bMS 16181

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Audiovisual Records. Photographs, 1940-1986

Summary Information:

• Call Number: bMS 16181
• 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: 8 boxes

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. Many of these photographs document the work of the USC medical missions. In 1942 the Commission on Hygiene of the Coordinating Committee for Relief in the Camps at Nimes, France conducted a study on malnutrition in the internment camps. The Unitarian Service Committee was part of this coordinating committee. In 1945, the USC organized an Italian Medical Nutrition Mission in order to study malnutrition in Italy. This was conducted in cooperation with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Out of this project grew the idea of the medical missions, first suggested by Dr. Maurice B. Visscher. The purpose of these missions was to exchange information and to further international relationships with other countries. In 1946, the USC sent medical missions to Poland and to Czechoslovakia in cooperation with UNRRA. These missions were successful, and in January 1947, a USC Medical Projects Department was established under the direction of Dr. Erwin Kohn. In 1947 a medical mission was sent to Austria under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization. In 1948 there were medical missions to Greece, Italy, Germany, Poland and Finland, and a dental mission to Austria in August of 1948. In 1949 refresher courses for displaced person physicians, pharmacists and dentists took place in Germany with the IRO. Medical missions conducted by the USC continued to take place into the 1960s, to countries such as Japan, Germany, Israel, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Turkey.

Container List:

