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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 31, Elizabeth Olmsted Smith Papers, 1923-1975, University Archives, The State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Elizabeth Olmsted was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1910. She entered Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1927 and received her B.A. in 1931. In 1934, she married Preston R. Smith, Jr.
About 1933, she became actively involved with the peace movement in Buffalo. Most closely identified with the Buffalo Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), she also actively worked for the People's Mandate to Governments to End War (circa 1935), the Emergency Peace Campaign (circa 1936-1937), the Buffalo Committee to Keep American Out of War and its affiliate, the Youth Committee Against War (circa 1938-1939), and other local organizations.
During the 1930s, she also worked as a teacher in Emergency College, a Depression Era program at the State Teachers College in Buffalo (1933), as Executive Secretary of the Buffalo Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy, and as an organizer for the Ladies Industrial Garment Workers Union, (1938).
In the late 1940s, she returned to school to study social work, receiving her "Graduate Certificate in Social Work" from the University of Buffalo in 1954. She was employed as a caseworker by the Erie County Board of Social Services and by the Methodist Home for Children in Williamsville, New York.
The Buffalo Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom disbanded in the 1940s. An attempt was made to reconstitute the branch in 1951 with Elizabeth Olmsted Smith as Secretary-Treasurer. A decade later, in 1961, the Branch was again reorganized. Smith served as membership chairman (1963-1965) and legislative chairman (1966-1968).
During the 1950s and 1960s, Smith was also active in the local Unitarian-Universalist Church and in civil rights groups such as the Citizens' Council for Human Relations (CCHR).
In 1977, Smith and her husband left Buffalo. Smith passed away in 1990.
The papers of Elizabeth Olmsted Smith pertain primarily to her activities in the peace movement in Buffalo, New York, from 1933 to 1941 and from 1950 to 1975. Also included are personal papers (mostly letters, 1923 to 1940) and materials concerning social work (1949 to 1957).
The papers relating to the peace movement prior to World War II document a number of local and national peace organizations, as well as some labor and social reform groups, but are strongest in their coverage of anti-war movement in Buffalo, New York, particularly the activities of the Buffalo Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
In 1933, Elizabeth Smith corresponded with her aunt, Mildred Scott Olmsted, the Executive Secretary of the United States Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom about establishing a branch in Buffalo. The Buffalo Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was formed in 1935, with Smith as its Executive Secretary. She worked with the organization through the 1930s as a member and as the Legislative Chairman.
The papers concerning the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the closely related Emergency Peace Campaign as well as the People's Mandate to Governments to End Wars, include correspondence, reports, notes on meetings, membership lists, drafts of speeches, and printed literature. In addition to her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Elizabeth Smith was involved in other peace and social action groups. In the early 1930s, she was a member of the Socialist Party local and the League for Industrial Democracy; in 1933 she taught at "Emergency College" on the campus of the State Teachers College (now State University College at Buffalo); and in 1938 she worked as an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. she attended the Ninth Conference on the Cause and Cure of War and the Summer Institutes for Social Progress held in Wellesley, Massachusetts. These activities are documented by correspondence, notes, pamphlets, flyers and other materials. The collection also includes materials saved by Elizabeth Smith concerning a variety of local and national peace organizations; and it contains files she assembled about topics of interest to her such as consumerism, cooperatives, socialism, and the labor movement.
Also preserved are card files of names and addresses used by Smith in connection with her work on a lecture series sponsored by the League for Industrial Democracy and probably also used in her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Buffalo Peace Council.
Scrapbooks, compiled by Smith, concern the activities of the peace movement in Buffalo and the approach of World War II.
Although only the Buffalo Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and, to a lesser extent, the Emergency Peace Campaign and the people's Mandate are documented in detail, the Smith papers also contain leaflets, newsletters and other printed materials from a large number of local anti-war organizations. Since most of these local groups were short lived, these printed materials may be the most significant surviving records of their existence.
The emphasis in these papers is on the pacifist side of the peace movement, though there are some printed materials from isolationist organizations, such as the America First Committee.
There are no papers surviving the war years.
The bulk of the Smith papers for 1950 to 1975 consists of printed materials issued by local and national organizations. Unlike the peace movement of the 1930s, which concentrated on anti-war activities, these papers reflect a changed peace movement which was linked to a broad push for social reform, including integration, open housing, civil liberties, support for the United Nations, as well as traditional pacifist aims such as disarmament.
Papers from the 1950s are fragmentary but provide evidence of a revived Buffalo Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom during the Korean War.
While most of the material is printed, there is a small amount of correspondence and other written materials concerning Smith's involvement in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom as well as in the issues of open housing and school desegregation through the Citizen's Council on Human Relations (CCHR) and Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME).
Elizabeth Smith was an active member of the Unitarian-Universalist Church, which supported a number of liberal causes, both nationally and locally. These church activities are documented in newsletters, sermons and church announcements (1954-1974).
