American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Nancy J. Babb Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Babb, Nancy
Abstract
Nancy Babb (1884-1948) was a member of the Society of Friends who served as a field representative for the Red Cross and then as a relief worker in Russia from 1917 to the mid 1920s. On her return to the United States in 1928 Babb lectured about her work in Russia. Babb also volunteered for a number of various women's organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Babb established the National Circulating Library of Student's Peace Posters, an organization...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Rebecca Mary Hannum correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-303
Identifier: SFHL-SC-303
Overview
The collection contains the correspondence of Rebecca Mary Hannum (1889-1984) mostly related to her work with the American Friends Service Committee child feeling program in post WWI Germany, 1921-1924 and Peasant Industries, Poland. After the child feeling project was transferred to local groups in Germany, Mary Hannum became involved with the Peasant Industries program which supported women's handwork for sale in the United States and elsewhere. Her personal and business letters contain...
Dates:
1918 - 1924
Emma Chandler MacClelland Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-094
Overview
Emma Chandler MacClelland was a Quaker who was involved in relief work in France during World War I with the American Friends Service Committee. She was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1895, and married Lee H. MacClelland after her return from France. She was a member of Reading Monthly Meeting at the time of her death in 1965. The collection contains correspondence of Emma Chandler MacClelland during the period, 1918-1919, in which she did relief work in France. Details her...
Dates:
1918-1919
Ernest Votaw Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-154
Overview
Ernest Votaw (1894-1988) was the Quaker administrator of a child feeding program in Germany in 1919-1922. The collection contains reports and related materials (some in German) of the Friends Feeding Mission, 1910-1923, other activities of the American Friends Service Committee, and reference material collected by Ernest Votaw in post-war Germany concerning jail conditions and other social problems. The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and four articles written by...
Dates:
1913-1929
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- International relief -- France 2
- International relief -- Germany 2
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) 2
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 2
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 2
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 2
- Charities -- France 1
- Child welfare -- Germany 1
- England -- Description and travel 1
- Europe -- Description and travel 1
- Famines -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources 1
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 1
- International relief -- Poland 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- International relief -- Soviet Union -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women -- 20th century 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- Indiana 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Soviet Union -- Sources 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Social service -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions 1
- Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1 + ∧ less
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