The Florence Taussig Papers were donated to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection by Mrs. Thomas S. Hall (Mary), the daughter of Florence and Frederick Taussig, in 1997. An additional box of material was donated by Mrs. Hall on July 6, 1998. The collection contains both accessions.
Florence Taussig was born in 1878. Her husband Dr. Frederick J. Taussig was a gynecologist and professor of clinical obstetrics at Washington University School of Medicine. He died in 1943. Florence was the mother of Mary Taussig Hall, and Frederick Taussig. The Taussigs were members of the St. Louis Ethical Society. Florence was involved in Women's Suffrage, the peace movement during WWI, the Women's Peace Party, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was a close friend of Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago. Florence was a member of the Board of Directors of the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital from 1948 until her death. Florence Taussig died in 1954.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The papers of Florence Taussig contain materials on: Dr. Frederick J. Taussig, advocate of birth control; the Women's Peace Party, both the National Organization and the St. Louis chapter; correspondence with Jane Addams of Hull House; pamphlets, propaganda, and art work from WWI; Women's Sufferage material from St. Louis; and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, including information on the founding of the St. Louis chapter.
SERIES CONTENTS
1. Taussig Family
2. Women's Peace Party
3. Peace Publications
4. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
FOLDER LIST
Series 1: Taussig Family
BOX 1
1. Taussig, Frederick, 1891-1942
2. Taussig, Frederick, Photographs, 1898-1907
3. Women's Suffrage, 1916-1922
Series 2: Women's Peace Party
4. Publications, 1915-1918
5. Addams, Jane, Speeches, 1916-1924
6. Addams, Jane, Correspondence, 1916-1928, 1948
7. Women's Peace Party, Correspondence, 1915-1919
BOX 2
8. Delegates to Congress after the War, 1917-1920
9. Women's Peace Party, St. Louis, Founding, 1915-1917
10. Women's Peace Party, St. Louis, Correspondence, 1915
11. Women's Peace Party, St. Louis, Correspondence, 1915-1916
12. Women's Peace Party, St. Louis, Correspondence, 1915-1918
13. Women's Peace Party, St. Louis, Correspondence, 1915-1919
14. Trojan Women, Correspondence and Contracts, 1915
15. Taussig, Florence, Correspondence, 1915-1927
BOX 3
16. Mead, Lucia Ames, Articles and Correspondence, 1915-1917
17. Balch, Emily, Correspondence, 1917, 1946-1951
18. Hudson, Manley O., Correspondence, 1915-1919
19. Posters and Art Work, 1920-1921
20. Newspaper Clippings, 1915-1924
Series 3: Peace Publications
21. Organizations in the U.S. Promoting World Peace, 1914-1921
22. National Council for Prevention of War, 1921-1923
23. International Conciliation, 1911-1914
24. International Conciliation, 1911-1914, 1937
BOX 4
25. World Peace Foundation Pamphlets, 1911-1917
26. Conference of Peaceworkers, 1916-1917
27. The World Court Magazine, 1916-1917
28. The Standard, 1915
29. Articles about WWI, 1914-1917
30. President Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War, 1917
31. Pacificism, 1912-1917
BOX 5
32. Preparedness, 1914-1916
33. Anti-Preparedness Committee, 1916
34. Militarism, 1914-1917
35. American Union Against Militarism, 1916-1917
36. Economics of War, 1916-1923
37. O'Hare, Kate and National RIP SAW, 1914
38. Labor, 1925, 1938
39. Conscientious Objectors, 1917
40. Internationalism, 1915-1923
41. League to Enforce Peace, 1916
BOX 6
42. League of Nations, 1919-1938
43. Senate Resolution to Outlaw War, 1929
44. WWII Pacifism, 1937-1940
45. Detroit Race Riot, 1943
46. Songs, Plays, Concerts, 1915
Series 4: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
47. Women's League Constitution, 1919-1934
48. International League Board Minutes, 1939-1941
BOX 7
49. Executive Committee, 1920-1941
50. Membership Lists, 1940
51. Handbooks, 1939-1942
52. Publications, 1915-1938
53. International Congress, 1915-1924
54. Seminars and Meetings, 1938-1944
55. Minutes of Meeting of International Headquarters Advisory Council, 1938-1941
56. Section for the U.S., 1919-1925
BOX 8
57. National Refugee Committee, 1939-1941
58. Reports, 1940-1941
59. Reports, 1940, 1943
60. Bulletins, 1923-1925
61. Branch Letters, 1939-1943
62. Correspondence, 1926-1929
63. Correspondence, Balch, Emily G., 1920-1949
64. Correspondence, Baer, Gertrude, 1939-1945
65. Correspondence, 1931-1941
BOX 9
66. Correspondence, 1949 and undated
67. International Headquarters Circular Letters, 1942
68. Budgets, 1938-1941
69. Disarmament Petitions, 1932
70. Civil Liberty-Neutrality Bills, 1937
71. Rue du Vieux-College, 1938
72. Anti-war Mobilization, 1939
73. Pax International, 1933-1939
74. St. Louis Branch, 1920-1953
75. Taussig, Florence, 1930, 1939-1941
76. Addams, Jane, 1927-1941
77. Financial Material, 1927-1941
78. Resolutions, 1935-1938
BOX 10
79. Reports, 1935-1941
80. Minutes, 1927-1935
81. Minutes, 1936-1939
82. Newsclippings, 1924-1936
83. Publications, 1923-1947
84. Publications, 1916-1937
Photograph of Victory Convention of National American Woman Suffrage Association and Congress of League of Woman Voters in Chicago, February 12-18, 1920 is located in the map case.
BOX 11
85. Publications, 1924-1945
86. Publications, 1922-1936
87. Handbooks, 1935-1938
88. Hull House Year Book, 1931
89. League of Nations Newsletters, 1921
90. Foreign Policy Association Newsletters, 1927
91. Artifact, Delegate Badge, National Suffrage Convention, 1917
INDEX
Addams, Jane, f. 5, 6, 73
Baer, Gertrude, f. 63
Balch, Emily, 17, 63
Conscientious Objectors, f. 39
Detroit Race Riot, f. 45
Foreign Policy Association, f. 90
Hudson, Manley, f. 18
Hull House, f. 88
League of Nations, f. 42, 89
Mead, Lucia Ames, f. 16
National Council for Prevention of War, f. 22
National Rip Saw, f. 37
O'hare, Kate, f. 37
Peace, f. 21-91
Taussig, Florence, f. 3
Taussig,, Frederick, f. 1-3
Trojan Women, f. 14
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, f. 47-76
Women's Peace Party, f. 7-13
Women's Suffrage, f. 3, 91
WWII Pacifism, f. 44
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