16
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
U.S. Section
1975-1979; 1980-1982
1/17-25
Miscellaneous A-Z
1950-1994
1/26-38
Minutes
1944-1994
Minutes of Others
1/39
Northwest Network for Peace and Justice
undated
Subject Files
1/40
Addams, Jane--Centennial
1960
1/41
American Indians
1975-1977
1/42
Amerika
1987
1/43
Amnesty
1972-1977
1/44
Anti-Soviet Propaganda
1978-1986
1/45
Armistice
1982-1983
1/46
Arms - Military
1980-1984
1/47
Ballantyne, Edith
1976; 1985
1/48
Boulding, Elise
1977
1/49
Boycotts - Babyfood
1981
1/50
Boycotts - J.P. Stevens Mills
1977-1978
1/51
Braiterman, Thea
1975-1976
1/52
Breeder Reactor, Clinch River
1978
1/53
Bryant, Alice Franklin
1958-1986
2/1
Budget Process
1973-1980
2/2
Camp, Kay
1977-1981
2/3
Camp, Kay - Trip
1981
2/4
Campaign for a People's Peace Treaty
1986-1987
2/5
Carter, Jimmy (U.S. President)
1976-1980
2/6
Chernobyl
1986
2/7
Church Women United - Judge Annie Jiagge
1977
2/8
Citizens' Train
1989
2/9
Civil Defense
1975-1979
2/10
Civil Liberties
1970-1975
2/11
CLEO -Concerned Local Elected Officials
1983
2/12
Cole, Kay
1974
2/13
Community Outreach
1990
2/14
Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
1985-1987
2/15
Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility
1988
2/16
Congress
1981-1982
2/17
Conversion, Peace
1975-1979
2/18
Criminal Justice Code Revision
1977-1979
2/19
Demonstration - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1961-1962; 1992-1993
2/20
De-segregation
1978; 1982
2/21
Draft Counseling Registration
1980
2/22
Draft Protests
1979-1980
2/23
Eckert, Irene
1983
2/24
Economics
1973-1975
2/25
Economics: National Committee
1980-1984
2/26
Economy, Inflation, Unemployment
1972-1978
2/27
Education for Peace
undated
2/28
Emigration, Soviet
1978-1986
2/29
Environmental Concerns
1972-1983
2/30
Equal Rights Amendment
1979-1980
2/31
Evergreen State Peace Mission
1987-1988
2/32
Fair Budget Action Campaign
1981
2/33
Farm Workers
1974-1978
2/34
Feed the Cities
1975-1977
2/35
Gorbachev Policy
1982-1985
2/36
Grand Jury Guides
undated
2/37
Health
1980-1981
2/38
Health Care
1974-1977
2/39
Hirabayashi, Korematsu and Yasui Cases
1984-1985
2/40
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1975-1981
2/41
Holocaust
1978
2/42-43
Human Rights
1974-1978; 1984; 1987
2/44
Human Rights Violations
1972-1978
2/45
Initiatives and Tenant Unions
1982; undated
2/46
IWY - International Women's Year
1973-1982
2/47
International Year of the Child
1979
2/48
Jackson, Henry M. re: Nuclear Arms Freeze
1981-1982
2/49
Johnson, Irene & Russell
1977-1978
2/50
JROTC - Junior Reserve Officer Training
Corps
1974-1976
2/51
King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Holiday
1983
2/52
Kissinger, Henry
1974-1975
3/1
Korean Plane KAL #7
1983
3/2
Ku Klux Klan
1977
3/3
Kurose, Akiko
1990
3/4
Local Organizations
1981-1982
3/5
Lysen, King - Senate Race
1982
3/6
Mahajani, Usha
1972-1978
3/7
Mayaguez
1975
3/8
Media
1976-1977
3/9
Members - Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, others
1982; 1988; undated
3/10
Membership Information
1991; undated
3/11
Memorials - Alice Angeloff
1985; 1992
3/12-14
Military Spending
1972-1984
3/15
Missiles - Cruise & Patriot II
1978-1983
3/16
Missiles - Trident
1986
3/17
Mothers' Day Action
1987
3/18
Mueller, Melva
1975; 1978-1979
3/19
MX Missile
1983; 1985
3/20
National Committee Against Repressive
Legislation
1982
3/21
National Office How To's
1979; 1982; undated
3/22
Native Americans
1977; 1982-1983
3/23
Nerve Gas
1983
3/24
Neutron Bomb
1977-1978
3/25
New Branch Organizing Packet
undated
3/26
Nixon Administration
1973-1976
3/27
Nuclear / Atomic Power
