bMS 16076

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1940-1980.

Summary Information:

• Call Number: bMS 16076
• Title: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Audiovisual Records, Photographs, 1940-80.
• Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
• Quantity: 14 boxes

• Administrative Information:

  • 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 photographs in this collection document the work of the Unitarian and Universalist Service Committees in a number of countries throughout the world. These photographs document relief efforts in countries, which includes France, Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. During and after World War II, the Unitarian Service Committee administered 10 homes for displaced and unaccompanied children in the British Zone of Germany, in cooperation with the International Relief Organization of the United Nations and the British Control Commission. The Arbeiterwohlfahrt, an anti-Nazi German workers' organization that had been suppressed under Hitler, also participated in directing these homes. The Service Committees were also very active in France, offering medical assistance, shelter, food, and clothing to many victims of war in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Meillon, Monnetier, Modane, St. Goin, St. Jean de Luz, and Toulouse. 

This collection also includes photographs of many key USC members, such as William Emerson, Duncan Howlett, Elizabeth and Robert Dexter, Persis Miller, Gustav Ulrich, Helen Fogg, Charles Joy, and Noel Field. It also includes photographs of some of the children rescued by Martha Sharp; the Diamant sisters, 1942; Mercedes Brown, 1940; and the Theis sisters, 1940. 

Container List:

