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Friends' Ambulance Unit photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-135
Overview
The Friends Ambulance Unit was a volunteer ambulance service that operated during both World Wars as well as for a period after WWII (1946-1959). It was founded by a group of British Quakers and most of the volunteers were registered conscientious objectors. This collection contains loose black and white photos (now in sleeves) of the Friends Ambulance Unit in Syria and France. Some of the photos in this collection ran in Harper's Bazaar.
Dates:
1941 - 1943
Josiah P. Marvel collected Quaker Emergency Service records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Abstract
Collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the wartime projects of the Quaker Emergency Service, 1942-1945, and its postwar Civilian Readjustment Committee, including typed minutes, 1947-1961. Also includes papers concerning the Spears Mobile Clinic which operated in Syria with the help of the Friends Ambulance Unit, including a typescript describing the mission; the dispersal of French funds, 1954-1958, raised by Mme. de la Noue for her Centre Guynemer and deposited with the Quaker...
Dates:
1942-1966
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- Church work with gays -- Society of Friends 1
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- Humanitarian assistance -- Quakers 1
- International relief -- France 1
- International relief -- Syria 1
- Prison reformers -- United States 1
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1 ∧ less
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- Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959 1
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 1
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 1
- Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Spears Mobile Clinics 1
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