Inventory of the Nancy Babb papers

Finding aid prepared by Lora Soroka
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Title: Nancy Babb papers
Date (inclusive): 1917-1953
Collection Number: XX094
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Russian
Physical Description: 2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box (2.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, and memoranda, relating to American Relief Administration and American Friends Service Committee work in Russia.
Creator: Babb, Nancy J. (Nancy Jones), 1884-1948
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Nancy Babb papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

Nancy Babb was an American Relief Administration and American Friends Service Committee relief worker in Russia from 1917 to 1925.

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, reports, and memoranda, relating to American Relief Administration and American Friends Service Committee work in Russia.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian relief
International relief
American Relief Administration
American Friends Service Committee

box 1

Personal letters and greeting cards 1949-1953

Scope and Contents

Includes The Case of Tyler Kent by John Howland Snow and newspaper clippings
box 1

Diary undated

box 1

Resume and notes 1927-1929

box 1

Reminiscences of Russian peasants 1921-1926; 1947

Scope and Contents

Include recollection of Hermann Maskovski, resident of Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad) about life in the city after the end of World War II. Translated from Russian.
box 1

Play script undated

box 3

Peace stamps, made from designs in the National Circulating Library of Students' Peace Posters contest 1940

box 1

Correspondence and other materials relating to work of the American Friends Service Committee and Society of Friends in Russia 1922-1929; 1934; 1938, 1940; 1948-1951; 1968

Scope and Contents

Includes architectural drawing of a hospital building in Russia; financial documents; newspaper clippings; one photograph depicting Stalin with other Soviet leaders; and one photograph depicting Nancy Babb
box 2

Correspondence and other materials relating to work of the American Friends Service Committee and Society of Friends in Russia 1922-1929; 1934; 1938, 1940; 1948-1951; 1968

box 1

Reports, financial accounts, surveys, minutes, tables, and other documents relating to activities of the Friends International Service, Society of Friends, and health care in Russia 1918-1935 1918-1935

Scope and Contents

Includes one poster and a report to N. A. Semashko, People's Commissar of Health (in box 1, folder 21); printed matter (box 2, folder 1), some correspondence (box 2, folder 4), general plan of a hospital (box 2, folder 9)
box 2

Reports, financial accounts, surveys, minutes, tables, and other documents relating to activities of the Friends International Service, Society of Friends, and health care in Russia 1918-1935

box 2

Printed matter relating to the 1939 National Peace Poster Content 1939

box 2

Clippings 1929