Alice Weld Tallant papers, 1896-1958.

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Alice Weld Tallant papers, 1896-1958.

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Papers include a small amount of material related to her medical career after graduation from Johns Hopkins (1902), at Joy Settlement and St. Martha's House, Philadelphia; and more extensive documentation of her work in France during World War I, both as Director of Smith College Relief Unit, and later in a French Army Hospital. Also included are personal letters, biographical information, photographs, and tributes from French government and citizens.

.5 linear ft. (1 box and oversized items)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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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...

Tallant, Alice Weld, 1875-

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Physician; Settlement house worker; Relief worker, World War I. Born Boston, 1875; A.B. Smith College, 1897; M.D. Johns Hopkins, 1902; Professor of Obstetrics at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and Obstetrician-in-Chief at College Hospital, 1905-23; and obstetrician at Philadelphia General Hospital, 1922-28. Director of Smith College Relief Unit in France during in World War I; and served in French army hospital. Awarded Croix de Guerre, 1918. Returned to practice obstetrics in Phila...