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Sophia Smith Collection - World War I

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WAR SERVICE 1914 - 18 Collection Description
1) War On Campus (box 130)

Activities on Campus
French Army Band
Liberty Loan Parade, April 20, 1918
Mechanic's Unit
Nurses' Aides
Peace Day Parade, November 11, 1918
Red Cross
Songs
Student War Board (includes pamphlet "war Activities at Smith"
Surgical Dressings, Army Nurse Corps -Nov 1917-Feb 1918
--- Mar - April 1918
--- May 1918-Feb 1919
Surgical Dressings, Financial (ledger) see oversize box 16
Surgical Dressings, Red Cross -- Correspondence Feb 1918-May
. -- Reports 1918-19
Surgical Dressings - Reports to President -
Women in War Work
Womens Land Unit
Womens Land Unit-Photographs
Womens Peace Party
YMCA Unit

2) War Service Board A - F (box 131)
-- Correspondence, June - Dec 1917
-- Jan - June 1918
-- Jan - June 1919
-- July - Dec 1919
-- Jan - Aug 1920
-- Sept 1920 - Aug 1922
-- Sept 1922 - Aug 1924
-- Sept 1924 - Aug 1929

-- Correspondence - Cables .
-- Financial Records -- Alumnae Assoc. Fund Raising

-- Audits May 1920 - June 1930
3) War Service Board F - Z (box 132)
-- Financial Reports -- Disbursements June - Dec 1918
-- -- Ledgers (3), Gifts etc.
-- -- Receipts Dec 1918 - Oct 19-19
-- -- SCRU Reports to War Service Board
-- Honor Roll -
-- Personnel Committee
-- Personnel List
-- Record Book
-- Scholarship .
-- Smith College Relief Unit, general

4) Smith College Relief Unit, General and History (box 133)

-- Organization, general
-- American Fund for French Wounded affiliation
-- Chronology

5) Smith College Relief Unit, Financial Records (box 134)
-- Account with Morgan, Harjes and Co. 1919-21
-- Financial Statements -- Aug 1917 - Feb 1921

-- -- Aug 1917 - Feb 1921 (ledger)
-- -- June 1922 - May 1930
-- -- June 1918 - May 1920 (ledger)
-- -- May 1920 - June 1929 (ledger)

6) SCRU - Directors, Hawes, Tallant and Andrews (box 135) Aug 1917 -- Dec 1918
-- Hawes, Harriet (Boyd) 1892 -- Corr and notes,Aug - Sept 1917

-- -- Photographs
-- Tallant, Alice Weld 1897 -- Corr and notes, Oct 1917 - Jan 1918
-- -- Corr with Japan Smith Club
-- -- Corr with War Service Board
-- -- Photographs and news clippings
-- -- Reports

-- Andrews, Hannah (Dunlop) 1904

-- -- Corr Jan - Aug 1918
-- -- Corr Sept - Nov 1918
-- -- Corr Dec 1918
-- -- Corr to Family 1917 - 18
-- -- Corr to War Service Board,-- Jan - Mar 1918
-- -- -- April 1918
-- -- -- May - Aug 1918
-- -- -- Sept - Dec 1918
-- Departments, Reports
-- Health Service
-- Red Cross
-- Red Cross, Reports to

7) SCRU - Directors, Wolfs, Marie Leonie 1908 A - D (box 136)
Jan - July 1919
-- Agriculture
-- Agriculture, Reports
-- Appeals for Civilian Aid
-- Automobiles
-- Barracks
-- Children (Dept. Report)
-- Correspondence -- Jan - Mar 1919
-- -- April - May 1919
-- -- w. Emerson, Ellen T. - June - Sept 1915
-- -- To Family - Aug - Dec 1917
-- -- To Family - 1918
-- -- To Family - Jan - July 1919
-- -- To War Service Board -- April 1918
-- -- -- Jan - May 1919
-- -- -- June - Aug 1919
-- Diaries - 1914, 1917, 1919
-- Diary 1918 (Typescript)
-- Dinner July 15, 1919 (in her.honor)

8) SCRU - Directors, Wolfs, Marie -Leonie 1908 G - Z (box 137) Jan - July 1919
-- Guest Books
-- Health Service
-- Libraries
-- Map of France
-- Medals and Arm Band
-- Miscellaneous
-- Official Documents
-- Photograph Album
-- Photographs
-- Red Cross
-- Schools
-- Social Services
-- Supplies, general
-- Supplies --clothing
-- Treasurer's Reports
-- War Indemnity