1981-1982
3/28
Nuclear Freeze
1982
3/29
Nuclear Power
1976-1979
3/30
Nuclear War
1981-1982
3/31
Nuclear Waste
1982-1983
3/32-34
Nuclear Weapons
1981-1988
3/35
Nuclear Weapons - Clippings
1976-1984
3/36
Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign
1981-1984
4/1
Nuclear Weapons / War
1976-1981
4/2
Pacific Vision
1992
4/3
Peace
1982
4/4
Peace Academy
1980
4/5
Peace Child Foundation
1982-1986
4/6
Peace Education
1980-1981
4/7-9
Publicity
1979-1982; 1988, 1990
4/10
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Protest
1996
4/11
Puget Sound Peace Camp
1985
4/12
Racism
undated
4/13
Radiation Hazards
1982
4/14
Ramsey, Nancy
1978
4/15
Reagan, Ronald
1981-1986
4/16-17
Reagan, Ronald - Clippings
1980-1988
4/18
Religion, USSR
1981-1986
4/19
Religious Peace Movement
1981-1982
4/20
Salt II
1979-1980
4/21
Save Our Cities, Save Our Children
1992
4/22
Seattle Branch Retreat
1983; 1985
4/23
Senate Bill I - Criminal Justice Reform Act of
1975
1972-1984
4/24
Sister City Seattle - Tashkent
1985
4/25
Smear Campaigns
1982-1987
4/26
Speaker Information, Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom
undated
4/27
STAR (Stop The Arms Race) Campaign
1983
4/28
Star Wars
1985-1991
4/29
Summit Meetings - U.S. & U.S.S.R.
1985-1986
4/30
Survival Summer
1980
4/31-32
Target Seattle
1982
4/33
Test Bans - Hydrogen & Nuclear Bombs
1956; 1963
4/34
Transfer Amendment - Federal Budget
1978-1979
4/35
Trident
1975-1982
4/36
Trident Submarine Base Dredging
1977
4/37
United Nations
1972-1978
4/38
United Nations - SSD II - Second Special Session of
the General Assembly for Disarmament
1982
4/39
United Nations Association - Human Rights
1973-1982
4/40
United Nations Association - United
Nations
1979-1981
5/1
U.S. Peace Council
1979-1986
5/2
Warsaw Treaty Nations Peace Appeal
1979
5/3
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
National Board Meeting
1972
5/4
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
Northwest Cluster Meeting
1990
9/9-11
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Region I
1974-1982; 1989-1990
5/5
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
Statement on the WTO
undated
5/6
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
Tacoma Branch
1983
5/7
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
United States Section
1962; 1975-1987; 1997
5/8
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
Vancouver, B.C., Canada Branch
1976-1978
5/9
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
Women's Poll National Survey
1983
5/10
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
World Sections
1975
5/11
Women's Issues
1975-1980
5/12-13
World Disarmament
1975-1978
5/14
World Disarmament - Petitions for a
Conference
1974-1982
5/15
World Disarmament - U.S. Military Budget
1974; 1977; 1982
5/16
World Justice & Peace
1976-1979
5/17
World Peace Council
1975-1980
5/18
World Peace Tax Fund
1974-1988
5/19
World Without War Council of Greater
Seattle
1976-1978
Subject Files on International Topics
5/20
Afghanistan
1980
5/21
Africa
1975-1986
5/22
Argentina
1982-1983; undated
5/23
Berlin Congress
1975
5/24
Brazil
1972-1978; 1984; undated
5/25
Cambodia
1973; 1978-1983; undated
5/26-28
Chile
1973-1986; undated
5/29
China
1970-1979; 1984; undated
5/30-31
Cuba
1975-1981; undated
5/32
Falklands
1982
5/33
Great Britain
1984
5/34
Greece
1974; 1981; undated
5/35
Hiroshima, Japan
1975; 1981; undated
5/36
India
1975-1976; 1981-1984; undated
5/37
Iran
1977-1985; undated
5/38
Ireland
1981; 1984
5/39
Israel - Palestine
1985
5/40
Korea
1976-1984; undated
5/41
Libya
1986
5/42
Mesopotamia
undated
5/43
Micronesia
1975
