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040 _aDLC
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_2lcmd
100 1 _aColbert, John W.
_q(John William),
_d1880-1965.
245 0 0 _aJohn W. Colbert papers,
_f1895-1966
_g(bulk 1903-1944).
300 _a400
_fitems.
300 _a3
_fcontainers plus
_a1
_foversize.
300 _a1.9
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 4 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1903-1966; Series 2: Writings, 1895-1964; Series 3: Miscellany, 1903-1965; and Series 4: Oversize, 1903-1941.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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.
544 _3Photographs
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aPathologist and physician.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 0 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076
610 1 0 _aFrance.
_bArmée
_xMedical personnel.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xMedical personnel.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy
_xOfficers.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy.
_bAmerican Expeditionary Forces.
650 0 _aSan Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
650 0 _aEarthquakes
_zJapan
_zYokohama-shi.
650 0 _aFires
_zCalifornia
_zSan Francisco.
650 0 _aFires
_zJapan
_zYokohama-shi.
650 0 _aMedical care
_zAfghanistan.
650 0 _aNursing
_xStudy and teaching
_zPuerto Rico.
650 0 _aTropical medicine
_zPanama.
650 0 _aTropical medicine
_zPuerto Rico.
650 0 _aPhysicians, Foreign
_zChina.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xMedical care
_zBelgium.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xMedical care
_zFrance.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xMedical care
_zTurkey.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zAlaska.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zSouth Pacific.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xParticipation, Female.
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_xWomen.
651 0 _aChina
_xPolitics and government
_y1912-1949.
651 0 _aChina
_xSocial conditions.
651 0 _aGallipoli Peninsula (Turkey)
_xHistory.
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xHistory
_yAllied intervention, 1918-1920.
651 0 _aTianjin (China)
_zHistory.
610 2 4 _aWoman's Ambulance and Defense Corps of America.
656 7 _aPathologists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aPhysicians.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008076.3
999 _c43078
_d43078