Relief Work materials in Haverford College Special Collections (HC)

Rich worked for the AFSC and traveled to Spain in 1938 as part of their relief efforts. The collection includes his diary from that trip.

Elizabeth Marsh Jensen worked for the AFSC in Mexico, attempting to evacuate refugees of the Spanish Civil War.

Wood was a member of the Spanish Child Welfare Association of America, which brought relief to children during the Spanish Civil War.

Jones was a Quaker businessman who traveled to Spain in December 1936.

Ricart was a pacifist who was in Spain when the war broke out in 1936; he later worked with Quaker relief organizations during the war.

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Published by the American Friends Service Committee.

June 24, Aug. 12, Aug. 29, 1937

Pamphlet describing the feeding program in Catalonia.

By S. Emily Parker, with the American Friends' service committee in Spain (February 1938-May 1939), representative for the United Christian youth movement

"You can't say no to hungry children..." proclaims this pamphlet from the Friends Service Council in London.

Dan West's report to the Committee on Spain, 1938.

A review of Quaker work in Spain throughout the wartime period, published in 1941.

Pamphlet describing the first sixth months of Quaker relief efforts in Spain.

Written by Norma Jacob, who went to Spain in 1936 to begin relief work there.

A 1939 pamphlet from Friends Service Council in London encouraging continued help for Spain despite political changes.

Encourages help in the third winter of the war, 1938.

Personal narrative published by the Spanish Child Feeding Mission of the AFSC

From 1961 to 1963 Huntington traveled to Algeria to provide relief assistance during the war for independence. Materials in the collection from this period include letters and photographs.

Rhoads worked with the AFSC in Tunisia during the conflict with France in 1960 and 1961.

Suggests that the famine is the fault of land distribution in Ireland.

1847 correspondence from the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends (Dublin).

This broadside was published by Philadelphia Quakers.

"A statement of our receipts and issues, in money and food, from the time of our appointment, in Eleventh month, 1846, to the 1st of Fifth month, 1848" from the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends.

An 1846 "Address of the Committee to the members of the Society of Friends in Ireland"

This pamphlet, in the form of a letter, was written by James Tuke, in the autumn of 1847, and addressed to the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, Dublin.

Covers the years 1846 and 1847.

Includes materials from the Central Relief Committee of Society of Friends, Dublin, from 1847.