Personal papers (1923-1940) consist largely of letters to Miss Elizabeth Olmsted from family and friends before her marriage in 1934. Also included is a journal kept by Miss Olmsted at Smith College and student papers. A portion of the correspondence (1931-1934, 1937 and 1939) reflects her attempts to find work after graduating from Smith College in the midst of the depression. Also included are course notes and papers from her studies at the School of Social Work at the University of Buffalo (1949-1954) and papers concerning her casework with the Erie County Board of Social Services and with the Methodist Home for Children.
This collection is divided into two series, I.Peace Movement and II. Personal Papers, which are further subdivided into a number of topical subseries.
Please note that Series I contains Subseries A-K and Series II contains Subseries L and M.
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I. Peace Movement |
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The Peace Movement series is divided into eleven subseries. |
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| Correspondence, reports, notes, drafts of speeches, and printed material from the Buffalo Branch and the United States Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) collected by Elizabeth Smith in her capacity as an active member and as an officer of the Buffalo Branch. Included are records of two movements closely allied with the Buffalo Branch of WILPF, the Emergency Peace Campaign and the Peoples' Mandate to Governments to End War. Elizabeth Smith's correspondence with government officials and speech drafts have been included in this series although some may have been written or delivered in her capacity as a private citizen or as a member of a different organization. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 1.1 |
WILPF,
1924-1934
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| 1.2 |
WILPF - Correspondence between Elizabeth Smith and
Mildred Olmsted,
1933,
1936-39
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[See also: WILPF - Organization of Cleveland 1939-1940,
folder 2.7]
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| 1.3 |
WILPF Buffalo - includes club and organization lists,
circa 1934
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| 1.4 |
WILPF - Elizabeth Smith correspondence as Executive
Secretary, Speech notes on how to organize for peace,
1934-1935
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| 1.5 |
WILPF meeting notes,
1935-1936
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| 1.6 |
WILPF - Elizabeth Smith correspondence as Executive
Secretary,
1936
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| 1.7 |
WILPF - Elizabeth Smith as Executive Secretary -
reports,
1936
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| 1.8 |
WILPF Branch Letters; Board Meetings; WIL (NY)
Bulletins; Study group/Discussion outline handbook,
1936
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| 1.9 |
WILPF Correspondence,
1937
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| 1.10 |
WILPF Branch Letters,
1937
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| 2.1 |
WILPF Labor Committee - Elizabeth Smith as Legislative
Chairman,
1937
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| 2.2 |
WILPF Reports,
1937
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| 2.3 |
WILPF Correspondence and Branch Letters,
1938
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| 2.4 |
WILPF Handbook - List of National and Branch officers,
1938
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| 2.5 |
WILPF Branch letters,
1939
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| 2.6 |
WILPF Meeting notes,
1938-1939
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| 2.7 |
WILPF - Organization of Cleveland,
1939-1940
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| 2.8 |
WILPF Correspondence,
1940
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| 2.9 |
WILPF Correspondence,
1941
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| 2.10 |
Emergency Peace Campaign/People's Mandate
Correspondence,
1936-1937
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| 2.11 |
People Mandate to Governments to End War Petitions and
related material,
1936
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[see also: Emergency Peace Campaign, folder 2.10 and WILPF
correspondence, Elizabeth Smith as Executive Secretary, folders 1.4, 1.6, and
1.7]
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| 3.1 |
Congressional Correspondence - Bills and Resolutions,
1936-1938
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| 3.2 |
Congressional Correspondence,
1939
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| 3.3 |
Congressional Correspondence,
1940-1941
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| 3.4 |
WILPF Notes from Lectures on Peace,
circa
1936
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 3.5 |
"Armament Racket", undated
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| 3.6 |
"The Cost of Neutrality", undated
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| 3.7-3.10 |
Neutrality,
no
date
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| 3.11 |
"Cooperation and Peace", and notes,
no
date
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| 3.12 |
"Imminence of War",
no
date
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| 3.13 |
"Keep Out of War Position",
no
date
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| 3.14 |
"On the brink of war...",
no
date
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| 3.15 |
Peace,
no
date
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| 3.16 |
"Peace Talk",
no
date
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| 3.17-3.18 |
Peace, and notes,
no
date
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| 3.19 |
Peace, undated
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| 3.20 |
Peace (Hitler),
no
date
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| 3.21 |
"Peace Situation at Present", undated
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| 3.22 |
"Wrong reasons, wrong results", undated
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| 3.23 |
Notes, quotes and references from books - background
materials for speeches,
no
date
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| 3.24 |
Miscellaneous fragments of speech notes,
no
date
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| 3.25 |
Speech notes - Peace, Emergency Peace Campaign,
undated
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| 3.26 |
Speech notes - People's Mandate,
no
date
