Friends Ambulance Unit
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Balderston Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-299
Overview
The collection contains correspondence of the family of C. Canby Balderston, a prominent Quaker and businessman. He served with the Friends Relief Service and the Relief Commission for Belgium during WWI and both of his sons, Frederick Emery Balderston and Robert W. Balderston, were COs in WWII, working as ambulance drivers. Frederick E. Balderston (1923-2007) married Judith Braude (1926-1993) in 1949. A significant part of the collection consists of her childhood and college...
Dates:
1853-1949
Friends Ambulance Unit Collected Records
Collection — Othertype CDG-B
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
Josiah P. Marvel papers
Collection — Othertype SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Overview
Josiah P. Marvel (1896-1959) was a Quaker, who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in France in 1940-41 and in 1942 became the chairman of the Quaker Emergency Service in New York City. This collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the Quaker Emergency Service, including its Civilian Readjustment Committee (a clinic that offered men arrested for soliciting sex with other men the option of psychiatric care in lieu of a prison sentence). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1966
L. Hollingsworth Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1175
Overview
Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, African American education, and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; and a member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus...
Dates:
1903-1953
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- Subject: Society of Friends X
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- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
- African Americans -- Education 1
- Church work with gays -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- International relief 1
- Peace 1
- Prison reformers -- United States 1
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 1
- Quakers -- Agriculture 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square 1
- Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) 1
- Society of Friends 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- Education 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
- Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1 + ∧ less
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