Scope and Content:
This collection contains photographs that were apparently used for publicity purposes by the Service Committee for brochures, posters, etc. It demonstrates the work of the committee in many countries, including countries of Central and South America and Africa, and the United States.
Container List:
- bMS 16190/1 (1) M-60 machine gun emplacement, Potosi, Nicaragua, May-June, 1984
- bMS 16190/1 (2) Customs house, Potosi, Nicaragua, May-June, 1985
- bMS 16190/1 (3) Road leading to customs house, Potosi, Nicaragua, May-June, 1984
- bMS 16190/1 (4) original art by Julee, 1985: 1) Raisin, 2) Stars and Stripes Forever, 3) Organizing, 4) Alternatives
- bMS 16190/1 (5) no caption, woman on road with donkey, Africa? c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/1 (6) no caption, two photos: 1) South American woman weaving, 2) poster of woman and child "for the people, for a change: Bringing Health to the Families of Haiti, Ary Bordes and Andrea Couture"
- bMS 16190/1 (7) no caption, two children (one girl, one boy)
- bMS 16190/1 (8) no caption, cooking pot, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/1 (9) no caption, people grouped around a cooking kit, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/1 (10) no caption, Departement De La Sante Publique Et De La Population: Division D'Hygiene Familiale
- bMS 16190/1 (11) no caption, health clinic office
- bMS 16190/1 (12) no caption, photo of people listening to a speaker
- bMS 16190/1 (13) no caption, man in silhouette
- bMS 16190/1 (14) no caption, group of men: National Moratorium on Prison Construction
- bMS 16190/1 (15) no caption, people in field
- bMS 16190/1 (16) no caption, young girls going to school, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/1 (17) no caption, group photo
- bMS 16190/1 (18) no caption, panel, three women and one man
- bMS 16190/1 (19) no caption, protest outside of Luther Place Memorial Church (no city?), sign in photo "DC Coalition Against the Death Penalty"
- bMS 16190/1 (20) no caption, photo of woman
- bMS 16190/1 (21) no caption, photo of poor neighborhood
- bMS 16190/1 (22) no caption, woman with small child
- bMS 16190/1 (23) no caption, five photos on board for shooting for publication: Clockwise from upper right—1) man with child on shoulders, 2) man giving balloons to children, 3) man visiting person in hospital, 4) man and woman on sidewalk, 5) women in class
- bMS 16190/2 (1) UUSC Programs (Scrapbook): This folder contains photographs of individuals and buildings,
c. 1970s, which contain the following captions:
- a. Chicago, Illinois: Neighborhood Renewal—On the North Side of Chicago, local ghetto residents have formed their own Neighborhood Commons Corporation.
- b. Chicago, Illinois: Ron Engel talks to Zurline (Hill?), occupant of top apt.
- c. Chicago, Illinois: The fruits of their labor has made it possible for the Neighborhood Commons Corporation to become the community agency through which urban renewal funds will be channeled to improve community.
- d. no caption, mother with five children
- e. Neighborhood Commons Corporation building—center for renewal of hope in the neighborhood
- f. Oakland, California: Relevant Relating: This past winter, it was decided to begin first with the white person in his own community. A program was structured to help the volunteers come to grips with white racism—individual and institutional—that is so deeply rooted in American life. A 12-week seminar program has been developed to study the causes, manifestations, and elimination of white racism.
- g. Los Angeles, California: Communications Hookup: In Los Angeles, UUSC and local Unitarian Universalists are sponsoring a project designed to create non-exploitative fraternal relationships between middle-class volunteers in work situations with ghetto community groups. Since 1967, some 300 volunteers have contributed 5,000 man hours of service to ghetto community groups working towards self-determination.
- h. Los Angeles, California: Initiated by the project director, Grady Smith, "interracial dialogues" are now required orientation—enabling the potential volunteer to discover the problems of the ghetto community people
- i. Awo Omamma, Biafra/Nigeria: Creating a Future
- j. Biafra/Nigeria: At Awo Omamma, UUSC staff member Ben Nzeribe inspired the people of his community to build a modern 75 bed hospital; a fine, new school; the area's first water system; a post office; and three well-baby clinics that dramatically reduced infant mortality.
- k. Biafra/Nigeria: Biafra Hospital scene
- l. Biafra/Nigeria: UUSC's Oma Resettlement Project in Awo Omamma is the first demonstration of an inexpensive program enabling Biafran refugee families to become self-sufficient in a short period of time.
- bMS 16190/2 (2) UUSC Programs (Scrapbook)
- a. Saigon, Vietnam: A Project Takes Shape
- b. Vietnam: Eight Vietnamese have been recruited for in-service social work training as members of the UUSC staff. Already they are meeting with tenants of Ban Co to determine the needs of residents.
