Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 12
Devere Allen Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract
Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.
Dates:
1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Bowles family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1212
Abstract
The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. In 1900, the Bowles moved to Japan under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and managed the Friends School and established the Tokyo Friends Center. During World War II, the Bowles family moved to Hawaii and worked with war refugees. The Bowles family correspondence consists of correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles to their son Gordon Townsend Bowles from 1922 to...
Dates:
1922-1960
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1938-1951
Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract
A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Nelson Fuson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-261
Overview
Nelson Fuson was a physicist and educator, active in Quaker concerns. The collection contains extensive correspondence and papers concerning his service as a conscientious objector in Civilian Public Service during World War II. As the child of missionaries to China, his hope was to do relief service in China, and many of the papers deal with CPS China Units. However, the China Units were never activated and Fuson was assigned to camps in Maryland, Indiana, New York, and North Dakota. He...
Dates:
1909-1996
Leonard Stout Kenworthy diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-039
Overview
Leonard Stout Kenworthy's "Quaker Berlin Diary" describes his experiences in Germany during World War II working with German Quakers to assist unaffiliated German Jews to leave Germany.
Dates:
1940-1941
Gilbert MacMaster papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1016
Overview
Gilbert MacMaster (1869-1967), a Quaker, was involved in charitable work in post-World War II Europe. The papers include his letters, photographs, and diary, which covers his and Margarethe Lachmund's (his wife) 30 years of service (1920-1950) with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) child feeding mission in Germany, after World War I, as head of the Friends Center in Hamburg, during Hitler's rise to power, and as American Friends' representative in Basel, Switzerland, during World...
Dates:
1901-1968
Esther B. Rhoads papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1153
Overview
The papers of Esther Rhoads (1896-1979), a member of an influential Philadelphia Quaker family, Rhoads was a teacher, later head, of Friends Girls' School in Tokyo for over 50 years. She was also of great importance in work with Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and with the American Friends Service Committee, to assist Japanese-Americans affected by the War Relocation Act (evacuation and relocation). Materials include correspondence, documents, typescripts and manuscripts, pamphlets,...
Dates:
circa 1895-1979
Scattergood Hostel and Scattergood Friends School photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-165
Overview
Scattergood Friends School opened in Iowa in 1890. The school closed during the Great Depression, and was repurposed during World War II as Scattergood Hostel to acclimate refugees from Europe. In 1944, it reopened as a school and remains open today. The bulk of this collection is photographs of Scattergood Refugee Hostel, but there are also photographs of pre-war and post-war Scattergood Friends School.
Dates:
1915 - 1953
William Macy Stanton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-242
Overview
Contains the papers of William Macy and Lois V. Stanton, compiled by Lois V. Stanton. The Stantons were active Quakers, and William Macy Stanton, Jr., was a conscientious objector in WWII. Both Stantons served in the American Friends Service Committee reconstruction efforts in Europe after the war as well as other Quaker activities and organizations. William Stanton worked for Swarthmore College for over twenty-five years, serving as director of physical plant. Of particular interest are the...
