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Spears Mobile Clinics

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Josiah P. Marvel papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Abstract Josiah P. Marvel (1896-1959) was a Quaker, who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in France in 1940-41 and in 1942 became the chairman of the Quaker Emergency Service in New York City. This collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the Quaker Emergency Service, including its Civilian Readjustment Committee (a clinic that offered men arrested for soliciting sex with other men the option of psychiatric care in lieu of a prison sentence). The collection also includes a...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1942 - 1966

Quaker Emergency Service records

 Collection — Othertype SC-192
Identifier: SFHL-SC-192
Abstract The collection is organized into four folders: the group's general records, including the initial plan and charter; the records of the Civilian Readjustment Committee, the post-war arm of the group; information on a project in Brazil; and writings by people outside the group. Of interest are transcript talks given by Peter F. Amoroso of the New York Department of Correction, and Austin H. MacCormick of the Osborne Association. There is also a carbon copy, attributed to John S. Gough, of the...
Dates: ca. 1941-1948

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Church work with gays -- Society of Friends 1
Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
Prison reformers -- United States 1
Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1