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| Correspondence and printed materials concerning anti-war organizations other than the People's Mandate, the Emergency Peace Campaign and WILPF. Particularly significant are folders concerning the Keep America Out of War Committee and the Youth Committee Against War. Also included are folders on organizations which were "progressive" but not specifically anti-war. These include the League for Industrial Democracy, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Socialist Party. Other activities documented in this series include her teaching at Emergency College (1933) and her attendance at the annual Summer Institute for Social Progress in Wellesley, Massachusetts (1936-1941). | ||
| Folders are arranged alphabetically by name of organization. Interfiled are subject folders on churches, consumerism, labor parties, labor unions, public housing and refugees. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 4.1 |
American Association of Social Workers,
1936
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| 4.2 |
American Committee for Non-participation in Japanese
Aggression,
1939
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| 4.3 |
America First Committee,
1940-1941
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| 4.4 |
American Anti-War Crusade, undated
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| 4.5 |
American Civil Liberties Union,
1935,
1937
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| 4.6 |
American Foundation for Abundance,
1940
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| 4.7 |
American League Against War and Fascism,
1936-1937
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| 4.8 |
Bibliographies - includes 2nd and 3rd World
Interdependence Conferences,
1934,
1936
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| 4.9 |
Buffalo Consumers Club,
1935-1938
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| 4.10 |
The Buffalo Forum Service,
1937
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| 4.11 |
Buffalo Peace Council,
1936-1937
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| 4.12 |
Buffalo Young People's Peace Alliance, also called:
Buffalo Youth Peace Committee,
1933
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| 4.13 |
Campaign for World Government,
1939
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| 4.14 |
Church of the Messiah, Buffalo,
1939-1940
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| 4.15 |
Churches - Miscellaneous,
1935-1939
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| 4.16 |
Citizens National Keep America Out of War Committee,
1939-1940
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| 4.17 |
Commission to Study the Organization of Peace-study
packet,
1939-1940
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| 4.18 |
Committee on Militarism in Education,
1933
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| 4.19 |
Commonwealth College, Mena, Arkansas,
1932-1934
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| 4.20 |
Community Institute of International Understanding,
1938
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| 4.21 |
Conscription,
1940
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| 4.22 |
Consumers Union of United States, Inc. ,
1937-1940
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| 4.23 |
Consumerism,
1936-1938
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| 4.24 |
Continental Congress of Works and Farmers,
circa 1933
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| 5.1 |
Cooperative Distributors, "Consumers Defender"
catalog,
1936-1938,
1940
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| 5.2 |
Emergency College,
1933
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| 5.3 |
Fellowship of Reconciliation,
1935-1941
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| 5.4 |
Foreign Policy Association,
1934-1940
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| 5.5 |
Foursquares,
1933
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| 5.6 |
Friends, Society of,
circa 1940
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| 5.7 |
Institute of International Relations - Niagara Peace
Council,
1941
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| 5.8 |
Institute of International Relations - New England,
Mid-West, New York State,
1934,
1936-38,
1941
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| 5.9 |
International Ladies Garment Workers Union,
1938
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| 5.10 |
Keep America Out of War Committee,
1938
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| 5.11 |
Keep America Out of War Congress,
1938-1940
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| 5.12 |
Keep America Out of War Congress - Buffalo Committee,
1938
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| 6.1 |
Labor parties - American Labor, Labor Non-Partisan
League, Proletarian, Communist,
1936
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| 6.2 |
Labor Unions,
1936-1939
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| 6.3 |
League for Industrial Democracy,
1933-1939
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| 6.4 |
League for Industrial Democracy - Buffalo Branch,
1933-1939
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| 6.5 |
League of Nations Association,
1935-1936
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| 6.6 |
League of Women Votes,
1935-1939
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| 6.7 |
Meadville Peace news, Meadville, PA,
1939
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| 6.8 |
National Committee on Cause and Cure of War,
1939-1940
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[see also: Bibliographies for reading lists of 2nd and 3rd
Conferences, folder 4.8]
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| 6.9 |
National Consumer's League,
1936-1940
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| 6.10 |
National Council for the Prevention of War,
1936-1940
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| 6.11 |
National Legion of the Mothers of America,
no
date
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| 6.12 |
National Peace Conference,
no
date
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| 6.13 |
New York Joint Committee for the Ratification of Child
Labor Movement,
1934,
1938
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| 6.14 |
Newspaper Guild - Buffalo,
1937-1941
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| 6.15 |
Peace - Miscellaneous printed material,
1933,
1936
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| 6.16 |
People's Lobby,
1939
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| 6.17 |
Political Action Committee for World Peace, Rochester,
1936,
1938
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| 6.18 |
Presbyterian Church, New York City,
1933
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| 6.19 |
Public Action Committee,
1939
