American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Holmes-Webb Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-065
Overview
William B. Webb was a druggist and member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite). He married Rebecca Turner in 1853. Their youngest daughter, Rebecca St. Claire Webb, married Jessie Herman Holmes in 1892. Holmes was a prominent Quaker, taught philosophy and religion at Swarthmore College, and was active in AFSC relief in Europe after World War I. He also served as President of the National Federation of Religious Liberals and was an active member of the Socialist Party. The...
Dates:
1839-1972
O. Edward Janney (Oliver Edward) Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-072
Overview
Dr. O. Edward Janney was a prominent Quaker doctor from Baltimore who was active in many of the social reform movements of his time. He worked with the Society for the Suppression of Vice in Baltimore and labored in the causes of temperance, woman suffrage, inter-racial relations, peace, and other reforms. In 1907, Dr. Janney gave up the practice of medicine to devote his energies full time to reform activities. The collection contains correspondence (1874-1945), diary (1914), memoirs,...
Dates:
1874-1945
James Morgan Read Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-128
Overview
James Morgan Read (1908-1985) was a Quaker and president of Wilmington College from 1960-69. He also served as the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner from 1951-60, and was a vice president of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation from 1969 until his retirement in 1974. The bulk of the collection documents James Read's work as a consultant after 1974. His diaries date from his association with Wilmington College. Areas of particular interest include the establishment of Soviet-American...
Dates:
1940-1987
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- Charities -- Maryland -- Baltimore 1
- Children -- Health and hygiene -- History 1
- Communism and international relations 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- Diaries 1
- India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 1
- International relations 1
- International relief -- Europe 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Maryland -- Baltimore 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- Social service 1
- Quakers -- United States 1
- Sex Instruction for Children -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Doctrines 1
- Temperance 1
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union 1
- United States -- Relations -- Canada 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1 + ∧ less
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