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H.Mss.0230
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Title: Commission for Relief in Belgium Collection
Dates: 1920-1934
Collection number: H.Mss.0230
Creator:
C.R.B. Educational Foundation
Creator:
American Relief Administration
Extent:
1.4 Linear Feet
(1 records box and 1 document box)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, The Claremont
Colleges Library, Claremont, CA 91711.
Abstract: This collection comprises serials, publications, reports,
and correspondence related to the American Relief Administration and the Commission for Relief in Belgium [C.R.B.] Educational
Foundation from 1920 to 1934.
Administrative Information
Collection open for research.
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.
[Identification of item], Commission for Relief in Belgium Collection (H.Mss.0230). Special Collections, The Claremont Colleges
Library, The Claremont Colleges Services, Claremont, California.
No additions to the collection are anticipated.
Arranged and processed by Russell Michalak, 2008.
Biography / Administrative History
The Commission for Relief in Belgium began in 1914 follwing the outbreak of World War I. United States President Herbert Hoover
supported
the Commission and after the war, the Belgian American Educational Foundation took over the Commission for Belgian Relief.
The Commission
for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation was incorporated in 1920 and endowed with residual funds from the liquidation
of the assets
of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Its operations included the sponsoring of Belgian-American exchange fellowships,
the fostering of
Belgian-American cultural relations, and aid to child health and nutrition programs in Belgium. In 1938, it changed its name
to the Belgian
American Educational Foundation (B.A.E.F.).
The American Relief Administration was established by the U.S. Congress on February 24, 1919, as a relief mission to Europe
and, later,
post-revolutionary Russia. Its immediate predecessor was the United States Food Administration. Herbert Hoover, future president
of the
United States, who had headed both the United States Food Administration and the Commission for Relief in Belgium, was the
program director.
Congress provided the A.R.A. with a budget of $100 million, which was supplemented by an additional $100 million in private
donations. The
ARA delivered more than four million tons of relief supplies to 23 war-torn European countries. It ended its operations outside
Russia in 1922,
and in Russia in 1923.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Commission for Relief in Belgium Collection comprises serials, publications, reports, and correspondence related to the
American Relief
Administration and the Commission for Relief in Belgium [C.R.B.] Educational Foundation from 1920 to 1934. Note that numbers
33 and 43 of the
American Relief Administration Bulletin are missing from the collection. For the "American Fellows in Belgium"
and "Belgian Fellows in America" folders, each folder contains a list of fellows, preliminary reports of fellows, and final
reports of fellows
unless otherwise noted.
This collection has been organized into the following series:
- Series 1: American Relief Administration, 1921-1923
- Series 2: Commission for Relief in Belgium Educational Foundation, 1920-1934
The
Frank P. Brackett Papers contain correspondence between Brackett,
President Hoover, and other officials in Commission for Relief in Belgium. Ephemeral materials related to the Commission are
also included.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library’s online public access catalog.
American Relief Administration
Brackett, Frank Parkhurst, 1865-1951
Brown, Walter Lyman
Commission for Relief in Belgium
C.R.B. Educational Foundation
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Correspondence
Directories
Government publications
Publications
Reports