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Frieda Langer Lazarus Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Lazarus, Frieda Langer
Abstract
Collection consists of correspondence and printed matter related to Lazarus's involvement as Chair of the War Resisters League's Conscientious Objector Problems Committee, 1943-1946.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1946
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Morris Evans Leeds papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1127
Overview
The papers of Morris Evans Leeds (1869-1952), a Philadelphia Quaker who graduated from Haverford College and became president of Leeds & Northrup Company, manufacturers of precision instruments. He was also an inventor and developer. Leeds was a member of the Board of Haverford College and active on the School Board of Philadelphia.
Dates:
1757-1952; Majority of material found within 1880-1952
Gilbert MacMaster papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1016
Overview
Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World...
Dates:
1901-1968
Albon Man Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Man, Albon P.
Abstract
Albon Platt Man Jr.,was called up for the draft during World War II, but failed to register because of his conscientious objection to war, and was sentenced to three years in prison in March 1943. He was later involvemented with the Committee for Amnesty, the CCCO, the War Resisters League, and other peace groups.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-1965
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Josiah P. Marvel scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-017
Overview
The scrapbook of Josiah P. Marvel includes Nazi documents, such as certificates and letters, from Marvel's time in occupied France during the summer of 1940, while travelling to and from Paris in service to the American Friends Service Committee. Documents include permissions from Nazi commanders in France, as well as The Hague and Brussels. Also included is a map of the location of prison camps, clothing lists, and a printed booklet on the National Work for Infants.
Dates:
1940-1941
Mennonite Central Committee Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mennonite Central Committee
Overview
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was formed when representatives of various Mennonite conferences met July 27-28, 1920, in Elkhart (Indiana), and pledged to aid hungry people, including Mennonites, in Russia and Ukraine.Since then thousands have served with MCC worldwide on relief, peace and development projects.
Dates:
1940-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mennonite Central Committee Peace Section / U.S. Peace Section Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Mennonite Central Committee-Peace Section
Abstract
The Peace Section of the Mennonite Central Committee was established in January 1942, as successor to the Mennonite Central Peace Committee organized in 1939. It served as an agency for counseling on problems related to conscription and the draft, a representation to government, a center for study, research, and writing regarding the peace position, and a central agency for peace education.
Dates:
1942-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-060
Abstract
The Metropolitan Board for Conscientious Objectors was a non-sectarian, free advisory service for conscientious objectors to war and military service. The MBCO was set up to provide counseling and legal aid in metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and established by the United Pacifist Committee in 1940. The group disbanded in 1980.
Dates:
1940-1980
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Miles, Ward and Alice Calder Miles
Abstract
Includes two oral history interview (4 p., 2007 and 2 p., 2003) of Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles; information about the Civilian Public Service unit at the Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; manuscript "Out of Sight Out of Mind" by Ward C. Miles; information about a psychiatric aide training project conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation under the auspices of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas in 1948; reference material about mental hospitals and psychiatric aide...
Dates:
1944-1948, 2003, 2007
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joseph Moray Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Moray, Joseph
Abstract
Correspondence of Joseph Moskovitz/ Joseph Moray with his cousin, Shirley Moskovitz, and with Camille Weare.
Dates:
1935-1948, 1951-1952
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 37
- World War, 1939-1945 32
- 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
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 16
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 16
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Sources 14
- Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 13
- correspondence 12
- 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 -- Society of Friends 8
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 7
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 7
- Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Draft -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
- Quakers -- History 6
- diaries 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
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany 5
- Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 4
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 4
- Education 4
- International relief 4
- International relief -- France 4
- Pacifists -- United States 4
- Quaker women 4
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Sources 4
- manuscripts (documents) 4
- photographs 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
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 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
- Refugees 3
- Society of Friends -- Japan 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 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
- Youth and peace -- History -- Sources 3
- newsletters 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
- 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
- Missionaries 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 missionaries 2
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 2
- Quakers -- 20th century -- Diaries 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Quakers -- Political activity 2
- Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Sources 2
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 2
- Selective conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 2
- Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Society of Friends 2
- Society of Friends -- Austria 2 ∧ less
- Language
- English 159
- German 2
- Czech 1
- French 1
- Germanic languages 1
- Undetermined 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Civilian Public Service 31
- American Friends Service Committee 27
- 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
- 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
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 4
- Furnas, Paul J. 4
- Haverford College 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
- Brethren Service Committee 3
- 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
- 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
- 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 Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 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
- Hill, Lewis K. 2
- Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
- Lazarus, Frieda Langer 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
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Newton, Ray 2
- Nicholson, Herbert V. (Herbert Victor) 2
- Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 2
- No Foreign War Campaign Steering Committee (1938-1940) 2 ∧ less
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