TY  - GEN
AU  - Colbert,John W.
TI  - John W. Colbert papers,
KW  - France
KW  - Armée
KW  - Medical personnel
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - American Expeditionary Forces
KW  - Woman's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America
KW  - San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
KW  - Earthquakes
KW  - Japan
KW  - Yokohama-shi
KW  - Fires
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - Tropical medicine
KW  - Panama
KW  - Physicians, Foreign
KW  - China
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Turkey
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Alaska
KW  - South Pacific
KW  - Participation, Female
KW  - Women
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1912-1949
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey)
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Allied intervention, 1918-1920
KW  - Tianjin (China)
KW  - Pathologists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Physicians
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076.3
ER  -