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Emma Chandler MacClelland Papers, 1918-1919 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:
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 activities in Brittany, Bordeaux, and other locations. Also includes photographs of her trip.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Louis W. Schneider Papers, 1933-1941 (inclusive)

Extent:
2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Abstract:
Louis W. Schneider (1915-2012) worked for the American Friends Service Commiittee for more than four decades and served as Executive Secretary from 1974-1980. His Papers include notes, diaries, speeches, and writings, as well as publications by American Friends Services Committee.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey) Thomas Papers, 1914-1933 (inclusive)

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0.75 linear ft. (2 boxes)
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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 biographical material, correspondence (1918-1933), speeches and writings relating to his work with the AFSC and as a pastor in Quaker communities. Topics covered include peace, civil liberties, social service, prisons, and relief activities in Russia in 1922, as well as his Ph.D. dissertation, "the Social Service of Quakerism."

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Margaret E. Jones Papers, 1937-1969 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
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Margaret E. Jones (1895-1984), daughter of William B. and Phebe Jones, was a birthright Quaker member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in New Jersey. She was involved with the American Friends Service Committee for many years, first as a staff member, then serving on the Board of Directors. The collection contains scrapbooks kept by Margaret E. Jones while she was in Europe involved in relief work in 1933 and again from 1958-1959. Includes a number of photographs of places and people, some identified, and postcards, including one from Anna Brinton.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Gilbert White AFSC papers, 1927-1947 (inclusive)

Extent:
1.5 linear ft. (3 document boxes)
Abstract:
Some papers of Gilbert F. White (1911-2006), a geographer and president of Haverford College, relating to some of his experiences serving the American Friends Service Committee during World War II and letters received while president of the college.

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

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American Friends Service Committee Reference Files, 1916-1944 (inclusive)

Extent:
7.5 linear ft. (15 boxes)
Abstract:
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.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Rebecca Timbres Clark Papers, 1853-1999 [bulk 1920-1990] (inclusive)

Extent:
18 linear ft. (35 boxes)
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Rebecca Timbres Clark (1896-2000) was a Quaker nurse and social worker. She and her first husband, Harry Garland Timbres (1899-1937), performed relief work under the auspices of the AFSC in Eastern Europe in 1921-22 and worked with Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal, India, in 1931-34. In 1936-1937, the couple worked in the malaria unit in Soviet Russia. After Harry Timbres' death, Rebecca returned to the U.S. She married Edgar Sydenham Clark (1885-1961) on July 2, 1943, and the couple moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1947, where Rebecca worked as a medical social worker. The collection contains extensive correspondence, journals (1913-1989), biographical data, articles, speeches, reviews, poetry, pictures, and memorabilia. Correspondents include Charles Freer Andrews, Rabindranath Tagore, and Horace Alexander.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Robert Hoopes Maris Papers, 1918-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:
Robert Hoopes Maris (1890-1975) was a Quaker dentist who served with the American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I.. The collection contains chiefly correspondence with his family written while Maris was serving as a dentist with American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I. Also a photograph album and other papers.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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James Morgan Read Papers, 1940-1987 (inclusive)

Extent:
6 linear ft. (12 boxes)
Abstract:
James Morgan Read (1908-1985) was a Quaker and president of Wilmington College from 1960-69. He also served as the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner from 1951-60, and was a vice president of the Charles F. Kettering Foundation from 1969 until his retirement in 1974. The bulk of the collection documents James Read's work as a consultant after 1974. His diaries date from his association with Wilmington College. Areas of particular interest include the establishment of Soviet-American dialogue and the Dartmouth and Soviet-American Writers Conferences, U.S./Canadian relations and the Lester B. Pearson Conference, the American Friends Service Committee, and the U.N. (non-governmental organizations).

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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Ernest Votaw Family Papers, 1913-1929 (inclusive)

Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:
Ernest Votaw (1894-1988) was the Quaker administrator of a child feeding program in Germany in 1919-1922. The collection contains reports and related materials (some in German) of the Friends Feeding Mission, 1910-1923, other activities of the American Friends Service Committee, and reference material collected by Ernest Votaw in post-war Germany concerning jail conditions and other social problems. The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and four articles written by Ernest Votaw's father, Albert H. Votaw, presumably for publication in a Quaker periodical. Included is his account of Yearly Meetings in Richmond, Indiana, reminiscences of Indiana Friends, and a discussion on the subject of singing in meeting.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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