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American Friends Service Committee Reference Files

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-032

Scope and Contents

Minutes, reports, some correspondence and related papers of Quaker service agencies.

Dates

  • Creation: 1916-1944

Creator

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:

  1. Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee
  2. Friends' Council for International Service
  3. Friends Service Council
  4. Other Relief and Related Agencies
  5. Quaker International Centres
  6. Quaker International Relief
  7. International Organizations and Conferences of Friends
  8. 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

Related Materials

A comprehensive account of service work of British Friends can be found in vols. 1 and 3 of Quaker Encounters, by John Ormerod Greenwood, published by William Sessions, Ltd., 1977-1978.

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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