American Friends Service Committee
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG1
Overview
A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...
Dates:
1933-2010
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Overview
The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (forced removal and incarceration). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts,...
Dates:
circa 1895-1979
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- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 2
- Missionaries 2
- Quaker missionaries 2
- Quakers 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 2
- correspondence 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Classicists 1
- Hawaii 1
- Incarceration 1
- Japan 1
- Japan -- History 1
- Philippines 1
- Philippines -- Photographs 1
- Philippines -- Social life and customs 1
- Photography -- History 1
- Poland -- History 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Education -- Japan 1
- Quakers -- Hawaii -- Honolulu 1
- Quakers -- Japan 1
- Refugees 1
- Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship) -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Africa 1
- Society of Friends -- Alabama 1
- Society of Friends -- Alaska 1
- Society of Friends -- Argentina 1
- Society of Friends -- Arizona 1
- Society of Friends -- Arkansas 1
- Society of Friends -- Brazil 1
- Society of Friends -- California 1
- Society of Friends -- Canada 1
- Society of Friends -- Colorado -- Denver 1
- Society of Friends -- Columbia 1
- Society of Friends -- Connecticut 1
- Society of Friends -- Costa Rica 1
- Society of Friends -- Cuba 1
- Society of Friends -- Florida 1
- Society of Friends -- Georgia 1
- Society of Friends -- Germany 1
- Society of Friends -- Guatemala 1
- Society of Friends -- Hawaii 1
- Society of Friends -- Hawaii -- Honolulu 1
- Society of Friends -- History -- 20th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Illinois 1
- Society of Friends -- Indiana 1
- Society of Friends -- Iowa 1
- Society of Friends -- Jamaica 1
- Society of Friends -- Kansas 1
- Society of Friends -- Kentucky 1
- Society of Friends -- Korea 1
- Society of Friends -- Louisiana 1
- Society of Friends -- Maine 1
- Society of Friends -- Maryland 1
- Society of Friends -- Massachusetts 1
- Society of Friends -- Mexico 1
- Society of Friends -- Michigan 1
- Society of Friends -- Minnesota 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- Missouri 1
- Society of Friends -- Montana 1
- Society of Friends -- Nebraska 1
- Society of Friends -- New Hampshire 1
- Society of Friends -- New Jersey 1
- Society of Friends -- New Mexico 1
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
- Society of Friends -- North Carolina 1
- Society of Friends -- North Dakota 1
- Society of Friends -- Ohio 1
- Society of Friends -- Oklahoma 1
- Society of Friends -- Oregon 1
- Society of Friends -- Oregon -- Elkton 1
- Society of Friends -- Panama 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Puerto Rico 1
- Society of Friends -- Rhode Island 1
- Society of Friends -- Saskatchewan 1
- Society of Friends -- South Africa 1
- Society of Friends -- South Carolina 1
- Society of Friends -- Tennessee 1
- Society of Friends -- Texas 1
- Society of Friends -- Thailand 1
- Society of Friends -- Trinidad 1
- Society of Friends -- Utah 1
- Society of Friends -- Venezuela 1
- Society of Friends -- Vermont 1
- Society of Friends -- Vietnam 1
- Society of Friends -- Virginia 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Society of Friends -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Society of Friends -- Washington (State) 1
- Society of Friends -- West Virginia 1
- Society of Friends -- Wisconsin 1
- Society of Friends -- Wyoming 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians 1 + ∧ less
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