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A Quaker Action Group Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates: 1965-1973

Irwin Abrams Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abrams, Irwin
Abstract

Includes biographical and bibliographical information and photocopies of a small portion of Abrams published writings, including material about the Nobel Peace Prize, women Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize, Henri La Fontaine, and Carl von Ossietzky.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1948-

All American Friends Conference (Oskaloosa, Ia.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-002
Abstract

All American Friends Conference (1929) was a conference of Quakers from the United States and Canada which was held in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in September 1929. This collection contains a journal kept by Rebecca Thomas Miller, program, list of participants, pictures, and other records relating to the Conference.

Dates: 1929

William Charles Allen Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Allen, William Charles
Abstract

William C. Allen was born in 1857 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Allen was deeply opposed to war and wrote often about the problems of propaganda, censorship, conscription, imperialism, and the munitions industry. He traveled widely and wrote many articles about his experiences abroad.

Dates: 1895-1937; Majority of material found within 1913-1937

American Friends Service Committee, Committee on Rights of Conscience Records

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-006
Abstract

Contains the records of American Friends Service Committee, Committee on Rights of Conscience, 1955-1962, including minutes and other supporting documents. Persons represented include Faith Bissell, Miriam E. Brailey, Harrop Freeman, Frederick Fuges, Alan Howe, Mary Knowles, Patrick M. Malin, Roland Pennock, Sara Pickus, Harry B. Sprogell, Frederick B. Tolles, and John T. Watkins.

Dates: 1955-1962

Bacon Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1156
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries and photographs relating to the 20th- century Quakers Edith Farquhar Bacon and Francis Rogers Bacon, their families, forbears, friends and colleagues.

Dates: 1800-1987

Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection

 Collection — othertype: SC-269
Identifier: SFHL-SC-269
Abstract

Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.

Dates: 1776-1815

Broomell-Cleghorn-Fisher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-278
Abstract

This collection contains material collected by Anna Pettit Broomell and primarily consists of the writings and correspondence of Broomell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Sarah Cleghorn.

Dates: 1876-1967

Henry Joel Cadbury Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-081
Abstract

Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974) was a distinguished Biblical scholar, teacher, and a member of the Society of Friends. Cadbury was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee. He served as its chairman from both 1928 to 1934 and again from 1944 to 1960. Cadbury supervised famine relief both in the United States and in Europe.

Dates: 1917-1974

Chapman family correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-259
Identifier: SFHL-SC-259

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Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
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American Friends Service Committee 5
Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 4
A Quaker Action Group 3
Lyttle, Bradford 3
Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
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Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 2
Flanagan, Ross, 1934- 2
Freeman, Harrop A. (Harrop Arthur), 1907-1993 2
Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
Friends Mississippi Project 2
Lakey, George 2
Levering, Robert, 1944- 2
Lippincott family 2
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 2
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Newton, Ray 2
Nine-Partners' Boarding School (Washington, N.Y.) 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 2
Stewart, Annalee, 1900?- 2
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
Walker, Charles C. 2
Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
Woodward, Walter Carleton, 1878-1942 2
Young, Wilmer J. 2
Abrams, Irwin, 1914-2010 1
Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989 1
All American Friends Conference (1929 : Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1
Allen family 1
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938 1
Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
American Friends Service Committee. Peace Section 1
Anthony, Robert L. 1
Appeal and Vigil at Fort Detrick (Frederick, Md.) 1
Apsey, Lawrence S. 1
Arnold family 1
Augur, Margaret Riggs 1
Ayusawa, Iwao, 1894-1972 1
Bacon family 1
Bacon, Edith Farquhar, 1892-1988 1
Bacon, Elizabeth, 1794-1844 1
Bacon, Francis R. (Francis Rogers), 1888-1965 1
Bacon, George 1
Bacon, Samuel Allen, 1848-1908 1
Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends (Stony Run) 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Barnes, Roswell P. (Roswell Parkhurst), 1901-1949 1
Baumgardt, David, 1890-1963 1
Beheiren 1
Bigelow, Albert, 1906- 1
Bissell, Faith 1
Blickenstaff, Harold 1
Block Association of West Philadelphia 1
Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek, 1917- 1
Bradford Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
Braxton, John Worth 1
Brayley, Miriam E. 1
Broomell, Anna Pettit 1
Brown, Francis G., 1917-2012 1
Burr, Barbara R. 1
Butterworth, Harrison 1
Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
Canadian Friends Service Committee 1
Canton Christian College 1
Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China) 1
Carner, Lucy Perkins, 1886-1983 1
Carpenter family 1
Cary, John R. 1
Champney, Horace 1
Chapman family 1
Chapman, Ann B. (Ann Baldwin), 1788-1854 1
Chapman, T. Ellwood 1
Citizens Local Alliance for a Safer Philadelphia 1
Civilian Public Service 1
Clark family 1
Clark, Edward M. 1
Clark, Lucy S. 1
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 1
Coffin, Jerry D. 1
Comfort family 1
Committee for Nonviolent Action 1
Committee of Responsibility to Save War-Burned and War-Injured Vietnamese Children 1
Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.) 1
Corson, Helen H. 1
Cowley, Christopher 1
Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847 1
Davidov, Marv 1
De Hartog, Jan, 1914-2002 1
De Hartog, Marjorie 1
De Leeuw, Rachel 1
Desai, Narayan 1
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
Dietze, Carla 1
Dolci, Danilo 1
Drath, Phillip 1
Dyer, Henry W. 1
Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
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