Friends International Service reference files, 1916-1944.

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Friends International Service reference files, 1916-1944.

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Contains the reference files collected and assembled by American Friends Service Committee keep it informed of parallel service work by British and Irish Friends in the years 1916-1944. Includes minutes, reports, and related papers of Friends Centres in Austria, Germany, France, Poland, Russia and Serbia, 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. Also includes some records of France Yearly Meeting and the Yearly Meeting of Friends in Germany.

15 boxes ; 7.5 linear feet.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7490169

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