Register of the Anna V.S. Mitchell papers

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Title: Anna V.S. Mitchell papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-1944
Collection Number: 67016
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English
Physical Description: 7 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 9 envelopes (3.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, memorabilia, and photographs, relating to World War I relief work in France, 1915-1920, and relief work with Russian refugees in Istanbul, 1921-1936.
Creator: Mitchell, Anna V. S.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Biographical Note

1915-1916 Worked in Paris with French Institution for the Blind at Reuilly
1916-1917 Served in canteen for Belgians in Calais and for the French at Bar-le-Duc
1917-1919 Organized and directed Cantine des Deux Drapeaux at Chalon-sur-Marne under the American Red Cross
1919-1920 Head of Post de Secours in the region of Colonne-sur-la-Lyse Pas de Calais
1921-1936 Relief work for Russian refugees in Istanbul

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
Refugees
International relief
World War, 1914-1918 -- France
Russians -- Turkey
Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930
Nansen International Office for Refugees

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1922-1944

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
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Acheson, Barclay (Director, General Overseas Operations, Near East Relief) 1925 1927 1929

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Aktiebolaget Stockholms Patenbyra 1924

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Alaeff, C. 1929-1933

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Alame, Th. 1935

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Aleeff, Madame

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Alianoff, Serafima

box 1

American Committee on the Evacuation of Russian Youth in Exile 1924

box 1

American Committee on the Evacuation of Russian Refugees from Turkey 1930

box 1

American Consul in Constantinople 1924

box 1

American Hospital of Instanbul 1936

box 1

Anderson, Mrs.

box 1

Araxis, Miss 1929-1931

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Artinoff, E. 1930

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Ashby, Mrs. Corbett 1935

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Astor, Lady 1935

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Baker, Harry T. 1930

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Barkowsky, Gregoire 1925

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Battle, George Gordon 1927

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Bedjitsky, Mr. 1930

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Beliayeff, Olga 1932

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Berestneff, Nathalie 1924

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Bird, Charles S. 1924 1935

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Bjorset, B. 1929

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Bogoroditsky, V. 1932

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Bouimistrow, W.W. (President, Russian Refugee Relief Society of America, Inc.) 1924-1927

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Bridge, Dr.

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Bristol, Admiral 1924

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Bristol, Mrs. 1922-1923 1925

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Bullard, Mrs. 1935

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Burgess, Thomas H. 1924

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Butler, H.B. (Deputy Director, International Labor Office) 1926 1928

box 1

Caldwell, R.J. 1925-1928

box 1

Charpentier, J.M. 1926

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Childs, S. Lawford (Chief Delegate, Balkans High Commissariat for Refugees, League of Nations) 1924-1926

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Christian Century, The 1935

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Coffey, Dr. 1925

box 1

Coolidge, Mrs. 1929

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Couteaux, G. 1930

box 1

Croker, Mrs. 1929

box 1

Crowdy, Dame Rachel (Secretariat, League of Nations) 1927

box 1

Curran, Henry H. (Commissioner of Immigration, Ellis Island, N.Y.) 1923

box 1

Cutting, R. Fulton 1927

box 1

Day, W.H. (Controller of Supplies, Near East Relief, Constantinople) 1925

box 1

Demetrius

box 1

Draper, Ruth

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Drummond, Sir Eric (Secretary General, League of Nations) 1925 1930

box 1

Duras, Victor Hugo 1930

box 1

Emergency Fund for Russian Refugees in Constantinople and the Balkan States 1923

box 1

Ermoloff, Dm. 1923

box 1

Euler, A. (Delegate, Russian Zemstvos Union in Bulgaria) 1924

box 1

Evans, P.M. 1935

box 1

Feldman, L.E. (Delegate, Russian Red Cross in Bulgaria) 1922-1928 1931

box 1

Ferriere, Mademoiselle 1935

box 1

Fricero, Madame 1926-1927

box 2

Galuzevski, Rostislav A. 1944

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General Relief Committee, Inc. 1926

box 2

Golitzinsky, Vera 1929

box 2

Golovine, Pierre N. 1938

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Gomella, Mr. 1925

box 2

Gouraud, General 1935

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Le Gouverneur, Gouvernement Militaire de Paris 1935

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Grayson, Admiral Cary T.

