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Eight Letters Home From Margaret Williamson Hospital, West Gate, Shanghai, And Methodist Compound, Zhenjiang, China, June-July 1933
written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 20) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 22 page(s)
This set of letters also includes a photograph of a Chinese child and the July 1933 Newsletter. The newsletter discusses the graduation ceremony of the Woman’s Christian Medical College. Participants in the ceremony include Mrs. C.C. Chen, President of the Board of Directors; Pastor Yu; Dr. Li, Chinese Bureau of...
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written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 20) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 22 page(s)
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This set of letters also includes a photograph of a Chinese child and the July 1933 Newsletter. The newsletter discusses the graduation ceremony of the Woman’s Christian Medical College. Participants in the ceremony include Mrs. C.C. Chen, President of the Board of Directors; Pastor Yu; Dr. Li, Chinese Bureau of Public Health of Shanghai; Dr. H.P. Chu, secretary of the Chinese Medical Association; Dr. Z.T. Wang, President of the Medical College...
This set of letters also includes a photograph of a Chinese child and the July 1933 Newsletter. The newsletter discusses the graduation ceremony of the Woman’s Christian Medical College. Participants in the ceremony include Mrs. C.C. Chen, President of the Board of Directors; Pastor Yu; Dr. Li, Chinese Bureau of Public Health of Shanghai; Dr. H.P. Chu, secretary of the Chinese Medical Association; Dr. Z.T. Wang, President of the Medical College; Dr. Frances King, acting dean; and Dr. Eulo Eno, Superintendent of the hospital. Three women graduated: Ko Wei Huen, Lee Seung Kieng, and Wu Hsiu Djen. People mentioned in the letters include Elizabeth Conard, Eleanor Crosby, Eulo Eno, Dr. Dorothy Galbraith, Dr. Garnick, Julia James, Dr. Francis King, Dr. Kwong, Dr. Josephine Lawney, Dr. Grace Martin, Elsie Rick, Hazel Taylor, and Eleanor Tullock. Topics in the letters include travels to Zenjiang, strawberry festival, a mourning peasant woman, Thriving Girls’ High School, Buddhist temple, Golden Island, out-patient reports, language school in Beijing, interim chief of the Department of Medicine, exams, typhoid, food poisoning, small pox, Pudung (Shanghai), Methodist Women’s Society, St. Luke’s Hospital, commencement, operations, proof of education, an arranged marriage, St. John’s University (Shanghai), gender of babies, Mary Black, and a blood transfusion.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1933
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Women Missionaries, Women as Medical Professionals, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Four Letters Home From Margaret Williamson Hospital, West Gate, Shanghai, China, January-February 1933
written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 17) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 19 page(s)
The January 1933 Newsletter offers an overview of the Christmas holiday activities organized by the School of Nursing and the Medical College of the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai, China. Activities included a party for the servants and their families, a formal Christmas Eve program that included a play...
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written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 17) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 19 page(s)
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The January 1933 Newsletter offers an overview of the Christmas holiday activities organized by the School of Nursing and the Medical College of the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai, China. Activities included a party for the servants and their families, a formal Christmas Eve program that included a play and gifts to an independent Chinese Christian orphanage, Christmas morning service, feast, and evening service, Mary Black Home party,...
The January 1933 Newsletter offers an overview of the Christmas holiday activities organized by the School of Nursing and the Medical College of the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai, China. Activities included a party for the servants and their families, a formal Christmas Eve program that included a play and gifts to an independent Chinese Christian orphanage, Christmas morning service, feast, and evening service, Mary Black Home party, and Stevenside caroling. This set also includes January and February letters from Crosby (Standish). People mentioned include: Pete Case, Mr. and Mrs. Chun, Edith Chun, Elizabeth Conard, Eleanor Crosby, Helen Harris, Drs. Nance, Dr. Susanne Parsons, Dr. Qwong. Topics include: cold weather, clinic rotation, noise in the hospital and around town, exam proctor, foodstuffs, a visit with the Chun family, language school, travel in the third class car on the tram, high baby rate, tradition of giving red eggs on the birth of a first son and other local traditions, Shanghai Municipal Orchestra, rainy season, Lester Hospital, cost of living, Missions Buildings, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a detailed description of a local wedding, and rats.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1933
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Women Missionaries, Women as Medical Professionals, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Four Letters Home From Shanghai, China, November 1932
written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 15) (Cambridge, MA) (November 1932) , 16 page(s)
The Margaret Williamson Hospital staff distributed a newsletter for November 1, 1932, to introduce several staff members and to raise publicity about the work at the hospital. Members mentioned include Miss Mary Hood, Principal of the School of Nursing; Dr. Josephine Lawney, Dean of the Medical College, Chairman o...
