John W. Colbert papers, 1895-1966 (bulk 1903-1944).

Open to research.

Correspondence, diaries, speeches, lectures, articles, research materials, artwork, and other papers pertaining to Colbert's experiences researching tropical diseases primarily in Panama and Puerto Rico in the early 1900s, training nurses in Puerto Rico (1904-1905), assisting in relief efforts following the earthquake and firestorm in San Francisco (1906), providing medical care for the French and American armies in Belgium, the Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey), and France during World War I, accompanying American Expeditionary Forces to Russia (1918), working as a physician in Tientsin, China (1920-1937), heading the first international relief expedition to reach Yokohama-shi (Japan) following the earthquake and fire in 1923, supporting women's participation in war efforts as the founder and head of the Woman's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America in the 1940s, serving as a U.S. Army officer in the South Pacific and Alaska during World War II, and pioneering modern medical techniques in Afghanistan following the war. Includes his observations of American and European nationals in Tientsin and on political and social disorder in China in the interwar period.

Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Pathologist and physician.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

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