9) SCRU - Directors, Chapin, Anne McClallan 1904 A - F (box 138) Aug 1919 - May 1920
-- Agriculture
-- -- Fruit Trees
-- Alumnae Trustee
-- Automobiles
-- Barracks -- Committee on Devastated Regions
-- Correspondence -- July - Oct 1919
-- -- Nov - Dec 1919
-- -- Jan - Feb 1920
-- -- March 1920
-- -- April - May,1920
-- -- To Family- Mar - Aug 1918
-- -- re Gaines, Ruth
-- -- Thank you letters
-- -- To War Service Board -- Sept 1917 - Mar 1918
-- -- -- Mar - Aug 1918
-- -- -- Aug - Dec 1919
-- -- -- Jan - May 1920
-- Films

10) SCRU - Directors, Chapin, Anne McClallan 1904 H - Z (box 139) Aug 1919 - May 1920
-- Health Service - Aug - Dec 1919
-- -- Jan - June 1920
-- -- Dentist -
-- Inhabitants of SCRU Village, list
-- Medal of Honor
-- Official Documents
-- Photographs
-- Questionnaire
-- Schools
-- Supplies

11) SCRU - Individuals A - D (misc) (box 140)
-- Andrus, Ida Bourne 1910
-- Ashley, Margaret 1914
-- Bannon, Charlotte 1895
-- Bennett, Marion 1916
-- -- photographs
-- Biddlecome, Elizabeth 1904 -- Corr to War Service Board
-- -- Documents
-- -- Photographs -
-- -- Photograph Album
-- Brown, Dorothy Helen 1913 -- Corr to War Service Board
-- -- Photographs
-- Carr, Marjorie Leigh 1909
-- Clapp, Marie Antoinette 1912 -- Corr to Family -- Aug - Nov
-- -- -- Dec 1919 - Apr 1920
-- -- Photographs
-- Clark, Mary
-- Clement, Fannie Fletcher 1903
-- Clement, Fannie Fletcher 1903 -- Photographs

12) SCRU - Individuals, Ainsworth, Dorothy Sears 1916 (box 141)
-- Correspondence to Family -- Jan - Apr 1919
-- -- May - July 1919 -
-- -- Aug - Oct 1919 -
-- -- Nov 1919 - Jan 1920:
. -- -- May-- July 1923.
-- -- Aug - Sept 1923
-- Official Papers
-- Photographs

13) SCRU - Individuals, Bliss, Elizabeth Howe 1908 (box 142)
-- Correspondence to Mother
-- Correspondence to Lange, Blanche - Aug-Sept 1917
-- -- Oct 1917 - Mar 1918
-- -- Apr-Sept 1918
-- -- Nov 1918
-- Correspondence to Thayer, Helen (Rand) 1884
-- Correspondence 1966 re: War Service (to Dan and Patricia)
-- Correspondence miscellaneous
-- Diaries Aug 1917 - Sept 1918
-- Miscellaneous
-- Official papers
-- Photographs
-- Red Cross

14) SCRU - Individuals Dana, Elizabeth Mabel 1904 (box 143)
-- Chevrons and Service Insignia
-- Correspondence to parents
-- Correspondence from Mitchell, Isobel
-- Correspondence from Pershing, John J.
-- Correspondence General
-- Financial Records
-- Official papers
-- Posters and Guidebooks
-- Programs
-- Publications - Clippings
-- Publications - Pyranees Bulletin
-- Red Cross Insignia
-- Song Sheets
-- Tickets
-- Y.M.C.A.