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| 6.20 |
Public Housing,
1939
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| 6.21 |
Refugees - Emergency Rescue Committee, National
Refugee Committee, Non-Sectarian Committee for German Refugee Children,
1939
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| 6.22 |
Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church, Buffalo,
1937
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| 6.23 |
Schauffler Quarterly - Schauffler College of Religious
and Social Work, Cleveland, Ohio,
1938-1939
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| 7.1 |
Socialist party,
1933-1939
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| 7.2 |
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union,
1939-1941
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| 7.3 |
Soviet American Securities Corporation,
1933
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| 7.4 |
Summer Institute for Social Progress, Wellesley, MA,
1936-1937
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| 7.5 |
Summer Institute for Social Progress, Wellesley, MA,
1939
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| 7.6 |
Summer Institute for Social Progress, Wellesley, MA,
1941
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| 7.7 |
Student Peace Service - American Friends Service
Committee,
1938
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| 7.8 |
Townsend Club,
1936
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| 7.9 |
War Resisters League - Bibliography,
1933
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| 7.10 |
Women's Charter, National Women's Party, International
Congress of Women,
1933,
1936
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| 7.11 |
Women's Missionary Society of the Presbytery of
Buffalo - Niagara,
1936
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| 7.12 |
Workers Defense League,
1940
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| 7.13 |
Worker Education,
1933,
1937-1938
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| 7.14 |
Youth Committee Against War, local,
1939
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| 7.15 |
Youth Committee Against War, national,
1938-1940
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| A scrapbook kept by Elizabeth Smith,( 1932 to 1936), on anti-war activities in Buffalo, and loose clippings, (1936 to 1939), on local anti-war activities and international events. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 8.1 |
Scrapbook,
1932-1936
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| 8.2 |
Scrapbook,
1937-1938
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 8.3 |
1936
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| 8.4 |
1937
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| 8.5 |
1938
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| 8.6 |
1939
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| 8.7 |
no
date
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| 8.8 |
Clippings - national and international,
1934-1939
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| 8.9 |
Clippings - national and international,
no
date
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| Pamphlets on peace, socialism, unions, international affairs, religion, civil rights and other concerns, most published anti-war, political or social action organizations such as the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Foreign Policy Association, League for Industrial Democracy and the Socialist Party. | ||
| Arranged alphabetically by author. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 9 |
Pamphlets, A - Me
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| 10 |
Pamphlets, Me - W
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| Three card files containing names, addresses and other information. | ||
| Arranged alphabetically. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 26 |
Card File 1,
1930s
Most cards are typed and include initials of organizations; some cards are handwritten and include only names and addresses. |
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Note: This card file appears to have originally been used by
Elizabeth Smith in her work with the Lecture Series sponsored by the League for
Industrial Democracy (circa 1933-1936) and may also have been used in her work
with the Buffalo Peace Council and/or Buffalo Branch of the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom.
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| 26-27 |
Card File 2,
1930s
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Note: This file is similar to the above and probably related
to it. It was kept in a box which had the following notation penciled on the
cover: "These are names of people interested in peace as sent us by their own
organizations, such as FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation), Y.W.C.A., A.A.U.W.
(American Association of University Women). No duplication of names in the
enrollment card file." The notation was crossed out. Also on the box (not
crossed out) was the following: "Buffalo Peace Council. Master File"
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| 27-29 |
Card File 3,
1930s
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Note: The use of the last and largest card file is unclear.
In addition to names and addresses, cards may also include the following: The
initials "EC", Religious affiliation, Social or fraternal affiliations, and
Occupation. In addition, most cards are rubber stamped "A" or "B". If there is
more than one name on a card (as in some cases where both husband and wife are
listed or several members of the same family), there will be a similar number
of stamps.
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| Printed materials concerning peace, civil rights, and social action in the 1950s, including a few items (circa 1950-51, and 1954) from the short lived Buffalo Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. | ||
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Folders arranged alphabetically by name of organization. |
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| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 11.1 |
American Civil Liberties Union,
1955-1957
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| 11.2 |
American Friends Service Committee,
1951-1960
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| 11.3 |
American Labor Party - New York,
1954
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| 11.4 |
Buffalo Friends Meeting - newsletter,
1953
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| 11.5 |
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE),
1954
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| 11.6 |
Erie County Communist Party - "Searchlight",
Jan.
