American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
James A. Babbitt photograph album
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-06-002
Overview
This collection includes photographs from World War I Europe. Photographs include those taken on a ship to Europe, at a hospital in France, and at a number of battlefields throughout Europe. This volume includes graphic images of war casualties.
Dates:
Undated.
Bacon Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1156
Overview
Correspondence, diaries and photographs relating to the 20th- century Quakers Edith Farquhar Bacon and Francis Rogers Bacon, their families, forbears, friends and colleagues.
Dates:
1800-1987
Biddle family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates:
1793-1951
Bowles family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1212
Abstract
The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. In 1900, the Bowles moved to Japan under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and managed the Friends School and established the Tokyo Friends Center. During World War II, the Bowles family moved to Hawaii and worked with war refugees. The Bowles family correspondence consists of correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles to their son Gordon Townsend Bowles from 1922 to...
Dates:
1922-1960
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
Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1189
Abstract
Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton were 20th-century Quaker educators and prolific authors whose areas of expertise included the physical sciences and the Classics. Notably, they also worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Europe, for Friends Center in Tokyo, Japan, and as directors of Pendle Hill, an adult study center in Wallingford, PA. They were both recorded ministers in the Religious Society of Friends. This collection also contains materials of other...
Dates:
1859-2005
Addition to Henry J. Cadbury papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1121-addition
Overview
Henry Joel Cadbury (1883-1974) was one of the foremost American Quaker scholars of the 20th century. He published in the fields of Quaker and biblical history, and served as a teacher and philanthropist. This addition to the papers of Henry Cadbury includes biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, writings, such as his The Book of Acts in History and photographs of Cadbury and his family.
Dates:
1866-1987
Henry Joel Cadbury Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract
Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.
Dates:
1917-1974
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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]
Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates:
1831-2012
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- Society of Friends -- Japan 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 4
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- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 3
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- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 2
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 2
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- lecture notes 2
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- Adoption -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
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- African American churches -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
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- African Americans -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Bible. Acts 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
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- Charities -- Hawaii 1
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- Charities -- Maryland -- Baltimore 1
- Charities -- Poland 1
- Charities -- Russia (Federation) 1
- Charities -- Vietnam 1
- Children -- Health and hygiene -- History 1
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Classicists 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
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- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
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- Cooking, American 1
- Crime prevention -- Citizen participation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
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- Direct action -- History -- Sources 1
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- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Education -- Vietnam 1
- Europe -- Description and travel -- Diaries 1
- Finland 1
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