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American Bureau for Medical Aid to China Records, 1937-2005 331 Linear Feet 271 boxes; 2 tube boxes; 1 flat box

American Bureau for Medical Aid to China

Papers of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, committee files, membership records, financial records, fund raising records, motion pictures, audio tapes, phonograph records, photographs, posters, publications of ABMAC and other printed materials. Also included are the files of related Chinese relief organizations: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, 1954-1969; American Emergency Relief, 1941-1946; United Services to China, 1941-1977. Of particular interest are approximately 6,000 photographs of Chinese medical colleges, hospitals, laboratories and personnel and 45 phonograph records including speeches by such ABMAC supporters as Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, Pearl S. Buck, Wendell Willkie, Fiorello LaGuardia and a number of movie stars

  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Collection on pandemic response and public health of China, 1911-2000s 4.4 linear feet 6 full manuscript boxes, 1 album box, 1 flat box

Cohn, Don Jonathan
The collection on pandemic response and public health of China consists of 117 titles of special publications of diverse nature, ranging from the photograph album on Harbin plague epidemic of the late Qing Dynasty, pandemic prevention reports of Republican Period, to booklets, pamphlets, posters, handbooks and statistical reports on exterminating the "Four Pests" and eradicating schistosomiasis, etc. of the 20th century, particularly post-1949 China.
  1. C.V. Starr East Asian Library