American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1161
Overview
The papers document the lives of service of Quakers Gilbert Bowles (1869-1960) and Minnie Picket Bowles (1868-1958), Quaker missionaries and ministers in Asia and Hawaii for over 60 years, from 1896-1960.
Dates:
1890-1974
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objection -- United States 1
- Incarceration 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Missionaries 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker missionaries 1
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Hawaii -- Honolulu 1
- Quakers -- Japan 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Hawaii -- Honolulu 1
- Society of Friends -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 1 + ∧ less
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