15) SCRU - lndividuals E - F (box 144)
-- Emerson, Ellen Tucker 1901 -- Birth Certificate
-- -- Corr to Family Feb-Apr-1919
-- -- May-Dec 191'
-- -- Corr miscellaneous
-- -- Photographs
-- Emerson, Josephine Burts1908
-- Evans, Alice 1905
-- -- Pub."My Year Experience with the A.E.F.-in France and Smith College Relief Unit Aug 4, 1918-Sep 13, 1919
-- Farrand, Margaret Louise 1914 -- Corr General
-- -- de Grecourt, Marie
-- -- de Schoenmaeker, Pierre
-- -- Junka, Paul
-- -- Legendre, Helene
-- -- Fatherless Children'-of France, Inc.
-- -- Augagne, Marcel
-- Fast, Louisa Kimball 1898
-- Ford, Harriet Bliss 1899

16) SCRU - Individuals G - T (box 145)
-- Grandin, Mabel 1909
-- Grant, Rosamond 1913
-- -- Photographs
-- Griffin, Edith (Nurse, non-Smith)
-- Hackett, Sarah Balch-1909
-- Higgins, Ruth Whitney 1919
-- Hooper, Catherine Baker 1911 -- Cor to Family
Aug-Dec 1917
-- -- Jan-Mar 1918
-- -- July-Dec 1918
-- -- 1919
-- -- Cor to War Service Board
-- -- Photographs
-- Joslin, Ruth 1912
-- -- Photographs
-- Kelly, Maud M. (M.D. non-Smith)
-- Kinney, De Lan (Dentist non-Smith)
-- Lavignot, Marguerite (Nurse non-Smith)
-- La Monte, Isabel 1913
-- -- Photographs
-- Lawrence, Evelyn Lucy 1917
-- Leavens, Alice Emily 1903
-- Lewis, Millicent Vaughn 1907
-- -- Photographs
-- Mather, Lucy Olcott 1888
-- Ober, Alice May 1905
-- Rochester, Anna 1911
-- Ryan, Anna 1902
-- Studebaker, Adrianna Louise 1908
-- Talbot, Marjorie 1910
-- Thomas, Marion 1910
-- True, Edna Miriam 1909
-- -- Photographs

17) SCRU Individuals Gaines, Ruth Louise 1901 (box 146)
-- Appointments and Recommendations
-- Bills and Receipts .
-- Correspondence with Family Aug 1917 - Aug 1918
-- July - Dec 1917. ( copies)
-- to Read, Georgia W. :1903 Sept-Dec 1917
-- War Service Board Nov 1917 - Apr 1919
-- French Villager Oct 1917 - Nov 1920
-- Miscellaneous -
-- Diaries
-- Maps - France
-- Miscellaneous
-- Official Documents
-- Reports -- Departments (Agriculture, Children, Hospital; Public Health)
-- -- Relief of Devastated Regions
-- -- Village Mayors
-- -- War Service Board

18) SCRU - Individuals Gaines, Ruth Louise 1901 Publications - "Helping France" and "Ladies of Grecourt" (box 147)
-- "Helping France" -- Correspondence
-- -- Civil Affairs Reports Sept - Dec 1917
-- -- Notes -- 1917
-- -- -- 1918-19
-- -- -- Miscellaneous
-- -- Red Cross
-- "Helping France" and "Ladies of Grecourt" (books)
-- "Ladies of Grecourt" -- Correspondence to War Service Board Aug 1918-June 1919
-- -- July 1919 - May 1920
-- -- Contracts
-- -- Illustrations (corr) See oversize box 16
-- -- Preface -
-- -- Publication and Sale May 1920 -
July 1921 -- -- -- Sept 921 - Nov 19,
-- Settlement

19) SCRU - Individuals Gaines, Ruth Louise 1901 Publications -
"Village in Picardy" (box 148)
-- Correspondence
-- Illustrations
-- News Articles (typescripts)
-- News Clippings
-- Notes
-- Proposal
-- Typescript

20) SCRU - Individuals Greenough, Clara Mary 1894 (box 149)
-- Beauvais - American Club quest book
-- Correspondence to Family -- Jan 1918
-- -- Apr 1918
-- -- May - July 1918 . -
-- -- Aug - Dec 1918
-- -- Jan - Aug 1919
-- to National War Work Council
-- to War Service Board April - June 1918
-- Miscellaneous
-- Flags
-- Medals, Stripes etc.
-- Official Papers
-- Overseas Service
-- Photographs

21) SCRU - Individuals Read, Georgia Willis 1903 (box 150)
-- Correspondence -- to Mother - Sept.1918-Mar 1919
-- -- to to War Service Board
-- Diaries - Oct 1918-Mar 1919
-- Miscellaneous
-- Official Papers
-- Photographs
-- Publication "Kantine Braunschweig"
-- Red Cross
-- Treasurer's Reports

