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Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract
A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Fritz and Karoline Solmitz papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M94
Abstract
Fritz Solmitz (1893-1933) was an early and outspoken leader in the opposition to Nazism, an editor of a Social Democratic newspaper in Lübeck and a member of the City council. Because of his active opposition to the Nazis, and probably because he was a Jew, he died of mistreatment in a German prison shortly after Hitler came to power. Karoline Somitz (1893-1966) was, like her husband, active in civic affairs. Much of the collection contains letters and photographs, some translated from...
Dates:
1929 - 2006
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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
Nelson Fuson photographs of Civilian Public Service (CPS)
Collection — othertype: PA-139
Identifier: SFHL-PA-139
Abstract
Nelson Fuson was a physicist and educator, active in Quaker concerns. In 1941 Fuson was drafted as conscientious objector, and was assigned to several Civilian Public Service (CPS) camps during World War II. This collection includes loose black and white photos and black and white scrapbook pages, along with a handdrawn map, documenting Fuson's time in CPS.
Dates:
1942 - 1954
Larry Gara Collected Papers
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gara, Larry
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949-1972
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Gilbert White AFSC papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-816
Abstract
Some papers of Gilbert F. White (1911-2006), a geographer and president of Haverford College, relating to some of his experiences serving the American Friends Service Committee during World War II and letters received while president of the college.
Dates:
1927 - 1947
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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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