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American Friends Service Committee

 Organization

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955

American Friends Service Committee photographs

 Collection — Othertype PA-211
Identifier: SFHL-PA-211
Overview

This collection consists of miscellaneous photographs, collected over time from various sources, documenting the American Friends Service Committee and its projects. Post-World War I and post-World War II and Vietnam War relief work are well documented, and there are also photographs of AFSC work in the United States, Africa, other parts of Asia, and the Middle East.

Dates: circa 1918-1975

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

Dorothy Detzer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract

Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1913-1981

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)

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  • Subject: World War, 1914-1918 X

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Subject
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 5
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 5
World War, 1914-1918 4
International relief -- France 2
International relief -- Societies, etc 2
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Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Quakers -- Massachusetts 2
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
correspondence 2
Affirmative action programs 1
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Charities -- France 1
Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
Diaries 1
Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
Fairfax County (Va.) -- Genealogy 1
France -- History -- 1914-1940 1
Gay rights 1
International relief -- Germany 1
International relief -- Russia 1
Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Marriage 1
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Oral histories 1
Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- History -- Sources 1
Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 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 -- History -- Sources 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
Quakers -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 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
Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 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
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief 1
Wills 1
Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
Women journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
Young democracy (Periodical) 1
Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
clippings (information artifacts) 1
letters (correspondence) 1
marriage certificates 1
photograph albums 1
postcards 1
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