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Nancy J. Babb Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Babb, Nancy
Abstract
Nancy Babb (1884-1948) was a member of the Society of Friends who served as a field representative for the Red Cross and then as a relief worker in Russia from 1917 to the mid 1920s. On her return to the United States in 1928 Babb lectured about her work in Russia. Babb also volunteered for a number of various women's organizations, including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Babb established the National Circulating Library of Student's Peace Posters, an organization...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1921-1949
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Rebecca Timbres Clark Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-026
Overview
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]
French War Victims Fund collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-241
Abstract
Contains an accounting of funds raised for the War Victims Fund by members of New York Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), 1870-1871, together with cover letters for contributions made to the Fund.
Dates:
1870-1871
Friends Ambulance Unit Collected Records
Collection
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 Medical Society records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1199
Overview
The Friends Medical Society, a Quaker organization that was founded in 1950. The collection includes information about their programs around the world along with information on its members, predominantly medical doctors.
Dates:
1950-2006
Friends' Relief Committee Collected Records
Collection
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
A. Ruth Fry Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-046
Overview
[Anna] Ruth Fry was an activist and a writer born into a prominent Quaker family in England. From 1914-1924, she served as general secretary of the Friends Relief Commission, which provided help for refugees and others ravaged by World War I. Fry wrote about her experiences in A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was also the first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921. Fry went on to write numerous books, pamphlets and tracts, on a variety of Quaker and peace topics. She died on...
Dates:
1905-1957
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
Joseph Haines papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-095
Overview
This collection is comprised of three folders of the papers of Joseph H. Haines.
Dates:
1917-2002
Rebecca Mary Hannum correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-303
Overview
The collection contains the correspondence of Rebecca Mary Hannum (1889-1984) mostly related to her work with the American Friends Service Committee child feeling program in post WWI Germany, 1921-1924 and Peasant Industries, Poland. After the child feeling 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
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- Civilian War Services Conference (1943 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Clark, Rebecca Timbres, 1896- 1
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- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Fuson, Chester Garfield, 1881-1965 1
- Fuson, Marian Darnell, b. 1920 1
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 1
- Haines, Joseph H. 1
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- Hannum, Rebecca Maery, 1889-1884 1
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- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). French War Victims Fund 1
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- Paul, Parry H. ((Parry Haines)), 1895- 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
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