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Therese Hluchovsky postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Therese Hluchovsky postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Preprinted postcard filled out by Hluchovsky, acknowledging that she had received rations from Howland via the American Relief Administration.
Date:
1919-1922
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's father while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses relief workers' involvement in agriculture and the arrival of new relief workers. Makes brief remarks on her logistical work.
Date:
1922-05-19
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Addressed to "Dear Folks" while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses the departure and arrival of relief workers, as well as the overall food situation in the famine area for the coming year.
Date:
1922-06-08
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring report
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring report
Description:
Report on the food relief effort in Russia by Field Director Beulah Hurley Waring. Accompanied by a note saying "On resuming work in Sorochinskaya in May after a flair in typhus and two weeks exile thereafter in Moscow." See mc1225_02_01_55 for a typed version of this letter. Describes her trip to Moscow. Reports on the number of relief workers, feeding statistics, transportation of food, agricultural conditions, fall and winter feeding plans, medical efforts against epidemic diseases, and improvements wrought by relief efforts. Comments that the government's plan to employ the locals may be stymied by lack of materials for them to work with. Discusses a nearby area in the Bashkir Republic that been severely affected by the famine. Reflects on her time working in Russia and plans to return home soon.
Date:
1922-07-15
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 surveying postwar humanitarian conditions in Vienna with fellow relief worker Vincent D. Nicholson. Reports her observations on health conditions (food availability, clinics and feeding stations with a focus on services for children), active aid organizations (including the American Relief Commission and the British Food Mission), economic conditions (the value of the Austrian krone, eradication of the middle class), and political conditions (state of the government, socialist influence).
Date:
1919-10-17
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley and William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley and William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's parents while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Responds to news from home. Remarks on Russians' ability to keep houses warm in winter. Reflects on the power she and her coworkers hold as distributors of food during famine.
Date:
1922-01-21
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's father while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Describes her leisure day activities. Makes brief comments concerning relief work, including the number of rations to be delivered.
Date:
1922-02-07
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Description:
Written while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Says she has enclosed pictures, but had to send the better ones to Philadelphia for publicity. Tells them not to worry about the delay in her stipend's arrival. Reports that a number of relief workers are heading home and that there are good projections for Russian crops the coming year. Says the entanglement of nations' fates is a good sign for human progress and universal brotherhood.
Date:
1922-05-07
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley and William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley and William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's parents while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses her work, including relief work logistics, her fellow workers, and travelling via camel. Says she has had her "first real introduction to the steppes." Is somewhat homesick. Wishes them a happy new year (Julian calendar).
Date:
1922-01-13
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley and William W. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley and William W. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's parents while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses personal correspondence. Describes her recent work and activities, including the logistics of shipping food, her living conditions in Sorochinskaya, and her general daily schedule as a relief worker. Includes an illustrated floor plan of the house she's living in. Shares a list of her fellow workers, many of whom she describes at length.
Date:
1922-01-27
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to her family
Description:
Written to Waring's family while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses working at the warehouse to arrange the distribution of clothing, an incoming shipment of U.S. corn, her living situation, and news of other relief workers.
Date:
1922-03-12
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Description:
Written to Waring's mother while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker. Addressed from Nova Seergeevka. Discusses her leisure and relief activities, other relief workers, and food shipments. Says "thanks to a pretty piece of politics, we have our work cut out for us to save our local committees from being swallowed by the cooperatives who want to take on all handling of our food."
Date:
1922-02-17
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Addressed to "My dearly Beloveds;" written while Waring was in Europe as a relief worker. Discusses coordinating movement of food for relief work in Vienna, Prague, and Warsaw. Includes a rough draft of her Vienna report, which lays out the supplies most needed— coal, food, milk, clothing, medical supplies, etc.— and discusses methods of acquiring them. Provides descriptions of local living conditions and of people in need, especially children, elderly, and the sick. See mc1225_01_04_02 for a typed copy of these reports.
Date:
1919-11
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter to Achsah L. Hurley
Description:
Addressed to Waring's mother while Waring was in Europe as a relief worker. Written on letterhead of the Czech-American Summer Training School for Social Work. Discusses her relief efforts to arrange for the transportation of food.
Date:
1919-11-16
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring Sorochinskoye Day Book
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring Sorochinskoye Day Book
Description:
Entries dated 1922-06-23 - 1922-09-02. Written while Waring was in Russia as a famine relief worker. Records precise numbers of people assisted, food and medicine distributed, transportation, and details of other events. Blank pages not scanned.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"The Harvest of Grass" essay
Title:
"The Harvest of Grass" essay
Description:
Written by Robert W. Dunn while in Russia as a relief worker; likely dated 1922. Reports on the famine conditions in Alexeyevka and the dependence on Quaker aid.
Date:
1921 - 1922
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
"Samara- August 1922" essay
Title:
"Samara- August 1922" essay
Description:
Written by Robert W. Dunn while in Russia as a relief worker. Discusses famine in the Samara region in 1922, contrasting the urban and rural living conditions.
Date:
1922-08
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
American Relief Administration postcards
Title:
American Relief Administration postcards
Description:
Preprinted postcards filled out by Therese Hluchovsky, [name illegible], Elise Wiesterhold, and Franz Hojsa, thanking Howland for sending food via the American Relief Administration. Page 2: Therese Hluchovsky thanks Howland for the food relief packet; writes that it reached her family at a time of great need when they were all "quite far from joy" and their seven children hadn't seen milk in months, let alone rice. Page 6: Elise Wiesterhold writes her thanks in the style of a prayer to the baby Jesus from Hilda, Herminie, Anna and Elga (presumably, her daughters). Page 8: Message from Franz Hojsa expressing raised hopes thanks to her help; says that he, his sick wife and seven children are in dire straights due to famine.
Date:
1919-1922
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
American Relief Administration food plan
Title:
American Relief Administration food plan
Description:
American Relief Administration European Children's Fund plan for food distribution to children in Austria.
Date:
1919-11-24
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring journal
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring journal
Description:
Continued from mc1225_01_06_15. Written while Waring was in Russia as a relief worker, dated 1922-01-04 - 1922-01-18. Typed account of relief news and activities, including fellow workers, traveling, distribution of food.
Date:
1922-01-04
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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