World War I War Service, 1917-1921
Collection context
- Abstract:
- This collection consists of materials related to the war relief work done by undergraduate students, alumnae, and faculty at Barnard College. Materials include reports, inventory lists, resupply lists, receipts, informational bulletins, correspondence, solicitation letters for donations and volunteers, booklets, pamphlets, speeches and notes for speeches, newspaper clippings, financial statements and reports, invoices, meeting minutes, certificates, photographs, and other ephemera.
- Extent:
- 1.04 Linear Feet
- Language:
- English .
- Scope and content:
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This collection consitsts of World War I materials including from 1917-1921, which includes reports, inventory lists, resupply lists, receipts, informational bulletins, correspondence, solicitation letters for donations and volunteers, booklets, pamphlets, speeches and notes for speeches, newspaper clippings, financial statements and reports, invoices, meeting minutes, certificates, photographs and other ephemera. These materials relate to the war relief work done by undergraduate students, alumnae and faculty at Barnard College.
- Biographical / historical:
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Barnard College was an active participant in the war relief effort during World War I. Barnard was a partner with Columbia University in the Columbia University Mobilization Committee for Women's Work, which launched a concerted campaign to assist the country in places such as rural areas suffering from the scarcity of male labor, in foreign locations in need of medical care and supplies, and locally with the soldiers coming from and going to war. The Columbia University Mobilization Committee for Women's Work became the Committee on Women's War Work in June, 1917, and they, along with the Barnard College War Relief Association, spearheaded activities such as the Women's Agricultural Camp that provided manual labor to farms in upstate New York that had lost many of their farmhands to the war; nurses, through the American Red Cross, to assist with the repatriation of devastated towns and villages in France; workers, through the YMCA, to set up and work in canteens in France; and undergraduate students and alumnae who set up and worked at a canteen at the Columbia University Boathouse to feed, socialize with and entertain troops in transit through New York City going home from the war.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection has no restrictions. This collection is located on-site.
- Terms of access:
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Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Barnard College Archives. The Barnard College Archives approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes.
- Preferred citation:
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World War I War Service, 1917-1921; Box and Folder; Barnard College Archives, Barnard Library, Barnard College.
- Location of this collection:
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Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning 423Barnard College3009 BroadwayNew York, NY 10027, USA
- Before you visit:
- Please contact archives@barnard.edu with research requests or to schedule a visit; see our website for more information.
- Contact:
- archives@barnard.edu