Ruby Winslow Linn papers, 1900-1988.

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Ruby Winslow Linn papers, 1900-1988.

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Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Ruby (Winslow) Linn, U.S. Army dietician, pertaining to her education at Simmons College (Boston, Mass., 1928-32), Walter Reed Hospital (Washington, D.C., 1932-33), Columbia University (New York, N.Y., 1950-51), and other institutions; along with official U.S. Army records of her service and unofficial Army papers and other materials documenting her career (1932-64) as a dietician and food service specialist in the Army Medical Specialist Corps (AMSC) at various U.S. Army hospitals. A few genealogical records for the Linn and Winslow families are included. Also, bound volumes including diaries and scrapbooks of Ruby Linn, 1921-84; diaries, scrapbooks, and birthday record books kept by her mother Lena (Macomber) Winslow, 1916-40; and a diary kept by her grandmother Mary (Pierce) Macomber.

4 cartons and 1 oversize box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Simmons College (Boston, Mass.)

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

United States. Army Medical Specialist Corps

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Winslow family.

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Linn family.

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Linn, Ruby Zillah Winslow, 1910-

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Winslow, Lena Bordon Macomber, 1833-1970.

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Walter Reed Army Hospital (Washington, D.C.)

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Macomber, Mary Pierce.

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