bMS 16254
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Scrapbooks and Memorabilia, 1946-1971
Summary Information:
- Call Number: bMS 16254
- Title: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Scrapbooks and Memorabilia, 1946-1971
- Repository: Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School, 45 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138-1911
- Quantity: 4 boxes
Administrative Information:
- Accession Number: 960549
- Hollis number: 008986601
- Preferred Citation: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Scrapbooks and Memorabilia, 1946-1971, Andover-Harvard Library, Harvard Divinity School
- Processing Information: Processed by Fran O'Donnell and William E. Smith III
Scope and Content:
This collection consists of oversized scrapbooks, posters, and various other certificates, plaques, etc. The scrapbooks, c. 1946-1971, consist largely of newspaper clippings and cover such topics as displaced persons from World War II; a toy loan library; medical teams working abroad, hospital building projects, medical information exchanges in countries such as Germany, Poland, and Israel; collaborations with United Nations service efforts; fund-raising programs; youth volunteer projects; and information about Helen Fogg, who was a leading figure in the Service Committee's activities at this time.
Container List:
Box 1
- Service to Societies (pamphlet)
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Inc. 1947-1948 (scrapbook)
- Unitarian Service Committee, Inc. 1949 (scrapbook)
Box 2
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (contact information poster)
- Unitarian Service Committee, Inc. 1950 (scrapbook)
- Unitarian Universalist, Inc. 1946-1953 (scrapbook)
Box 3
- Unitarian Service Committee, Inc. 1951 (scrapbook)
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Inc. 1960 (scrapbook)
Box 4
- International Medical Exchange (poster)
- UUSC - Turkish Nurse (poster)
- Summer Community Projects (poster)
- UUSC Community Development in Caribbean (poster)
- UUSC Volunteer Hospital Building in Honduras (poster)
- European Refugee Aid (poster)
- Education in Nigeria (poster)
- Experiences for Disadvantaged Urban Youth (poster)
- Family Planning in Haiti (poster)
- German Social Service Workers (poster)
- Ejido El Porvenic, Mexico (poster)
- Revolving Loan Fund (poster)
- Weekend Work Camps (poster)
- Integration Program in the United States (poster)
- Aid to Spanish Refugees (poster)
- Monitoring the Scales of Justice (plaque)
- The Nansen Medal, awarded by the United Nations (certificate)
- Promotional, UUSC (poster)
- Promotional, Medical Projects (poster)
- Navajo Aid Project (poster)
- Child Aid for Biafra-Nigerian War (poster)
- Lecture on Medicine in Peruvian Jungle (poster)
- 'The Hunted Children' Lecture (poster)
- Promotional, Unitarian Service Committee (poster)
- American Film Festival Award for World Within Our Reach (framed plaque)
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (fund-raising sample book)