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Devere Allen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-053
Abstract

Author, editor, journalist and lecturer; advocate of internationalist pacifism; influential member of the Socialist Party in the 1930s; genealogist; recorder of Rhode Island history and lore; named Harold Devere Allen.

Dates: 1809-1978; Majority of material found within 1910-1955

William C. Allen diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-001
Overview

Diaries of William C. Allen's religious visits around the world from 1904 to 1937. Entries generally describe the customs, manners, language, transportation, food, and religious beliefs of each location Allen visited, as well as Quaker meetings he lead and religious and political leaders he met with in each place he visited. One volume of the collection does not record a religious visit, but is a record of Allen's thoughts on World War I, which he kept during 1917.

Dates: 1904-1937

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

Brent Dow Allinson Collected Papers

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Allinson, Brent Dow
Scope and Contents

Collection includes undated typescript writings by Allinson, pamphlets by and about him, and a newspaper clipping discussing his court martial.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1918-1923

American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Conference for Democracy
Overview

The People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace grew out of the First American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace, held in New York, May 1917. It was organized to work for an early and liberal peace at the end of the World War. It favored world organizations and disapproved of conscription.

Dates: 1917-1919

American Embargo Conference Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Embargo Conference
Dates: 1915

American Friends Service Committee photographs

 Collection — othertype: PA-211
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

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

American League to Limit Armaments Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American League to Limit Armaments
Dates: December 18, 1914-circa 1915

American Neutral Conference Committee Collected Records

 Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-American Neutral Conference Committee
Dates: 1916-1917

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Library
Swarthmore College Peace Collection 69
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 20
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 17
Bryn Mawr College 11
Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 1
 
Subject
World War, 1914-1918 26
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States -- Sources 25
correspondence 12
Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources 11
Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 10
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Women and peace -- History -- Sources 10
Neutrality -- United States -- History -- Sources 9
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief 9
diaries 9
Peace -- Societies, etc. -- History -- Sources 8
Quakers -- Pennsylvania 8
Society of Friends -- War relief and reconstruction 8
World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace -- Sources 7
photographs 7
Quakers -- United States -- History -- Sources 6
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- France 6
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Society of Friends 6
World War, 1939-1945 6
scrapbooks 6
Conscientious objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 5
Peace movements -- History -- Sources 5
Political prisoners -- United States -- History -- Sources 5
Quakers -- Diaries 5
Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 5
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- United States -- Sources 5
clippings (information artifacts) 5
International relief -- France 4
Quakers 4
Quakers -- World War, 1914–1918 -- Civilian relief 4
Reconstruction (1914–1939) -- France 4
Socialists -- United States -- History -- Sources 4
Society of Friends -- International assistance 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 4
World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources 4
Amnesty -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Bryn Mawr (Pa.) 3
Charities -- France 3
Education 3
Education -- United States 3
France -- History -- 1914-1940 3
International relief -- Societies, etc 3
Militarism -- United States -- History -- Sources 3
Pacifists -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 3
Quakers -- France 3
Quakers -- Social life and customs 3
Reconstruction (1914-1939) 3
Social service -- France 3
Society of Friends -- Charities 3
Women -- Societies and clubs 3
Women in charitable work 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Protest movements -- United States -- Sources 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends 3
letters (correspondence) 3
postcards 3
yearbooks 3
Arbitration (International law) -- History -- Sources 2
Children and peace -- History -- Sources 2
Church controversies -- Society of Friends 2
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
College students -- United States -- Correspondence 2
Conscientious objection -- History -- Sources 2
Conscientious objection -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Conscientious objectors -- Great Britain 2
Draft resisters -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 2
Influenza Epidemic (1918-1919) 2
International relief -- Germany 2
Itineraries 2
Legal aid -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 2
Mediation, International -- History -- Sources 2
Paris (France) 2
Peace -- Societies, etc. 2
Peace movements -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 2
Pennsylvania -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950 2
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History 2
Preparatory schools -- United States 2
Prison reform -- Society of Friends 2
Quaker authors 2
Quaker church buildings 2
Quaker conscientious objectors 2
Quakers -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources 2
Quakers -- History 2
Quakers -- Massachusetts 2
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
Quakers -- Societies, etc. 2
Refugees 2
Social service -- Societies, etc. 2
Society of Friends -- Education 2
Society of Friends -- France 2
Society of Friends -- Missions 2
Society of Friends -- United States 2
Suffragists -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
Travel 2
War work 2
Wills 2
Women -- Education 2
Women -- Education -- Pennsylvania 2
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Language
English 116
German 2
Germanic languages 1
 
