This collection documents the work of Hugh R. Jackson (1912-1966) as assistant director of the U.S. Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitations Operations (OFRRO) from 1942-1943 and as deputy director-general of the United States Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNNRA) from 1942-1945.
The Near East College Association formed in 1927 to combine financial and administrative work in a joint office for efficiency in management and to help raise endowment funds for institutions from Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Bulgaria, and Iraq. The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, publications, and records related to partner institutions.
This collection contains records related to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, established in 1915 to respond to the Armenian Genocide, and incorporated through an Act of Congress and renamed Near East Relief in 1919.