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Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles Collected Papers
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
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Ward C. Miles; b. 1922; raised a Quaker; conscientious objector to World War II; assigned to Byberry State Hospital (Philadelphia, PA); married Alice Calder; became a physician after the war.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is not the official repository for the papers of Ward C. Miles and Alice Calder Miles.
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- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Conscientious Objectors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- Sources
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- Mental health services -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- Psychiatric aides -- Training of -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources
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- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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