1958
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| 11.7 |
Friends Committee on National Legislation,
1951,
1954-1955,
1957
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| 11.8 |
League of Women Voters - newsletters,
1957
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| 11.9 |
Metcalf-Baker Bill (Protection Against Discrimination
in Housing),
1958
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| 11.10 |
Miscellaneous publications,
1950-1961
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| 11.11 |
National Council Against Conscription,
1954
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| 11.12 |
National Serve Board for Religious Objectors,
1954
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| 11.13 |
Riverside-Salem United Church of Christ,
1958
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| 11.14 |
Summer Institute for Social Progress - programs,
1954,
1956
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| 11.15 |
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
Buffalo Branch - correspondence,
1951
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| 11.16 |
WILPF - Buffalo Branch,
1950-51,
1954
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| Printed materials, including newsletters, flyers, and other items, and some correspondence concerning peace, civil rights and social action organizations, arranged alphabetically by name of organization. Also included are subject files on civil rights, draft repeal and other topics. | ||
| Folders arranged alphabetically by name of organization. | ||
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| 12.1 |
A Quaker Action Group,
1968-1969
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| 12.2 |
American Civil Liberties Union,
1962-1964,
1971-1974
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| 12.3 |
American Friends Service Committee,
1960-1967,
1967-1969
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| 12.4 |
American Friends Service Committee, Middle Atlantic
Region,
1961,
1963-1965,
1967-1969
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| 12.5 |
Another Mother for Peace,
1969-1971
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| 12.6 |
Anti-Communist literature,
1960,
1964-1966
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| 12.7 |
Anti-Defamation League,
1960-1961,
1966-1967
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| 12.8 |
Canadian Friends Service Committee,
1967,
1969
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| 12.9 |
Canadian Involvement in Vietnam,
1967-1969
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| 12.10 |
Center for War/Peace Studies,
circa 1968
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| 12.11 |
Civil Rights - miscellaneous literature,
1965-1974
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| 12.12 |
Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam,
1967-1969
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| 13.1 |
Committee for Non-Violent Action,
1964
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| 13.2 |
Committee for Nuclear Information,
1959-1960,
1963-1964
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| 13.3 |
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE),
1971
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| 13.4 |
Committee for World Development and World Disarmament,
1959,
1961
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| 13.5 |
Draft Repeal,
1964,
1971
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| 13.6 |
Ecumenical Institute,
circa 1969-1971
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| 13.7 |
Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR),
1959,
1961,
1964
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| 13.8 |
Friends Committee on National Legislation,
1961-1963,
1966-1972
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| 13.9 |
Friends Committee on National Legislation -newsletters
including: ACTION, MEMO and Washington newsletter,
1961-1972
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| 13.10 |
Grape Boycott,
circa 1969
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| 13.11 |
Miscellaneous - peace and social action,
1960s-1970s
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| 13.12 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People
1962,
1964,
1967-1972
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| 13.13 |
National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE),
1960,
1963,
1965-1966
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| 13.14 |
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in
Vietnam,
1966-1969
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| 13.15 |
National Council of Churches,
1969
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| 13.16 |
National Mobilization Committee to End the War in
Vietnam,
1965-1966
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| 14.1 |
National Organization of Women (NOW),
1966,
1974-1975
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| 14.2 |
National Welfare Rights Organization,
1968-1969,
1971-1972
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| 14.3 |
