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American Friends Service Committee Reference Files

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

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.

Organization
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

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

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

Also called Vienna Sub-Committee

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

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

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

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

Later renamed Vienna and South-East Europe Committee

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

Also called Prague Committee

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

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

Renamed Friends War Relief Service Committee in 1942

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

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

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

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

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

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