American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG1
Overview
A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it was...
Dates:
1933-2010
New York Quarterly Meeting Workroom Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-NY-N478
Overview
Includes records of the Workroom, a project of the New York Monthly Meetings. Records consist of minutes, corre spondence,financial Records history, photographs and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1940-1978
Sky Island Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-121
Overview
Sky Island was a refugee vacation hostel run by the American Friends Service Committee in copperation with the American Christian Committee for Refugees from about 1938 until at least 1947. Flora E. Pottenger was a teacher from Warsaw, Indiana, who worked at Sky Island during the summer of 1946. Her Sky Island papers, all photocopies, include correspondence, reports, and photographs.
Dates:
1945-1947
