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American Friends Service Committee Reference Files

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Call Number:
RG4.032
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
7.5 linear ft. (15 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], American Friends Service Committee Reference Files, RG 4/032, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1916-1944 (inclusive)
Creator:
American Friends Service Committee, Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England), Council for International Service, Friends Service Council, Société religieuse des Amis (Quakers) Assemblée de France, Deutsche Jahresversammlung (Society of Friends), Quaker International Centre (Vienna, Austria), Quaker International Centre (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Quaker International Centre (Thessalonikē, Greece), Quaker International Centre (Warsaw, Poland), Quaker International Centre (Moscow, Russia), and Quaker International Centre (Belgrade, Serbia)
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.

The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that was founded in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian victims during World War I. Today the AFSC includes people of various faiths and sponsors programs that focus on issues related to economic justice, peace-building and demilitarization, social justice, and youth in the United States, and in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. These reference files were collected and assembled by the American Friends Service Committee over many years to keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends in the years 1916-1944.

Minutes, reports, some correspondence and related papers of Quaker service agencies.

The collection is organized into 8 series. The series are:

  1. Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee
  2. Friends' Council for International Service
  3. Friends Service Council
  4. Other Relief and Related Agencies
  5. Quaker International Centres
  6. Quaker International Relief
  7. International Organizations and Conferences of Friends
  8. Quaker Yearly Meetings in Europe

For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Gift of American Friends Service Committee, 1981

A comprehensive account of service work of British Friends can be found in vols. 1 and 3 of Quaker Encounters, by John Ormerod Greenwood, published by William Sessions, Ltd., 1977-1978.

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Subject

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
2000
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

General Committee, minutes and reports, 1918-1923.
Box 1
Executive Committee, minutes and reports, 1917-1923.
Box 1
Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes and reports, 1918-1921.
Box 1
Austria and Hungary Sub-Committee, minutes and reports, 1918-1923.
Box 1
Chalons Sub-Committee, minutes, 1920-1921.
Box 2
France Sub-Committee, minutes and reports, 1918-1920.
Box 2
French Field Committee, minutes, 1917-1920.
Box 2
Germany Sub-Committee, minutes, 1919-1921.
Box 2
Holland Sub Committee, 1918-1919.
Box 2
Poland Sub-Committee, minutes, 1919-1920.
Box 2
Poland and Russia Sub-Committee, 1920-1921.
Box 2
Russia Sub-Committee, minutes, 1918-1919.
Box 2
Verdun Sub-Committee, minutes, 1918.
Box 2
Conference of Representatives of All Fields of Friends' Relief Service, Vienna, 6/3-5/1920.
Box 2
Heads of Departments, Grange-le-Comte, France, minutes, 1919-1920.
Box 2
Transport Department, Grange-le-Comte, France, minutes, 1919.
Box 2

Minutes of the Council, 1919-1927.
Box 3
Foreign Literature Board, minutes, 1919-1927.
Box 3
Students and Education Committee, minutes, 1925-1927.
Box 3
Austria Committee, minutes, 1923-1927.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Also called Vienna Sub-Committee

Central Europe Committee, minutes, 1922-1925.
Box 3
Publicity Sub-Committee, minutes, 1923-1926.
Box 3
France and Switzerland Committee, minutes and reports, 1922-1927.
Box 3
Germany Committee, minutes, 1923-1927.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Originally named Sub-Committee for Emergency Relief in Germany in 1923

Near East Committee, minutes, 1925-1927.
Box 3
Russia and Poland Committee, minutes, 1924-1927.
Box 3
Industries' Sub-Committee, minutes, 1927.
Box 3
Scandinavia Committee, minutes, 1924-1927.
Box 3