22) SCRU - Individuals Stevenson, Mary Goodman 1909 (box 151)
--Citations
--Correspondence to Family
-- to War Service Board
--Officia1 Papers
--Photograph Album
--Photographs

23) SCRU - Individuals V - Z (box 152)
--Valentine, Frances Wadsworth 1902 -- Citations
-- -- Cor to Family
-- -- to War Service Board
-- -- Miscellaneous
-- -- Diary .
-- -- Identification Bracelet
-- -- Medal and Diploma(see box 14)
-- -- Photograph Album
-- -- Photographs
-- -- Travel Permits
-- -- Visas
--Wood, Margaret 1912
--Young, Dorothy Amy 1902
-- Corr to Family June 1918 - Jan 1919
-- to War Service Board
-- -- War Experiences

24 SCRU - Photographs (box 153)
-- The Argonne
-- Bacquencourt
-- Beauvais
-- Breuil
-- Buverchy
-- Canal du Nord
-- Canizy
-- Cemeteries
-- Chateau Thierry
-- Esmery
-- Fussien
-- German Prisoners
-- Hombleux
-- Hombleux Band
-- Hombleux Library
-- Hospital
-- Nissen
-- Paris
-- Peronne
-- Red Cross
-- Red Cross, Jackson, William
-- SS Rochambeau 1917
-- Sancourt
-- St. Quentin
-- Verdun
-- Unidentified

25) SCRU - Photographs Grecourt (box 154)
-- General 1919 .
-- Automobiles, Trucks, Tractors
-- Baraques 1917-18
-- Baraques 1919-20
-- Chateau de Robcourt
-- --Approach, Garden, Park
-- Christmas
-- Church and Mass
-- Farm
-- Llanoy Farm
-- Orangerie - Garage
-- Peasants and Children
-- Personnel.
-- -- Grense, Robert
-- -- Pottier, Marir
-- School
-- Social Service Workers -
-- Store and Traveling Store
-- Unit 1917 .
-- Unit 1919-20
-- Unit General

26) SCRU - News Clippings 1917 - 20 (box 155)
-- 1917
-- Winter 1918
-- March 1918 .
-- April 1918
-- May 1918
-- Summer 1918
-- Fall 1918
-- Jan - Oct 1919
-- 1920's

27) SCRU - Publications "An Irrepresible Crew" and Misc. (box 156)
-- "An Irrepresible Crew"
-- -- Correspondence
-- -- Illustrations (photos)
-- -- Typescript
-- SCRU Pamphlets
-- Alumnae Office News Bulletin 1 - 6
-- Smith:Alumnae Quarterly articles
-- War Pamphlets
-- War Publications

28a) SCRU - Anniversaries (box 158)
-- Anniversary 1967
-- Index of Scrap Books
-- Scrap Books (2)

28b) SCRU - Reconstruction (box 159)
-- Argonne Association
-- Belleau Wood Memorial Association
-- Boy Scouts -- July-Dec 1919
-- -- Miller, R.R. July-Nov 1919
-- -- Miller, R.R. Recommendations
-- -- 1920
-- -- 1921
-- -- Photographs
-- Bureau of Bienfaisance -- 1922
-- -- Eppeville 1922-23
-- -- Hombleux 1923-29
-- Ecole d'Actione Sociale
-- Ecole Florence Nightingale
-- Federation of American Agencies
-- French Restoration Fund
-- Grecourt Church Bell (see also 12.WS Oversize box 165)
-- -- Photographs
-- Salvation Army
-- Secours D'Urgence -- May 1920 - Dec 1921
-- -- Jan 1922 - Apr 1924

29) Other Units - Methodist Relief Work (box 160)
-- Outline
-- Accounts
-- Pierson, Ruth Vail 1919 -- Corr July-Oct 1919
-- -- Nov-Dec 1919
-- -- Jan-Feb 1920
-- -- Mar-May 1920
-- -- Cor from Wadsworth, Julian
Villagers ( Chateau Thierry, Crezancy, Briancon)
Villagers Villagers (Neuchatel, Moulins, Barzy)

