Alice Weld Tallant Papers 1896-1958

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Alice Weld Tallant Papers 1896-1958

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Physician, Settlement house worker, Relief worker, World War I. Small collection related to Tallant's medical career at Joy Settlement and St. Martha's House, Philadelphia, and in France during World War I.

1 box; (.5 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6322801

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Tallant, Alice Weld, 1875-1958

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Alice Weld Tallant in uniform in Coulommier, France, 1918 Alice Weld Tallant was born in Boston on 14 July 1875. She attended private schools, and earned her A.B. from Smith College in 1897 and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1902. She did graduate work at the hospital of the New York Lying-In Society and later at the Charite Hospital in Berlin. She interned and assisted at New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston from 1902 to 1905. Tallant worked as "Examin...

Smith College Relief Unit

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The Smith College Relief Unit was founded in 1917 by Harriet Boyd Hawes (1892) to bring relief to those areas of France that were most devastated during the First World War. With a pledge of $30,000 from alumnae, Hawes set off with seventeen other Smith graduates for France. Their base was the village of Grecourt in the Somme Valley. They provided relief supplies and started the process of rebuilding. In March 1918 a German offensive forced them to leave Grecourt and move to Beauvais. By 1918 th...