Quaker Emergency Service records, 1942-1966.

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Quaker Emergency Service records, 1942-1966.

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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.

6 folders.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 6917249

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Quaker Emergency Service Readjustment Center (New York, N.Y.)

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Spears Mobile Clinics.

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Marvel, Josiah P. (Josiah Philip), 1896-1959.

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Josiah Marvel, a Quaker, worked for the American Friends Service Committee as a relief worker during World War II. From the description of Scrapbook, 1940-1941. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 221699879 Josiah P. Marvel was a New York Quaker who worked with the AFSC in France in 1940-41. Borm in Indiana, the son of Charles and Amy J. Marvel, he moved to New York in 1929. Marvel married Elinore Jacobs Strettenheim in 1941, and was living in Washington, D.C. w...

Friends Ambulance Unit

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