Register of the Alice Park papers

Finding aid prepared by Grace M. Hawes

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

434 Galvez Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives

Title: Alice Park papers

Date (inclusive): 1883-1951

Collection Number: 30017

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 33 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 3 envelopes (14.2 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Diaries, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, leaflets, and peace buttons relating to pacifism and the peace movement, the Ford Peace Ship Expedition, feminism, socialism, the labor movement, prison reform, child labor legislation, civil liberties, and a variety of other reform movements in the United States.

Creator: Park, Alice, 1861-1961

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

Box OCM10 may not be used without permission of the Archivist. The remainder of the collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1930, with increments received at later dates.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Alice Park papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note*

1861 February 2	Born, Boston, Massachusetts
1879	Graduated, Rhode Island State Normal School
1884	Married Dean W. Park
1894	Active in the international feminist movement
1898	Active in various peace societies
1902-1920	Active leader in the women's suffrage movement
1905	Attended Women's Suffrage Convention, Portland, Oregon
1909	Author, California Bird and Arbor Day Law
1909	Attended Women's Suffrage Convention, Seattle, Washington
1913	Author, California law for equal guardianship of parents of minor children
1913	Delegate, International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, Budapest, Hungary
1913	Delegate, International Peace Congress at The Hague, Netherlands
1915	Member, Ford Peace Expedition
1917	Attended National Suffrage Convention, Washington, D.C.
1924	Attended International Peace Conference, Washington, D.C.
1926	Delegate, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Dublin, Ireland
1926	Attended International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, Paris, France
1926	Attended International Vegetarian Convention, London, England
1927	Attended International League for Peace and Freedom, Duisburg, Germany
1927	Attended National Peace Convention, York, England
1928	Attended Pan-American Congress, Havana, Cuba
1961	Died

*: See Una R. Winter (ed.). Alice Park of California: Worker for Woman Suffrage and for Children's Rights. Upland, California: Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California, 1948. Hoover Institution Library Call Number: HQ1413 P2W787

Scope and Content of Collection

Diaries, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, leaflets, and peace buttons relating to pacifism and the peace movement, the Ford Peace Ship Expedition, feminism, socialism, the labor movement, prison reform, child labor legislation, civil liberties, and a variety of other reform movements in the United States.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Peace