• bMS 16076/1 (1) African Student Program
• bMS 16076/1 (2) Austria, Vienna, 1946-1948
• bMS 16076/1 (3) Austria, Vienna, dental clinic, c. 1948
• bMS 16076/1 (4) Cambodia, "Venture," September 1956
• bMS 16076/1 (5-7) Cambodia
• bMS 16076/1 (8) Cambodia, 1956-1961
• bMS 16076/1 (9) Cambodia, 1959-1961
• bMS 16076/1 (10) Cambodia, "Signing the Contract," 1956
• bMS 16076/1 (11) Cambodia exhibit
• bMS 16076/1 (12-14) Cambodia, 1960
• bMS 16076/1 (15) Canada, Canadian UUSC
• bMS 16076/1 (16) Czechoslovakia, Olesovice
• bMS 16076/2 (1) Europe (Germany, France, Hungary, etc.), 1940s. Includes remnants of a scrapbook entitled "This is the story of how a refugee from a French internment camp is brought out to safety by the Unitarian Service Committee," includes photographs and captions, author unknown, c. 1940.
• bMS 16076/2 (2) France, Clairac
• bMS 16076/2 (3) France, Hendaye, 1946-1947
• bMS 16076/2 (4) France, Les Andelys, 1948
• bMS 16076/2 (5) France, Lyons, 1946
• bMS 16076/2 (6) France, Marseille, dental clinic
• bMS 16076/2 (7) France, Marseille, dispensary
• bMS 16076/2 (8) France, Meillon
• bMS 16076/2 (9) France, Paris, general relief
• bMS 16076/2 (10) France, St. Jean de Luz
• bMS 16076/2 (11-13) France, Toulouse, St. Goin, Pulsifer photographs, 1950 
• bMS 16076/2 (14) France, Spanish Republican refugees in France
• bMS 16076/3 (1-3) France, Toulouse, St. Goin, 1950
• bMS 16076/3 (4) France, Toulouse, 1959-1960
• bMS 16076/3 (5-6) France, Toulouse, (includes photographs of Varsovie Hospital and Walter B. Cannon Hospital), n.d.
• bMS 16076/3 (7-9) France, Intern Program, luncheon at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1957 
• bMS 16076/3 (10) Germany, painting presentation
• bMS 16076/3 (11) Germany, refugees, "East to West"
• bMS 16076/4 (1) Germany, general
• bMS 16076/4 (2) Germany, Arbeiterwohlfahrt, Children's Day Camp
• bMS 16076/4 (3) Germany, Arbeiterwohlfahrt, miscellany
• bMS 16076/4 (4-6) Germany, Auermuehle (Children's Home)
• bMS 16076/4 (7) Germany, Bad Rothenfelde, 1949-1950
• bMS 16076/4 (8-11) Germany, Bremen Neighborhood House
• bMS 16076/4 (12) Germany, Bremen, social work
• bMS 16076/5 (1) Germany, Broitzem
• bMS 16076/5 (2) Germany, CRALOG, food distribution center
• bMS 16076/5 (3) Germany, displaced persons
• bMS 16076/5 (4) Germany, Harlingen
• bMS 16076/5 (5) Germany, Verden, adolescent displaced persons camp
• bMS 16076/5 (6) Greece and Italy, 1948
• bMS 16076/5 (7) Greece, social work seminar, 1957
• bMS 16076/5 (8) Greece, conference, 1961
• bMS 16076/5 (9) Haiti, general
• bMS 16076/5 (10) Haiti, April 1978
• bMS 16076/5 (11) Haiti, Fall 1978
• bMS 16076/5 (12-13) Hungary, Budapest, 1946-1957
• bMS 16076/5 (14) Hungary, Imre Debreceni, a Hungarian refugee, 1956
• bMS 16076/5 (15) India
• bMS 16076/5 (16) Iran and Israel medical mission, 1951
• bMS 16076/5 (17) Iran, 1974
• bMS 16076/5 (18) Ireland, Northern, riots, 1970
• bMS 16076/5 (19) Italy, 1948
• bMS 16076/5 (20) Italy, handicapped helped by Toscanini Fund, UUSC, Swiss RC Italy, 1948
• bMS 16076/5 (21) Japan, Tokyo Church
• bMS 16076/6 (1) Japan and Vietnam
• bMS 16076/6 (2) Japan, engineering mission, personnel, 1951
• bMS 16076/6 (3) Japan
• bMS 16076/6 (4) Korea, etc.
• bMS 16076/6 (5) Korean education, n.d.
• bMS 16076/6 (6) Korean education, 1952-1955
• bMS 16076/6 (7) Korean education, Fogg, Helen, trip, 1953
• bMS 16076/6 (8) Korean education, Glick, Dr. Frank Z., 1958
• bMS 16076/6 (9) Korean education, population control, 1953-1964
• bMS 16076/6 (10) Korean education, Seoul University Hospital, 1961
• bMS 16076/6 (11) Korean education, "The Team," 1952
• bMS 16076/6 (12) Korean education, Warner, Betty: Fisheries
• bMS 16076/6 (13) Liberia, 1955
• bMS 16076/6 (14) Lithuania, boarding school
• bMS 16076/6 (15) Netherlands
• bMS 16076/6 (16) Peru, n.d.
• bMS 16076/6 (17) Peru, Dr. Theodor Binder and Jack Mendelsohn
• bMS 16076/6 (18) Peru, Hospital Amazonico
• bMS 16076/6 (19) Poland, miscellany
• bMS 16076/6 (20) Poland, Piekary Hospital
• bMS 16076/6 (21) Poland, Warsaw
• bMS 16076/6 (22) Portugal, Lisbon
• bMS 16076/7 (1) Romania, Bucharest, 1957
• bMS 16076/7 (2) Switzerland, Geneva
• bMS 16076/7 (3) Turkey Symposium, 1961
• bMS 16076/7 (4) Uganda, Awo Omamma
• bMS 16076/7 (5) Venezuela, 1963
