American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 2 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
Theodore Brinton Hetzel papers and graphics
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1168
Abstract
Theodore Hetzel (1906-1990) was a Quaker professor of engineering at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, whose interests led him to involvement with Native American and Quaker issues. An avid photographer, the materials in this collection are primarily photographic, as well as correspondence and documents.
Dates:
1866-1987; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1987
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- Hawaii 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations 1
- Japan 1
- Kinzua Dam (Pa.) 1
- Missionaries 1
- Quaker church buildings 1
- Quaker missionaries 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers 1
- Refugees 1
- Seneca Indians 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 1
- Society of Friends -- Japan 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- diaries 1
- manuscripts (documents) 1
- photographs 1
- postcards 1 + ∧ less
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