Civil rights -- United States

World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace

Neutrality -- United States

World War, 1914-1918 -- United States

Pacifism

Child labor -- United States

Henry Ford Peace Expedition

Socialism -- United States

Prisons -- United States

Labor unions -- United States

Women's rights -- United States

Correspondence 1913-1948

Scope and Contents note

Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

box 1, folder 1

General 1916-1941

box 1, folder 2

Unidentified 1914-1920

box 1, folder 3

All-American Anti-Imperialism League 1929

box 1, folder 4

American School Peace League 1917

box 1, folder 5

Association for Peace Education 1928

box 1, folder 6

Bonville, Frank 1923

box 1, folder 7

California Club 1913

box 1, folder 8

Capehart, Homer 1945

box 1, folder 9

Cloud, Roy W. 1915

box 1, folder 10

Committee on Militarism in Education 1935-1940

box 1, folder 11

Cousins, Margaret E. 1919

box 1, folder 12

Dayal, Har 1924

box 1, folder 13

Ford, Henry undated

box 1, folder 14

Frazier, Lynn J. 1927

box 1, folder 15

Garrott, Jane 1927

box 1, folder 16

Goodman, Minerva 1934

box 1, folder 17

Hermann, E. 1941-1945

box 1, folder 18

Holland, H. E. 1920

box 1, folder 19

Howe, Anges E. 1920

box 1, folder 20

Jones, Donald R. 1916-1919

box 1, folder 21

Kirkpatrick, George 1932

box 1, folder 22

McConnell, Bishop Francis J. 1945

box 1, folder 23

Meller, Eugenis M. 1925

box 1, folder 24

Norman, F. S. 1940

box 1, folder 25

Northern California Service Board 1943-1945

box 1, folder 26

Nye, Gerald P. 1936

box 1, folder 27

Palo Alto Times, 1929

box 1, folder 28

Passmore, Irvin 1916

box 1, folder 29

Reynolds, Grace 1920

box 1, folder 30

San Diego Disarmament Conference Committee 1932

box 1, folder 31

San Francisco Chronicle 1948

box 1, folder 32

San Francisco News, 1928

box 1, folder 33

Scharrenberg, Paul 1914

box 1, folder 34

Schwimmer, Rosika 1921-1948

box 1, folder 35

Sinclair, Upton 1938

box 1, folder 36

Sontheimer, Anna 1922

box 1, folder 37

Stopani, Col. G. 1933

box 1, folder 38

Swit 1920

box 1, folder 39

Urquhart, Margaret M. 1926

box 1, folder 40

Walther, Edward 1931

box 1, folder 41

Watson, Elizabeth 1931

box 1, folder 42

Whitman, Charles S. 1916

box 1, folder 43

Willis, Gwendolen B. 1928

box 1, folder 44

Winter, Ella 1933

box 1, folder 45

Wold, Emma 1932

box 1, folder 46

Wood, Theodore 1929

Subject File 1915-1951

Scope and Contents note

Articles, pamphlets, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, arranged alphabetically by title or subject.

box 1, folder 47

Addams, Jane

box 1, folder 48

Agassiz, Louis

box 1, folder 49

Alternative (incomplete) 1948-1951

box 2, folder 1

American Civil Liberties Union

box 2, folder 2

American Liberty Defense League

box 2, folder 3

Amnesty

box OCM10

15 stamps

Conditions Governing Access

Box OCM10 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.

box 2, folder 4

Barteau, Marguerite

box 2, folder 5

Beecher, Henry Ward

box 2, folder 6

Bellamy, Edward

box 2, folder 7

Bigelow, Herbert S.

box 2, folder 8

Biographical material

box 2, folder 9

Birth control

box 2, folder 10

Bloomer, Amelia

box 2, folder 11

Bloor, Ella Reeve

box 2, folder 12

Boer War (1899-1902)

box 2, folder 13

Botchkarova, Maria L.

box 2, folder 14

Bourne, Randolph

box 2, folder 15

Briffault, Robert

box 2, folder 16

Browder, Earl

box 2, folder 17

Bryant, Louise

box 3, folder 1

Centralia (Washington) case

box 3, folder 2

Chase, Staurt

box 3, folder 3

Chiang Kai-shek, President and Mme.

box 3, folder 4

Civil liberty

Civilian Public Service

box 3, folder 5

Memoranda

box 3, folder 6

Newspaper clippings

box 3, folder 7

Coalition Bulletin

box 3, folder 8

Comité Mondial des Femmes (World Committee of Women)

Communism

box 3, folder 9

Letters received 1919-1940

box 3, folder 10

Newspaper clippings

box 3, folder 11

Printed material

box 3, folder 12

Congressional Record

Conscientious objectors

box 4, folder 1

Miscellany

box 4, folder 2

Newspaper clippings

box 4, folder 3

Printed material

box 4, folder 4

Conscription

box 4, folder 5

Cooperative Consumer

box 4, folder 6

Cuba

box 4, folder 7

Davison, Emily Wilding

box 4, folder 8

Dayal, Har

box 4, folder 9

Debs, Eugene V.

box 4, folder 10

Dennett, Mary Ware

box 4, folder 11

Deportation

Disarmament

box 5, folder 1

Newspaper clippings

box 5, folder 2

Printed material

box 5, folder 3

Dreyfus, Alfred

box 5, folder 4

Earhart, Amelia

box 5, folder 5

Eddy, Sherwood

box 5, folder 6

Edelman, Irwin

box 5, folder 7

Edmondson (Robert E.) case

box 5, folder 8

Education

box 5, folder 9

Einstein, Albert

box 5, folder 10

Fellowship of Reconciliation

box 5, folder 11

Field, Sara Bard

box 5, folder 12

Fish, Hamilton

box 5, folder 13

Flight (aviation)

box 5, folder 14

Ford, Henry

Ford Peace Expedition 1915

box 6, folder 1

Miscellaneous

box 6, folder 2

Newspaper clippings

box 6, folder 3

Printed material

box 6, folder 4

France, Joseph Irwin

box 6, folder 5

Friedlander, Violet Helen

box 6, folder 6

Gandhi, Mahatma

box 6, folder 7

George, Henry

box 6, folder 8

Gillmore, Inez H.

box 6, folder 9

Goldman, Emma

box 6, folder 10

Gorky, Maxim

box 6, folder 11

Haiti

box 7, folder 1

Hearst, William Randolph

box 7, folder 2

Hillquit, Morris

box 7, folder 3

Hutchinson, Anne

box 7, folder 4

India

box 7, folder 5

India and East Indians - United States

box 7, folder 6

Indians of North America

box 7, folder 7

Industrial relations

box 7, folder 8

Ireland

box 7, folder 9

Japan

box 8, folder 1

Japanese-Americans

box 8, folder 2

Jews

box 8, folder 3

Jones, Ellis O.

