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World War, 1914-1918 -- France

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

M. A. Irvine Papers

 Collection
Identifier: BMC-M115
Abstract

The M. A. Irvine Papers contains materials related to Bryn Mawr alumnae Mary Agnes Irvine (Class of 1910)'s work during World War One in the Y.M.C.A. Canteen Service. It contains four scrapbooks related to her service, as well as correspondence and photographs. This collection would be of interest to anyone interested in women's work in France during WWI.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1916 - 1921
Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Emma Chandler MacClelland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-094
Abstract Emma Chandler MacClelland was a Quaker who was involved in relief work in France during World War I with the American Friends Service Committee. She was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1895, and married Lee H. MacClelland after her return from France. She was a member of Reading Monthly Meeting at the time of her death in 1965. The collection contains correspondence of Emma Chandler MacClelland during the period, 1918-1919, in which she did relief work in France. Details her...
Dates: 1918-1919

E. Carlton (Edwin Carlton) MacDowell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-095
Abstract

E. Carlton MacDowell (Edwin Carlton) (1887-1973) was a Quaker zoologist and relief worker. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, reports, memorabilia, pictures and other papers, relating to MacDowell's involvement in Quaker relief activities in France during and after World War I. Includes material relating to American Friends Service Committee's Reconstruction Unit and Message Committee, Berlin Centre Committee, and Friends Council for International Service.

Dates: 1917-1927

John Morrison Michener WWI correspondence

 Collection — Othertype RG5-331
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-331
Abstract

The collection contains the correspondence of John Morrison Michener (1894-1986), Quaker high school chemistry teacher from Wichita, Kansas, who served as a medic in France during WWI. His letters provide detailed descriptions of his training in Camp Funston, Kansas, and his service in field hospitals in France and in a hospital in Bitburg, Germany, after the end of the War.

Dates: 1918 - 1920

William Webb Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-126
Abstract

William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.

Dates: 1917-1923