American Friends Service Committee
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
Rhoads family papers
This collection includes letters written by J. Edgar Rhoads to his family while he was in Germany administering war relief after WWI. Also included are the diaries of his grandfather, Jonathan E. Rhoads, from 1908-1910. These provide a record of daily appointments and expenses.
Scattergood Hostel and Scattergood Friends School photographs
Scattergood Friends School opened in Iowa in 1890. The school closed during the Great Depression, and was repurposed during World War II as Scattergood Hostel to acclimate refugees from Europe. In 1944, it reopened as a school and remains open today. The bulk of this collection is photographs of Scattergood Refugee Hostel, but there are also photographs of pre-war and post-war Scattergood Friends School.
Louis W. Schneider Papers
Louis W. Schneider (1915-2012) worked for the American Friends Service Commiittee for more than four decades and served as Executive Secretary from 1974-1980. His Papers include notes, diaries, speeches, and writings, as well as publications by American Friends Services Committee.
Daniel A. Seeger Collected Papers
Seeger is best known for the 1965 Supreme Court court case regarding his conscientious objector claim without belief in a Supreme Being as grounds for C.O. status.
Sky Island Papers
Sky Island was a refugee vacation hostel run by the American Friends Service Committee in copperation with the American Christian Committee for Refugees from about 1938 until at least 1947. Flora E. Pottenger was a teacher from Warsaw, Indiana, who worked at Sky Island during the summer of 1946. Her Sky Island papers, all photocopies, include correspondence, reports, and photographs.
Edward F. Snyder Papers
William Macy Stanton Family Papers
Douglas V. and Dorothy M. Steere papers
Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Agnes Tierney papers
This collection is comprised of two folders of the papers of Agnes Tierney, related to her time working with the American Friends Service Committee, especially in Germany. The majority of the collection is composed of Tierney's correspondence while in Germany, but the collection also includes pamphlets, notes, and extracts of meeting minutes.
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- Quakers 15
- correspondence 15
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 10
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 9
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 7
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 6
- Quaker women 6
- Quakers -- History 6
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 6
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 5
- diaries 5
- letters (correspondence) 5
- International relief -- Germany 4
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 4
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
- Society of Friends -- Japan 4
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 4
- World War, 1939-1945 4
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- International relief -- France 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker missionaries 3
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Education 3
- Quakers -- Germany 3
- Quakers -- Indiana 3
- Quakers -- Japan 3
- Quakers -- Social service 3
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 3
- Society of Friends -- United States 3
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 3
- lecture notes 3
- photographs 3
- speeches (documents) 3
- Charities -- France 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Diaries 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Germany 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- International relief 2
- International relief -- Europe 2
- International relief -- Societies, etc 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 2
- Missionaries 2
- Pacifism 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States 2
- Photographs 2
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 2
- Quaker social reformers 2
- Quakers -- Delaware 2
- Quakers -- France 2
- Quakers -- Genealogy 2
- Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 2
- Quakers -- Iowa 2
- Quakers -- Massachusetts 2
- Quakers -- New Jersey 2
- Quakers -- Political activity 2
- Quakers -- Switzerland 2
- Quakers -- Vietnam 2
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 2
- Religion -- Study and teaching 2
- Social service -- France 2
- Society of Friends -- Charities 2
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 2
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 2
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 2
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Work camps -- Pennsylvania 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 2
- financial records 2
- marriage certificates 2
- newsletters 2
- photograph albums 2
- postcards 2
- Academic writing 1
- Adoption -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Adoption -- Vietnam -- History -- Sources 1
- Adult education and state 1 + ∧ less
