Colbert, John W. (John William) 1880-1965 creator mixed material monographic eng 400 3 1 1.9 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. Open to research. 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 Physicians mm 81016345 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076.3 Open to research. DLC 820107 20260227111707.0 mm 81016345