American Friends Service Committee
Organization
Found in 131 Collections and/or Records:
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG1
Abstract
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...
Dates:
1933-2010
Friends World Committee on Consultation records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1004
Abstract
Three separate sets of records of Friends World Conferences, the first through the third, dated 1926-1952.
Dates:
1926-1929, 1934-1937, 1949-1952
Elizabeth A.W. Furnas Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-283
Abstract
Elizabeth A.W. (Betty) Furnas was an active member of the Society of Friends who served as a member of the Board of Pendle Hill and was a member of the Women's Problems Group of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and its sucessor, Philadelphia Quaker Women. The collection includes minutes and correspondence, particularly of the latter, as well as published and unpublished writings and other material.
Dates:
1928-1967
Nelson Fuson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-261
Abstract
Nelson Fuson was a physicist and educator, active in Quaker concerns. The collection contains extensive correspondence and papers concerning his service as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II. As the child of missionaries to China, his hope was to do relief service in China, and many of the papers deal with CPS China Units. However, the China Units were never activated and Fuson was assigned to camps in Maryland, Indiana, New York, and North Dakota. He...
Dates:
1909-1996
Quaker visit to the Gestapo in 1938 reference collection
Collection — Othertype MSS-070
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-070
Abstract
Reference material (largely photocopies) collected by Lawrence M. Miller for a planned study of the visit by Rufus Jones, Robert Yarnall, and George Walton to Gestapo headquarters in Berlin in 1938.
Dates:
ca. 2005 with photocopies of earlier publications and writings
Gilbert White AFSC papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-816
Abstract
Some papers of Gilbert F. White (1911-2006), a geographer and president of Haverford College, relating to some of his experiences serving the American Friends Service Committee during World War II and letters received while president of the college.
Dates:
1927 - 1947
Robert Wallace Gilmore Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-163
Abstract
Robert W. Gilmore was a Quaker pacifist who was involved in a number of peace groups, either as a staffperson or as a Board member. His papers reflect these involvements through correspondence and other materials.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1960-1982
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joseph Haines papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-095
Abstract
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
Abstract
The collection contains the correspondence of Rebecca Mary Hannum (1889-1984) mostly related to her work with the American Friends Service Committee child feeding program in post WWI Germany, 1921-1924 and Peasant Industries, Poland. After the child feeding 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
Dorothy North Haskins papers, 1905-1958
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M5
Abstract
Dorothy North Haskins (1886-1962), BMC 1909, was a relief worker in France, Austria, and Chicago during and after WWI, acting as part of the American Friends Service Committee. The Papers include many letters written during this time, official reports and documents on relief work, diaries, and photographs.
Dates:
1905 - 1969
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- Collection 127
- Archival Object 3
- Digital Record 1
- Subject
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 18
- correspondence 17
- Quakers 15
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 10
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 8
- World War, 1939-1945 8
- Quaker women 7
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 7
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- International relief -- France 6
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 6
- Quakers -- History 6
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 6
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 6
- diaries 6
- letters (correspondence) 6
- Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- International relief 5
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Society of Friends -- Japan 5
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 5
- International relief -- Germany 4
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 4
- Peace movements -- United States 4
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- Poland 4
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 4
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 4
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 4
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- photographs 4
- Charities -- France 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- International relief -- Societies, etc 3
- Nonviolence -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism 3
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker missionaries 3
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Diaries 3
- Quakers -- Education 3
- Quakers -- Germany 3
- Quakers -- Indiana 3
- Quakers -- Japan 3
- Quakers -- Social service 3
- Social service -- France 3
- Social service -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Society of Friends -- Charities 3
- Society of Friends -- Germany 3
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 3
- Society of Friends -- United States 3
- Tax protests and appeals -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- War tax resistance -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 3
- lecture notes 3
- speeches (documents) 3
- African Americans -- Civil rights 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 2
- Child welfare -- Germany 2
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 2
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Diaries 2
- Direct action -- History -- Sources 2
- Disarmament -- History -- Sources 2
- Economic conversion -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 2
- Germany 2
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Indians of North America 2
- Indians of North America -- Government relations 2
- International relief -- Europe 2
- International relief -- Poland 2
- International relief -- Russia 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 2
- Missionaries 2
- Nonviolence 2
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Nuclear disarmament 2
- Peace -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Study and teaching -- History -- Sources 2
- Photographs 2
- Poland -- Pictorial works 2
- Political activists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 2
- Quaker businesspeople 2
- Quaker philanthropists 2
- Quaker photographers 2
- Quaker social reformers 2
- Quaker women -- 20th century 2
- Quakers -- Delaware 2
- Quakers -- France 2 + ∧ less
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