Names
American Friends Service Committee 13
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 7
League of Nations 6
Bryn Mawr College 5
Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 5
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Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 4
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 3
Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938 3
American Friends Reconstruction Unit 3
American Red Cross 3
Brockway, Fenner, 1888-1988 3
Detzer, Dorothy, 1893-1981 3
Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
Forbes, Rose Dabney, 1864-1947 3
Fry, A. Ruth (Anna Ruth), 1878-1962 3
Graves, Anna Melissa, 1875-1964 3
Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 3
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931 3
Kelsey, Mary 3
People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace 3
Randall, Mercedes M. (Mercedes Moritz), 1895-1977 3
Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 3
Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953 3
Woman's Peace Party 3
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. U.S. Section 3
Allen family 2
American Peace Society 2
American Union Against Militarism 2
Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 2
Blake, Katherine Devereux, 1858-1950 2
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 2
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 2
Cleghorn, Sarah Norcliffe, 1876-1959 2
Council for International Service 2
Curti, Merle (Merle Eugene), 1897-1996 2
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 2
Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
Florence, Lella Secor, 1887-1966 2
Friends Ambulance Unit 2
Friends' Emergency & War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) 2
Gulick, Sidney Lewis, 1860-1945 2
Holmes, John Haynes, 1879-1964 2
Hughan, Jessie Wallace, 1875-1955 2
Jones, Paul, 1880-1941 2
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
Kantor, William Marx 2
Kelsey, Kate 2
Libby, Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph), 1874-1970 2
Lippincott family 2
Lochner, Louis Paul, 1887-1975 2
Lunde, Erling H. 2
Muste, Abraham John, 1885-1967 2
Mygatt, Tracy D. (Tracy Dickinson), 1885-1973 2
Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983 2
New York Bureau of Legal Advice 2
New York Bureau of Legal First Aid 2
Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948 2
Swarthmore College 2
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935 2
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 2
Wales, Julia Grace, 1881- 2
War Resisters League 2
War Resisters' International 2
Warbasse, James Peter, 1866-1957 2
Witherspoon, Frances, 1886-1973 2
Young Democracy (Organization) 2
Abercrombie, Daniel Webster, 1853-1932 1
Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971 1
Adler, Friedrich 1
Advertising Federation of America 1
Albright, William A. 1
Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989 1
Alexander, Magnus W. (Magnus Washington), 1870-1932 1
Allen, Devere, 1891-1955 1
Allen, Horatio, 1802-1889 1
Allen, Marie Hollister, 1893-1979 1
Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 1
American Advertising Federation 1
American Chamber of Commerce in France 1
American Civil Liberties Union 1
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky 1
American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace 1
American Conference for Democracy and Terms of Peace (1st : 1917 : New York, N.Y.) 1
American Embargo Conference (Organization) 1
American Friends Service Committee. Message Committee 1
American League against War and Fascism 1
American League to Limit Armaments 1
American National Red Cross 1
American Neutral Conference Committee 1
American Peace and Arbitration League 1
American Red Cross in France 1
American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1
American Union Against Militarism. Civil Liberties Bureau 1
Archaeological Institute of America 1
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World 1
Association to Abolish War 1
Atkinson family 1
Atkinson, Gertrude, 1874-1948 1
Atkinson, Wilmer, 1840-1920 1
Babbitt, James A. 1
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