American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
American Friends Service Committee Reference Files
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-032
Overview
Contains the reference files collected and assembled by American Friends Service Committee over many years to keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends. Includes minutes, reports, and related papers of Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee, Friends' Council for International Service, Friends Service Council, and other Quaker relief agencies, mostly under the direction of London and Dublin Yearly Meetings.
Dates:
1916-1944
Margaret E. Jones Papers
Collection — Othertype RG5-167
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-167
Overview
Margaret E. Jones (1895-1984), daughter of William B. and Phebe Jones, was a birthright Quaker member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in New Jersey. She was involved with the American Friends Service Committee for many years, first as a staff member, then serving on the Board of Directors. The collection contains scrapbooks kept by Margaret E. Jones while she was in Europe involved in relief work in 1933 and again from 1958-1959. Includes a number of photographs of places and...
Dates:
1937-1969
Leonard Stout Kenworthy diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-039
Overview
Leonard Stout Kenworthy's "Quaker Berlin Diary" describes his experiences in Germany during World War II working with German Quakers to assist unaffiliated German Jews to leave Germany.
Dates:
1940-1941
Gilbert MacMaster papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1016
Overview
Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World...
Dates:
1901-1968
William Macy Stanton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-242
Overview
Contains the papers of William Macy and Lois V. Stanton, compiled by Lois V. Stanton. The Stantons were active Quakers, and William Macy Stanton, Jr., was a conscientious objector in WWII. Both Stantons served in the American Friends Service Committee reconstruction efforts in Europe after the war as well as other Quaker activities and organizations. William Stanton worked for Swarthmore College for over twenty-five years, serving as director of physical plant. Of particular interest are the...
Dates:
1937-1995
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- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 2
- Charities -- France 1
- Charities -- Germany 1
- Germany 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- Germany 1
- Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Switzerland 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) -- Germany 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Social service -- Germany 1
- Society of Friends -- Austria 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Austria 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Germany 1
- Society of Friends -- China -- Shanghai 1
- Society of Friends -- France 1
- Society of Friends -- Germany 1
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
- Society of Friends -- Serbia 1
- Society of Friends -- Switzerland 1
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 1
- Starvation -- Experiments 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
- correspondence 1
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