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Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Friends National Peace Committee Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends National Peace Committee
Abstract

A short-lived Quaker organization that promoted peace during World War I.

Dates: 1915-1917

Friends Peace and International Relations Committee Collected Materials

 Collection — Othertype CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Peace and International Relations...
Abstract

Collection consists primarily of printed material: form letters, minutes of meetings, newsletters, reports, news articles, and pamphlets.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1890-1976

Friends Washington Peace Headquarters Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends Washington Peace Headquarters
Dates: 1916

Friends Witness for World Order Collected Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Friends Witness for World Order
Abstract

These records contain meeting minutes, financial records, correspondence, releases/literature, statistics, publicity and press coverage, address by Dorothy Hutchinson, delegation visits to President Kennedy and to ambassadors during Washington, D.C., and photographs.

Dates: 1962

Larry Gara Collected Papers

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Gara, Larry
Dates: Majority of material found within 1949-1972

George Lakey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-259
Dates: 1974-1984

Peace Association of Friends in America Records

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-027
Abstract

The Peace Association of Friends in America was organized in 1867 by Orthodox Friends in the New York, Baltimore, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Western and Iowa Yearly Meetings in reaction to the Civil War, with its mission being to convince Friends and others that war was unchristian, inhumane and unnecessary.

Dates: 1868-1944

Philadelphia Peace Center Collected Records

 Collection — Othertype CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Philadelphia Peace Center
Dates: 1962-1970

Elbert Russell Writings

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-133
Abstract Elbert Russell (1871-1951) was a Quaker teacher, historian, and writer. His was a leading voice in bringing the insights of liberal, British Friends on the primacy of revelation and the importance of scholarship in the renewal of faith into American Quakerism. He was professor of Bible at Earlham College starting in 1895 and also served as chaplain. He resigned his position in 1915, later taught at Johns Hopkins, and then became Dean at Duke University. This collection contains primarily...
Dates: 1893-1951

Theodore Brinton Hetzel Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Hetzel
Abstract

Theodore Brinton Hetzel was a semi-professional photojournalist and took many photographs of peace and anti-war activities in the Philadelphia area and in Washington, D.C. from the late 1950s through the mid 1970s.

Dates: 1956-1986