American Friends Service Committee
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Rebecca Timbres Clark photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-113
Overview
Rebecca Timbres Clark (1896-2000) was a Quaker nurse and social worker. She and her first husband, Harry Garland Timbres (1899-1937), performed relief work under the auspices of the AFSC in Eastern Europe in 1921-22 and worked with Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, India, in 1931-34. In 1936-1937, the couple worked in the malaria unit in Soviet Russia. After Harry Timbres' death, Rebecca returned to the U.S. She married Edgar Sydenham Clark (1885-1961) on July 2, 1943, and the couple moved to...
Dates:
1853 - 1999
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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- Architecture 1
- California -- Pictorial works 1
- Central America -- Pictorial works 1
- Egypt -- Pictorial works 1
- Famines -- Soviet Union 1
- Germany -- Pictorial works 1
- Hungary -- Pictorial works 1
- India -- Pictorial works 1
- Italy -- Pictorial works 1
- Mexico -- Pictorial works 1
- Odisha (India) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker photographers 1
- Quaker women -- History -- 20th century 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- France 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Russia 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Travel -- 20th century 1
- Vienna (Austria) -- Pictorial works 1
- travel photography 1 + ∧ less
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