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American Friends Service Committee photographs
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-211
Overview
This collection consists of miscellaneous photographs, collected over time from various sources, documenting the American Friends Service Committee and its projects. Post-World War I and post-World War II and Vietnam War relief work are well documented, and there are also photographs of AFSC work in the United States, Africa, other parts of Asia, and the Middle East.
Dates:
circa 1918-1975
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
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
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
Emma Chandler MacClelland Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-094
Overview
Emma Chandler MacClelland was a Quaker who was involved in relief work in France during World War I with the American Friends Service Committee. She was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1895, and married Lee H. MacClelland after her return from France. She was a member of Reading Monthly Meeting at the time of her death in 1965. The collection contains correspondence of Emma Chandler MacClelland during the period, 1918-1919, in which she did relief work in France. Details her...
Dates:
1918-1919
E. Carlton (Edwin Carlton) MacDowell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-095
Overview
E. Carlton MacDowell (Edwin Carlton) (1887-1973) was a Quaker zoologist and relief worker. The collection contains correspondence, minutes, reports, memorabilia, pictures and other papers, relating to MacDowell's involvement in Quaker relief activities in France during and after World War I. Includes material relating to American Friends Service Committee's Reconstruction Unit and Message Committee, Berlin Centre Committee, and Friends Council for International Service.
Dates:
1917-1927
William Webb Price Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-126
Overview
William Webb Price (1892-1961) was a Quaker architect, teacher, and actor, of Rose Valley, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly letters written by Price to his family while serving with Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France during and shortly after World War I; together with reports, financial papers, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Quaker reconstruction activities in France.
Dates:
1917-1923
Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-149
Overview
Wilbur K. Thomas (1882-1953), a Quaker born in Indiana, was executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee from 1918 to 1929. He graduated from Friends University in 1904, served as pastor of various Quaker churches, graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1907, earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in 1914, and was a member of Boston Friends Meeting after 1909. He was director of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation in Philadelphia from 1930 to 1946. The collection contains...
Dates:
1914-1933
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 5
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 2
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- Subject
- International relief -- France 4
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 4
- Charities -- France 3
- France -- History -- 1914-1940 3
- International relief -- Societies, etc 3
- Quakers -- France 3
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 3
- Social service -- France 3
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France 3
- International relief -- Germany 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Quakers -- Societies, etc. 2
- Social service -- Societies, etc. 2
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 2
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 2
- Authors, English -- History -- Sources 1
- Charities -- Germany -- Berlin 1
- Conscientious objection -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- France -- History -- German occupation -- 1914-1918 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- History -- Sources 1
- International relief -- Russia 1
- Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. 1
- Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace movements -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 1
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker women -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Germany 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Massachusetts 1
- Quakers -- United States 1
- Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 -- Civilian relief 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Societies, etc. 1
- Reconstruction (1914–1939) 1
- Rose Valley (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Russia -- Civilian relief 1
- Social service -- Religious aspects 1
- Social service -- Germany -- Berlin 1
- Society of Friends -- Charities 1
- Society of Friends -- France 1
- Society of Friends -- Missions 1
- Society of Friends -- Societies, etc. 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Civilian relief 1
- War relief -- Societies, etc 1
- War relief -- History -- Sources 1
- Women and peace -- History -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Religious aspects 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends -- Sources 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1 ∧ less
- Names
- American Friends Service Committee 4
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 2
- Albright, William A. 1
- American Friends Reconstruction Unit 1
- American Friends Service Committee. Message Committee 1
- Beaton, Grace M. 1
- Berlin Centre Committee 1
- Brown, H. Runham (Herbert Runham), 1879-1949 1
- Council for International Service 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit Post-War Service 1
- Friends' Emergency & War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 1
- Haines, Joseph H. 1
- Haines, William Henry 1
- MacClelland, Emma Chandler, 1892-1965 1
- MacDowell, E. Carleton (Edwin Carlton), 1887-1973 1
- National Council for Prevention of War (Great Britain) 1
- Price, William Webb, 1892-1961 1
- Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953 1
- War Resisters' International 1
- Women's Peace Campaign 1 ∧ less
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