Smith College Relief Unit records, 1917-1997 bulk 1917-1929.

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Smith College Relief Unit records, 1917-1997 bulk 1917-1929.

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The records include directors' reports, financial information, letters, journals, photographs and ablums, news clippings, correspondence with the War Service Board and information about the reconstruction. Substantial correspondence, diaries and/or other documents by the following are included in the records: Harriet Boyd Hawes, Alice Weld Tallant, Hannah Dunlop Andrews, Marie Leonie Wolfs, Anne McClallan Chapin, Elizabeth Biddlecome, Dorothy Sears Ainsworth, Elizabeth Howe Bliss, Elizabeth Mabel Dana, Catherine Baker Hooper, Ruth Louise Gaines, Clara Greenborough, Georgia W. Read, Mary Goodman Stevenson, Frances Wadsworth Valentine and Dorothy A. Young.

9.7 linear ft. (25 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7652081

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...

Valentine, Frances Wadsworth.

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Read, Georgia Willis

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Georgia Willis Read, historian and author, was the daughter of Dr. George Willis Read, who led a company across the plains in 1850 to California. Georgia attended Smith College and served with the Smith College Relief Unit in France during World War I. She published MeĢdoc in the Moor in 1914 and edited A pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read, 1819-1880: the record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri to Hangtown, California in 1927. In 1944, she and Ruth Gaines edited Gold rush: the ...

Greenborough, Clara.

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Wolfs, Marie Leonie.

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Biddlecome, Elizabeth.

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Gaines, Ruth Louise, 1877-

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Young, Dorothy A., 1937-

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Andrews, Hannah Dunlop.

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Chapin, Anne McClallan.

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Bliss, Elizabeth T.

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Hawes, Harriet Boyd, 1871-1945

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Smith College, Class of 1892. Smith College, M.A., 1901. Taught Greek archaeology at Smith College, 1900-1906. Married Charles Henry Hawes, 1906. Director, Smith College Relief Unit in France, 1917-1918. Weslesley College, lecturer in Ancient Art, 1920-1936. From the description of Harriet Boyd Hawes papers, 1871-1945. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 51171637 Harriet Boyd Hawes was born on October 11, 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was educated at the P...

Stevenson, Mary Goodman.

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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...

Ainsworth, Dorothy S. (Dorothy Sears), 1894-1976

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Dorothy Sears Ainsworth was a Professor and Director of Physical Education at Smith College. From the description of Dorothy Sears Ainsworth Papers, 1916-1975 (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 425740666 ...

Dana, Elizabeth Mabel, 1882-1960

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