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Grew, Mrs.

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Grujitsky, Victor 1930

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Hall, Margaret 1923

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Haritma, Marietche

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Hesse, P. 1925

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Hoover, Herbert Clark 1927

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Hoppin, Mrs. 1929

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Howard, Mrs. 1924-1925

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Howard, Sarah G.

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Huber, Max 1931-1933

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Hughes, Miss 1925

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Huntington, Elizabeth 1935

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Ignatieff, Count 1927-1928

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Ilowayskaya, Sophie 1937

box 2

International Migration Service 1925 1927 1929 1935-1936 1941

box 2

International Red Cross 1925

box 2

International Student Service (World Student Christian Federation) 1928

box 2

Johnson, J.F. (Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees, League of Nations) 1927-1929

box 2

Johnson, Major J. (Chief of Refugee Service, International Labor Office, League of Nations) 1925-1930 1934-1935

box 2

Joint Foreign Committee of the Jewish Board of Deputies and the Anglo-Jewish Association 1928

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Kasantzeff, N.A. 1928

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Ken, W. Clark 1938

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Keretoff, I. 1924

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Kookharenko, S. 1930

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Kousina, Madame

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Kousik, V. 1928

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de Lannux, Pierre 1927

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Lansing, Mrs.

box 2

Leach, Henry G. 1923

 

League of Nations

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High Commission for Refugees, Constantinople 1924

box 2

International Labor Office, Belgrade 1925

box 2

Lemtiaugov, N. 1927 1929

box 2

Lichensky, Alex

box 2

Lindsay, Sir Ronald

box 2

Loomis, Henry B.

box 2

Magnusson, Leifur (Director, International Labor Office) 1927

box 2

March, Mr. 1927

box 2

Marinkovitch, Dr. V. (Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) 1928

box 2

Maximoff, Mr. 1925

box 2

McCormick, Cyrus H. 1922 1928-1929

box 2

McGrath, Mr. 1924

box 2

Mihailoff, M. & T. 1927

box 2

Minister of Norway 1935

box 2

Mitchell, Clarence B. 1925 1929-1930

box 2

Monin, Anr[UNK]e 1928

box 2

Moore, Mr. 1927

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Morgan, Edwin V. 1926

box 2

Morrison, Dr. C.C. 1935

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Morrow, Mrs. 1929

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Nadolsky, Tata

box 2

Nansen, Dr. Fridtjof (High Commissioner for Refugees) 1925 1927-1929

box 2

Nansen International Office for Refugees 1931 1933 1936-1938

box 2

National Russian Students Christian Association in the U.S.A. 1924

box 2

Nebolsine, G.

box 2

Nolan, Miss 1925

box 2

Novitsky, George (President, Society of Friends of Russian Culture)

box 2

Novoye Russkoe Slove 1926

box 2

Olive, V.S. 1924

box 2

Ossipoff, Theodore 1930-1931

box 2

Panoff, Mr.

box 2

Pantuckoff, Oleg I. 1928

box 2

Parycheff, Serge 1927

box 2

Payne, Judge J.B. 1922

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Pelekhine, Natalie 1935

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Perry, Clara E. 1929

box 2

Penshkoff, Timothy V. 1930-1931

box 3

Peterson, Martha 1925-1926

box 3

Petukhova, Nona 1930

box 3

Phocassoff, Nathalie 1929

box 3

Piaskovski, M. 1932

box 3

Pitenko-Petrowsky, E.

box 3

Poland, W.B. 1922

box 3

Popoff, Igor 1930

box 3

de Postels, Mrs. M. 1926-1927

box 3

Practical Technical Cources in Sofia (Bulgaria) 1923

box 3

Ravndal, Gabriel B. (U.S. Consul in Constantinople) 1924

box 3

Razoumovsky, B. 1930

box 3

Rijov, Nicolas 1924

box 3

Ring, Mr. & Mrs. 1924

box 3

Ringland, Arthur C. 1924

box 3

Roebling, John A. 1930-1937

box 3

Ruggles, Alma 1922

box 3

Russian American Information & Service Bureau 1930

box 3

Russian Red Cross, Belgrade 1924

box 3

Russian Red Cross Society in Novisade, Serbia 1925

box 3

Russian Refugee Relief Society of America, Inc. 1924-1928

box 3

Schebounine, M. 1934

box 3

Schlemmer, Raymond

box 3

Scott, Charles (Acting Director, Foreign Operations, ARC) 1922

box 3

Service Social d'Aide aux Emigrants 1931

box 3

Sheltman, Constance 1925

box 3

Shishkin, Boris B. (President, Russian Literary Society, Columbia Univ.) 1927-1928

