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American Friends Service Committee Reference Files
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-032
Overview
Contains the reference files collected and assembled by American Friends Service Committee over many years to keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends. Includes minutes, reports, and related papers of Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee, Friends' Council for International Service, Friends Service Council, and other Quaker relief agencies, mostly under the direction of London and Dublin Yearly Meetings.
Dates:
1916-1944
Friends Ambulance Unit Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
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 — othertype: CDG-B
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
Friends Relief Service Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends Relief Service
Abstract
Collection includes pamphlets and periodicals.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends War Relief Service Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends War Relief Service
Abstract
Collection consists of pamphlets and correspondence, including one 1943 letter which documents, as part of the letterhead, the name change from Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee to Friends War Relief Service: "Friends War Relief Service, incorporating F.W.V.R.C. and Civilian Relief Section of F.A.U." [Friends Ambulance Unit].
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1943
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-B
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-B-Great Britain-Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee
Abstract
Collection includes pamphlets, annual reports, and periodicals.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1914-1942
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Josiah P. Marvel papers
Collection — othertype: SC-221
Identifier: SFHL-SC-221
Overview
Josiah P. Marvel (1896-1959) was a Quaker, who worked with the American Friends Service Committee in France in 1940-41 and in 1942 became the chairman of the Quaker Emergency Service in New York City. This collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the Quaker Emergency Service, including its Civilian Readjustment Committee (a clinic that offered men arrested for soliciting sex with other men the option of psychiatric care in lieu of a prison sentence). The collection also includes a...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1966
Quaker Emergency Service records
Collection — othertype: SC-192
Identifier: SFHL-SC-192
Abstract
The collection is organized into four folders: the group's general records, including the initial plan and charter; the records of the Civilian Readjustment Committee, the post-war arm of the group; information on a project in Brazil; and writings by people outside the group. Of interest are transcript talks given by Peter F. Amoroso of the New York Department of Correction, and Austin H. MacCormick of the Osborne Association. There is also a carbon copy, attributed to John S. Gough, of the...
Dates:
ca. 1941-1948
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection 5
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- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief 6
- Society of Friends -- Charities 5
- Society of Friends -- International assistance 5
- Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 5
- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 3
- Conscientious objection -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 2
- Quaker prison reformers -- United States 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 2
- Church work with gays -- Society of Friends 1
- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
- Conscientious objectors -- United States 1
- Famines -- Russia 1
- International relief 1
- International relief -- Russia 1
- Prison reform -- Society of Friends 1
- Prison reformers -- United States 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) 1
- Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Russia 1
- Reconstruction (1939-1951) 1
- Society of Friends -- Austria 1
- Society of Friends -- Brazil 1
- Society of Friends -- China -- Shanghai 1
- Society of Friends -- France 1
- Society of Friends -- Germany 1
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
- Society of Friends -- Serbia 1
- Society of Friends -- Switzerland 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 1
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- Friends Ambulance Unit 2
- Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 2
- Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959 2
- Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
- Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.) 2
- Spears Mobile Clinics 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Amoroso, Peter F. 1
- Council for International Service 1
- Deutsche Jahresversammlung (Society of Friends) 1
- Friends Ambulance Unit Post-War Service 1
- Friends Relief Service 1
- Friends Service Council 1
- Friends War Relief Service (London, England) 1
- Friends' Relief Committee (London, England) 1
- Gough, John S. 1
- MacCormick, Austin Harbutt, 1893- 1
- Quaker International Centre (Belgrade, Serbia) 1
- Quaker International Centre (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 1
- Quaker International Centre (Moscow, Russia) 1
- Quaker International Centre (Thessalonikē, Greece) 1
- Quaker International Centre (Vienna, Austria) 1
- Quaker International Centre (Warsaw, Poland) 1
- Société religieuse des Amis (Quakers) Assemblée de France 1 + ∧ less
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