Unitarian Service Committee. Medical Missions. Records, 1942-1967.

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Unitarian Service Committee. Medical Missions. Records, 1942-1967.

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This collection includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, clippings, applications, financial records, and photographs concerning the medical missions conducted by the Unitarian Service Committee. The bulk of the collection dates from 1948 to 1955 and focuses most heavily on material related to Europe. The collection also includes administrative records such as Board of Directors minutes and fundraising records which relate to the work of the medical missions.

82 boxes (35 linear feet)

Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7579652

Harvard University, Divinity School Library

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Unitarian Service Committee. Medical Missions.

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The Unitarian Service Committee was formed as a standing committee of the American Unitarian Association in May 1940. Its purpose was to be a committee to investigate opportunities both in America and abroad for humanitarian service. During and after World War II, the Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied countries, allowing many of them to find passage to the United States. The present-day Unitarian Universalist Service Committee continues to endeavor to ad...

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