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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' 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
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
Douglas V. and Dorothy M. Steere papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1174
Abstract
Douglas and Dorothy Steere were prominent figures of the Quaker movement in the twentieth century, and deeply committed to the causes of peace and spiritual enrichment. This commitment is evident in their involvement with Quaker-led relief work after World War II, Quaker spiritual retreats, international diplomacy, and Dorothy’s work with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Douglas taught philosophy at several institutions including Haverford College, and published extensively on topics...
Dates:
1896-2003
Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall Refugee Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-256
Overview
Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall and her husband, D. Robert Yarnall, were Quakers, active in the American Friends Service Committee relief efforts. They worked with the Quaker center in Vienna, Austria, during the summer of 1938 to help in the emigration of German and Austrian Jews. The collection contains correspondence concerning their work with refugees and letters from refugees asking for assistance, especially the musician and composers Karl Weigl and his wife, Vally, who emigrated in October...
Dates:
1938-1945
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- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Russia 1
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- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 1
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- World War, 1939-1945 1
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- autobiographies (documents) 1
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- American Friends Service Committee 2
- American Friends Service Committee. China Program 1
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- Brethren Service Committee 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
- Columbia University 1
- Cripps, Arthur Shearly, 1869-1952 1
- Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality 1
- Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit Post-War Service 1
- Friends Civilian Public Service Cooking School 1
- Friends' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Fuson, Chester Garfield, 1881-1965 1
- Fuson, Marian Darnell, b. 1920 1
- Harvard University 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hügel, Friedrich, Freiherr von, 1852-1925 1
- Michigan Agricultural College 1
- Nelson Fuson, 1913-2006 1
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 1
- Society of Friends 1
- Steere, Dorothy M., 1908-2003 1
- Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 1
- University of Oxford 1
- Vatican Council (2nd : 1962-1965 : Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) 1
- Weigl, Karl, 1881-1949 1
- Weigl, Vally 1
- Yarnall, D. Robert (David Robert), 1878-1967 1
- Yarnall, Elizabeth Biddle, 1897-1975 1 ∧ less
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