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American Friends Service Committee

 Organization

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

American Friends Service Committee Reference Files

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-032
Overview

Contains the reference files collected and assembled by American Friends Service Committee over many years to keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends. Includes minutes, reports, and related papers of Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee, Friends' Council for International Service, Friends Service Council, and other Quaker relief agencies, mostly under the direction of London and Dublin Yearly Meetings.

Dates: 1916-1944

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

Elkinton, Waring Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1239
Overview This collection includes information about multiple generations of the Elkinton and Waring families. It is concentrated on two generations: firstly, that of Howard West Elkinton (1892-1955) and Katharine Wistar Mason Elkinton (1892/3-1961), his wife, and secondly, that of their daughter, Theodora Elkinton (1927-) who married Thomas Waring (1921-2001). It is a story of life choices made by these Quakers: for Howard and Katharine Elkinton, to serve under the American Friends Service Committee...
Dates: 1815-2006

Joseph Haines papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-095
Overview

This collection is comprised of three folders of the papers of Joseph H. Haines.

Dates: 1917-2002

Kite-Bassett Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-080
Overview The Kite and Bassett families were Orthodox Quakers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lynn, Massachusetts, respectively. James Kite was born in 1808, the son of Benjamin and Rebecca Kite of Philadelphia. In 1837 he was granted a certificate to Salem Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts to marry Lydia B. Rodman, widow of Caleb Rodman and daughter of Isaac and Ruth Bassett of Lynn. James and Lydia had eight children, viz. Ruth, James Rodman, Eliza B., Rebecca, Isaac C. Bassett, Hannah B., Lydia...
Dates: 1837-1930

Langley Hill Monthly Meeting Records

 Collection — Othertype SW/B/L361
Identifier: QM-B-L361
Scope and Contents

Records of Langley Hill Monthly Meeting, which include paper and electronic records (which include those digitized by LHFM from paper and those that were born digital). LHFM has historically combined all of its records into a single annual file, arranged chronologically, which includes all of the meeting for business records along with related correspondence and newsletters.

Dates: 1918-2020 (bulk 1961-2020)

Emma Chandler MacClelland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-094
Overview Emma Chandler MacClelland was a Quaker who was involved in relief work in France during World War I with the American Friends Service Committee. She was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1895, and married Lee H. MacClelland after her return from France. She was a member of Reading Monthly Meeting at the time of her death in 1965. The collection contains correspondence of Emma Chandler MacClelland during the period, 1918-1919, in which she did relief work in France. Details her...
Dates: 1918-1919

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

World War I Reconstruction and Conscientious Objectors files

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1249
Overview

Card files on Conscientious Objectors in World War I (of all faiths) and on workers and applicants to the Reconstruction Unit program overseen by the Society of Friends in Europe after World War I.

Dates: 1918-1923

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  • Subject: Society of Friends X
  • Subject: World War, 1914-1918 X

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Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 5
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 5
World War, 1914-1918 3
International relief -- France 2
Quakers -- Massachusetts 2
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Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
correspondence 2
Affirmative action programs 1
Charities -- France 1
Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
Diaries 1
Fairfax County (Va.) -- Genealogy 1
France -- History -- 1914-1940 1
Gay rights 1
International relief -- Germany 1
International relief -- Russia 1
International relief -- Societies, etc 1
Marriage 1
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Oral histories 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Photographs 1
Photography 1
Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
Quaker businesspeople 1
Quaker photographers 1
Quaker women -- 20th century 1
Quakers 1
Quakers -- Family relationships 1
Quakers -- France 1
Quakers -- History 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Quakers -- Wills 1
Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 -- Civilian relief 1
Reconstruction (1914–1939) 1
Russia -- Civilian relief 1
Social service -- France 1
Social service -- Societies, etc. 1
Society of Friends -- Austria 1
Society of Friends -- China -- Shanghai 1
Society of Friends -- France 1
Society of Friends -- Germany 1
Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
Society of Friends -- Missions 1
Society of Friends -- Serbia 1
Society of Friends -- Switzerland 1
Society of Friends -- United States 1
Society of Friends -- Virginia -- Fairfax County 1
Wills 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
clippings (information artifacts) 1
letters (correspondence) 1
marriage certificates 1
photograph albums 1
postcards 1
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