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Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries East Asian Library
Title: Harriet Wood papers
Creator:
Wood, Harriet, 1917-2001
Identifier/Call Number: 3327
Physical Description:
5.31 Linear Feet
8 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1935-1990
Abstract: This collection contains the papers of Harriet Wood (1917-2001), a devout American Christian who worked in South Korea from
1966 to 1978. Materials include journals kept by Wood in Korea, photographs and slides, correspondence, writings, and Bible
and devotional material.
Language of Material:
English,
Korean.
Harriet Wood (1917-2001) was born Harriet Martha Todd in Seattle, Washington, in 1917. She became a born-again Christian at
about twenty years old. In 1956, she began working for World Vision, a Christian missionary organization, and from 1966 to
1978 worked for the group in South Korea. While there she managed the World Vision guest house in Seoul and was a secretary
to Marlin Nelson, president of World Vision, Korea. In 1978, Wood returned to the United States and continued working for
World Vision in Monrovia, California. Wood had one daughter, Joanne, and one adopted Korean son. Wood's husband, Edward Wood,
died in 1964.
This collection contains the papers of Harriet Wood (1917-2001), a devout American Christian who worked in South Korea from
1966 to 1978. Materials include journals kept by Wood in Korea, photographs and slides, correspondence, writings, and Bible
and devotional material. Items often reflect Wood's religious life and time in Korea, as well as her involvement with the
Christian humanitarian organizations World Vision and the United World Mission.
There are also correspondence and travel logs kept by Wood and her sister Ruth Todd while visiting Alaska in 1935, as well
as an additional Alaska travelogue by Wood from 1949. There is also a personal photograph album, circa 1907, primarily depicting
unidentified young men and their friends and family in the United States, including in a mining area in South Dakota.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Korean Heritage Library
at eal@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Korean Heritage Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Harriet Wood papers, Collection no. 3327, Korean Heritage Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Joanne Small, 2001.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Korea -- Description and travel -- Archival resources
Korea (South) -- Description and travel -- Photographs
Missionaries -- Korea (South) -- Archival resources
Christians -- Korea (South) -- Archival resources
Korea (South) -- Photographs
Alaska -- Description and travel
Audiocassettes
Correspondence
Journals (accounts)
Photographs
Religious texts
Slides (photographs)
Wood, Harriet, 1917-2001 -- Archives
World Vision International -- Archives
World Vision International -- Photographs