Organization: American Friends Service Committee - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

American Friends Service Committee Collected Records, 1917- (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.6 linear ft. (4 boxes)
Abstract:: The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was set up in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Edward F. Snyder Papers, 1950- (bulk)

Extent:: 3 linear ft. (3 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Edward Furnas Snyder is a Quaker lobbyist for peace, civil rights, and economic justice. He joined staff of Friends Committee on National Legislation in 1955 and retired in 1990 as Executive Secretary of the FCNL Snyder argued against legislation for a U.S. military draft and excessive military spending; worked for cultural and scientific exchanges between Soviet and U.S. citizens to lessen tensions of the Cold War. Edward and Dorothy Snyder have long been tax resisters arguing that the government was using taxpayers' money illegally to fund war in Vietnam, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

American Committee for Relief of German Children Collected Records, 1923-1924 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder)
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Daniel A. Seeger Collected Papers, 1958-2008 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2.9 linear ft. (35 linear in.; 7 boxes)
Abstract:: Seeger is best known for the 1965 Supreme Court court case regarding his conscientious objector claim without belief in a Supreme Being as grounds for C.O. status.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Lynne Shivers Papers, 1941-2015 (bulk)

Extent:: 8 linear ft. (8 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Enid Lynne Shivers was a peace activist and prominent member of Movement for a New Society, for which she organized and wrote informational materials. This collection of her personal materials is primarily composed of journals dating from the 1960s until 2014 and materials from time she spent doing peace work in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force Collected Records, 1977-1984 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.17 linear ft. (2 linear inches.)
Abstract:: Collection includes printed correspondence, flyers, newsletters, memos, booklets. Correspondents include Sam Day, Mike Jendrzejczyk and Pam Solo. This collection includes material about the Rocky Flats/Nuclear Weapons Facilities Project and other Rocky Flats related material.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Friends World Committee on Consultation records, 1926-1929, 1934-1937, 1949-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: Three separate sets of records of Friends World Conferences, the first through the third, dated 1926-1952.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Bacon family papers, 1725-1993 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 linear ft.
Abstract:: Included are letters to the Bacons from family and friends; biographical and genealogical materials; travel letters; Margaret Hope Bacon's diaries of her trip to China under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee, 1972; to Australia, 1989 and Galapagos, 1992; to Costa Rica and Friends World Committee for Consultation, 1988; and Egypt, 1990; Margaret Hope Bacon's letters; Allen Bacon's letters; stories by Norman Borchardt (M.H. Bacon's father); Francis Bacon in Germany.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

L. Hollingsworth Wood papers, 1903-1953 (inclusive)

Extent:: 21.5 linear ft. (44 boxes, 1 volume)
Abstract:: Primarily correspondence related to Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, African American education, and Quaker education. Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service Committee, and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for 26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; and a member of Haverford College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin, W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus M. Jones, Thomas Elsa Jones, Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington and many others.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Bowles family correspondence, 1922-1960 (inclusive)

Extent:: .75 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. In 1900, the Bowles moved to Japan under the auspices of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and managed the Friends School and established the Tokyo Friends Center. During World War II, the Bowles family moved to Hawaii and worked with war refugees. The Bowles family correspondence consists of correspondence from Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles to their son Gordon Townsend Bowles from 1922 to 1932 and to Gordon Townsend and Jane T. Bowles from 1932 to 1960. This correspondence is essentially family correspondence, but also includes information regarding the Bowles' Quaker relief work, their views on Quakerism and their day-to-day activities.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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