Prison reformers -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Prisoner Visitation and Support Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-223
Scope and Contents
This collection was partially processed by the archivist in 2006. The material came in looking like it was in good order, but it was discovered that the folder titles rarely matched what was in the folders themselves. This necessitated sorting nearly everything into new folders. Some prisoner correspondence was already designated as such before its arrival at the SCPC, but a great deal was also found mixed throughout the rest of the collection. This was removed and put with the rest of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1952-1991
Josiah P. Marvel collected Quaker Emergency Service records
Collection — Othertype SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Abstract
Collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the wartime projects of the Quaker Emergency Service, 1942-1945, and its postwar Civilian Readjustment Committee, including typed minutes, 1947-1961. Also includes papers concerning the Spears Mobile Clinic which operated in Syria with the help of the Friends Ambulance Unit, including a typescript describing the mission; the dispersal of French funds, 1954-1958, raised by Mme. de la Noue for her Centre Guynemer and deposited with the Quaker...
Dates:
1942-1966