box 3

Sikorsky Manufacturing Corporation 1927

box 3

Smernoff, Tatiana (President, Russo-Bulgarian Committee of Ladies in Varna)

box 3

Smith, Lloyd

box 3

Soushtchinsky, Marie (Head nurse, Russian Red Cross in Bulgaria)

box 3

Spelt, Anna 1928

box 3

Spioung, Arcady 1929

box 3

Stcherbina, Georges

box 3

Sterladin, Alex 1925

box 3

Stokes, Anson Phelps 1922-1924 1926 1928-1930 1934-1935

box 3

Stokes, Mrs. A.P. 1922 1930-1931

box 3

Straudman, Mr.

box 3

Sturgis, Mr. 1924

box 3

Swift, Mr. 1935

box 3

Taressenkoff, K. & S.

box 3

Tcharykow, Vera 1937-1938

box 3

Tetkoff, Theodore

box 3

Thomas, Albert (Director, International Labor Office) 1926-1928

box 3

Toler, Mr. 1935

box 3

Tritchel, Dr. (Chief Doctor, Russian Red Cross) 1922

 

U.S. Department of Labor

box 3

General 1930

box 3

Immigration Service 1930

box 3

U.S. Protection and Indemnity, Inc., European Branch 1927

box 3

U.S. Secretary of State 1929

box 3

Le Vali de Constantinople 1925

box 3

Vickrey, Charles V. 1927

box 3

Vidovsky, Nicolas 1928

box 3

Walcott, Frederic (U.S. Senator) 1930

box 3

Werner, A. 1933

box 3

Werner, Professor George 1934

box 4

Whiting, Mrs. Jasper (Chairman, Emergency Fund for Russian Refugees in Constantinople and the Balkan States) 1922-1923

box 4

Wilson, Florence 1925-1926

box 4

Wilson, Hon. Hugh 1935

box 4

Wiren, Alexis 1929

box 4

Yanchenko, Basil J. 1927

box 4

Yerokine, Igor S. 1942

box 4

Y.M.C.A. International Committee, Practical & Technical Courses in Sofia 1923

box 4

Yourieff, S. 1928

box 4

Youssoupoff, Prince 1925

box 4

Yurevich, Irene

box 4

Zabegailoff, I. 1936-1938

box 4

Zomnovsky, P. (Delegate, Russian Red Cross in Bulgaria) 1925

box 4

Miscellaneous

 

SUBJECT FILE 1920-1940

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, lists, etc., arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 4

Addresses and names

box 4

Agreement of the American Committee with the Nansen Office 1931-1935

box 4

American Central Committee for Russian Relief, Inc. Annual Report 1921-1922

box 4

American Committee, Constantinople. Delegates to High Commission Expense account

box 4

American Committee for Constantinople Russian Refugees

box 4

American Cooperative Committee Meeting 1929 September 26

 

American Red Cross, Constantinople Chapter

box 4

General 1923

box 4

Monthly Bulletin 1922-1923

box 4

American Red Cross, South Eastern Base, Supply Dept.

