Summary Information
At a Glance
| Bib ID: | 4079642 View CLIO record |
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| Creator(s): | American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. |
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| Title: | American Bureau for Medical Aid to China Records,
1937-1979.
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| Physical description: | 50 linear ft (ca. 51,350 items in 109 boxes; 5 scrapbooks; 5 oversize folders; 1 oversize photograph album; 43 phonograph tapes; and 5 audio tapes.
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| Language(s): | In English
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| Access: |
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Description
Scope and Content
Papers of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, Inc., consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, committee files, membership records, financial records, fund raising records, motion pictures, audio tapes, phonograph records, photographs, posters, publications of ABMAC and other printed materials. Also included are the files of related Chinese relief organizations: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, 1954-1969; American Emergency Relief, 1941-1946; United Services to China, 1941-1977. Of particular interest are approximately 6,000 photographs of Chinese medical colleges, hospitals, laboratories and personnel and 45 phonograph records including speeches by such ABMAC supporters as Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, Pearl S. Buck, Wendell Willkie, Fiorello LaGuardia and a number of movie stars.
Series I: Cataloged Correspondence
Series II: Permanent File
Series III: Program Files
Series IV: Alfred Kohlberg File
Series V: Development Files
Series VI: Fellowship Name File
Arranged chronologically and subarranged according to first letter of last name.
Series VII: Fellowships and Program Files
Series VIII: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals
Series IX: American Emergency Committee for Tibetan Refugees
Series X: Free China Fund
Series XI: United China Relief and Subject File
Series XII: United Service to China: Subject File
Series XIII: Photographs
Series XIV: Printed Materials
Series XV: 1986 Addition
Series XVI: Printed Materials
Series XVII: Audio Visual, etc.
Subseries XVII.3: Phonograph Records
Most discs are generally labeled "United China Relief." However, there is an inconsistency as some labels are marked differently than others
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Using the Collection
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Access Restrictions
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least two business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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Restrictions on Use
Readers must use microfilm of materials specified above. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Preferred Citation
ABMAC. Rare Book and Manuscript
Library. Columbia University.
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About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries. Rare Book and Manuscript Library; machine readable finding aid created by Columbia University Libraries Digital Library Program Division
Processing Information
Processed 06/11/90 HR
Machine readable finding aid generated from MARC-AMC source via XSLT conversion June 26, 2009
Finding aid written in English.
2011-11-30
EAD created by PTL
2012-07-30
Subseries XVII.3 replaced by PTL
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Subject Headings
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History / Biographical Note
History
ABMAC was founded in 1937 to give aid to Chinese medical and public health services by working through existing Chinese medical agencies. Between 1937 and 1945 more than ten million dollars in aid was given to China. After World War II, ABMAC concentrated on aiding six national medical colleges by administering a fellowship program for faculty members of these colleges to spend a year of study in the United States, by sending American medical faculty members to the six colleges as visiting professors, and by providing technical assistance in the form of books for medical libraries, text books for the classroom, equipment for laboratories and other educational materials. In 1949 when the Peoples Republic of China was established, ABMAC shifted its aid to Taiwan.
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