box 8, folder 4

Jordan, David Starr

box 8, folder 5

Keller, Helen

box 8, folder 6

Kellogg, Vernon

box 8, folder 7

Kennell, Ruth

box 8, folder 8

Kenney, Annie

box 8, folder 9

Kousnezoff, Maria

box 8, folder 10

Krehbiel, E. B.

box 8, folder 11

Ku Klux Klan

Labor

General

box 8, folder 12

Newspaper clippings

box 8, folder 13

Printed material

box 9, folder 1

Printed material (cont'd.)

box 9, folder 2-3

Child labor

box 9, folder 4

Farmer-Labor-Progressive Convention

box 9, folder 5

General Defense Committee

Industrial Worker's of the World (IWW)

box 9, folder 6

Miscellaneous

box 10, folder 1

Newspaper clippings

box 10, folder 2

Printed material

box 10, folder 3

Hours

box 10, folder 4

Overseas

box 10, folder 5

Strikes

box 10, folder 6

Unemployment

box 10, folder 7

Wages

box 10, folder 8

La Motte, Ellen

box 10, folder 9

Lea, Everett

box 10, folder 10

League of Nations

box 10, folder 11

Lenin

box 10, folder 12

Leprosy

box 10, folder 13

Libby, Frederick J.

box 10, folder 14

Lincoln, Abraham

box 10, folder 15

Lindbergh, Charles

box 10, folder 16

Lipkowska, Mme.

box 10, folder 17

Lloyd, Henry D.

box 11, folder 1

Lloyd, Lola and Jessie

box 11, folder 2

Lochner, Louis P.

box 11, folder 3

Ludlow, Louis

box 11, folder 4

Lytton, Lady Constance

box 11, folder 5

Macy, Annie Sullivan

box 11, folder 6

Marriage and divorce

box 11, folder 7

Martin, Prestonia

box 11, folder 8

Mexico

box 11, folder 9

Migratory workers

box 11, folder 10-11

Militarism

Military training

box 11, folder 12

Miscellaneous

box 11, folder 13

Newspaper clippings

box 12, folder 1

Printed material

box 12, folder 2

Miscellaneous

Mooney, Tom

General

box 12, folder 3

Newspaper clippings

box 13, folder 1

Printed material

box 13, folder 2

Defense Committee

box 13, folder 3

Narcotics

box 13, folder 4

National Commons

box 13, folder 5

National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

box 13, folder 6

National Women's Party

box 13, folder 7

National Women's Trade Union

box 13, folder 8

Nearing, Scott

box 13, folder 9

Negroes

box 13, folder 10

Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation

box 13, folder 11

Nicaragua

box 13, folder 12

O'Connor, Harvey

box 13, folder 13

O'Hare, Kathleen

box 14, folder 1

Older, Fremont

box 14, folder 2-3

Pacificism

box 14, folder 4

Pacifists, Christian

box 14, folder 5

Pan American Conference

box 14, folder 6

Pankhurst, Emmeline

Peace

General

box 14, folder 7

General

box 14, folder 8

Newspaper clippings

box 14, folder 9

Printed material

box 15, folder 1-2

Printed material (cont'd.)

box 15, folder 3

Women

box 15, folder 4

Youth

box 15, folder 5

Peace caravan

box 15, folder 6

Peace Club, Palo Alto, California

box 15, folder 7

Philippine Islands

box 16, folder 1

Ponsonby, Arthur

box 16, folder 2

Prelooker, Jaakoff

box 16, folder 3

Press

box 16, folder 4-5

Prisons

box 16, folder 6

Prohibition

box 16, folder 7

Prostitution

box 16, folder 8

Rand School of Social Science

box 16, folder 9

Rankin, Jeannette

box 17, folder 1

Reed, John

box 17, folder 2

Robins, Raymond

Russia

box 17, folder 3

Miscellaneous

Printed material

box 17, folder 4-6

1917-1919

box 17, folder 7-10

1920-1923

box 18, folder 1-3

1924-1927

box 18, folder 4-5

Sacco-Vanzetti

box 18, folder 6

Sanger, Margaret

box 18, folder 7

Schwartz, Alexander

box 18, folder 8

Schwimmer, Franciska

Schwimmer, Rosika

Court cases

box 18, folder 9

Rosika Schwimmer vs. Fred R. Marvin

box 18, folder 10

Rosika Schwimmer vs. Upton Sinclair

box 18, folder 11

Rosika Schwimmer vs. United States

box 18, folder 12

Ford Peace Ship

box 18, folder 13

Miscellaneous

box 19, folder 1

Tisza Tales

box 19, folder 2

World Center for Women's Archives

box 19, folder 3

World Peace Prize Award

box 19, folder 4

Sex education

box 19, folder 5-6

Shaw, George Bernard

box 19, folder 7

Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis

box 19, folder 8

Sheehy-Skeffington, Hannah

box 20, folder 1

Sheehy-Skeffington, Hannah (cont'd.)

