Babb, Nancy J. (Nancy Jones), 1884-1948
Variant namesAmerican Relief Administration and American Friends Service Committee relief worker in Russia, 1917-1925.
From the description of Nancy Babb papers, 1917-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866966
Nancy J. Babb; Nancy Jones Babb, b. 1884 in Virginia, daughter of Enoch and Judith Babb; member of the Society of Friends (Quakers); graduated from Westtown School, near Philadelphia; served with the American Friends Service Committee and the American Red Cross in Russia and Siberia, 1917-1919, 1921-1928, where she administered 20,000 square miles of territory with two other Quaker women; assisted with famine and medical relief under desperate conditions in which she contracted typhoid; in 1921 she worked with Herbert Hoover's American Relief Administration; in gratitude for her work, Russian peasants called her the "little czar of Totskoe" for risking her life to help them; after her service abroad she returned to live in Philadelphia, her home for the rest of her life, where she lectured and worked and was affiliated with many humanitarian, social and political organizations including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; active with the Twelfth Street Friends Meeting in Philadelphia; in 1938, she established the National Circulating Library of Student's Peace Posters, an organization that sponsored annual contests for children and young adults to create posters against war and on peace topics; d. 1948 in Philadelphia. She wrote a chapter, "Fighting Famine" about her experiences in Russia in the book Quaker Adventures: Experiences of Twenty-Three Adventurers in International Understanding (New York: F.H. Revell, 1928).
From the description of Nancy J. Babb collected papers, 1921-1949. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 455414154
Biographical/Historical Note
American Relief Administration and American Friends Service Committee relief worker in Russia, 1917-1925.
From the guide to the Nancy Babb papers, 1917-1925., (Hoover Institution Archives)
| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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| creatorOf | Babb, Nancy J. (Nancy Jones), 1884-1948. Nancy Babb papers, 1917-1925. | Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library | |
| referencedIn | National Circulating Library of Students' Peace Posters. National Circulating Library of Students' Peace Posters collection, 1936-1948. | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| creatorOf | Babb, Nancy J. (Nancy Jones), 1884-1948. Nancy J. Babb collected papers, 1921-1949. | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| creatorOf | Nancy Babb papers, 1917-1925. | Hoover Institution Archives |
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| associatedWith | American Friends Service Committee. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | American Relief Administration. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | National Circulating Library of Students' Peace Posters. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Swarthmore College. Peace Collection. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953, | person |
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| Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Civilian relief. | |||
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| Society of Friends |
| International relief |
| International relief |
| Quaker women |
| Reconstruction (1914-1939) |
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Person
Birth 1884
Death 1948
