Papers of Helen Elizabeth Tank, 1925-2006 (inclusive).

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Papers of Helen Elizabeth Tank, 1925-2006 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/637627078

Collection includes diaries and typed transcripts of diaries, 1925-2006; correspondence and typed transcripts of correspondence, 1930s-2006; and postcards, photographs, etc., from her travels.

16 linear ft. (16 cartons)

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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American College for Girls (Istanbul, Turkey)

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The American College for Girls was an outgrowth of an educational experiment called The Home School founded in 1871 in Istanbul by the Woman's Board of Missions and a group of women educators from Boston. Under the leadership of May Mills Patrick, and with the support of Sarah L. Bowker, Caroline Borden and other Boston women, the school was granted an act of incorporation as an educational institution in 1890 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Home School had been gradually ...

Russell Sage College

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Tank, Helen Elizabeth, 1910-2007.

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Helen (Betty) Elizabeth Tank was born in Chatham, New York, the daughter of Stella Bayley and Morton R. Tank. She graduated from Russell Sage College in Troy, New York (B.A. 1931), attended Connecticut State College, and earned a master's degree from Columbia University. While in England on a walking tour, she was stranded by the outbreak of World War II, and in 1940 she was hired as a housemother at the American College for Girls in Istanbul, Turkey, where she remained for three years. During t...