Minutes of the Council, 1927-1946.
Box 4
Conference of European Workers (London), report, 10/8-9/1938.
Box 5
Education and Students Committee, minutes, 1927-1935.
Box 5
Fund Raising Committee, minutes, 3/16/1938.
Box 5
Foreign Literature Board, minutes, 1928-1940.
Box 5
Finance Committee, minutes, 1933-1940.
Box 5
Home Field Committee, minutes, 1927-1936.
Box 5
International Centre Committee, minutes and reports, 1934, 1941-1942, 1944.
Box 5
Investments Sub-Committees, minutes, 10/1939.
Box 5
London International Center Committee, minutes, 1943.
Box 5
Post War Relief, minutes, 5/21/1941.
Box 5
Post War Service Group/Committee, 1941-1943.
Box 5
Relief Committee, minutes, 1940-1943.
Box 5
Special Fund Raising Group, minutes, 10/28/1935.
Box 5
Young Friends International Service Committee, minutes, 12/4/1934.
Box 5
Austria Committee, minutes, 1928-1930.
Box 5
Austria and South-Eastern Europe Committee, minutes, 1930-1939.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Later renamed Vienna and South-East Europe Committee

China Committee, minutes, 1927-1944, 1946.
Box 6
Shanghai Sub-Committee, minutes, 1938-1940.
Box 6
West China Sub-Committee, minutes, 1928, 1933, 1935-1936.
Box 6
Czechoslovakia Committee, minutes, 1939.
Box 6
Scope and Contents

Also called Prague Committee

Europe Committee, minutes and reports, 1940-1944.
Box 6
Far East (or China) Emergency Committee, minutes, 1937-1938.
Box 6
France and Switzerland Committee, minutes, 1927-1940.
Box 6
Germany Committee, minutes, 1927-1929.
Box 6
Germany and Holland Committee, minutes, 1929-1940.
Box 7
India Committee, minutes, 1927-1938.
Box 7
Joint China Committee, 1942.
Box 7
Madagascar Committee, 1927-1930, 1932-1944.
Box 7
Near East Committee, minutes, 1927-1930.
Box 8
Northern Europe Committee, minutes, 1939-1940.
Box 8
Pemba Committee, minutes, 1928-1940.
Box 8
Polish Relief Committee, minutes, 1939-1940.
Box 8
Russia and Poland Committee, minutes, 1927-1939.
Box 8
Industries Sub-Committee, minutes, 1928-1929.
Box 8
Russian Affairs Committee, minutes, 1932-1934.
Box 8
Scandinavia Committee, minutes, 1927-1936.
Box 8
South Africa Committee, minutes, 1928-1938.
Box 8
Spain Committee, minutes, 1936-1940.
Box 8
Syria Committee, minutes, 1928-1942.
Box 8
International Conference of Friends, Paris, 11/24-25/1931.
Box 8

Friends Ambulance Unit, minutes and reports, 1942-1943.
Box 9
Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens, minutes of General Committee, 1944.
Box 9
Friends War Victims Relief Committee, minutes, notes and reports, 1940-1942.
Box 9
Scope and Contents

Renamed Friends War Relief Service Committee in 1942

Friends War Relief Service Committee, minutes of Executive Committee, notes and reports, 1941-1943.
Box 9
Friends Relief Service Committee, minutes, 1943-1944.
Box 9
Friends Relief Service Committee, minutes of Executive Committee, 1943-1944.
Box 9
Friends Relief Service Committee, minutes and reports of miscellaneous committees, 1943-1944.
Box 9
Friends Relief Service Committee, notes and reports, 1944-1947.
Box 9
Germany Emergency Committee, minutes and reports, 1933-1942.
Box 10
Germany Emergency Committee, minutes of Executive Committee, 1938-1940.
Box 10
Industrial and Social Order Council, minutes and related papers, 1931-1934.
Box 10
Peace Committee, minutes, 1925-1939.
Box 10

