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American Friends Service Committee

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Anna S. Cox Brinton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1228
Overview

The papers of the family of Anna S. Cox Brinton, a notable Quaker educator, activist and minister. Her family includes Joel and Hannah E. Shipley Bean, the founders of the Beanite branch of Quakerism, as well as Catharine M. Cox Miles, who was active with the American Friends Service Committee in Germany after World War I. Other family members are also included.

Dates: 1825-1960

Addition to Henry J. Cadbury papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1121-addition
Overview

Henry Joel Cadbury (1883-1974) was one of the foremost American Quaker scholars of the 20th century. He published in the fields of Quaker and biblical history, and served as a teacher and philanthropist. This addition to the papers of Henry Cadbury includes biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, writings, such as his The Book of Acts in History and photographs of Cadbury and his family.

Dates: 1866-1987

Rebecca Mary Hannum correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-303
Identifier: SFHL-SC-303
Overview The collection contains the correspondence of Rebecca Mary Hannum (1889-1984) mostly related to her work with the American Friends Service Committee child feeling program in post WWI Germany, 1921-1924 and Peasant Industries, Poland. After the child feeling project was transferred to local groups in Germany, Mary Hannum became involved with the Peasant Industries program which supported women's handwork for sale in the United States and elsewhere. Her personal and business letters contain...
Dates: 1918 - 1924

Gilbert MacMaster papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1016
Overview Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World...
Dates: 1901-1968

The collection of Beulah Hurley Waring and Alston Waring, New Hope, PA

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1225
Overview

The collection, primarily of correspondence of Quaker Beulah Hurley (1886-) relating principally to her relief work after World War I in Europe and Russia under the auspices of several Friends' groups and the photographs of Quaker P. Alston Waring (1895-1978) taken in Europe, East Asia, California, Central America and mainly in India between 1915 and 1954.

Dates: 1917-1954

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  • Subject: Germany X
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Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 3
Quakers -- Switzerland 2
Academic writing 1
Architecture 1
Bible. Acts 1
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California -- Pictorial works 1
Central America -- Pictorial works 1
Child welfare -- Germany 1
Diaries 1
Egypt -- Pictorial works 1
England -- Description and travel 1
Europe -- Description and travel 1
Famines -- Soviet Union 1
Food relief -- Germany 1
Germany 1
Germany -- Pictorial works 1
Hungary -- Pictorial works 1
India -- Pictorial works 1
International relief 1
International relief -- Europe 1
International relief -- Germany 1
International relief -- Poland 1
Italy -- Pictorial works 1
Mexico -- Pictorial works 1
Odisha (India) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
Passports 1
Photographs 1
Poland -- Pictorial works 1
Quaker philanthropists 1
Quaker photographers 1
Quaker women -- 20th century 1
Quaker women -- History -- 20th century 1
Quakers -- Germany 1
Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 1
Russia -- Pictorial works 1
Society of Friends -- Germany 1
Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
Society of Friends -- International assistance -- France 1
Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Russia 1
Society of Friends -- Jamaica 1
Society of Friends -- West Indies 1
Travel -- 20th century 1
Vacations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century 1
Vienna (Austria) -- Pictorial works 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 1
certificates 1
correspondence 1
lecture notes 1
legal documents 1
letters (correspondence) 1
notes 1
speeches (documents) 1
travel photography 1
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