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Society of Friends -- International assistance

 Subject
Subject Source: Local Authority: Quaker Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Rebecca Timbres Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-026
Abstract Rebecca Timbres Clark (1896-2000) was a Quaker nurse and social worker. She and her first husband, Harry Garland Timbres (1899-1937), performed relief work under the auspices of the AFSC in Eastern Europe in 1921-22 and worked with Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, India, in 1931-34. In 1936-1937, the couple worked in the malaria unit in Soviet Russia. After Harry Timbres' death, Rebecca returned to the U.S. She married Edgar Sydenham Clark (1885-1961) on July 2, 1943, and the couple moved to...
Dates: 1853-1999 [bulk 1920-1990]
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends Ambulance Unit Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Ambulance Unit
Abstract

Collection contains pamphlets, periodicals, and annual reports.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1914-1954
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Friends Council for International Service Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Council for International Service
Scope and Contents

Printed materials, including printed correspondence, pamphlets, and annual reports (1921-1928).

Dates: Majority of material found within 1921-1929
Found in: Swarthmore College Peace Collection

Friends' Emergency and War Victims' Relief Committee Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Emergency and War Victims
Scope and Contents

Printed materials, including printed correspondence, pamphlets, and reports.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1916-1923
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 Service Council Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Service Council
Abstract

The collection includes minutes of meetings (May-December 1939), annual reports and yearbooks, periodicals, and pamphlets.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1939-1969
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

Rebecca Mary Hannum correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-303
Identifier: SFHL-SC-303
Abstract The collection contains the correspondence of Rebecca Mary Hannum (1889-1984) mostly related to her work with the American Friends Service Committee child feeding program in post WWI Germany, 1921-1924 and Peasant Industries, Poland. After the child feeding project was transferred to local groups in Germany, Mary Hannum became involved with the Peasant Industries program which supported women's handwork for sale in the United States and elsewhere. Her personal and business letters contain...
Dates: 1918 - 1924
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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