Scope and arrangement
Georgia Lloyd's papers span the early 1920s through the middle of the 1990s. They document her interest and involvement with the pacifist and world government movements in addition to numerous other causes such as the Equal Rights Amendment, consumer cooperatives, and racially-integrated housing.
The collection consists of correspondence both professional and personal; her professional publications and book drafts; a voluminous subject file containing information on organizations, topics and individuals in which Georgia took an interest; financial and real estate records; miscellaneous personal items; and a small number of photographs.
Georgia's professional connections, lifelong friends and family members are rather well represented within the collection, and make it a useful resource for documenting the development of many progressive and liberal movements of the twentieth century, such as women's rights, American Socialism, the pacifist and conscientious objector movements, world government, and labor rights. In addition, the papers offer a view into the lives and interactions of members of the activist Lloyd and Maverick families, Rosika Schwimmer, and a large number of Georgia's classmates from the Fellowship School and Marietta Johnson's School for Organic Education.
The majority of the collection is in English, with occasional French and German correspondence.
The Georgia Lloyd papers are arranged in five series:
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1915-1999
Georgia Lloyd's correspondence is organized into three subseries: general correspondence, family correspondence, and outgoing letters. In the interest of preserving original order, many of the files in both general and family correspondence have been maintained with both incoming and outgoing letters arranged together.
Researchers seeking the letters of particular individuals are additionally advised to review their corresponding miscellaneous file (for example, for Rosika Schwimmer correspondence, see Schwimmer, Rosika, as well as Miscellaneous S). It is also strongly suggested that researchers interested in an individual review Series III. Subject files for related materials.
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1943-1996
Materials arranged in this series primarily pertain to the book Searchlight on Peace Plans, written by Georgia Lloyd and Edith Wynner, and published by E.P. Dutton in 1944. Also included are one folder of materials from a 1944 article Georgia published in the journal Argosy, and a folder of miscellaneous writings.
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1876-1997
Georgia Lloyd's subject files consist of accumulated papers on numerous individuals, organizations, events, and topics in which she took an active interest. The contents of each file vary greatly, and contain materials both by and about the parties in question. Examples of documents include organizational records such as meeting minutes, correspondence, professional publications, newspaper clippings, manuscripts for articles or books, and even occasional photographs.
Researchers interested in a particular individual or organization are advised to review both the folder dedicated to that entity, as well as its entry in the miscellaneous file. It is also strongly recommended that researchers see individuals' entries in Series I. Correspondence for related materials.
Documented in this series is Georgia's involvement with organizations such as the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, the Keep America Out of War Congress from 1941-1942, and the Socialist Party of Chicago, among numerous others. The organizational files generally contain records of daily transactions, minutes, and also often include some financial information from Georgia's involvement--generally as treasurer--on committees and boards of trustees.
The bulk of information Georgia collected that is related to her family is within this series. While the majority of their correspondence is arranged in Subseries IBC. Family correspondence, there are a fair amount of letters also included here. The voluminous files on family members in this series include highlights such as brother-in-law Harvey O'Connor's defiant statement to the House Un-American Activities Committee explaining why he refused to testify and correspondence with her sister Jessie Lloyd O'Connor during Jessie's sojourn as a journalist in Harlan, Kentucky, during a labor conflict.
Events and topical files range from conscientious objectors to the Equal Rights Amendment, from the Ford Peace Expedition to race relations, and from Indian independence to international peace efforts.
The files related to Edith Wynner constitute perhaps one of the most comprehensive collections of her writings and publications.
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1930-1999
Arranged within this small series are banking records, financial and stock statements and reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a small number of photographs.
Financial materials consist of records and correspondence related to Georgia Lloyd's personal finances and estate, as well as the family estate and trusts, the trust established to support Edith Wynner and her work on behalf of the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection at the library, and a small amount of correspondence related to her husband's company, Berndt Associates.
The real estate materials include insurance documents and materials pertaining to Lloyd and Maverick family properties, and oversized floorplans of the Campaign for World Government office. Additionally, there is a significant amount of information on William Bross Lloyd's property in Jamaica, and Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wayside House, in Winnetka, Illinois. A small amount of materials address efforts to establish the latter property as a National Historic Landmark.
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1913-1999
Items located in this series consist of educational materials, identification cards, a few address books and diaries, and photographs.
The educational materials are primarily Georgia's coursework--in the form of essays and some lecture notes--from high school and college. The subjects studied, as well as many of the essays, indicate her early interest in social issues. Two essays included in the Antioch miscellany file pose an interesting contrast: the 1932 essay "My Mother's Career" discusses Lola Maverick Lloyd's involvement in pacifist causes, and indicates Georgia's belief in taking individual responsibility for the welfare of the world. Juxtaposed against this is the 1931 essay "What Having a Plane in the Family is Like," which indicates the financial privileges with which she was raised.
Also included with the educational items are assorted memorabilia from her educational career, including several report cards and her University of Chicago diploma.
The identification cards present in this series include approximately fifty years of passports, several identity cards, and many membership cards to the various clubs and associations with which Georgia was associated. Another interesting contrast is found in the presence of membership cards for the Socialist Party spanning 1941 to 1973, in addition to a 1942 membership card for the Harvard Club of New York City.
The address books and diaries are scattered and incomplete, consisting of an address book from 1940, and three other undated items.
Photographs in this series consist of images of Georgia and her family, Rosika and Franciska Schwimmer, and Edith Wynner. While the majority of the photographs from the collection are arranged in this series, there are also occasional photographs included as enclosures throughout the collection.