Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Paul M. Cope Collected Papers
Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Cope, Paul Markley
Abstract
Correspondence, documents, memorabilia, and pamphlets from Cope's work in France in 1919.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1919
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee
Abstract
Collection includes pamphlets, annual reports, and periodicals.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1942
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Overview
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
William Webb Price Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-126
Overview
William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.
Dates:
1917-1923
Filtered By
- Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 3
- Society of Friends -- Charities 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- France 2
- Authors, English -- History -- Sources 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 1
- France -- History -- German occupation -- 1914-1918 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
- Rose Valley (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Society of Friends -- France 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- War relief -- Societies, etc 1
- War relief -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1 + ∧ less
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