04071cpcaa2200661 4500 mm 81016345 DLC 20260227111707.0 cr ||||||||||| 820107|||||||||||| eng mm 81016345 ms 93797019 DLC DLC dacs DLC L lcmd Colbert, John W. (John William), 1880-1965. John W. Colbert papers, 1895-1966 (bulk 1903-1944). 400 items. 3 containers plus 1 oversize. 1.9 linear feet. Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1903-1966; Series 2: Writings, 1895-1964; Series 3: Miscellany, 1903-1965; and Series 4: Oversize, 1903-1941. 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 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076 France. Armée Medical personnel. United States. Army Medical personnel. United States. Army Officers. United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906. Earthquakes Japan Yokohama-shi. Fires California San Francisco. Fires Japan Yokohama-shi. Medical care Afghanistan. Nursing Study and teaching Puerto Rico. Tropical medicine Panama. Tropical medicine Puerto Rico. Physicians, Foreign China. World War, 1914-1918 Medical care Belgium. World War, 1914-1918 Medical care France. World War, 1914-1918 Medical care Turkey. World War, 1939-1945 Alaska. World War, 1939-1945 South Pacific. World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Female. World War, 1939-1945 Women. China Politics and government 1912-1949. China Social conditions. Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) History. Soviet Union History Allied intervention, 1918-1920. Tianjin (China) History. Woman's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America. Pathologists. itoamc Physicians. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076.3 43078 43078