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  • Classification Number: 1VW
  • Title of Record Series: World War I
  • Record Group: College
  • Date: November 23, 1978
  • Accession Number:
  • Sub Group: World Wars
  • Source: existing files
  • Restrictions: none
  • Cross References: 7
  • Volume: 6 boxes, oversize materials
  • Work to be done: cross references: Alumnae
Description:

Records of Wellesley College activities in World War I; dating from 1914 to 1925; apparently kept by President Ellen Fitz Pendleton; consisting of correspondence, minutes, publications, financial reports, telegrams, fliers, newspaper clippings, a publicity scrapbook, insignia, certificates, photographs, a photograph album, license plates (ambulance), and an index card file; concerning Wellesley Units, the Wellesley College Ambulance, alumnae activities, war related activities of Ellen Fitz Pendleton, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the Woman's Land Army of America, and the Vassar Training Camp for Nurses.

Box 1
  • War Conditions I: General (1914-1917)
  • War Conditions II: General (1917-1922)
  • American Committee for Devastated France (1918-1919); Belleau Wood Memorial Association (1921-1922)
  • Association of Collegiate Alumnae: War Service Committee (1917-1918)
  • Food Administration (1916-1918)
  • Comité France-Américain pour la Protection des Enfants de la Frontière [see also work Records committee under Caroline Rogers Hill ‘00]
  • National War Work Council of the YMCA, United War Work Campaign, Student Division (1918)
  • Vassar Training Camp for Nurses (1918)
  • War Prohibition (1917-1918)
  • War Work Council of the YWCA (1918-1919)
  • Wellesley College Ambulance (1915-1919); Sophie Jewett Ambulance
  • Wellesley College Mobilization Committee (1917-1918)
  • Wellesley College News' Sources (1915-1916)
  • Wellesley College Patriotic Service Committee (1915-1921)
  • Wellesley College Victory Liberty Loan Industrial Honor Flag (1919)
  • Wellesley College War Council: War Chest (1918-1919)
  • Wellesley College War Council: War Relief Committee (1918-1919)
  • Wellesley College War Garden (1917-1919)
  • Wellesley College War Records Committee: Formative Communication (1918)
  • Wellesley College War Records Committee: War Work by Wellesley Alumnae, Class of 1883 to Class of 1900
Box 2
  • Wellesley College War Records Committee: War Work by Wellesley Alumnae, Class of 1902 to Class of 1910
  • Wellesley College War Records Committee: War Work by Wellesley Alumnae, Class of 1911
  • Wellesley College War Records Committee: War Work by Wellesley Alumnae, Class of 1912 to Class of 1914
  • Wellesley College War Records Committee: War Work by Wellesley Alumnae, Class of 1914 to Class of 1918
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: General (1917-1918)
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Literature
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Patterns for Garments Wellesley College War Service Committee: Reports (1917-1922) Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad (1919-1922)
Box 3
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Fourth Wellesley Unit in France, Photograph Album
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Loose Photographs of France
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Near
  • East Unit (1916-1925) (including material related to other Wellesley war activities)
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Near East Unit (1919-1925)
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Publicity Scrapbook (1918-1920)
Box 4
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Loose Items from Publicity Scrapbook, General (1918-1920)
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Loose Items from Publicity Scrapbook, First Wellesley Unit in France (1918-1919)
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Loose Items from Publicity Scrapbook, Y.M.C.A. Unit (1918-1920)
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: >Loose Items from Publicity Scrapbook, Near East Unit (1919-1920)
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Loose Items from Publicity Scrapbook, Reconstruction Unit (1919-1920)
  • Wellesley College War Service, Newspaper Clippings (1915-1920)
  • Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, Massachusetts Division (1917-1918)
  • Woman's Land Army of America: Wellesley College Training Camp and Experiment Station (1918-1919)
  • Woman's Land Army of America: Wellesley College Training Camp and Experiment Station, Publications (1918-1919)
Box 5 and 5a
  • Wellesley College War Records Committee: Wellesley College Roll of Honor, Index Card File [one by class or other category; one alphabetical]
Box 6
  • Wellesley College Ambulance: American Field Service in France Certificate of Service (1918)
  • Wellesley College Ambulance: "Wellesley College" Identification Plate
  • Wellesley College War Service Committee: Wellesley Units Abroad: Near East Unit Statements (1921-1923)
  • Map of France: Departement de l'Aisne
OVERSIZE
  • Framed Wellesley College Roll of Honor
  • Certificate of Poets' Ambulance for Italy in Memory of Sophie Jewett

Created By: Dorothy Brown '09 || Maintained By: Jane Callahan and Ian Graham || Date Created: January 10, 2008 || Last Modified: October 15, 2012