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Denny Wilcher Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilcher, Denny
Abstract
This collection documents the experiences of Wilcher (and his friends), while in Civilian Public Service, and after he left CPS and was imprisoned at McNeil Island Federal Prison Camp.
Dates:
1941-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Jayne Tuttle Wilhelm and Paul A. Wilhelm Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wilhelm, Paul and Jane Tuttle Wilhelm
Abstract
Paul A. Wilhelm (1916- ) served in three Civilian Public Service Units: Camp 3, Patapsco, Md.; Camp 52, Powelsville Maryland; and Camp 49, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) State Hospital. He registered as a Baptist conscientious objector but became a Quaker after his marriage to C. Jayne Tuttle in 1943.
Dates:
1934-1978
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Conrad Wilson collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1328
Abstract
This collection is primarily correspondence to and from Conrad Wilson during his time as a conscientious objector during World War II. His mom encouraged him to save his letters from her, and she saved all the letters he sent. Included in the letters from his mother are photostat letters from Conrad.
Dates:
1943-1998
Win the Peace Now Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Win the Peace Now Committee
Dates:
1942-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-068
Abstract
This group was originally named the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women [WCOC], and then the National Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women. It was formed in 1942 to protest the Austin-Wadsworth legislative bills and similar measures, which proposed that American women be drated into a civilian workforce for the duration of World War II. When the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the group changed its name again, this time to the Women's Committee to Oppose...
Dates:
1942-1948
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
John Wood, Jr. and Jean Brown Wood Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Wood, John
Abstract
John Wood served in Civilian Public Service (CPS) at the Big Flats CPS Camp (#46) in Big Flats, New York, during 1942-1943, and for a short time in 1943 at Guilford College (unit #101).
Dates:
1934-1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Richard Reeve Wood and Nancy Morris Wood family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1254
Abstract
This collection contains the materials of several generations of Quaker families in the United States. Prominently featured are Richard Reeve Wood and Nancy Morris Wood; Edward S. Wood, Richard's father; and Alexander Cooper and Mary Emma Stokes Wood, Richard's grandfather and grandmother. Richard attended several sessions of the League of Nations and participated in meetings leading to the formation of the United Nations in 1945.
Dates:
1820-1988
Yanks Are Not Coming Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Yanks Are Not Coming Committee
Dates:
1940
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall Refugee Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-256
Abstract
Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall and her husband, D. Robert Yarnall, were Quakers, active in the American Friends Service Committee relief efforts. They worked with the Quaker center in Vienna, Austria, during the summer of 1938 to help in the emigration of German and Austrian Jews. The collection contains correspondence concerning their work with refugees and letters from refugees asking for assistance, especially the musician and composers Karl Weigl and his wife, Vally, who emigrated in October...
Dates:
1938-1945
Young Friends Movement papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1267
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the Young Friends Movement, dating between 1916 and 1997. Included in the collection are materials published by the Young Friends, including their montly newspaper "The Quake," correspondence between members, and the papers of Clarence Pickett, the former secretary of the Young Friends Movement and executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee, both relating to his time with the Young Friends and his time with the AFSC.
Dates:
1916-1997
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 97
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 43
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 21
- Bryn Mawr College 9
- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
- Subject
- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 37
- World War, 1939-1945 35
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 31
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 25
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Sources 21
- Draft resisters -- United States -- History -- Sources 17
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 17
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 16
- correspondence 15
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 11
- Quakers 9
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 8
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 8
- Society of Friends -- Charities 8
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 8
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 8
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 7
- diaries 7
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Quakers -- History 6
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany 6
- Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 5
- World War, 1914-1918 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 5
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 5
- manuscripts (documents) 5
- photographs 5
- Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 4
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 4
- Education 4
- International relief 4
- International relief -- France 4
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 4
- Pacifists -- United States 4
- Quaker women 4
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 4
- Society of Friends -- Japan 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Sources 4
- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States 3
- Education -- United States 3
- International relief -- Societies, etc 3
- Missionaries 3
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Pacifism 3
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 3
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 3
- Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources 3
- Quaker missionaries 3
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 3
- Refugees 3
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- Sources 3
- Women -- Societies and clubs 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 3
- letters (correspondence) 3
- newsletters 3
- postcards 3
- speeches (documents) 3
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 2
- China -- History -- 20th Century 2
- Church work with refugees -- Society of Friends 2
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
- Courtship -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Diaries 2
- Draft resisters -- United States 2
- Europe 2
- France 2
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- I-W service 2
- International cooperation -- History -- Sources 2
- Japan -- History 2
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Sources 2
- Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 2
- National service -- United States 2
- Pacifism -- United States 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Quaker businesspeople 2
- Quaker conscientious objectors 2
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 2
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- Family relationships 2
- Quakers -- Germany 2
- Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2 + ∧ less
- Language
- English 167
- German 3
- French 2
- Czech 1
- Germanic languages 1
- Names
- Civilian Public Service 31
- American Friends Service Committee 28
- Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 10
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 8
- Bryn Mawr College 7
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 7
- Thomas, Evan W. (Evan Welling), 1890-1974 6
- War Resisters League 6
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 5
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 5
- Haverford College 5
- Hutchinson, Dorothy H. (Dorothy Hewitt), 1905-1984 5
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 5
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 5
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 4
- Brethren Service Committee 4
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 4
- Furnas, Paul J. 4
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 4
- Kaufman, Abraham 4
- Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959 4
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 4
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 4
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) 3
- Cary, Stephen G. 3
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Cornell, Julien D., 1910- 3
- DeSilver, Harrison 3
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 3
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 3
- Friends Ambulance Unit 3
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 3
- Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 3
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 3
- Keep America Out of War Committee 3
- Keep America Out of War Congress 3
- Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors 3
- National Peace Conference (U.S.) 3
- Peace Now Movement (Organization) 3
- Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.) 3
- Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 3
- Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 3
- Sayre, John Nevin, 1884-1977 3
- Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 3
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 3
- Swarthmore College 3
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 3
- Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 3
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 3
- American Civil Liberties Union 2
- American Field Service 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Committee on Rights of Conscience 2
- Andresen, Bent, 1908-1991 2
- Baer, Gertrude 2
- Barr, Allen H. 2
- Benson, Purnell Handy, 1913- 2
- Boss, Charles F. (Charles Frederick), 1888- 2
- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 2
- Bowles, Gordon Townsend 2
- Bowles, Jane T. 2
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 2
- Brandt, Wilmer, 1920- 2
- Bromley, Ernest 2
- Bromley, Marion, -1996 2
- Brooks, R. Boland 2
- Butcher, Agnes Young, 1921-2005 2
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors 2
- Civilian Public Service Union 2
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Lagro, Ind.) 2
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Trenton, N.D.) 2
- Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 2
- Cooper, Samuel 2
- Corfman, Rex 2
- Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004 2
- Dyer, Henry W. 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Finch, Henry Le Roy 2
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 2
- Gara, Larry 2
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 2
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 2
- Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 2
- Harkness, Georgia Elma, 1891-1974 2
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 2
- Harvard University 2
- Heifer Project 2
- Hill, Lewis K. 2
- Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 2
- Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia 2
- MacAdam, Ruth E. 2
- Man, Albon 2
- Mennonite Central Committee 2
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
- Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
- National Committee on Conscientious Objectors (U.S.) 2
- National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.) 2
- Nelson Fuson, 1913-2006 2 + ∧ less
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