New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,
1964,
1969
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| 14.4 |
New York Civil Liberties Union,
1971-1974
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| 14.5 |
New York Yearly Meeting of Friends - Peace and Social
Action Program,
1968-1969
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| 14.6 |
Peace - Miscellaneous,
circa 1964-1969
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| 14.7 |
Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund for Racial
Equality, Inc. ,
1971-1972
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| 14.8 |
Students for a Democratic Society,
1965
|
|
| 14.9 |
Student Mobilization Committee,
1967
|
|
| 14.10 |
Toward Freedom (Anti-Colonialism
newsletter),
1973-1975; Pamphlet - Cairo,
1958
|
|
| 14.11 |
United Nations,
1960-1963,
1971
|
|
| 14.12 |
United States Committee for Refugees,
1961
|
|
| 14.13 |
Voice of Women/La Voix Des Femmes,
1969
|
|
| 14.14 |
War Resisters League,
1970-1971
|
|
| 14.15 |
Women's Liberation Groups (subject folder),
1967-1968,
1973
|
|
| 14.16 |
World Federalists,
1967,
1970-1971
|
|
| 14.17 |
World Fellowship, Inc. ,
1959-1963,
1965-1968
|
|
| 14.18 |
World Peace, miscellaneous,
1971-1972,
1975
|
|
| Printed materials, including newsletters, flyers, newspaper clippings and other items, concerning peace, civil rights and social action organizations in Buffalo and Western New York, and also including some original materials generated through Elizabeth Smith's involvement with the Citizen's Council on Human Relations (CCHR) and other local organizations. | ||
| Folders arranged alphabetically by name of organization or by topic. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 15.1 |
American Civil Liberties Union - Niagara Frontier
Chapter, 1970 Newsletters and clippings,
1956,
1963-1964,
1971
|
|
| 15.2 |
American Friends Service Committee, upper NYS area,
1975
|
|
| 15.3 |
Attica (subject folder),
circa 1974
|
|
| 15.4 |
Buffalo Area Council of Churches,
1966,
1972
|
|
| 15.5 |
Buffalo Committee to Oppose HUAC, position statement,
undated
|
|
| 15.6 |
Buffalo Council on World Affairs,
1956-1957,
1963-1968,
1970-1972
|
|
| 15.7 |
Buffalo Defense Committee,
1971-1972
|
|
| 15.8 |
Buffalo Freedom and Peace Committee,
1968
|
|
| 15.9 |
Buffalo Friends Meetings, newsletters,
1968-1969,
1971-1972; membership list,
1972
|
|
| 15.10 |
Buffalo Labor Action,
(independent labor monthly),
April,
1964
|
|
| 15.11 |
Buffalo New Community Council,
1970,
1971
|
|
| 15.12 |
Buffalo New Mobilization Committee,
1964,
1970; news
clippings,
no
date
|
|
| 15.13 |
The Buffalo Nine,
1968-1969
|
|
| 15.14 |
Buffalo Peace Council,
1971-1972
|
|
| 15.15 |
Buffalo Peace Council, "The Peace Feeler",
newsletters,
June, October,
November 1971,
April
1973
|
|
| 15.16 |
Buffalo Rights Action Group (BRAG),
1969-1971 and newsletter
1969
|
|
| 15.17 |
Buffalo - Peace and Social Action, miscellaneous,
1960s-1970s
|
|
| 15.18 |
Buffalo World Hospitality Association,
1965,
1967 and
newsletters,
1963,
1966
|
|
| 15.19 |
BUILD (Build Unity, Independence, Liberty, Dignity)
clippings,
circa 1968-1969
|
|
| 16.1 |
Citizens Committee for Children of Western New York,
undated
|
|
| 16.2 |
Citizens Council on Human Relations ©. C. H.R.),
1967,
1969-1973 newsletters, speech and correspondence
- E. Smith,
1967,
1969-1973
|
|
| 16.3 |
Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV),
1968-1969,
1971;
newsletters
Nov. 1969,
Jan. 1970,
Fall 1970;
clippings,
no
date
|
|
| 16.4 |
Coalition for Action, Unity and Social Equality
(CAUSE),
1968-1971 newsletters (originally BUILD Us Too),
1969,
1971;
clippings, undated
|
|
| 16.5 |
Coalition for a Democratic Alternative on the Niagara
Frontier,
1967-1968; clippings,
1968
|
|
| 16.6 |
Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Greece,
1967
|
|
| 16.7 |
Committee on Unfair Taxation, undated
|
|
| 16.8 |
Community Action Organization (CAO),
1968
clippings,
no
date
|
|
| 16.9 |
Conference on Alternative to Violence,
1968
|
|
| 16.10 |
Conference on Community Living,
1960,
1964-1966
|
|
| 16.11 |
Council for Citizens' Responsibility in Foreign
Policy,
circa 1964-1966
|
|
| 16.12 |
Day Care Council for Erie County, Inc. ,
1972;
newsletters,
December
1971,
April
1972
|
|
| 16.13 |
Draft Counseling Center of Buffalo,
1967-1970
|
|
| 16.14 |
East Side Community Organization (ESCO),
1965-1969
|
|
| 16.15 |
Education - Buffalo (subject folder) includes Board of
Education agenda,
1964,
1966,
1968
literature,
1960,
1965-1966 and Citizens for Better Education,
1965
|
|
| 16.16 |
Emergency Committee for a National Mobilization
Against Racism, literature, leaflets,
[1974]
|
|
| 16.17 |
Goals for Metropolitan Buffalo,
1967-1968
|
|
| 16.18 |
The Grape Boycott (subject folder),
1968-1971
|
|
| 16.19 |
The Frontier Press Club,
1968-1971
|
|
| 16.20 |
"The Frontier Reporter"
May 1954,
Jan. 1962,
Jan., Feb. Apr.
1964,
June 1965,
Jan. 1967,
September, December
1967,
Jan., July
1968,
May
1970
|
|
| 17.1 |
Housing (subject folder),
1960-1963, 1970
|
|
| 17.2 |
Housing Opportunities Made Equal (H.O.M.E.) literature
and original notes,
1965,
1968-1969,
1972
|
|
| 17.3 |
Housing Opportunities Made Equal (H.O.M.E.),
