Society of Friends -- International assistance
Subject
Subject Source: Local Authority: Quaker Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Rebecca Timbres Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-026
Overview
Rebecca Timbres Clark (1896-2000) was a Quaker nurse and social worker. She and her first husband, Harry Garland Timbres (1899-1937), performed relief work under the auspices of the AFSC in Eastern Europe in 1921-22 and worked with Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, India, in 1931-34. In 1936-1937, the couple worked in the malaria unit in Soviet Russia. After Harry Timbres' death, Rebecca returned to the U.S. She married Edgar Sydenham Clark (1885-1961) on July 2, 1943, and the couple moved to...
Dates:
1853-1999 [bulk 1920-1990]
Friends Ambulance Unit Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Ambulance Unit
Abstract
Collection contains pamphlets, periodicals, and annual reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1954
Friends Council for International Service Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Council for International Service
Abstract
Printed materials, including printed correspondence, pamphlets, and annual reports (1921-1928).
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1929
Friends' Emergency and War Victims' Relief Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Emergency and War Victims
Abstract
Printed materials, including printed correspondence, pamphlets, and reports.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1916-1923
Friends' Relief Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends' Relief Committee
Abstract
Collection contains pamphlets, mostly undated, issued by the Friends' Relief Committee ca. 1921-1922.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1922
Friends Relief Service Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Relief Service
Abstract
Collection includes pamphlets and periodicals.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-
Friends Service Council Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Service Council
Abstract
The collection includes minutes of meetings (May-December 1939), annual reports and yearbooks, periodicals, and pamphlets.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1939-1969
Friends War Relief Service Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends War Relief Service
Abstract
Collection consists of pamphlets and correspondence, including one 1943 letter which documents, as part of the letterhead, the name change from Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee to Friends War Relief Service: "Friends War Relief Service, incorporating F.W.V.R.C. and Civilian Relief Section of F.A.U." [Friends Ambulance Unit].
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1943
Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee
Abstract
Collection includes pamphlets, annual reports, and periodicals.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1942
Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-015
Overview
The Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases of Syria (now Lebanon) was founded in 1898 by Theophilus Waldmeier, who spent more than 40 years in Abyssinia and Syria in educational missionary work.The American Committee was founded in 1897 by Waldemier "for the purpose of interesting Americans in this cherished plan for support of this hospital" (minutes, November 15, 1923). This was one of many committees he helped to form around the world for supporting the hospital.This collection contains one...
Dates:
1900-1940; Majority of material found within 1922 - 1932
