%eadnotat; ]> 4032afre An Inventory of the American Friends Service Committee Reference Files, 1916-1944 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG American Friends Service Committee Reference Files, 1916-1944 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. ca. 1981 Descriptive Summary Reference Files, 1916-1944 RG 4/032 American Friends Service Committee 15 boxes; 7.5 linear feet Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.

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

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399

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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

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.

SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

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

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

Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee Friends' Council for International Service Friends Service Council Other Relief and Related Agencies Quaker International Centres Quaker International Relief International Organizations and Conferences of Friends Quaker Yearly Meetings in Europe

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

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Gift of American Friends Service Committee, 1981

Access

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], American Friends Service Committee Reference Files, RG 4/032, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Related Material

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.

SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

American Friends Service Committee -- Archives Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee (London, England) Friends' Council for International Service Friends Service Council Society of Friends -- Germany Society of Friends -- France Society of Friends -- Austria Society of Friends -- Great Britain Society of Friends -- Switzerland Society of Friends -- Shanghai Society of Friends -- Serbia Society of Friends -- War work -- World War, 1914-1918 Society of Friends -- War work -- World War, 1939-1945 Société religieuse des Amis (Quakers) Assemblée de France Religiöse Gesellschaft der Freunde (Quäker) American Friends Service Committee Friends' International Centre (Vienna, Austria) Friends' International Centre (Frankfurt, Germany) Friends' International Centre (Salonika, Greece) Friends' International Centre (Warsaw, Poland) Friends' International Centre (Russia) Friends' International Centre (Serbia) Friends' Council for International Service Friends Service Council DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

Ser. 1. Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee Administrative committees: General Committee, minutes and reports 1918-1923 1 Executive Committee, minutes and reports 1917-1923 1 Finance and General Purposes Committee minutes and reports 1918-1921 1 Area committees and sub-committees: 1 Austria and Hungary Sub-Committee, minutes and reports 1918-1923 1 Chalons Sub-Committee, minutes 1920-1921 2 France Sub-Committee, minutes and reports 1918-1920 2 French Field Committee, minutes 1917-1920 2 Germany Sub-Committee, minutes 1919-1921 2 Holland Sub Committee 1918-1919 2 Poland Sub-Committee, minutes 1919-1920 2 Poland and Russia Sub-Committee 1920-1921 2 Russia Sub-Committee, minutes 1918-1919 2 Verdun Sub-Committee, minutes 1918 2 Other agency records Conference of Representatives of All Fields of Friends' Relief Service, Vienna 6/3-5/1920 2 Heads of Departments, Grange-le-Comte, France, minutes 1919-1920 2 Transport Department, Grange-le-Comte, France, minutes 1919 2 Ser. 2. Friends' Council for International Service Minutes of the Council 1919-1927 3 Administrative committees: Foreign Literature Board, minutes 1919-1927 3 Students and Education Committee, minutes 1925-1927 3 Area committees and sub-committees: Austria Committee, minutes 1923-1927 3

Also called Vienna Sub-Committee

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

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

Near East Committee, minutes 1925-1927 3 Russia and Poland Committee, minutes 1924-1927 3 Industries' Sub-Committee, minutes 1927 3 Scandinavia Committee, minutes 1924-1927 3 Ser. 3. Friends Service Council Minutes of the Council 1927-1946 4 Administrative committees: Conference of European Workers (London), report 10/8-9/1938 5 Education and Students Committee, minutes 1927-1935 5 Fund Raising Committee, minutes 3/16/1938 5 Foreign Literature Board, minutes 1928-1940 5 Finance Committee, minutes 1933-1940 5 Home Field Committee, minutes 1927-1936 5 International Centre Committee, minutes and reports 1934, 1941-1942, 1944 5 Investments Sub-Committees, minutes 10/1939 5 London International Center Committee, minutes 1943 5 Post War Relief, minutes 5/21/1941 5 Post War Service Group/Committee 1941-1943 5 Relief Committee, minutes 1940-1943 5 Special Fund Raising Group, minutes 10/28/1935 5 Young Friends International Service Committee, minutes 12/4/1934 5 Area committees and sub-committees Austria Committee, minutes 1928-1930 5 Austria and South-Eastern Europe Committee, minutes 1930-1939 5

Later renamed Vienna and South-East Europe Committee

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

Also called Prague Committee

Europe Committee, minutes and reports 1940-1944 6 Far East (or China) Emergency Committee, minutes 1937-1938 6 France and Switzerland Committee, minutes 1927-1940 6 Germany Committee, minutes 1927-1929 6 Germany and Holland Committee, minutes 1929-1940 7 India Committee, minutes 1927-1938 7 Joint China Committee 1942 7 Madagascar Committee 1927-1930, 1932-1944 7 Near East Committee, minutes 1927-1930 8 Northern Europe Committee, minutes 1939-1940 8 Pemba Committee, minutes 1928-1940 8 Polish Relief Committee, minutes 1939-1940 8 Russia and Poland Committee, minutes 1927-1939 8 Industries Sub-Committee, minutes 1928-1929 8 Russian Affairs Committee, minutes 1932-1934 8 Scandinavia Committee, minutes 1927-1936 8 South Africa Committee, minutes 1928-1938 8 Spain Committee, minutes 1936-1940 8 Syria Committee, minutes 1928-1942 8 Other records: International Conference of Friends, Paris 11/24-25/1931 8 Ser. 4. Other Relief Agencies Friends Ambulance Unit, minutes and reports 1942-1943 9 Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens, minutes of General Committee 1944 9 Friends War Victims Relief Committee, minutes, notes and reports 1940-1942 9