newsletters,
1964-1966,
1968-1989
|
|
| 17.4 |
Indochina Peace Campaign, undated
|
|
| 17.5 |
Interfaith Pilgrimage for Vietnam Relief,
1967
|
|
| 17.6 |
League of Women Voters,
1965-1966,
1974
|
|
| 17.7 |
Liberals for Peace, Buffalo,
1968
|
|
| 17.8 |
Martin Sostre Defense Committee,
1968-1969,
1973;
clippings,
1970
|
|
| 17.9 |
Masten Park Baptist Church (24 hr. day care center),
1967-1968
|
|
| 17.10 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (N.A.A.C. P.), Buffalo Branch,
1963-1964
; clippings,
no
date
|
|
| 17.11 |
The National Conference for New Politics, News
Conference in Buffalo, news release,
Apr. 5,
1967
|
|
| 17.12 |
New Democratic Coalition of Erie County (NDC),
1968-1969
|
|
| 17.13 |
Niagara Frontier Council for Freedom of Choice in
Housing, later H.O.M.E., also original notes,
circa 1963
|
|
| 17.14 |
Niagara Peace Movement,
1972;
newsletter,
1973
|
|
| 17.15 |
Niagara Regional Coordinating Committee, newsletters,
1965-1966 and notes on conference, Syracuse, New
York,
Feb. 3,
1966
|
|
| 17.16 |
Parents for School Integration; see also: C. C. H.R,
folder 16.2
|
|
| 17.17 |
Peace - Western New York, including Fredonia -
"Devil's Advocate", Ithaca - "New Patriot", Rochester - "Voters for Peace",
Syracuse - Syracuse Peace Council,
1965-1967
|
|
| 17.18 |
Revolutionary Student Brigade,
no
date
|
|
| 17.19 |
Rochester Peace Newsletter,
1967-1969
|
|
| 17.20 |
St. Augustine's Center, Buffalo,
1970-1971
|
|
| 17.21 |
SANE - Buffalo Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy,
circa 1964
|
|
| 17.22 |
Socialist Labor Party, leaflets, undated
|
|
| 17.23 |
The Spirit and the Sword, newsletter,
1963-1964
|
|
| 17.24 |
Students for a Democratic Society, (SDS),
no
date
|
|
| 17.25 |
Tax Resister's Fund (T.A.P.),
no
date
|
|
| 17.26 |
The Theosophical Society in Buffalo,
1965-1966
|
|
| 17.27 |
Urban Action Association,
1968-1970
|
|
| 17.28 |
Vietnam Summer - Erie County, literature, newspapers
clippings, undated
|
|
| 17.29 |
Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Winter Solider
Organization, Buffalo Chapter, undated
|
|
| 17.30 |
Western New York Committee to Abolish Capital
Punishment,
1965
|
|
| 17.31 |
Western New York Peace Center - also Salem-Riverside
Church of Christ, Social Action Center, Peoples Peace Treaty,
circa 1971 and Buffalo - Chile Newsletter,
1975
|
|
| 17.32 |
Women for the Right to Choose,
1972
|
|
| 17.33 |
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA),
1961,
1964
|
|
| 17.34 |
Youth Against War and Fascism, Buffalo,
no
date
|
|
| Newsletters, church announcements, programs, budgets, and other printed items concerning the activities of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. Included is printed material from the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth General Assemblies of the Unitarian Universalist Church, (1967-1969). | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 18.1 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Amherst - literature,
1964-1967,
1971
|
|
| 18.2 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Amherst -
newsletters,
1961-1968
|
|
| 18.3 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, Budget
literature,
1956-1957,
1964,
1966,
1969
|
|
| 18.4 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, Church
Service Programs, recital programs,
1957-1973
|
|
| 18.5 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, Church
School literature,
1956-1958,
1962,
1967-1969,
1972; also
includes literature from the General Sunday School Association in Mass.,
1940-1941
|
|
| 18.6 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, newsletters,
1956-1958
|
|
| 18.7 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, newsletters,
1964-1966
|
|
| 18.8 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, newsletters,
1967-1974
|
|
| 18.9 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, Draft
resistance (Bruce Beyer and symbolic sanctuary), clippings and literature,
1968-1969
|
|
| 18.10 |
Unitarian-Universalist Church of Buffalo, Parish
lists, sermons, announcements, miscellaneous correspondence,
1954-1958,
1963,
1965-1969,
1973,
1955-1969,
1973
|
|
| 18.11 |
Unitarian-Universalist - National, literature,
1955,
1960-1962,
1964,
1967,
1969,
1971,
1974
|
|
| 19.1 |
Black Caucus Controversy (7th and 8th General
Assemblies),
1968-1969
|
|
| 19.2 |
FULLBAC (National Unitarian-Universalist organization
to fight white racism), literature,
1969
|
|
| 19.3 |
Unitarian Universalist for Black and White Action,
(BAWA), literature and programs,
1970-1973
|
|
| 19.4 |
Unitarian Universalist Sixth General Assembly,
literature,
1967
|
|
| 19.5 |
Unitarian Universalist Seventh General Assembly,
reports, proposals, resolutions, agenda, programs (Cleveland),
1968
|
|
| 19.6 |
Unitarian Universalist Seventh General Assembly,
miscellaneous literature,
1968
|
|
| 19.7 |
Unitarian Universalist Eighth General Assembly,
reports, proposals, resolutions, agenda, programs, (Boston),
1969
|
|
| 19.8 |
Unitarian Universalist Eighth General Assembly,
miscellaneous literature, notes by and correspondence to Elizabeth Smith,
1969
|
|