30) Other Units - Near East Unit (box 161)
-- Greene, Esther Follansbee 1901
-- Cor to Family --
-- -- -- Jan-June 1919
-- -- -- July-Sept 1919
-- -- -- Oct-Dec 1919
-- -- -- 1920
-- -- -- 1921
-- -- Cor from Family - June 1919-May 1920
-- -- Cor miscellaneous
-- -- to War Service Board 1919-24
-- -- Handbook
-- -- Manuscript
-- -- Photographs
-- -- Reports
-- Guest, Elma Cokefair 1917 -- Correspondence
-- Henry, Ruth Whipple 1908 -- Correspondence
-- -- Photo Album (see separate box)
-- Hill, Justina Hamilton 1916 - Corr to War Service Board
-- Mitchell, Ayra 1906 - Corr to War Service Board
-- Moore, Alice 1912 - Corr to War Service Board

31) Other Units - Near East Unit Henry, Ruth Whipple 1908--
Photograph Album (box 162)
32) Other Units R - W (box 163)
-- Red Cross -- 1918-20
-- -- Tyler, Elizabeth Stearns 1909
-- -- Young, Dorothy Amy 1902 -
-- Refugee Unit
-- -- Merrill, Ida Nancy 1906 .
-- -- Mitchell, Myra Agnes 1906
-- -- Shaffer, Lucy Kennedy 1908
-- Serbian Relief Unit
-- -- Childs, Carolyn Helfenstein 1902
-- -- Wiggin, Charlottte 1908
-- -- Williams, Elizatbeth Sprague 1891
-- Vassar Training Camp
-- Wellesley Good Will Delegation

33) Other Units - Y.M.C.A. (box 164)
-- Correspondence - Personnel
-- Financial
-- Miscellaneous -- Blodgett, Ruth Robinson 1905
-- -- Clark, Anne Elizabeth 1921
-- -- Russell, Elizabeth Lincoln 1903
-- -- Jenkins, Anna Spaulding 1890
-- Unit 1 -- Abbe, Elizabeth Kennard 1911
-- -- Bowman, Agnes Gertrude 1911
-- -- Durkee, Helen Winslow 1902
-- -- Fullerton,.Pauline Valentine 1905
-- -- Howe, Mary Reed 1902
-- -- McCluney, Mildred 1904
-- -- Seeber,. Elizabeth 1908
-- -- Seymour, Mary Hyde ex-1899
-- -- Souther, Edith Eustace 1902
-- -- Tuthill, Stella Weston 1907
-- -- Wilson, Jean Shaw 1901
-- -- Witherbee, Edna tSchell) 1908
-- Unit 2 -- Bean, Margaret 1913
-- -- Bridgers, Ann Preston 1915
-- -- Eis, Florence Marion 1916
-- -- Gleason, Mary Eliza 1909
-- -- Hammond, May 1903
-- -- Janes, Isabel 1912
-- -- Nash, Margaret 1904
-- -- Roberts, Mlildred Frances 1913
-- -- Scandrett, Rebekah 1915
-- -- Williams, Olive 1912
-- Unit 3 -- Bean, Katherine Edna 1908
-- -- Frankenstein, Sally Moss 1912
-- -- Hodgman, Helen Emerson 1913
-- -- Hugus, Elizabeth Ward 1916
-- -- Hunt, Harriet Lamed 1913
-- -- Knight, Katharine 1914
-- -- Vermilye, Katharine Rowland 1915
-- -- Wingate, Gladys Isabel 1908

34) Oversize Materials (box 165)
-- SCRU Reconstruction Grecourt Church Bell - Box from sale of Almonds
-- War On Campus. Surgical Dressings Financial Ledger
-- SCRU Individuals Gaines, Ruth Louise 1901 "Ladies of Grecourt" Illustrations
-- SCRU Individuals Valentine, Frances Wadsworth-1902 -
Medals and Diploma

Miscellaneous Items
-- Card file War Service Board Personnel list - Alumnae
-- War Workers (item number 132A) .
-- Books about SCRU -- "Out to Win" Coningby Dawson (157A)
-- -- "Out of the Ruins" George B. Ford (157B)
-- -- "Stretchers" Frederick A. Pottle (157C)
-- -- "Stretchers, Vol. 2" (157D)
-- -- "Village in Picardy" Gaines, Ruth 1901 (157E)
-- -- See also SCRU - Individuals Gaines for "Ladies of Grecourt" and "Helping France" (box 147.)
-- "Vassar's Rainbow Division" Clappison, Gladys Bonner (163A)
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Created: Monday, December 22, 1997, 08:17 Last Updated: Monday, December 22, 1997, 08:17