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written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 15) (Cambridge, MA) (November 1932) , 16 page(s)
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The Margaret Williamson Hospital staff distributed a newsletter for November 1, 1932, to introduce several staff members and to raise publicity about the work at the hospital. Members mentioned include Miss Mary Hood, Principal of the School of Nursing; Dr. Josephine Lawney, Dean of the Medical College, Chairman of the Building Committee, and head of the Department of Internal Medicine; Miss Elizabeth Pollock, interim Principal of the School of N...
The Margaret Williamson Hospital staff distributed a newsletter for November 1, 1932, to introduce several staff members and to raise publicity about the work at the hospital. Members mentioned include Miss Mary Hood, Principal of the School of Nursing; Dr. Josephine Lawney, Dean of the Medical College, Chairman of the Building Committee, and head of the Department of Internal Medicine; Miss Elizabeth Pollock, interim Principal of the School of Nursing; Dr. Frances (King) Salmon, pre-clinical teacher at the Medical College and acting Dean; Miss Hazel Taylor, Public Health Nursing; Miss Anne Herbert, teacher in the School of Nursing; Dr. Grace Martin, on furlough at the Woman’s Medical College in Philadelphia; Miss Helen Biermann, on furlough as Superintendent of Nurses in Lebanon, Indiana; Dr. Eula Eno, obstetrics and superintendent of the hospital; Miss Celestia Fuller, treasurer; Miss Christine Brunemeier, Director of Buildings and Grounds; Dr. Elizabeth Conard, Dr. Hilda Crosby (Standish), Dr. Dorothy Galbraith, all three newcomers to the Margaret Williamson Hospital. The letters included here are mostly to her parents, and they are dated November 3, 1932; November 13, 1932; November 18, 1932; November 27, 1932. Topics include a local funeral, the Qwong family, a visit to Nanking with Dr. Eno, holiday greetings, birthday wishes to her father, Thanksgiving in Shanghai, Fred Scovel, transfusion equipment, and the local trolley.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
November 1932, 1932
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, Margaret Williamson Memorial Hospital for Women and Children
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Women Missionaries, Women as Medical Professionals, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Typescripts of [six] letters home from [Margaret Williamson Hospital, West Gate, Shanghai, and Baptist Mission Compound, Shaoxing,] China, M...
written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 18) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 17 page(s)
This set of letters includes the dates: 2 April 1933, 12 March 1933, 23 March 1933, 6 April 1933, 16 April 1933, 30 April 1933. People mentioned include: the Brockmans, the Chuns, Dr. Elizabeth Conard, Eulo Eno, the Godards, the Hylberts, Helen Bristol Rollins, Hazel Taylor, Mrs. Ufford, Eleanor Welch, the Wickham...
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written by Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005, in Hilda C. Standish Papers, 1931-1999, of Harvard University. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America (MC 464, folder 18) (Cambridge, MA) (1933) , 17 page(s)
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This set of letters includes the dates: 2 April 1933, 12 March 1933, 23 March 1933, 6 April 1933, 16 April 1933, 30 April 1933. People mentioned include: the Brockmans, the Chuns, Dr. Elizabeth Conard, Eulo Eno, the Godards, the Hylberts, Helen Bristol Rollins, Hazel Taylor, Mrs. Ufford, Eleanor Welch, the Wickhams. Topics include: Chinese New Year, Chinese gift customs, going downtown, rugs, hot water bottles, travels to Soochow [Suzhou], YMCA,...
This set of letters includes the dates: 2 April 1933, 12 March 1933, 23 March 1933, 6 April 1933, 16 April 1933, 30 April 1933. People mentioned include: the Brockmans, the Chuns, Dr. Elizabeth Conard, Eulo Eno, the Godards, the Hylberts, Helen Bristol Rollins, Hazel Taylor, Mrs. Ufford, Eleanor Welch, the Wickhams. Topics include: Chinese New Year, Chinese gift customs, going downtown, rugs, hot water bottles, travels to Soochow [Suzhou], YMCA, Temple of the 500 Gods, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, spitting, dinner, a fire at the hospital, and Crosby family matters.
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Collection
Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
1933
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Hilda Crosby Standish, 1902-2005
Topic / Theme
Women and Religion, Women and Sexuality, Birth Control, and Health, Indigenous Women and Missionaries, Women Missionaries, Women as Medical Professionals, Chinese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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