bMS 16027
Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, New York office, 1944-1949.
Summary Information:
- Call Number: bMS 16027
- Title: Unitarian Service Committee. Administrative Records, 1945-1949.
- Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
- Quantity: 2 boxes
Administrative Information:
- Acquisitions Information: Gift of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.
- Access: There are no restrictions on access to this collection.
Historical Note:
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 advance human rights and social justice throughout the world.
Scope and Content Note:
The bulk of this collection documents the activities of the New York office of the Unitarian Service Committee, which functioned as a center for shipping goods overseas to needy people. This office opened in 1942 and Henry Muller, a refugee who directed it during the first five years, operated appeals for clothing, food, medicine, and items such as toilet kits, tools, and garden supplies. Total shipments for the peak year, 1946, amounted to more than 1,200,000 pounds. The collection includes correspondence to and from Henry Muller and his assistant, Anne G. Huppman, Herman Ebeling and Erna Sternberg—also from the New York office—and other USC members such as Dorothea B. Jones, who was the assistant to Howard Brooks in Boston.
Container List:
- bMS 16027/1 (1) Austria, 1949
- bMS 16027/1 (2-3) Correspondence concerning shipment of food packages to Europe from Erna Sternberg and Herman Ebeling, 1948-1949
- bMS 16027/1 (4) Correspondence concerning shipment of food and clothing, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (5) Oswego, New York, refugee shelter, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (6) Correspondence from various countries to USC, requesting assistance, 1948-1949
- bMS 16027/1 (7) CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, Inc.), correspondence re: orders and shipments, 1946-1948
- bMS 16027/1 (8) Commerce, Department of, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (9) General Alliance, shipment of food, 1948
- bMS 16027/1 (10) German correspondence, 1948
- bMS 16027/1 (11) Home Service Committee, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (12) Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, Martha Biehle, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (13) Memos concerning handling of mail and other procedures, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (14) Miscellaneous correspondence, including correspondence of Frederick May Eliot, 1944-1949
- bMS 16027/1 (15) New York Unitarian Service Committee, meeting minutes, February to September, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (16-18) New York Unitarian Service Committee, Henry E. Muller, assistant director, correspondence, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (19) New York Unitarian Service Committee, Anne G. Huppman, assistant to Henry Muller, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (20) Office of Price Administration, 1945
- bMS 16027/1 (21) Public relations material about food shipments, 1946-1947
- bMS 16027/1 (22) Personnel Committee, 1945
- bMS 16027/2 (1) President's War Relief Control Board, Dorothea Jones and Howard Brooks, USC, 1945
- bMS 16027/2 (2) President's War Relief Control Board, procedures concerning shipments of food, clothing, medicine, etc., 1945
- bMS 16027/2 (3) Relief parcels of food to Germany, 1947-1948
- bMS 16027/2 (4) Robbery-Life magazine photograph, 1947
- bMS 16027/2 (5) State Department, 1945
- bMS 16027/2 (6) Treasury Department, 1945
- bMS 16027/2 (7) UNRRA, medical mission to Italy, Dr. A. Hughes Bryan, 1945
- bMS 16027/2 (8) UNRRA, medical mission correspondence, 1945