5/44-6/2
Middle East
1975-1987; undated
6/3
Nicaragua
1982
6/4
North Ireland
1976; 1981; undated
6/5
Panama
1977-1978; undated
6/6-7
Persian Gulf
1987-1992; n..d
6/8
Philippines
1977-1986; undated
6/9
Poland
1981-1982
6/10
Portugal
1975; undated
6/11
Puerto Rico
1975; 1981
6/12
South Africa
1986
6/13
South Africa - Legislative Packet
undated
6/14
South East Asia
1975-1979; undated
6/15-16
Spain
1974-1978; undated
6/17-21
Vietnam
1972-1987; undated
Reports
6/22
14th International Congress of Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom
1959
6/23
24th Congress of Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom
1989
6/24-25
Annual Report
1954-1965
6/26
Co-Chair
1984
6/27
Final Report - Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom Biennial
1987
6/28
Washington State International Women's Year Conference
"The Women of Ellensburg"
1977
6/29
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Priorities Committee
1979
6/30
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
U.S. Branch Reports
1980-1984
6/31-32
Miscellaneous
1975-1976; 1980; undated
Speeches and Writings
6/33-34
"Building a Peaceful World"
1982; 1985
6/35
"How To..."
undated
6/36
"Nuclear Power: A Danger to Peace and
Freedom"
1979
6/37
Testimony
1977
6/38-39
"The Women's Budget"
1985, 1989, 1996
Speeches and Writings of Others
6/40
Addams, Jane
1922
6/41
American - Soviet Friendship
1976, 1982; undated
6/42
Amidei, Nancy - So You Want to Make a Difference,
Advocacy is the Key
1992
6/43
Learning Peace
1972
6/44
Makers of the Nuclear Holocaust
1981
6/45
Peace is in Our Hands
1974
6/46
Scheel, Lois - "Russia"
undated
6/47
Stevens, Carolyn
1981
6/48-49
Miscellaneous
1978; 1981; undated
Conference and Convention Files
6/50
2nd International Peace Conference on the Dnieper
River
1988
7/1
Biennial Meetings
1975-1979
7/2
Focus U.S./U.S.S.R.
1987
7/3
International Women's Year Seattle Seminar on
Disarmament & It's Social Consequences
1975
7/4-5
Most Dangerous Women - Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom 75th Anniversary
1990-1995
7/6
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
Undoing Racism Workshop
1989
7/7
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Triennial Congress
1980
7/8
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -
U.S. / Soviet Women's Conferences
1964-1985
7/9
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Washington State Conference
1985
7/10-11
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Washington State Conference - 70th Anniversary
1985
7/12
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Western Region Conference
1978
7/13
Women's Economic Rights Conference
1984
Symposia and Workshops
Books for a Brave New World (Jane Addams Children's
Book Award)
General Correspondence
7/14
Bacon, Betty
1988
7/15
Bimstein, Marilyn Hurley
1988
7/16
Cone, Molly
1988
7/17
Hecht, Merna
1988
7/18
Lawrence, Jacob
1978-1982; 1988
7/19
Miscellaneous
1988-1989; undated
7/20
Ephemera
1990; undated
7/21
Luna, Julia - Workshop
1982
Financial Records
7/22
General Ledger
1984-1991
7/23
Income / Expense Statements
1988-1993
7/24
Minutes & Agenda for Business Meetings
1989-1994
7/25
Treasurer's Reports
1988-1993
7/26
Miscellaneous
1981
Nominations
7/27
Canafax, Caroline
1992
7/28
Koppel, Anci
1992
7/29
Kurose, Aki
1992
7/30
Life Membership Nominations
1985-1986
7/31
Steere, Dawn
1988
7/32
YMCA - Milnor Roberts Award
1983
Newsletters
7/33-34
Legislative Action (National)
1973-1987
7/35-36
Legislative Bulletins (National)
1973-1987; undated
7/37
pax et libertas
(International)
1985-1989
7/38-41
Peace and Freedom(U.S.