• bMS 16076/7 (6) Vietnam, Nhat Hanh, Thich
• bMS 16076/7 (7) West Africa
• bMS 16076/7 (8) Washington, D.C., All Souls Church
• bMS 16076/7 (9-10) Washington, D.C., Columbia Heights Boys' Club
• bMS 16076/7 (11) Georgia work camp, 1947
• bMS 16076/7 (12) Illinois, Chicago, 1950
• bMS 16076/7 (13) Maine, Ferry Beach
• bMS 16076/7 (14) Maine, Portland Toy Loan Program
• bMS 16076/7 (15) Massachusetts, Boston, art work of Nicholas Untersteller, 1945
• bMS 16076/7 (16) New Hampshire, Greenfield, 1947
• bMS 16076/7 (17-18) New Mexico, Gallup Indian Community Center, 1949-1959
• bMS 16076/7 (19) New Mexico, Gallup Indian Community Center, 1953-1963
• bMS 16076/8 (1) New Mexico, Gallup, 1953-1955
• bMS 16076/8 (2) New Mexico, Gallup, 1954-1955
• bMS 16076/8 (3) New Mexico, Gallup, 1954-1957
• bMS 16076/8 (4) New Mexico, Gallup, 1954-1963
• bMS 16076/8 (5) New Mexico, Gallup, Community Center
• bMS 16076/8 (6) New Mexico, Gallup, glossies with captions
• bMS 16076/8 (7) New Mexico, Gallup, Indian scenes
• bMS 16076/8 (8) New Mexico, Gallup, Service Camp
• bMS 16076/8 (9) New Mexico, Gallup, Summer Recreation, 1956
• bMS 16076/8 (10) New York, Beaver Lake, World Citizenship Camp
• bMS 16076/8 (11) New York, East Harlem, Japanese-American Hostel, 1946
• bMS 16076/8 (12) New York, Sydenham Hospital
• bMS 16076/8 (13) Rhode Island, mental hospital workcamp, 1947
• bMS 16076/9 (1) Southwest, 1940s
• bMS 16076/9 (2) Tennessee, Knoxville
• bMS 16076/9 (3) Tennessee, Monteagle, Highlander Folk School
• bMS 16076/9 (4) Tennessee, Monteagle, Highlander Folk School, 1947-1948
• bMS 16076/9 (5) Texas Migrant Project, 1947
• bMS 16076/9 (6) Texas, Harlingen, Migrant Worker Project, 1948
• bMS 16076/9 (7) Texas, migrant workers?
• bMS 16076/9 (8) People, Ashby, Paul A.
• bMS 16076/9 (9) People, Bigelow, Albert
• bMS 16076/9 (10) People, Bishop, Frances
• bMS 16076/9 (11) People, Bock, Dr. Rudolf, 1960
• bMS 16076/9 (12) People, Brooks, Howard L.
• bMS 16076/9 (13) People, Brooks, Howard L., "Mystery Photos"
• bMS 16076/9 (14) People, Channing, Laurence M., 1949-1955
• bMS 16076/9 (15) People, Cheever, Daniel S.
• bMS 16076/9 (16) People, Clark, Senator ?
• bMS 16076/9 (17) People, Coolidge, Kathleen
• bMS 16076/9 (18) People, Dewey, Milton A.
• bMS 16076/9 (19) People, Elliot, Dr. Martha
• bMS 16076/9 (20) People, Farrington, Richard F.
• bMS 16076/9 (21) People, Faulkner, Dr. James M., 1959
• bMS 16076/9 (22) People, Field, Noel
• bMS 16076/9 (23) People, Fogg, Helen
• bMS 16076/9 (24) People, Froistad, Wilmer, 1956
• bMS 16076/9 (25) People, Gano, Seth
• bMS 16076/9 (26) People, Glick, Dr. Frank Z., 1955-1960
• bMS 16076/9 (27) People, Glick, Mrs. Frank Z., 1960
• bMS 16076/9 (28) People, Greeley, Dana McLean
• bMS 16076/9 (29) People, Harewood, Phyllis, Jamaica
• bMS 16076/9 (30) People, Hauck, Hazel M.
• bMS 16076/9 (31) People, Hitchcock, Mrs. Curtice
• bMS 16076/9 (32) People, Hitschmanova, Dr. Lotta, Executive Director, USC of Canada
• bMS 16076/9 (33) People, Johnson, Willard, 1965
• bMS 16076/10 (1) People, Kellaway, Rev. Richard
• bMS 16076/10 (2) People, Kennedy, Winston
• bMS 16076/10 (3) People, Klotzle, Dana
• bMS 16076/10 (4) People, Klotzle, Dana, African Program
• bMS 16076/10 (5) People, Kring, Rev. Walter
• bMS 16076/10 (6) People, Lewis, Dr. Hylan
• bMS 16076/10 (7) People, Mendelsohn, Dr. Jack
• bMS 16076/10 (8) People, Meserve, Rev. Harry C., 1958
• bMS 16076/10 (9) People, Moore, Matilda
• bMS 16076/10 (10) People, Moore, Matilda, Africa
• bMS 16076/10 (11) People, Nash, Richard
• bMS 16076/10 (12) People, Nzeribe, Dr. Ben
• bMS 16076/10 (13) People, Okounieff, Mr. and Mrs. Alexis, 1940
• bMS 16076/10 (14) People, Pauling, Linus
• bMS 16076/10 (15) People, Pieksen, Mrs. George
• bMS 16076/10 (16) People, Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1955
• bMS 16076/10 (17) People, Sabin, Donald, Executive Director (UUSC), 1966
• bMS 16076/10 (18) People, Saklad, Dr. Meyer, 1950
• bMS 16076/10 (19) People, Stokes, Henry
• bMS 16076/10 (20) People, Stoneham, Rachel and Mrs. R.C. Young
• bMS 16076/10 (21) People, Teixeira, Eugene B.
• bMS 16076/10 (22) People, Thomas, Dr. Lewis
• bMS 16076/10 (23) People, Ungar, Thomas, 1960
• bMS 16076/10 (24) People, Vickery, Charles