Renamed Friends War Relief Service Committee in 1942

Friends War Relief Service Committee, minutes of Executive Committee, notes and reports 1941-1943 9 Friends Relief Service Committee, minutes 1943-1944 9 Friends Relief Service Committee, minutes of Executive Committee 1943-1944 9 Friends Relief Service Committee, minutes and reports of miscellaneous committees 1943-1944 9 Friends Relief Service Committee, notes and reports 1944-1947 9 Germany Emergency Committee, minutes and reports 1933-1942 10 Germany Emergency Committee, minutes of Executive Committee 1938-1940 10 Industrial and Social Order Council, minutes and related papers 1931-1934 10 Peace Committee, minutes 1925-1939 10 Ser. 5. Quaker International Centres Berlin: Berlin Centre Committee, minutes 1922-1924, 1933-1934 10 Geneva: Centre Committee, minutes 1926-1933, 1937 10 Field Conference 8/1927 10 Hostel Committee, minutes 1927-1941 10 Hostel and Center Committees, joint minutes 1929-1941 10 Members Meeting, minutes 1926-1940 10 Miscellaneous minutes and reports 1926-1941 10 Geneva Centre, reports 1936-1939 10 Paris (Centre Quaker de Paris): Unit Committee, minutes 1929-1940 11 Special Committee for the “Service International d'Aide aux Refugees,” minutes 1934-1937 11 Service International de la Societe des Amis (Quakers), Section Francaise, minutes and other related papers 1926-1930 11 Miscellaneous records 1919-1941 11 Shanghai: Shanghai Centre Committee, minutes 1939-1942 11 Shanghai Friends Group, minutes 1939-1942 11 Vienna: Friends Relief Mission, minutes 1919-1920 12 Executive Committee of the Vienna Unit (or Mission), minutes 1920-1924 12 General Committee, minutes 1920-1922 12 Monthly Conferences, minutes 1922-1923 12 Prison Sub-Committee, minutes 1921-1923 13 Quaker Embassy Committee, minutes 1920-1921 13 Vienna Centre Committee, minutes 1924-1933 13 Miscellaneous committees and sub-committees 1920-1921, 1923 13 Ser. 6 Quaker International Relief Austria: American Friends Service Committee, Austrian Unit, minutes of staff 1946 13 Germany: Conferences on International Service in Germany 1924 13 Interfield Conference of Friends' European Relief Service, Berlin, minutes and related papers 12/2-4/1920 13 Polish-German Conferences, minutes and reports 1925-1927 13 Other conferences 1922-1924 13 Emergency Relief Field Committee, minutes 1924 13 Frankfurt Centre Committee, minutes and reports 1924-1925 13 Frankfurt Sub-Committee, minutes and reports 1920-1921 13 Frankfurt Depot Committee, minutes 1924 13 Frankfurt Unit Committee, minutes 1924-1930, 1933 13 German Mission (of the American Friends Service Committee), minutes of General Conferences 1920-1921 13 Germany Field Committee, minutes 1920-1923 13 Literature Sub-Committee, minutes 1922-1923 13 International Committee in Germany, minutes 1915-1925 14 International Secretariat, Berlin, minutes 1927-1931, 1933-1940 14 Relief Sub-Committee, minutes 1924-1925 14 Message Committee (of the American Friends Service Committee), minutes and related papers 1921, 1923-1924 14 Greece: Minutes 1927-1929 14 Poland: Committee for Help in Polish Eastern Borders (Komitet Pomocy Polskim Kresom Wschodnim, or K.P.P.K.W.), minutes 1923-1929 14 Industry Committee of the K.P.P.K.W., minutes 1924-1927, 1929 14 Kolpin Committee, minutes 1924-1926 14 Poland Unit (or Mission), minutes 1920-1922 14 Poland International Centre Committee, minutes 1928-1929 14 Warsaw Executive Committee, minutes 1921-1924 14 Warsaw Members Meeting, minutes 1923 15 Miscellaneous groups, minutes 1920-1928 15 Russia: Minutes and reports, arranged chronologically 1916-1924 15 World Congress on Assistance and Reconstruction Work in Russia, Berlin, report (in German) 6/17/1923 15 Serbia: Minutes and reports (mostly of American Friends Service Committee's Unit 7) 1919-1921 15 Ser. 7. International Organizations and Conferences of Friends Friends International Conferences, minutes and reports 1932, 1934, 1936 15 Conference of All Friends, London 1920-1921 15 Friends World Committee for Consultation, minutes 1938 15 Ser. 8 Quaker Yearly Meetings in Europe France Yearly Meeting, minutes and reports 1934-1941 15 German Yearly Meeting, minutes 1927, 1932-1934 15