World Study Tour No. 18
Summer student traveling tour to study reconstruction
In the summer of 1947, Herman Field, brother of Noel Field, organized a tour for students that examined reconstruction efforts in Poland and other European countries. The group stayed at the Piekary Hospital for 2 nights.
Alex Chen
18. Maria Sołtys, 1947 : barwy druin : Warszawa i Polska w odbudowie na zdjęciach Henry’ego N. Cobba = 1947 : the colors of ruin : the reconstruction of Warsaw and Poland in the photographs of Henry N. Cobb (Warszawa: Dom Spotkań z Historią, 2012).
1947
Photograph
Hospital at Piekary
Polish Medical Mission
This was a color photograph taken of the hospital during 1947, when the students stayed for two nights.
Alex Chen
1. Maria Sołtys, 1947 : barwy druin : Warszawa i Polska w odbudowie na zdjęciach Henry’ego N. Cobba = 1947 : the colors of ruin : the reconstruction of Warsaw and Poland in the photographs of Henry N. Cobb (Warszawa: Dom Spotkań z Historią, 2012).
1947
Photograph
Rev. Howard Brooks
USC Leadership
Rev. Howard Brooks was the USC associate director who communicated frequently with Dorothea Jones during the hospital project.
Alex Chen
Ghanda DiFiglia, Roots and Visions : The First Fifty Years of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Boston: UUSC, 1990, 1990).
1947
Photograph
Henry N. Cobb Visa Application to Poland
Europe Traveling Tour
In the summer of 1947, Henry N. Cobb, then a student at the Harvard GSD, joined a group that travelled throughout Europe to observe reconstruction efforts, particularly in Poland. In September, the group stayed at the hospital in Piekary.
Alex Chen
1. Maria Sołtys, 1947 : barwy druin : Warszawa i Polska w odbudowie na zdjęciach Henry’ego N. Cobba = 1947 : the colors of ruin : the reconstruction of Warsaw and Poland in the photographs of Henry N. Cobb (Warszawa: Dom Spotkań z Historią, 2012).
1947
Document
Saving the Future in Europe
Unitarian Service Committee, Relief work
This is the cover of a publicity pamphlet, most likely distributed to USC donors. The pamphlet entered the Harvard University Library collection on October 31st, 1942. The ~50 page document illustrated the work of the USC's medical clinic in Marseilles up until early 1942, and is filled with pictures of patients being taken care of, used to indicate both the need for relief work and the "satisfactory" progress that the committee was making. The Polish team was organized by Noel H. Field, a communist sympathizer / spy and American citizen, who in 1942 was leading the clinic in France. It was he who brought together Dr. Bruk, Opalski, Tonia Lechtman, and Dorothea Jones in 1944 to begin the Polish medical mission in France, working in Polish DP camps.
Alex Chen.
Unitarian Service Committee, Saving the Future in Europe. (Boston, 194-, 194AD). Widener Library, Harvard University.
1941-1942
Pamphlet, Cover Design