 

American Society for Relief of Russian Exiles, Inc.

box 4

Fifth report 1935-1936

box 4

Awards, certificates, diplomas, passes, etc.

box 4

Bebek Orphanage

box 4

Biographic information on refugees (A-B)

box 4

Cantine feeding - survival

box 4

Central Bureau for Relief of the Evangelical Churches of Europe 1935

box 4

Chirgrin, Leonid

box 4

Constantinople Chapter

box 4

Contributions

box 4

Displaced persons

box 4

Emergency Fund for Russian Refugees in Constantinople and the Balkan States

box 4

Finances

box 4

Kaparulin, Valentin

box 4

Kouzmin-Karavaeff, Madame

box 4

Nansen International Office for Refugees

box 4

"New Constitution of the USSR" by Vera Micheles Dean 1937

box 4

Ovtchinnikoff, Monsieur

box 5

Pietukhova, Nona

box 5

"Le Probleme des Derniers Refugees Russes de Constantinople"

box 5

"The Refugee Problem and the League of Nations" by Michael Hansen 1938

box 5

Russian conscripts 1931

box 5

Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Palestine

box 5

Russian Refugee Relief in Constantinople

box 5

Russian Refugee Relief Society of America, Inc., Boston Committee 1924

 

Russian Refugees

box 5

General

box 5

Brazil

box 5

Bulgaria

box 5

France

box 5

Panama

box 5

Peru

box 5

Serbia

box 5

USA

box 5

Uruguay

box 5

Russian Relief Society of America, Inc.

box 5

Tolstoy Foundation, Inc.

box 5

Union of Russian Zemstvos 1923

box 5

Union of Russian Zemstovos Institutions in Bulgaria

 

MISCELLAENOUS

box 5

Clippings

box 7

Medals

box 5

Memorabilia

box 5

Miscellaenous notes, documents, etc.

 

PHOTOGRAPHS

envelope A

43 prints dealing with A. Mitchell's relief work with Russian refugees in Istanbul undated

envelope B, online digital

23 prints in an album dealing with Russian Cossaks in Bulgaria and Serbia undated

envelope C

1 print of Anna V. S. Mitchell in Washington, D. C early 1900s

envelope D

28 prints depicting scenes of World War I devastation in France undated

envelope E

421 prints depicting scenes of World War I devastation and relief work by Anna V. S. Mitchell in France 1919-1921

envelope F

World War I scenes (continued)

envelope G

World War I scenes (continued)

envelope H

World War I scenes (continued)

envelope I

60 negatives from the above prints

 

MEMORABILIA

Scope and Contents

Hand painted thank you scrapbook dedicated to Miss Ruggles and Miss Mitchell from Russians in Turkey; ornate beaded velvet cover, two photographs
box 8, online digital

Scrapbook with ornate beaded velvet cover containing hand painted thank yous dedicated to Miss Ruggles and Miss Mitchell from Russians in Turkey undated

box 7

Two photographs originally located in the scrapbook

 

1975 INCREMENTAL MATERIALS

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1914-1954

box 6

American Board Mission in the Near East 1936

box 6

Betts, Mary undated

box 6

Bliss, Mildred 1940

box 6

Deletoile, Monsieur 1919

box 6

Florance, E. L. undated

 

France

box 6

Ministry of Liberated Regions 1919

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Pas-de-Calais 1919

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Fry, Miss 1935

box 6

Gascouin, General 1920

box 6

Gertrude 1939

box 6

Guedroitz, O. 1935

box 6

Hockering, Ernest 1940

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Hocking, William Ernest 1941

box 6

Hughson, Mary H. 1914

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Johnson, T. F. 1936

box 6

Kerr, W. Clark 1941

box 6

Lawrence 1954

box 6

Morawetz, Mrs. Victor 1951

box 6

Nollet, General 1919

box 6

Pfaffle, Caroline undated

box 6

Phillips, Tracy 1942

box 6

Royce, Josiah undated

box 6

Selevine, W. 1933

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Stephens, S. 1916

box 6

Stokes, Anson Phelps 1922

box 6

Miscellaneous

 

SUBJECT FILE circa 1919-1954

box 6

Congratulations, tributes, thank-you's, etc.

box 6

Farwell, Mildred

box 6

Lemtiougov, Nicholas

box 6

Passports

box 6

Refugees of England, Incorporated 1940-41

box 6

Religious poetry and songs

box 6

Rockefeller Memorial 1922

box 6

Russian refugees in Istanbul

box 6

Tolstoy Foundation

box 6

Urgent Relief for France 1939-1941

box 6

Watson, Forbes, "Serving 10,000 Meals a Day" undated

 

MISCELLANEOUS

Scope and Contents note

Clippings, medals, memorabilia, miscellaneous notes, documents, etc.
box 6

Notes, documents, etc.