HLTH 218: Experiencing and Responding to Illness and Disability (HC) Spring 2016

Includes mentions of the Civil War.

1862-1863 to Deborah Haines and Josiah Haines describe battles, encampments and many vivid details concerning the war.

Hallowell was a soldier in the Civil War.

Albumen print by Alexander Gardner.

A stereogram of a photograph originally taken in April, 1862 with information on a pictorial war history on the back.

Julia Wilbur lived in Alexandria, Virginia, during the time of the Civil War, and her diaries tell of the upheavals caused by the war.

Includes two diaries kept by James Babbitt from 1917 to 1919 which describe the work of emergency relief in France beginning with the departure of Dr. Babbitt and 54 men from Haverford College in August 1917 and through the establishment and operation of a hospital in France; weekly hospital reports from August 1918; and photographs.

Scrapbooks of James A. Babbitt, including a photo album of the Quaker relief effort organized by the American Friends Service Committee in France during World War I and a scrapbook of clippings related to Babbitt's work with the AFSC. (975 A)

Includes illustrations and maps.

Oct. 1914- Feb. 1915.
"Private and confidential; not to be published in any form" according to the pamphlet

Haines's papers, mostly letters to his family, cover his time working for the Reconstruction Unit of the American Friends Service Committee, including building and repairing houses and schools and assisting locals during and after World War I in both France and Germany.

Oct. 1914- April 1915.
Contains names of committees, members of the Unit, nursing and housekeeping staff, contributors, as well as the Treasurer's report and history

Includes information on water, sanitation, quarantine, infant mortality in box 9.

Josiah White was an engineer who build the canal which helped to bring coal from Western PA to Philadelphia. He often comments on the setbacks to the project caused by ill health among the workers.

Cope was on the Philadelphia City Council, and his papers from his role there include the "committee for watering the city."

The society had two main foci: The House of Industry, where women were employed to sew and weave and Friends House for Older People, established to provide work and a social gathering for elderly members of the community.

The Germantown Employment Society for Women originated out of a concern felt by a group of Quaker women associated with Germantown Monthly Meeting to aid women with little or no income and no way of earning money outside the home.

According to an article of its constitution, the objects of the New York Colored Mission were the “religious, moral and social elevation of the colored people.” Programs to this end were classes in cooking, sewing, carpentry, bible instruction also a lodging house, employment agency, district nurse and the Fresh Air program, which gave black women and children a chance to spend some time in the country.