Subject: World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Society of Friends - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

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]

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:: Collection contains pamphlets, mostly undated, issued by the Friends' Relief Committee ca. 1921-1922.

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 folder.)
Abstract:: Collection consists of pamphlets and correspondence, including one 1943 letter which documents, as part of the letterhead, the name change from Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee to Friends War Relief Service: "Friends War Relief Service, incorporating F.W.V.R.C. and Civilian Relief Section of F.A.U." [Friends Ambulance Unit].

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]

Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (4 folders.))
Abstract:: The collection is organized into four folders: the group's general records, including the initial plan and charter; the records of the Civilian Readjustment Committee, the post-war arm of the group; information on a project in Brazil; and writings by people outside the group. Of interest are transcript talks given by Peter F. Amoroso of the New York Department of Correction, and Austin H. MacCormick of the Osborne Association. There is also a carbon copy, attributed to John S. Gough, of the Preamble and Constitution of the Spears Mobile Clinics, a medical service to the people of Syria and Lebanon.

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

Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (6 folders.))
Abstract:: Collection contains primarily Marvel's files on the wartime projects of the Quaker Emergency Service, 1942-1945, and its postwar Civilian Readjustment Committee, including typed minutes, 1947-1961. Also includes papers concerning the Spears Mobile Clinic which operated in Syria with the help of the Friends Ambulance Unit, including a typescript describing the mission; the dispersal of French funds, 1954-1958, raised by Mme. de la Noue for her Centre Guynemer and deposited with the Quaker Emergency Service in 1948; and the file of Katherine Cook, secretary, concerning the distribution of Service funds in 1961 and 1966.

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

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