Register of the Mary Catherine Roberts papers
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Title: Mary Catherine Roberts papers
Date (inclusive): 1918-1978
Collection Number: 2001C37
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 microfilm reel
(0.15 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to American Red Cross relief work in Siberia during the
Russian Civil War.
Creator:
Roberts, Mary Catherine, 1884-1978
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[Identification of item], Mary Catherine Roberts papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.
1884 (?) | Born, England |
1919-1920 | Nurse, Siberian Commission of the American Red Cross |
? | County school nurse in Yakima |
Received a degree in public health form the University of Washington | |
1960 | Retired and returned to Seattle |
1978 | Died, Seattle |
Mary Roberts was born in England on 8 October 1884, trained there as a nurse, and subsequently emigrated to the United States.
During the First World War, she joined the army medical services, and was sent to Siberia to serve with the American Red Cross
in May 1919.
The materials in her collection reflect her service in Vladivostok and include clippings, correspondence, bulletins and other
material pertaining to Red Cross and YMCA work in Siberia in 1919-1920. Some of her letters and reports were published in
the Washington state press.
Following her return to the United States in 1920, she received a degree in public health from the University of Washington,
and worked as a school nurse in Yakima county, Washington. She retired in 1960 and moved to Seattle, where she died on 3 June
1978.
Mary Catherine Roberts was a nurse with the Siberian Commission of the American Red Cross in 1919-1920. She spent several
months in Vladivostok and Irkutsk, where the Red Cross gave relief to Russian refugees. This collection contains clippings
about the activities of the American Red Cross in Siberia, the evacuation of Russian children from Vladivostok to Petrograd
in 1920-1921, the execution of the Czar's family, and several issues of
The Siberian See-Chas, a bulletin for the Members of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also
provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum
of Russian Culture, San Francisco as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available
at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Siberia (Russia) -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian relief
International relief
American National Red Cross
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE 1919-1978
reel 1
Scrapbook
Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 1. Includes passport and clippings about M. C. Roberts, activities of the American
Red Cross in Siberia, execution of the Czar's family, several issues of
The Siberian See-Chas, a bulletin for the Members of the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia and
The American Red Cross, the Siberian Commission bulletin, reports about the evacuation of the American Red Cross from Omsk
PHOTOGRAPHS undated
Photo Album
Museum of Russian Culture Box/Folder 1 : 6. Album pictures taken by war correspondents and collected by a member of the American
Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, depicting Red Cross personnel, Czechoslovak Legion in Siberia, General Horvat, General Gaida's
insurrection, Admiral Kolchak, the Bolshevik army, and Allied Expeditionary Forces in Siberia.Also includes correspondence
between Alexander M. Poniatoff and Gertrude Batchelder