American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Rebecca Mary Hannum correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-303
Identifier: SFHL-SC-303
Overview
The collection contains the correspondence of Rebecca Mary Hannum (1889-1984) mostly related to her work with the American Friends Service Committee child feeling program in post WWI Germany, 1921-1924 and Peasant Industries, Poland. After the child feeling project was transferred to local groups in Germany, Mary Hannum became involved with the Peasant Industries program which supported women's handwork for sale in the United States and elsewhere. Her personal and business letters contain...
Dates:
1918 - 1924
Gilbert MacMaster papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1016
Overview
Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World...
Dates:
1901-1968
The collection of Beulah Hurley Waring and Alston Waring, New Hope, PA
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1225
Overview
The collection, primarily of correspondence of Quaker Beulah Hurley (1886-) relating principally to her relief work after World War I in Europe and Russia under the auspices of several Friends' groups and the photographs of Quaker P. Alston Waring (1895-1978) taken in Europe, East Asia, California, Central America and mainly in India between 1915 and 1954.
Dates:
1917-1954
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- Famines -- Soviet Union 1
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- Hungary -- Pictorial works 1
- India -- Pictorial works 1
- International relief -- Poland 1
- Italy -- Pictorial works 1
- Mexico -- Pictorial works 1
- Odisha (India) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
- Poland -- Pictorial works 1
- Quaker philanthropists 1
- Quaker photographers 1
- Quaker women -- 20th century 1
- Quaker women -- History -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- Switzerland 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 1
- Russia -- Pictorial works 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- France 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Russia 1
- Travel -- 20th century 1
- Vienna (Austria) -- Pictorial works 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
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