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Irwin Abrams Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Abrams, Irwin
Abstract
Includes biographical and bibliographical information and photocopies of a small portion of Abrams published writings, including material about the Nobel Peace Prize, women Nobel Peace Prize winners, the Quaker peace testimony and the Nobel Peace Prize, Henri La Fontaine, and Carl von Ossietzky.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
William Charles Allen Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Allen, William Charles
Overview
William C. Allen was born in 1857 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Allen was deeply opposed to war and wrote often about the problems of propaganda, censorship, conscription, imperialism, and the munitions industry. He traveled widely and wrote many articles about his experiences abroad.
Dates:
1895-1937; Majority of material found within 1913-1937
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Mary Bye Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-024
Overview
Mary (Du Bois) Bye, Quaker peace and social activist and member of Doylestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in Pennsylvania, was born in 1913. This collection consists of the papers relating to Mary Bye's political activity. It includes correspondence, notes, clippings, and other files concerning peace and justice issues.
Dates:
1966-[on-going]
Committee on Peace and Service of the Bucks Quarterly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Collected Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Committee on Peace and Service-Bucks Quarterly Meeting
Abstract
Includes minutes of meetings, correspondence, statements and reports, press releases, and news clippings. Correspondents include Conveners Mary Bye and Edward G. Ramberg, a noted physicist.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1963-1976
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Carol Cummings and Frank Cummings Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-180
Abstract
Carol and Frank Cummings were a married couple who were involved in the sanctuary movement for Central American refugees in the 1980s.
Dates:
1982-2001
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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
Joshua Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-190
Overview
Joshua Evans, a Quaker minister and abolitionist, was born in 1731 in West Jersey. About the year 1754, he experienced a religious conversion and thereafter devoted his life to sharing his rigorous interpretation of the gospel through an ascetic and pious life style and simple ministry. Barely educated, he was nevertheless acknowledged as a minister by Haddonfield Monthly Meeting in 1759. Evans was a vegetarian and a fervent proponent of the peace testimony, Quaker plainness, and ending...
Dates:
ca. 1788- ca. 1804
Ferris Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-040
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Ferris family of Wilmington, Delaware, a prominent Quaker family. Of particular note are the correspondence and writings of Benjamin Ferris concerning the Separation in the Society of Friends, as well as the journals and diaries of Anna M. Ferris, David Ferris, Matilda Ferris, Benjamin Ferris, and Henry Ferris. Correspondents include William Lloyd Garrison, William...
Dates:
1737-1940
Dean Freiday Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-215
Overview
This collection contains the correspondence and writings of Dean Freiday (b. 1915), a Quaker writer and theologian. The papers reflect his wide range of activities in numerous Christian church groups and discussion groups. The correspondence includes leading Friends, such as Arthur Roberts, Douglas Steere, and Larry Miller. His writings on topics specific to the Society of Friends and interfaith issues of ecumenism, ecclesiology, and the sacraments.
Dates:
1956-1999
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- Messenger of peace (Richmond, IN : 1870) 1
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- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 3
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
- American Friends Service Committee 2
- Bye, Mary, 1913- 2
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 2
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
- Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
- Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon (1890-1979) 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Abrams, Irwin, 1914-2010 1
- Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938 1
- American Friends Reconstruction Unit 1
- American Friends Service Committee. China Program 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Civilian Public Service 1
- American Peace Society 1
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 1
- Atlanta Friends Meeting. Social Concerns Committee 1
- Atlanta Sanctuary Committee 1
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968) 1
- Bassett family 1
- Beaver, Gilbert A., -1952 1
- Berrigan, Daniel 1
- Biddle, Mary, 1780-1849 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Billikopf, Jacob, 1883-1950 1
- Blickenstaff, Harold 1
- Boynton, Percy Holmes, 1875-1946 1
- Brethren Service Committee 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1767-1834 1
- Brinton, Anna Cox 1
- Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 1
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
- Butler, Thomas S. (Thomas Stalker), 1855-1928 1
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1
- Cary, John R. 1
- Chaffee, Edmund B. (Edmund Bigelow), 1887-1936 1
- Chomsky, Noam 1
- Church Peace Union 1
- Civilian Public Service 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
- Clouds, Kai Yutah, 1948-1980 1
- Coffin family 1
- Columbia University 1
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 1
- Conference of Christian Pacifists 1
- Continental Walk for Disarmament and Social Justice 1
- Cummings, Carol R. (Carol Riemer), 1936-2006 1
- Cummings, Frank E., Quaker 1
- Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 1
- Dean Freiday (b. 1915-) 1
- Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 1
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 1
- Elderkin, Noble S. (Noble Strong), 1878-1966 1
- Elkinton family 1
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 1
- Emergency Committee for the Assistance of Germans, Austrians, and Hungarians in Distress (Society of Friends) 1
- Evans, Joshua, 1731-1798 1
- Fager, Charles (Charles Eugene), -1942 1
- Ferris family 1
- Ferris, Anna M., 1815-1890 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Ferris, David, 1821-1908 1
- Ferris, Fanny, 1778-1833 1
- Ferris, Henry 1
- Ferris, John, 1775-1802 1
- Ferris, Matilda, 1853-1937 1
- Ferris, Ziba, 1743-1794 1
- First Day School General Conference 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends : U.S.). Peace Board 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959 1
- Foxworthy, Theodore 1
- French, Paul Comly, 1903-1960 1
- Friend, Theodore 1
- Friends Civilian Public Service Cooking School 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Friends General Conference (U.S.). Publications Committee 1
- Friends General Conference (U.S.). Religious Education Committee 1
- Friends World Conference 1
- Friends World Conference (1st : 1920 : London, England) 1
- Friends' Union for Philanthropic Labor (U.S.) 1
- Fuller, Walter G. 1
- Furnas, Paul J. 1
- Fuson, Chester Garfield, 1881-1965 1
- Fuson, Marian Darnell, b. 1920 1
- Gara, Larry 1
- General Conference of Young Friends Associations (U.S.) 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Gibbons, Mary, 1795-1876 1
- Ginn, Edwin, 1838-1914 1
- Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1 ∧ less
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