Rhoads, Esther Biddle, 1896-1979
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Esther B. Rhoads collection on Quakers in Japan (digitized)
Digital Record
Identifier: HC.MC-950-156d
Dates:
1897 - 1935
Esther B. Rhoads collection on Quakers in Japan
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-156
Abstract
This collection is comprised of three folders of materials related to Quakers in Japan, and specifically focuses on information about Anna C. Hartshorne, an American Quaker, and Inazo Nitobe, a Japanese Quaker, collected by Esther B. Rhoads.
Dates:
1897-1935
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Abstract
The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (forced removal and incarceration). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts,...
Dates:
circa 1895-1979
E. Raymond Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-070
Abstract
E. Raymond Wilson (1896-1987), a Quaker peace lobbyist, helped found the Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1943 and served as its Executive Secretary until 1962. He also helped organize the Committee on Militarism in Education in 1925. From 1931 to 1943, he served as Field and Education Secretary of the Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee. He was the author of two books.
The papers of E. Raymond Wilson contain personal and professional correspondence,...
Dates:
1914-1987
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Japan -- History 2
- Society of Friends -- Japan 2
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Authors, Japanese 1
- Japan 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
- Lobbyists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Education -- Japan 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 1
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