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Central Europe conditions notes
Title:
Central Europe conditions notes
Description:
Notes discussing postwar conditions in Poland and the Czech Republic; passes along several stories and observations.
Date:
1919-10
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Written while Waring was in Europe as a relief worker. Discusses her journey to and arrival in Warsaw on relief business. Also discusses her travel plans home to the U.S.
Date:
1919-11-18
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Polish Report to American Friends Service Committee
Title:
Polish Report to American Friends Service Committee
Description:
Pages are damaged and some text is missing. Probably written by Beulah Hurley Waring while she was in Europe as a relief worker. Discusses relief efforts in Vienna, Prague, and Poland, including coordinating the movement and supply of food.
Date:
1919-11-27
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"Poland To-Day and To-Morrow" pamphlet
Title:
"Poland To-Day and To-Morrow" pamphlet
Description:
Pamphlet by Friends' Relief Committee discussing the famine and refugee crisis in Poland as well as Quaker relief efforts.
Date:
1922-05
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Humanitarian Survey notebook
Title:
Humanitarian Survey notebook
Description:
Notes on survey made in Autumn 1919 by Vincent Nicholson and Beulah Hurley before going home in Dec. Poland, Austria, Hungary, Czechosovakia. The notes catalog aspects of the postwar humanitarian conditions in Central and Eastern Europe: health conditions (prevalence of diseases, availability of food, hospital services), economic conditions (prices and availability of common goods), political conditions, active aid organizations, and prisons.
Date:
1919
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Harry Stevens article excerpt
Title:
Harry Stevens article excerpt
Description:
Note likely by Beulah Hurley Waring states "Page cut out of an article on return to one of the evacuated Polish districts. Had to cut a lot to put in the Bulletin & hated to, for it is all interesting. Written by Harry Stevens [sp?] with whom I travelled from Warsaw down to Zawiercie last winter." Excerpt possibly refers to events in the Polish–Soviet War.
Date:
1920
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rations for refugees. Holme.
Title:
Rations for refugees. Holme.
Description:
Group of Polish refugees (mostly children) receiving rations from Friends volunteer; photograph by H.P. Holme.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
Partially reconstructed village - Poland. Wilno[?] district.
Title:
Partially reconstructed village - Poland. Wilno[?] district.
Description:
Village in the midst of post-war reconstruction.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
Communication bridge over battle-field. Poland. Oct. 1922.
Title:
Communication bridge over battle-field. Poland. Oct. 1922.
Description:
Communication bridge at Poland battlefield destroyed after fighting
Date:
1922-10
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
Kitchen of Feeding Centre.
Title:
Kitchen of Feeding Centre.
Description:
Small hut serving as feeding center kitchen.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
Transport in Poland. Holme.
Title:
Transport in Poland. Holme.
Description:
Two militantly dressed men standing by automobile, large bags; photograph by H.P. Holme.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
Quarters of the Unit at [Gaurercie?]
Title:
Quarters of the Unit at [Gaurercie?]
Description:
Friends headquarters building in Poland.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
Temporary shelter.
Title:
Temporary shelter.
Description:
Widow standing outside of hut constructed of sticks, hay, etc. that housed her and three children in the summer.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
[Cement Blocks]
Title:
[Cement Blocks]
Description:
Relief workers setting down rows of cement blocks onto the ground near a building in the middle of construction.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
A deep underground home inhabited for two years.
Title:
A deep underground home inhabited for two years.
Description:
Small family outside of an earth sheltered home they have lived in for two years.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
A widow who needed the help of the Mission
Title:
A widow who needed the help of the Mission
Description:
Military man standing with widow in need of aid outside of her earth sheltered home.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
The Mobile Column ready to go up into the Carpathians. p. 2: 4
Title:
The Mobile Column ready to go up into the Carpathians. p. 2: 4
Description:
Group of relief workers posing with horses and carriage before all embark on trip into the Carpathian Mountains.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
ARA Food Eaters.
Title:
ARA Food Eaters.
Description:
Group of children who benefited from the food relief provided by the American Relief Administration (ARA)'
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
House where Napoleon I stopped + made speech from balcony.
Title:
House where Napoleon I stopped + made speech from balcony.
Description:
Handful of people outside of Polish home where Napoleon I stopped to deliver a speech from the balcony.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922
Children at lessons. Poland. / 5. Children at lessons, S.oF. Poland.
Title:
Children at lessons. Poland. / 5. Children at lessons, S.oF. Poland.
Description:
Two rows of children tending to lessons at Polish school, several teachers presiding.
Date:
(approximate) 1919
Collection:
Quaker Relief in Europe, 1914-1922

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