American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends Service Committee photographs
Collection — Othertype PA-211
Identifier: SFHL-PA-211
Overview
This collection consists of miscellaneous photographs, collected over time from various sources, documenting the American Friends Service Committee and its projects. Post-World War I and post-World War II and Vietnam War relief work are well documented, and there are also photographs of AFSC work in the United States, Africa, other parts of Asia, and the Middle East.
Dates:
circa 1918-1975
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
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
Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-149
Overview
Wilbur K. Thomas (1882-1953), a Quaker born in Indiana, was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1918 to 1929. He graduated from Friends University in 1904, served as pastor of various Quaker churches, graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1907, earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1914, and was a member of Boston Friends Meeting after 1909. He was director of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1946. The collection contains...
Dates:
1914-1933
Additional filters:
- Subject
- International relief -- France 2
- International relief -- Societies, etc 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 2
- Charities -- France 1
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Russia 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- Massachusetts 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 1
- Russia -- Civilian relief 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Social service -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1 + ∧ less
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