American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Nancy J. Babb Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Babb, Nancy
Abstract
Nancy Babb (1884-1948) was a member of the Society of Friends who served as a field representative for the Red Cross and then as a relief worker in Russia from 1917 to the mid 1920s. On her return to the United States in 1928 Babb lectured about her work in Russia. Babb also volunteered for a number of various women's organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Babb established the National Circulating Library of Student's Peace Posters, an organization...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
- Famines -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources 1
- Germany -- Pictorial works 1
- Hungary -- Pictorial works 1
- India -- Pictorial works 1
- International relief -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources 1
- Italy -- Pictorial works 1
- Mexico -- Pictorial works 1
- Odisha (India) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
- Poland -- Pictorial works 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker photographers 1
- Quaker women -- History -- 20th century 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Soviet Union -- Sources 1
- Russia -- Pictorial works 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- History -- Sources 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
- Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- Travel -- 20th century 1
- Vienna (Austria) -- Pictorial works 1
- travel photography 1 + ∧ less
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