American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Rebecca Timbres Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-026
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 [bulk 1920-1990]
Dorothy North Haskins papers, 1905-1958
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M5
Overview
Dorothy North Haskins (1886-1962), BMC 1909, was a relief worker in France, Austria, and Chicago during and after WWI, acting as part of the American Friends Service Committee. The Papers include many letters written during this time, official reports and documents on relief work, diaries, and photographs.
Dates:
1905 - 1969
Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-149
Overview
Wilbur K. Thomas (1882-1953), a Quaker born in Indiana, was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1918 to 1929. He graduated from Friends University in 1904, served as pastor of various Quaker churches, graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1907, earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1914, and was a member of Boston Friends Meeting after 1909. He was director of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1946. The collection contains...
Dates:
1914-1933
Filtered By
- Subject: International relief -- Russia X
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- International relief -- Russia 2
- Charities -- Europe, Eastern 1
- Charities -- Hawaii 1
- Charities -- India 1
- Charities -- Poland 1
- Charities -- Russia (Federation) 1
- International relief -- Austria 1
- International relief -- Europe, Eastern 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Poland 1
- International relief -- Russia (Federation) 1
- Medicine -- Europe, Eastern 1
- Medicine -- India 1
- Medicine -- Poland 1
- Medicine -- Russia (Federation) 1
- Nursing -- Russia (Federation) 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Europe, Eastern 1
- Quakers -- Hawaii 1
- Quakers -- India 1
- Quakers -- Massachusetts 1
- Quakers -- New Jersey 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Poland 1
- Quakers -- Russia (Federation) 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- Russia -- Civilian relief 1
- Schools -- India 1
- Social service -- Europe, Eastern 1
- Social service -- Hawaii 1
- Social service -- India 1
- Social service -- Poland 1
- Social service -- Russia (Federation) 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Women authors -- 20th century 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 1 + ∧ less
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