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American Friends Service Committee Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Friends Service Committee
Abstract

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.

Dates: 1917-

Bowles family correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1212
Abstract The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. In 1900, the Bowles moved to Japan under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and managed the Friends School and established the Tokyo Friends Center. During World War II, the Bowles family moved to Hawaii and worked with war refugees. The Bowles family correspondence consists of correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles to their son Gordon Townsend Bowles from 1922 to...
Dates: 1922-1960

Stephen G. Cary collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1320
Abstract

This collection contains the personal materials of Stephen G. Cary and historical materials collected by Cary about his relatives.

Dates: 1714-2003

Elkinton, Waring Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1239
Abstract This collection includes information about multiple generations of the Elkinton and Waring families. It is concentrated on two generations: firstly, that of Howard West Elkinton (1892-1955) and Katharine Wistar Mason Elkinton (1892/3-1961), his wife, and secondly, that of their daughter, Theodora Elkinton (1927-) who married Thomas Waring (1921-2001). It is a story of life choices made by these Quakers: for Howard and Katharine Elkinton, to serve under the American Friends Service Committee...
Dates: 1815-2006

Friends Ambulance Unit Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Ambulance Unit
Abstract

Collection contains pamphlets, periodicals, and annual reports.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1914-1954

Friends' Relief Committee Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends' Relief Committee
Abstract

Collection contains pamphlets, mostly undated, issued by the Friends' Relief Committee ca. 1921-1922.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1921-1922

Friends Relief Service Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Relief Service
Abstract

Collection includes pamphlets and periodicals.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1943-

Friends War Relief Service Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends War Relief Service
Abstract

Collection consists of pamphlets and correspondence, including one 1943 letter which documents, as part of the letterhead, the name change from Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee to Friends War Relief Service: "Friends War Relief Service, incorporating F.W.V.R.C. and Civilian Relief Section of F.A.U." [Friends Ambulance Unit].

Dates: Majority of material found in 1943

Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee
Abstract

Collection includes pamphlets, annual reports, and periodicals.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1914-1942

Nelson Fuson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-261
Abstract Nelson Fuson was a physicist and educator, active in Quaker concerns. The collection contains extensive correspondence and papers concerning his service as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II. As the child of missionaries to China, his hope was to do relief service in China, and many of the papers deal with CPS China Units. However, the China Units were never activated and Fuson was assigned to camps in Maryland, Indiana, New York, and North Dakota. He...
Dates: 1909-1996

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 8
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 7
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World War, 1939-1945 6
Society of Friends -- International assistance 5
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 3
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World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
Antinuclear movement 1
Austria -- History -- 1938–1945 1
Church work with refugees -- Society of Friends 1
Cold War 1
Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
Conscientious objectors -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Cooking, American 1
Famines -- Russia 1
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Food service 1
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Haverford (Pa.) 1
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Rhodes Scholarships 1
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Society of Friends -- Japan 1
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Society of Friends -- Missions 1
United States -- History 1
Universities and colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Haverford 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief 1
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements 1
War relief 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Austria 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 1
autobiographies (documents) 1
diaries 1
family papers 1
lecture notes 1
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American Friends Service Committee 7
Civilian Public Service 3
Cary, Stephen G. 2
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 2
Haverford College 2
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Society of Friends 2
Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 2
American Friends Service Committee. China Program 1
American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service 1
American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 1
American Friends Service Committee. Refugee Section 1
Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 1
Bowles, Gordon Townsend 1
Bowles, Jane T. 1
Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 1
Brandt, Willy 1
Branson, J. (Julia) 1
Brethren Service Committee 1
Brown, H. Tatnall, Jr., 1900-1983 1
Cary, Elizabeth S. 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (China Unit) 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Lagro, Ind.) 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Powellsvile, Md.) 1
Civilian Public Service. Camp (Trenton, N.D.) 1
Civilian War Services Conference (1943 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Columbia University 1
Comfort family 1
Cripps, Arthur Shearly, 1869-1952 1
Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality 1
Elkington, Peter W. 1
Elkinton family 1
Elkinton, Howard W. (Howard West), 1892-1955 1
Elkinton, Katharine Wistar, 1892-1961 1
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
Friends Ambulance Unit 1
Friends Ambulance Unit Post-War Service 1
Friends Civilian Public Service Cooking School 1
Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 1
Friends Relief Service 1
Friends War Relief Service (London, England) 1
Friends World Committee for Consultation 1
Friends' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
Fuson, Chester Garfield, 1881-1965 1
Fuson, Marian Darnell, b. 1920 1
Golden Rule (Ketch) 1
Grellet family 1
Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 1
Harvard University 1
Huntington, William R. 1
Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1852-1925 1
Japan Friends' Mission (Tokyo, Japan) 1
Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 1
MacMaster, Gilbert 1
Michigan Agricultural College 1
Nelson Fuson, 1913-2006 1
Nitobe, Inazō, 1862-1933 1
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 1
Quaker United Nations Office 1
Scattergood, Alfred Garrett 1
Schneider, Louis W. 1
Stanton, Lois V. (Lois Virginia), 1922- 1
Steere, Dorothy M., 1908-2003 1
Townsend, George 1
United Nations Association 1
United States. War Relocation Authority 1
University of Oxford 1
Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) 1
Waring, Bernard Gilpin 1
Waring, Theodora Elkinton 1
Waring, Thomas 1
Weigl, Karl, 1881-1949 1
Weigl, Vally 1
Yarnall, D. Robert (David Robert), 1878-1967 1
Yarnall, Elizabeth Biddle, 1897-1975 1
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