American Friends Service Committee Reference Files
Scope and Contents
Minutes, reports, some correspondence and related papers of Quaker service agencies.
Dates
- Creation: 1916-1944
Creator
- American Friends Service Committee (Organization)
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) (Contributor, Organization)
- Council for International Service (Contributor, Organization)
- Friends Service Council (Contributor, Organization)
- Société religieuse des Amis (Quakers) Assemblée de France (Contributor, Organization)
- Deutsche Jahresversammlung (Society of Friends) (Contributor, Organization)
- Quaker International Centre (Vienna, Austria) (Contributor, Organization)
- Quaker International Centre (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (Contributor, Organization)
- Quaker International Centre (Thessalonikē, Greece) (Contributor, Organization)
- Quaker International Centre (Warsaw, Poland) (Contributor, Organization)
- Quaker International Centre (Moscow, Russia) (Contributor, Organization)
- Quaker International Centre (Belgrade, Serbia) (Contributor, Organization)
- Council for International Service (Contributor, Organization)
- Friends Service Council (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that was founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian victims during World War I. Today the AFSC includes people of various faiths and sponsors programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth in the United States, and in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. These reference files were collected and assembled by the American Friends Service Committee over many years to keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends in the years 1916-1944.
Extent
7.5 linear ft. (15 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains the reference files collected and assembled by American Friends Service Committee over many years to keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends. Includes minutes, reports, and related papers of Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee, Friends' Council for International Service, Friends Service Council, and other Quaker relief agencies, mostly under the direction of London and Dublin Yearly Meetings.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into 8 series. The series are:
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee
- Friends' Council for International Service
- Friends Service Council
- Other Relief and Related Agencies
- Quaker International Centres
- Quaker International Relief
- International Organizations and Conferences of Friends
- Quaker Yearly Meetings in Europe
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Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of American Friends Service Committee, 1981
Subject
- American Friends Service Committee (Organization)
Topical
- Society of Friends -- Austria
- Society of Friends -- China -- Shanghai
- Society of Friends -- France
- Society of Friends -- Germany
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain
- Society of Friends -- Serbia
- Society of Friends -- Switzerland
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends
- Title
- An Inventory of the American Friends Service Committee Reference Files, 1916-1944
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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