Dates:
1937-1995
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Library
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 6
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 4
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 2
- Subject
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 4
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States 3
- correspondence 3
- Conscientious objection -- United States 2
- Pacifism -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Quaker women 2
- Quakers 2
- Quakers -- Political activity 2
- Society of Friends 2
- Society of Friends -- International assistance -- Germany 2
- Society of Friends -- Japan 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Religious aspects 2
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- American Friends Service Committee 2
- diaries 2
- African Americans -- Civil rights 1
- Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962 1
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- California -- Politics and government 1
- Charities -- France 1
- Charities -- Germany 1
- Civil rights -- United States 1
- Connecticut -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Cooking, American 1
- Disarmament 1
- Draft -- United States 1
- Draft resisters -- History -- Sources 1
- Finland 1
- Food service 1
- Food supply 1
- Germany 1
- Haverford (Pa.) 1
- Hawaii 1
- Illinois -- Politics and government 1
- Indians of North America -- Civil rights 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- Africa 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Germany 1
- International relief -- Societies, etc 1
- Japan 1
- Japan -- History 1
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 1
- Journalists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Lecturers -- United States -- Biography -- Sources 1
- Lobbying -- California 1
- Lobbying -- Illinois 1
- Lobbying -- United States 1
- Lobbying -- Wisconsin 1
- Missionaries 1
- National service -- United States 1
- Nonviolence -- United States 1
- Pacifism -- United States 1
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- United States 1
- Periodical editors -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Philosophy -- Study and teaching 1
- Quaker missionaries 1
- Quakers -- Congresses -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Education -- Japan 1
- Quakers -- France 1
- Quakers -- Germany 1
- Quakers -- Germany -- History -- 20th century 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- Iowa -- History 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Switzerland 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) 1
- Reconstruction (1939–1951) -- Germany 1
- Refugees 1
- Religion -- Study and teaching 1
- Rhodes Scholarships 1
- Sermons 1
- Social service -- France 1
- Social service -- Germany 1
- Socialist parties -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Society of Friends -- Political activity 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 3
- Civilian Public Service 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 2
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
- Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 2
- Society of Friends 2
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 2
- Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 2
- Wilson, E. Raymond (Edward Raymond), 1896-1987 2
- Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
- Adler, Friedrich 1
- Akihito, Emperor of Japan 1
- Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
- Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
- American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
- American Friends Service Committee. China Program 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service 1
- American League against War and Fascism 1
- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Baer, Gertrude 1
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948 1
- Benoit, Emile 1
- Berg, Russel O. 1
- Bliss, George I. 1
- Bolling, Landrum Rymer 1
- Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 1
- Bowles, Gordon Townsend 1
- Bowles, Jane T. 1
- Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 1
- Brainerd, Heloise, 1881-1969 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Brinton, Ellen Starr, 1886-1954 1
- Brittain, Vera, 1893-1970 1
- Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 1
- Broun, Heywood, 1888-1939 1
- Brown, H. Tatnall, Jr., 1900-1983 1
- Bryn Mawr College 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Catchpool, Corder, 1883-1952 1
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 1
- Ceresole, Pierre, 1879-1945 1
- Chase, E. Dixwell 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Big Flats, NY) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (China Unit) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Lagro, Ind.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Powellsvile, Md.) 1
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Trenton, N.D.) 1
- Civilian War Services Conference (1943 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Columbia University 1
- Coolidge, A. Sprague 1
- Cooper, Wilmer A. (Wilmer Albert) 1
- Cranston, Maurice, 1920-1993 1
- Cripps, Arthur Shearly, 1869-1952 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Drevet, Camille 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Dulles, John Foster 1
- Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality 1
- Einstein, Albert 1
- Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.) 1
- Engelbrecht, H. C. (Helmuth Carol), 1895-1939 1
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 1
- Fey, Harold E. (Harold Edward), 1898-1990 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 1
- Foulke, Thomas Albert, 1893-1962 1
- Friends Civilian Public Service Cooking School 1
- Friends Committee on Legislation of Northern California 1
- Friends Committee on Legislation. Southern California Section 1
- Friends World Committee for Consultation 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Fuson, Chester Garfield, 1881-1965 1
- Fuson, Marian Darnell, b. 1920 1
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 1
- Grant, Donald, 1889- 1
- Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 1
- Gray, Philip, 1906- 1
- Gregg, Richard Bartlett, 1885- 1
- Hadley, Jeanette 1
- Harker, Charles H. 1
- Harris, Paul, b. 1897 1
- Harvard University 1
- Hassler, Alfred, 1910- 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hester, Hugh B. (Hugh Bryan), 1895-1983 1
- Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 1
- Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 1
- Hunt, Dorothy H. 1
- Hutchins, Grace 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
