American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
James A. Babbitt photograph album
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-06-002
Overview
This collection includes photographs from World War I Europe. Photographs include those taken on a ship to Europe, at a hospital in France, and at a number of battlefields throughout Europe. This volume includes graphic images of war casualties.
Dates:
Undated.
Bacon Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1156
Overview
Correspondence, diaries and photographs relating to the 20th- century Quakers Edith Farquhar Bacon and Francis Rogers Bacon, their families, forbears, friends and colleagues.
Dates:
1800-1987
Dorothy Detzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-086
Abstract
Dorothy Detzer was a peace activist, writer, and lobbyist. She served as the National Executive Secretary of the U.S. Section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924-1946.. Detzer influenced a Congressional investigation of the munitions industry, 1934-1936, and later wrote the book Appointment on the Hill, 1948, describing her two decades in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
1913-1981
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Kite-Bassett Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-080
Overview
The Kite and Bassett families were Orthodox Quakers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Lynn, Massachusetts, respectively. James Kite was born in 1808, the son of Benjamin and Rebecca Kite of Philadelphia. In 1837 he was granted a certificate to Salem Monthly Meeting in Massachusetts to marry Lydia B. Rodman, widow of Caleb Rodman and daughter of Isaac and Ruth Bassett of Lynn. James and Lydia had eight children, viz. Ruth, James Rodman, Eliza B., Rebecca, Isaac C. Bassett, Hannah B., Lydia...
Dates:
1837-1930
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
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- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 4
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- Massachusetts 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 2
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 2
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Diaries 1
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Russia 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Marriage 1
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Photographs 1
- Photography 1
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker photographers 1
- Quaker women -- 20th century 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Wills 1
- Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- Russia -- Civilian relief 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Social service -- Societies, etc. 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Wills 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Women journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 1
- World tomorrow (Periodical) 1
- Young democracy (Periodical) 1
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- correspondence 1
- letters (correspondence) 1
- marriage certificates 1
- photograph albums 1
- postcards 1 + ∧ less
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