box 20, folder 2

Sinclair, Upton

box 20, folder 3-5

Socialism

box 20, folder 6

Song books

box 20, folder 7

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

box 20, folder 8

Stoecker, Helene

box 21, folder 1

Strong, Anna Louise

box 21, folder 2

Strong, Sydney

box 21, folder 3

Suttner, Baroness Bertha von

box 21, folder 4

Tagore, Rabindran

box 21, folder 5

Technocracy

box 21, folder 6

Thomas, Norman

box 21, folder 7

Tolstoy, Leo

box 21, folder 8

Trotsky, Leon

box 21, folder 9

Vanderlip, Washington B.

box 22, folder 1

Venereal disease

box 22, folder 2

Villard, Oswald G.

War

box 22, folder 3

Newspaper clippings

box 22, folder 4-5

Printed material

box 22, folder 6

Weatherly, Arthur L.

box 22, folder 7

Wells, H. G.

box 22, folder 8

Williams, J. R.

Women

General

box 22, folder 9

Newspaper clippings

box 22, folder 10

Printed material

box 23, folder 1

China

box 23, folder 2

Congresses and conferences

box 23, folder 3

Conscription

box 23, folder 4

England

box 23, folder 5

France

box 23, folder 6

Germany

box 23, folder 7

India

box 23, folder 8

Ireland

box 23, folder 9

Japan

box 23, folder 10

Labor

box 23, folder 11

Mexico

box 23, folder 12

Norway

box 23, folder 13

Russia

box 23, folder 14

Suffrage

box 23, folder 15

War

box 23, folder 16

Women's Committee for Political Action

box 24, folder 1

Women's Freedom League

box 24, folder 2

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

box 24, folder 3

Women's Peace Party

box 24, folder 4

World Peace Postage Association

box 24, folder 5

World Peaceways

box 24, folder 6

Wynner, Edyth

box 24, folder 7

Zogg, Nicholas Senn

Diaries 1883-1948

Scope and Contents note

Arranged chronologically.

box 24, folder 8

1883-1887

box 24, folder 9

1915

box 25

1914, 1917-1922

box 26

1923-1926

box 34

1927

box 33

1928-1932

box 27

1933-1936

box 28

1937-1942

box 29

1943-1948

box 29

Newspaper cuttings, The Ford Peace Expedition 1915-1916

box 29

Notebook

Autobiography undated

Scope and Contents note

Unpublished typewritten manuscript (2 copies) and related materials.

box 30, folder 1

Materials

box 30, folder 2

"The Autobiography of Alice Park"

Scope and Contents note

Bound manuscript.

Miscellany undated

box 30, folder 3

General

box 32

Oversize

Printed Material undated

Scope and Contents note

Pamphlets, leaflets, and other printed matter, arranged alphabetically by subject.

box 31, folder 1

Beard, Charles A.

box 31, folder 2

California

box 31, folder 3

China

box 31, folder 4

International Anti-Military Congress

box 31, folder 5

McClure, S. S.

box 31, folder 6

Unemployment

United States

box 31, folder 7

General

box 31, folder 8

Economic conditions

box 31, folder 9

Government publications

box 31, folder 10

World Union of Women

box 31, folder 11

Workers Party of America

Memorabilia undated

box 32

Peace buttons

box 30, folder 4

Peace calendar 1908

box 30, folder 5

Peace cards

box 30, folder 6

Peace and labor stamps

Photographs undated

Scope and Contents note

18 photographs, 79 postcards, 2 envelopes.

envelope A

1 print of Hannah Sheehy-Skeffinton; 1 print of Warren K. Billings; 2 prints of Rosika Schwimmer; 1 print of Rosika Schwimmer with Louis Calhern, Dorothy Gish, and Edgar Barrier; 1 print of Elizabeth Cady Stanton; 1 print of Florence Holbrook and Lola Maverick Lloyd; 1 print of Heart Mountain, Wyoming, Japanese Internment Camp; 4 prints of child laborers; 3 prints of John E. Jones; 3 miscellaneous prints undated

envelope B

74 peace postcards; 5 Industrial Worker of the World postcards undated

envelope mC

1 illustrated chart of the members of the U.S. Congress who voted against American entry into World War I undated