| Printed material, including newsletters, leaflets and other items from both the Buffalo Branch and the United States Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; correspondence and notes of Elizabeth Smith concerning her activities as a member; and membership lists of the Buffalo Branch. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 20.1 |
Buffalo Branch - Correspondence,
1961,
1964,
1966-1973
|
|
| 20.2 |
Buffalo Branch - legislative correspondence,
1961-1966,
1969,
1972
|
|
| 20.3 |
Buffalo Branch - Smith's notes on branch activities,
1964-1965,
1969,
1973
|
|
| 20.4 |
Buffalo Branch - literature,
1961-1969
|
|
| 20.5 |
Buffalo Branch - Newsletters,
1963-1967
|
|
| 20.6 |
Buffalo Branch - Newsletters,
1968-1971
|
|
| 20.7 |
Buffalo Branch - Legislative Chairman (Smith) report,
circa 1966
|
|
| 20.8 |
Buffalo Branch - membership and telephone lists,
1964-1965,
1968-1969
|
|
| 20.9 |
U.S. Section -
Four Lights,
1963,
1966-1969
|
|
| 20.10 |
U.S. Section -
Peace and Freedom,
1971-1973
|
|
| 20.11 |
U.S. Section - literature,
1960-1971
|
|
| Newspaper clippings concerning peace, social action and civil rights issues in Buffalo, New York. | ||
| Arranged chronologically with the exception of a folder on the visit of investigators of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to Buffalo (1957) and on school integration (1964-1968). | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 21.1 |
Clippings re. House UnAmerican Activities Committee in
Buffalo,
1957
|
|
| 21.2 |
Clippings re. School Integration Controversy,
1964-1968
|
|
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 21.3 |
1961-1962
|
|
| 21.4 |
1964
|
|
| 21.5 |
1965-1966
|
|
| 21.6 |
1967
|
|
| 21.7 |
1968
|
|
| 21.8 |
1969
|
|
| 21.9 |
1970
|
|
| 21.10 |
1971
|
|
| 21.11 |
1972
|
|
| 21.12 |
no
date
|
|
|
II. Personal Papers |
||
|
The Personal Papers series is divided into two subseries: 'Personal Correspondence and Papers' and 'Social Work, Education and Employment'. Please note that the numbering of the subseries continues from the first series. |
||
| Correspondence, primarily letters received by Elizabeth Olmsted from family and friends, poems and stories, diaries (1923 and 1925), budget books, family photographs, and newspaper clippings. Much of the correspondence dates from her years as an undergraduate at Smith College (1927-1931). Also included are student papers (circa 1928-1931) a journal kept at Smith (1927-1929) and her sketches and watercolors. | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 22.1 |
Poems and Stories,
no
date
|
|
| 22.2 |
Personal Diary,
1923,
1924
|
|
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 22.3 |
circa 1923-1925
|
|
| 22.4 |
1927
|
|
| 22.5 |
1928
|
|
| 22.6 |
Jan. - Oct.,
1931
|
|
| 22.7 |
November-December,
1931
|
|
| 22.8 |
Jan. - Feb.,
1932
|
|
| 22.9 |
Mar. - Apr.,
1932
|
|
| 22.10 |
May - Oct.,
1932
|
|
| 22.11 |
Nov. - Dec. ,
1932
|
|
| 22.12 |
Jan. - Jun.,
1933
|
|
| 22.13 |
Jul. - Dec.,
1933
|
|
| 22.14 |
1934
|
|
| 23.1 |
1935
|
|
| 23.2 |
1936
|
|
| 23.3 |
1937
|
|
| 23.4 |
1938
|
|
| 23.5 |
1939-1940
|
|
| 23.6 |
no
date
|
|
| 23.7 |
Employment Correspondence,
1931
|
|
| 23.8 |
Employment Correspondence,
1932
|
|
| 23.9 |
Employment Correspondence,
1933
|
|
| 23.10 |
Employment Correspondence,
1934
|
|
| 23.11 |
Employment Correspondence,
1937,
1939
|
|
| 23.12 |
Budget Books,
1934,
1936
|
|
| 23.13 |
Journal kept at Smith College,
1927-1929
|
|
| 23.14 |
Smith College,
1927,
1931-1940
|
|
| 23.15 |
Correspondence with Dorothy Hill,
1926-1940
|
|
|
[Restricted] |
||
| 23.16 |
Newspaper Clippings re. Smith and Olmsted families,
1934,
1938,
1965
|
|
| 23.17 |
Photographs,
no
date
|
|
| 23+.18 |
Sketches and Watercolors; oversize folder housed next
to box 23,
no
date
|
|
| 24 |
Smith College student papers,
1928-1931
|
|
| Class notes, reading lists, papers and related materials from courses taken at the School of Social Work at the University of Buffalo,( circa 1949-1952); Elizabeth Smith's Graduate Certificate in Social Work from the University of Buffalo, (1954); class notes for a course on early education, (1960); caseworker field notes,( circa 1952); materials concerning her work at the Methodist Home for Children, (1957); and literature concerning social work including the Erie County Social Service Manual for Caseworkers, (1946), and a 75th Anniversary history of the Family Services Society (formerly the Charity Organization Society), (covering 1877-1952). | ||
| Box-folder | Contents | |
| 25.1 |
Class notes and related materials, School of Social
Work, University of Buffalo,
1949-1952
|
|
| 25.2 |
Graduate Certificate in Social Work, University of
Buffalo,
1954
|
|
| 25.3 |
Class notes and related materials for Education,
1960
|
|
| 25.4 |
Caseworker Field Notes,
1952
|
|
|
[Restricted] |
||
| 25.5 |
Methodist Home for Children,
1957
|
|
|
[Restricted] |
||
| 25.6 |
Erie County Social Service Manual for Caseworkers,
1946
|
|
| 25.7 |
Social Work - literature,
1942-1953 includes "Seventy Five Years of
Service", a history of the Family Service Society, formerly the Charity
Organization Society,
1877-1952
|
|
| 25.8 |
Social Workers Club of Buffalo - literature,
1952-1955
|
|
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog.
