Spears Mobile Clinics
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Josiah P. Marvel collected Quaker Emergency Service records
Collection — othertype: SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Abstract
Collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the wartime projects of the Quaker Emergency Service, 1942-1945, and its postwar Civilian Readjustment Committee, including typed minutes, 1947-1961. Also includes papers concerning the Spears Mobile Clinic which operated in Syria with the help of the Friends Ambulance Unit, including a typescript describing the mission; the dispersal of French funds, 1954-1958, raised by Mme. de la Noue for her Centre Guynemer and deposited with the Quaker...
Dates:
1942-1966