Mary Tatum collection on American Friends Service Committee relief work in Poland
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of materials about the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)'s post-World War I reconstruction work, as collected by Dr. Mary Tatum in Poland. Folder 1: AFSC meeting minutes, 1922. Folder 2: Dispatches and photographs from Anita Marburg, Warsaw, 1923. Folder 3: Miscellaneous publications, letters, and documents, 1922-1924.
Dates
- Creation: 1922 - 1924
Language of Materials
The vast majority of this collection is in English. One document is in Polish (also translated into English). There is one document that appears to be in Yiddish, but may be another language with the Hebrew alphabet, or may be shorthand.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Mary B. M. McCollin was a Quaker physician who dedicated her time and expertise to service work. Born in 1867 to Dr. S. Mason McCollin, she married Oliver Parry Tatum at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1892. The couple would go on to have three children: Julianna R. Tatum (who also became a doctor), Charles M. Tatum (1903-1924) and Oliver P. Tatum Jr. (1896-1978). After World War I, she directed the American Friends Service Committee's hospital rehabilitation... work in Poland. During the 1919 influenze epidemic, she headed the emergency hospital at Bryn Mawr. She lived in Radnor and also served on the board of managers of the Women's Hospital in Philadelphia. She died in 1934 and is buried at Friends Southwestern Burial Ground.
See moreExtent
.05 linear ft.
Abstract
Mary B. M. McCollin (1867-1934) was a Quaker physician who directed the American Friends Service Committee's hospital rehabilitation work in Poland after World War I.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Charles M. Tatum, Jr., 2003 (Accession number: 2003-025)
See control/accession file for RG5/262
Separated Materials
The following issues of "Friends Service" (published by the American Friends Service Committee) were discarded after confirming they are duplicates of issues available in SG1: December 1922, January 1923, August 1923, January 1924.
Processing Information
These materials were donated by Charles Tatum in 2003 and separated from the Coal Relief Papers when those were processed in 2007 as RG5-262. Processing of these materials was done in 2025.
- Author
- Celia Caust-Ellenbogen
- Date
- 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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