Section)
1973-1991
7/42
Update USSR Monthly
1985-1986
7/43
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Branches
1982; 2000
7/44
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
San Francisco Branch
1983-1984
7/45-8/3
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Seattle Branch
1971-1994; 1999
8/4
Miscellaneous
1981-1991; undated
Membership Records
8/5-6
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Seattle Branch Membership List
1958-1961; 1982-1984; undated
8/7
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Washington State Membership List
undated
8/8
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Mailing List
undated
Grant Files
8/9
Grant Proposals
1990
8/10
Miami Fund
1979; 1981
8/11
Miami Fund - JAPA (Jane Addams Peace
Association)
1981; undated
8/12-13
News Releases
1975; 1980-1991
8/14
Invitations
undated
8/15
Photographs - Seattle Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom
1990
Scrapbooks
8/16
Seattle Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom
1976-1984
8/17
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
70th Anniversary 3/6/85
1985
8/18
Slides
undated
8/19
Petitions
undated
8/20
Resolutions
1979-1980
8/21
Interview Summary - Pool, Ruth H. Interview
1981
8/22
Questionnaires
1979
10
Exhibit Material (Reproductions): Women's Heritage
Display at Seattle Convention Center
undated
11
Posters
1987; 1990; undated
11
Drawing
1993
Video Cassettes
12
"It's Up to Us"; United Nations Decade for Women
Forum
1985
12
Jane Addams Books Awards Symposium
1988
12
"WomanVision WomanAction"; Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom
1991; undated
2 cassettes
12
Sound Cassettes: Jane Addams Children's Book Awards
Symposium at Seattle Public Library
1988
3 cassettes
8/23
Sound Disc: "Dear World, ...I Really Love
You"
1986
: 45 rpm
Lists
8/24
Publications
1973-1976
Clippings
8/25
Daily Worker
1984
8/26
Moscow News Weekly
1984-1985
8/27
Peace News Items
1982-1983; undated
8/28
Space Peace (Russia & U.S.)
1983; 1985-1986
8/29
Trade Unions
1984; undated
8/30
Trident (pre-1985)
1973-1979; undated
8/31-35
Miscellaneous
1958-1990; undated
Ephemera
8/36
Czechoslovakia
1984
8/37
Flyers
1971-1993; 2000; undated
8/38
Literature - Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom
undated
8/39
Literature Originals
undated
8/40
Pamphlets
1961; 1975-1993; undated
8/41
Postcards
undated
8/42
Programs
1986, 88, 91; undated
8/43
Russia
1983-1987; undated
8/44
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Button
undated
13
Scrapbooks
1940-1986
Seattle Women Act for Peace (SWAP) Records
1973-1995
8/45-46
General Correspondence
1992; 1994-1995; undated
8/47
Minutes - Planning Meeting
1993-1994
Subject Files
8/48
University Street Fair
1993-1994
8/49
Women Strike for Peace
1993
8/50
News Releases
undated
8/51
Newsletters
1973-1985; 1993-1994
8/52
Appeals
1994
8/53
Guestbooks - Children's Art Exhibits
1979
8/54
Clippings
1993; undated
8/55
Miscellany
undated
Dawn Steere Papers
1976-1994
General Correspondence
8/56
Lundt, Sylvia and Steere, Dawn
1982-1985
8/57
Miscellaneous
1984
Subject Files
8/58
Feminist Task Force
1978
8/59
Four Minutes to Midnight
1981
8/60
Fundraising & Membership
1984-1987
9/1
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Biennial
1987
9/2
Speeches and Writings
1983; undated
9/3
Newsletters
1980, 1984
9/4
Reports
1981
9/5
Ephemera
1994
9/6
Photographs
1994
9/7-8
Scrapbooks
1976; 1980-1982