• bMS 16076/10 (25) People, Wheeler, Henry Russell and Willard Johnson, 1962
• bMS 16076/10 (26) People, White, Kenneth B., 1963
• bMS 16076/10 (27) Alliance Sewing Project
• bMS 16076/10 (28) Children
• bMS 16076/10 (29-30) Church World Service 
• bMS 16076/10 (31) Death penalty demonstration, 1979
• bMS 16076/10 (32) Displaced persons, arrivals in U.S., 1948
• bMS 16076/10 (33) Displaced persons, resettlement photos
• bMS 16076/10 (34) Feminist rights
• bMS 16076/10 (35) Galaxy
• bMS 16076/10 (36) Hospital to hospital exchange, 1960
• bMS 16076/10 (37) Immunopathology Team, 1958
• bMS 16076/10 (38) "Invest in Human Dignity," 1958
• bMS 16076/10 (39) International Relief Organization, Children's Home
• bMS 16076/10 (40) Italian project
• bMS 16076/10 (41) Unlabeled photographs
• bMS 16076/11 (1) Medical Exchange Program
• bMS 16076/11 (2) Medical Symposium, 1958
• bMS 16076/11 (3) Middle East Symposium, 1958
• bMS 16076/11 (4) Overseas publicity
• bMS 16076/11 (5) People, publicity (used in Christian Leader and elsewhere), 1940-1988. Includes photographs of Edward Cahill, Howard L. Brooks, Oscar Romero and Robert Drinan, and Noel Field.
• bMS 16076/11 (6) Pioneers: includes photographs of many key USC members, such as William Emerson, Duncan Howlett, Elizabeth and Robert Dexter, Persis Miller, Gustav Ulrich, Helen Fogg, Charles Joy, Noel Field. Also includes photographs of some of the children rescues by Martha Sharp: Diamant sisters, 1942; Mercedes Brown, 1940; and Theis sisters, 1940.
• bMS 16076/11 (7) Press conferences
• bMS 16076/11 (8) Prison, courts, draft demonstrations, 1970s
• bMS 16076/11 (9) Publicity, instructions to advance person
• bMS 16076/11 (10) Refugees
• bMS 16076/11 (11) Reticulo-Endothelial System Symposium, 1955
• bMS 16076/11 (12) Stop the Olympic Prison
• bMS 16076/11 (13) USC Warehouse, distribution of food and clothing, c. 1940s
• bMS 16076/11 (14) UUA miscellany
• bMS 16076/11 (15) UUA General Assembly, n.d.
• bMS 16076/11 (16) UUA General Assembly, booth, publicity
• bMS 16076/12 (1) UUA General Assembly, 1977
• bMS 16076/12 (2) USC, American Relief for France
• bMS 16076/12 (3) USC, annual dinner, May 19, 1956, Clark, Kenneth B., speaker
• bMS 16076/12 (4) USC, annual meeting, 1956
• bMS 16076/12 (5) USC, artwork, order of service, chalice
• bMS 16076/12 (6) USC, Board meeting, November 1956
• bMS 16076/12 (7) USC, clothing shipments
• bMS 16076/12 (8) USC, May meetings, Dr. Vera Dean, 1950s
• bMS 16076/12 (9) USC, miscellany
• bMS 16076/12 (10) USC, personnel, Altmeyer, Arthur J.
• bMS 16076/12 (11) USC, personnel, 1950s
• bMS 16076/12 (12) USC, publicity, miscellaneous
• bMS 16076/12 (13) USC, Regional Conference, February 15, 1957, Mrs. Clarence E. Bull, J. Ray Shute, Dana M. Greeley
• bMS 16076/12 (14) USC, Regional Conference, February 15, 1957, Mrs. Laurence Steefels
• bMS 16076/12 (15) USC, Regional Conference, February 15, 1957, E.C. Wallan
• bMS 16076/12 (16) USC, Regional Conference, February 15, 1957
• bMS 16076/12 (17) USC, Regional Conference, February 15, 1957, Charles Ernst, R. Goodall, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Bull, Mr. Griffin
• bMS 16076/12 (18) USC, S. A., January 10, 1958, Dr. Levine, Wilmer Froistad, Dr. Stebbins
• bMS 16076/12 (19) USC, Vice-Chairmen, January 1959
• bMS 16076/12 (20) USC, volunteers, Christmas, 1957
• bMS 16076/12 (21) USC, work camps (general), 1947
• bMS 16076/12 (22-23) UUSC, Board members
• bMS 16076/12 (24) UUSC, Board and staff
• bMS 16076/12 (25) UUSC, display photos
• bMS 16076/12 (26) UUSC, 40th anniversary
• bMS 16076/13 (1) UUSC, meetings, various, c. 1979-1980
• bMS 16076/13 (2-3) UUSC, miscellany
• bMS 16076/13 (4) UUSC, Kansas, 1980
• bMS 16076/13 (5) UUSC, personnel and miscellaneous publicity photos
• bMS 16076/13 (6) UUSC, personnel, Dr. Greeley, Mrs. Eva W. White, William Emerson
• bMS 16076/13 (7-8) UUSC, publicity
• bMS 16076/13 (9) "Venture" (brochure), May 1957
• bMS 16076/13 (10) "Venture" (brochure), February 1958
• bMS 16076/13 (11) "Venture" (brochure), Spring 1959
• bMS 16076/13 (12) "Venture" (brochure), prints, Fall 1959
• bMS 16076/13 (13) Volunteers, full time
• bMS 16076/13 (14) Work camps, 1948
• bMS 16076/14 (1) Vietnam, strip negatives, 1969-1970

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