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New York Friends Center records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-135
Overview
Established in 1938 by the New York Monthly Meetings (Hicksite and Orthodox) at the 20th Street meeting house, the New York Friends Center was created initially to provide a meeting place for Quakers and to serve as a Quaker information and reception center in New York City. Lectures and social events were held. Sponsorship of service projects began in the 1940’s. In November 1962, the American Friends Service Committee assumed responsibility for the programs of the New York Friends...
Dates:
1938 - 1964
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
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- Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959 1
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.) 1
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- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1958-1974 : New York, N.Y.) 1
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