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Isabel Harris Metcalf Peaceana Collection, 1918-1941
During WWI, Isabel Harris Metcalf, a Rhode Island pacifist, began compiling clippings as "an endeavor to find in the written word an answer to the heart-searching questions" evoked by the war "in the economic, cultural and emotional life of womankind." Over the course of more than two decades, she collected and indexed material relating to the international peace movement, resulting in 50 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, along with loose clippings and correspondence relating to the League of Nations and the World Peace Movement. Her collection was deposited at the John Hay Library in 1935 and bequeathed to the Library at her death in 1943 as a tool for teaching about "the growth of the Spirit of Peace on Earth."Format(s): Letters, Scrapbooks
Library: John John Hay, Collections Annex
NOTE: Portions of this collection are housed off-site. Prior notice is needed for retrieval
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Access to the collection:
Online Catalog (BruKnow):
General description of the collection available on BruKnow
Author Search for Isabel Harris Metcalf
Other Online Access:
Other: Staff Web: Storage Barcode List
In-house Access to the Collection:
Typescript Inventory
Notes:
The correspondence and loose newspaper clippings are stored off site; the scrapbooks are on site.