• bMS 16181/1 (1) African Students, 1963
• bMS 16181/1 (2) Aging, ID brochure
• bMS 16181/1 (3) American Indians, Navajos
• bMS 16181/1 (4) "Ameriken Studenten helfen Fluchtlingen"
• bMS 16181/1 (5) Awo Omamma, Nigeria
• bMS 16181/1 (6) Austria, medical mission, 1947
• bMS 16181/1 (7) Czechoslovakia, medical teaching mission, USC, 1946 
• bMS 16181/1 (8) Czechoslovakia, medical teaching mission, USC, 1946
• bMS 16181/1 (9) Czechoslovakia, medical teaching mission, USC, 1946
• bMS 16181/1 (10) Czechoslovakia, occupational therapy team, Kladruby, 1947
• bMS 16181/1 (11) Czechoslovakia, Kladruby State Rehabilitation Hospital, c. 1947
• bMS 16181/2 (1) El Salvador, 1974, 1977
• bMS 16181/2 (2) El Salvador, UUSC Fact-Finding mission, 1983
• bMS 16181/2 (3) France, Marseille Dispensary, 1941-42
• bMS 16181/2 (4) France, Toulouse, Spanish refugees and Toulouse clinic
• bMS 16181/2 (5) French interns, Boston, November 16, 1957
• bMS 16181/2 (6) French interns, 1958-1959
• bMS 16181/2 (7) Georgia, Atlanta, 1963
• bMS 16181/2 (8) Germany, refugees c. 1946
• bMS 16181/2 (9) Germany, dental team, Munich and Tubingen, 1951
• bMS 16181/2 (10) Germany, Druhwald Youth Center, project of Arbeiter Wohlfahrt, scenes of 1949, 1950, 1951 Universalist Summer Projects
• bMS 16181/2 (11-13) Germany, medical mission, 1948-50
• bMS 16181/2 (14) Germany, refresher course for DP Students, 1949
• bMS 16181/2 (15) Germany, refresher course for DP Physicians, 1949
• bMS 16181/3 (1-2) Greece and Italy, medical mission, 1948 
• bMS 16181/3 (3) Haiti and Dominican Republic, nutrition seminars, 1967
• bMS 16181/3 (4) Hungary, c. 1957
• bMS 16181/3 (5) Immunology team, 1958
• bMS 16181/3 (6) India, Madras, medical review conference, 1953
• bMS 16181/3 (7) India, Madras, medical mission, Lawrence Broos mementos
• bMS 16181/3 (8) India, Ramapuram, 1964
• bMS 16181/3 (9) India and Indonesia, 1953
• bMS 16181/3 (10) Israel, mission, 1951
• bMS 16181/3 (11) Israel and Iran, medical mission 
• bMS 16181/3 (12) Italy, medical mission, 1946
• bMS 16181/3 (13) Japan, medical mission and personnel, 1950
• bMS 16181/4 (1-2) Japan, medical education mission, 1951 
• bMS 16181/4 (3-4) Japan, miscellaneous 
• bMS 16181/4 (5) Kalmuks, Resettlement, Seabrook, NJ temporary camp, 1952
• bMS 16181/4 (6) Korea, social work
• bMS 16181/4 (7) Manteno Picnic, 1952
• bMS 16181/4 (8) Medical Symposium Advisory Committee, March 1957
• bMS 16181/4 (9) Mexico, Ejido El Porvenir, 1955
• bMS 16181/4 (10) Middle East, USC Team, January, 1958
• bMS 16181/4 (11-12) Miscellany 
• bMS 16181/4 (13) Miscellany, "Howard Brooks to View"
• bMS 16181/4 (14) Nigeria, 1951
• bMS 16181/5 (1) Paschall, Mrs. Eliza K.
• bMS 16181/5 (2) Passamaquoddy Indians
• bMS 16181/5 (3) Peru, Amazonico Hospital, Albert Schweitzer
• bMS 16181/5 (4) Photographers
• bMS 16181/5 (5-7) Poland: includes photographs of the medical mission to Poland, photographs of doctors and Kusciozko Hospital in Piekary Slaskie, Poland
• bMS 16181/5 (8) Pommerenke, Dr. Wesley T.
• bMS 16181/5 (9) Poster material (?)
• bMS 16181/5 (10) Prisons, miscellany
• bMS 16181/5 (11) Prison construction, National Moratorium on
• bMS 16181/6 (1) Prisons, Dole Bill Hearings
• bMS 16181/6 (2) Prisons, construction "D"
• bMS 16181/6 (3) Prisons, construction, staff photographs
• bMS 16181/6 (4) Prisons, demonstration "C"
• bMS 16181/6 (5) Prisons, Jobs, not Jails
• bMS 16181/6 (6) Prisons, miscellaneous
• bMS 16181/6 (7) Prisons, moratorium on, 1983
• bMS 16181/6 (8) Prisons, moratorium on, 1986
• bMS 16181/6 (9) Prisons, Stop Prison Construction
• bMS 16181/6 (10) Prisons, Stop Prison Construction, 1986
• bMS 16181/6 (11-12) Prisons, Stop the Olympic Prison
• bMS 16181/6 (13) Prisons, UUSC Meeting
• bMS 16181/6 (14) Prisons, unlabeled
• bMS 16181/7 (1) Program Planning and Review Conference, October 22, 1955
• bMS 16181/7 (2) Public Health Team for Germany, 1951
• bMS 16181/7 (3) Public relations department photographs
• bMS 16181/7 (4) Rhine Tour, 1950
• bMS 16181/7 (5) South America
• bMS 16181/7 (6) South American Symposium, 1958
• bMS 16181/7 (7) Staff photographs, 1971-1973
• bMS 16181/7 (8) Swide, Elaine Yamma, R.N.
• bMS 16181/7 (9) Switzerland
• bMS 16181/7 (10) Unitarian Service Committee, Nigeria Program, 1961
• bMS 16181/8 (1) USC, Board Meeting, March 16, 1957
• bMS 16181/8 (2) UUSC, Annual Report, 1977
• bMS 16181/8 (3) UUSC, miscellany
• bMS 16181/8 (4) UUSC, posters
• bMS 16181/8 (5) UUSC, publicity
• bMS 16181/8 (6-8) UUSC, staff photographs 
• bMS 16181/8 (9) Vietnam, protest
• bMS 16181/8 (10) USC medical teaching mission to Israel, Mr. Howard L. Brooks, director, with the compliments of the Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, September-October 1951
• bMS 16181/8 (11) Wilmington Ten, Biko demonstration
• bMS 16181/8 (12) Woman's prison program
• bMS 16181/8 (13) Workcamps, France, Les Andelys, Gwen Champsaur, 1950
• bMS 16181/8 (14) YMCA, US prisoners of war in Germany