Berlin Centre Committee, minutes, 1922-1924, 1933-1934.
Box 10
Centre Committee, minutes, 1926-1933, 1937.
Box 10
Field Conference, 8/1927.
Box 10
Hostel Committee, minutes, 1927-1941.
Box 10
Hostel and Center Committees, joint minutes, 1929-1941.
Box 10
Members Meeting, minutes, 1926-1940.
Box 10
Miscellaneous minutes and reports, 1926-1941.
Box 10
Geneva Centre, reports, 1936-1939.
Box 10
Unit Committee, minutes, 1929-1940.
Box 11
Special Committee for the "Service International d'Aide aux Refugees," minutes, 1934-1937.
Box 11
Service International de la Societe des Amis (Quakers), Section Francaise, minutes and other related papers, 1926-1930.
Box 11
Miscellaneous records, 1919-1941.
Box 11
Shanghai Centre Committee, minutes, 1939-1942.
Box 11
Shanghai Friends Group, minutes, 1939-1942.
Box 11
Friends Relief Mission, minutes, 1919-1920.
Box 12
Executive Committee of the Vienna Unit (or Mission), minutes, 1920-1924.
Box 12
General Committee, minutes, 1920-1922.
Box 12
Monthly Conferences, minutes, 1922-1923.
Box 12
Prison Sub-Committee, minutes, 1921-1923.
Box 13
Quaker Embassy Committee, minutes, 1920-1921.
Box 13
Vienna Centre Committee, minutes, 1924-1933.
Box 13
Miscellaneous committees and sub-committees, 1920-1921, 1923.
Box 13

American Friends Service Committee, Austrian Unit, minutes of staff, 1946.
Box 13
Conferences on International Service in Germany, 1924.
Box 13
Interfield Conference of Friends' European Relief Service, Berlin, minutes and related papers, 12/2-4/1920.
Box 13
Polish-German Conferences, minutes and reports, 1925-1927.
Box 13
Other conferences, 1922-1924.
Box 13
Emergency Relief Field Committee, minutes, 1924.
Box 13
Frankfurt Centre Committee, minutes and reports, 1924-1925.
Box 13
Frankfurt Sub-Committee, minutes and reports, 1920-1921.
Box 13
Frankfurt Depot Committee, minutes, 1924.
Box 13
Frankfurt Unit Committee, minutes, 1924-1930, 1933.
Box 13
German Mission (of the American Friends Service Committee), minutes of General Conferences, 1920-1921.
Box 13
Germany Field Committee, minutes, 1920-1923.
Box 13
Literature Sub-Committee, minutes, 1922-1923.
Box 13
International Committee in Germany, minutes, 1915-1925.
Box 14
International Secretariat, Berlin, minutes, 1927-1931, 1933-1940.
Box 14
Relief Sub-Committee, minutes, 1924-1925.
Box 14
Message Committee (of the American Friends Service Committee), minutes and related papers, 1921, 1923-1924.
Box 14
Minutes, 1927-1929.
Box 14
Committee for Help in Polish Eastern Borders (Komitet Pomocy Polskim Kresom Wschodnim, or K.P.P.K.W.), minutes, 1923-1929.
Box 14
Industry Committee of the K.P.P.K.W., minutes, 1924-1927, 1929.
Box 14
Kolpin Committee, minutes, 1924-1926.
Box 14
Poland Unit (or Mission), minutes, 1920-1922.
Box 14
Poland International Centre Committee, minutes, 1928-1929.
Box 14
Warsaw Executive Committee, minutes, 1921-1924.
Box 14
Warsaw Members Meeting, minutes, 1923.
Box 15
Miscellaneous groups, minutes, 1920-1928.
Box 15
Minutes and reports, arranged chronologically, 1916-1924.
Box 15
World Congress on Assistance and Reconstruction Work in Russia, Berlin, report (in German), 6/17/1923.
Box 15
Minutes and reports (mostly of American Friends Service Committee's Unit 7), 1919-1921.
Box 15

Friends International Conferences, minutes and reports, 1932, 1934, 1936.
Box 15
Conference of All Friends, London, 1920-1921.
Box 15
Friends World Committee for Consultation, minutes, 1938.
Box 15

France Yearly Meeting, minutes and reports, 1934-1941.
Box 15
German Yearly Meeting, minutes, 1927, 1932-1934.
Box 15

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