Box 7

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, memorandum and financial documents between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Committee on Relief for Japan and Korea), the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan, and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence deals with the logistics of bringing clothing and food relief overseas and the financial details of...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, memorandum and financial documents between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Committee on Relief for Japan and Korea), the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan, and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence deals with the logistics of bringing clothing and food relief overseas and the financial details of...

Scope and Contents Includes correspondence, memorandum and financial documents between various parties of the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA). Gilbert Bowles (as a member of the Hawaii Committee on Relief for Japan and Korea), Esther Rhoads (as a member of the American Friends Service Committee's Committee on Japan), and other organizations involved with relief efforts in Japan are the main creators. Most of the correspondence, written by Rhoads and Jack Cadbury, deals with the logistics of...

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Includes correspondence, memorandum, and financial documents re: relief efforts in Japan facilitated by organzations of Licensed Agences for Relief in Asia (LARA). Jack Cadbury (American Friends Service Committee) and Esther Rhoads (AFSC Japan Desk) are prominent correspondents. Also includes multiple copies of a summary of relief shipments from 1946 to 1952 (includes date, ship, quantity, articles, value, freight, and tonnage).

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This folder includes: correspondence re: the end of Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA) and the provision of relief after that change; a notebook labelled, "M. P. Bowles Notes 1949-53 Clothing Collection"; a small number of documents related to the shipping of relief goods.

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Includes: memorandum and correspondence of the Okinawa Clothing Relief Committee, also includes a photograph of the members of the Committee; correspondence between (primarily) Gilbert Bowles and others re: the logistics of collecting and shipping items for relief to Okinawa.

Scope and Contents This folder includes correspondence about the relief efforts in Hawaii for Okinawa. Gilbert Bowles is the most common correspondent. Most of the correspondence is related to shipping and the logistics, but also includes discussion of the work of Dr. and Mrs. Shusei Yamashiro with the Widow's Mite Society (Japanese name was, according to Bowles, Repta Kwai). (Within that discussion are a set of letters from Bowles vouching for their conduct with the authorities on Okinawa. There seemed to...

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Includes correspondence and freight bills for shipment of relief materials to Okinawa; a newspaper clipping on the Ryuku Kingdom and disputed claims to Okinawa; a report on blind children in Okinawa from Seiryo Adaniya

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This folder includes documents about relief efforts made by the Hawaii Chapter of American Relief for Korea/Hawaii Relief for Korea. (Name of the organization changes in 1953.) Notable correspondents include Gilbert Bowles (secretary of the ARK/HRK) and George Cannon (chairman of the ARK/HRK). Documents include a list of correspondents, correspendence re: shipment and logistics of relief efforts, and freight bills/other receipts.

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Includes correspondence, memorandum, and reports on the subject of relief efforts for Korea as coordinated by the Hawaii Relief for Korea and other organizations. Most of the relief items were clothing. This folder also includes a number of newspaper clippings on the relief efforts.