- c. Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Too Many Mouths to Feed
- d. Haiti, no caption
- e. Mandeville, Jamaica: A Multi-Discipline Approach
- f. Jamaica: Part of a grass roots community effort to educate boys and girls from 4 to 7 years of age. Classes are often held in a one-room shack, on a teacher's porch, or under a mango tree.
- g. Jamaica: Teaching materials are meager to the vanishing point. With little or no paper to write on, children use chalk and small slates.
- h. no caption, Navajo woman outside of hogan, c. 1950s?
- i. no caption, Asian woman in kitchen
- j. no caption, children with bongos
- k. Dr. Blum of Asia Foundation, flanked by students presents the tractor to the Center
- l. no caption, two women with two children
- m. no caption, woman painting
- n. no caption, four men at a conference table
- o. no caption, man and woman
- bms16190/2 (3) Photo Album: Unitarian Service Committee : Institutes of Public Health Planning, Germany, 1951; Activities in Hessen, Germany, July 2-13, 1951. Inscription reads "In friendly remembrance of the promoting and instructive visit of the Public Health Team, Unitarian Service Committee in Land Hessen, Your Hans Mehring"
- bMS 16190/3 (1) no caption, farm field, Sudan/Eritrea trip. Jan.-Feb. 1985. UUSC photo by Sarah Putnam
- bMS 16190/3 (2) no caption, family with small children, El Salvador, c. 1980s?
- bMS 16190/3 (3) 1) Baby Clinic Personnel in Awo Omamma, Nigeria, trained by former UUSC nutritionist, Dr. Martha Potgieter; 2) UUSC Nuclear Protest in Kansas; 3) unknown man at airport; all c. 1980s?
- bMS 16190/3 (4) four UUSC posters: Awo Omamma, Chicago, South Vietnam, General
- bMS 16190/3 (5) no captions, five photos Operation California, c. 1980s?
- bMS 16190/3 (6) caption states "Unitarian Service Committee, Rosenblum photo" Portrays students in science classroom, c. 1950s.
- bMS 16190/3 (7) caption reads: Enraptured youngsters, visibly affected by the opening of the USC toy loan library, gaze in library window at much wanted toys, Boston Skid Row. c. 1950s?
- bMS 16190/3 (8) three photos, Jose Napoleon Duarte, Rally, San Salvador
- bMS 16190/3 (9) Members of the Unitarian Service Committee's Medical Mission to Germany boarding flagship at LaGuardia Field, July 1, 1948. L to R. Drs. Benjamin H. Robbins, David G. Cogan, Howard C. Taylor, Jr., William M. Wallace, Lyman C. Craig, and George K. Hirst
- bMS 16190/3 (10) "Das Heim in Musberg": handmade photograph album contains many photos of babies, c. 1960s?
- bMS 16190/3 (11) no caption, parents with child, Guatemala?, c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/3 (12) no caption, small child, Guatemala?, c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/3 (13) no caption, grave, Guatemala?, 1974
- bMS 16190/3 (14) no caption, outside classroom, Haiti?, c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/3 (15) no caption, young girl, Haiti?, c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/3 (16) no caption, two women and one child, Africa?, c. 1980s?
- bMS 16190/3 (17) no caption two photos, one with child, one with two children
- bMS 16190/3 (18) no caption, small child (design for a brochure, c. 1970s)
- bMS 16190/3 (19) no caption, mother with infant (design for a brochure, c. 1970s)
- bMS 16190/3 (20) no caption, two children (design for a brochure, c. 1970s)
- bMS 16190/4 (1) no caption, East Boston Court House
- bMS 16190/4 (2) no caption, Trial List in the Criminal Courts of the County of Delaware, Pennsylvania, March Sessions, 1971
- bMS 16190/4 (3) no caption, art photograph of hands
- bMS 16190/4 (4) no caption, Departement De La Sante Publique Et De La Population, Division D'Hygiene Familiale
- bMS 16190/4 (5) no caption, traditional house (Africa?), c. 1970's?
- bMS 16190/4 (6) two photos with no caption, one of a classroom, one of a woman and child—credit Ruth H. Smiley
- bMS 16190/4 (7) Potosi, Nicaragua Spring 1984 (Ed King's photos)
- bMS 16190/4 (8) no caption, man and two children with faces blacked out, c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/4 (9) no caption, small child (South America?), c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/4 (10) no caption, small child, c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/4 (11) no caption, man (South America?), c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/4 (12) no caption, graveyard (South America?), c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/4 (13) no caption, nurse with child
- bMS 16190/4 (14) no caption, mother with child (South America?)
- bMS 16190/4 (15) no caption, three women in classroom
- bMS 16190/4 (16) no caption, women with donkey's on road
- bMS 16190/4 (17) no caption, children with ox cart on road
- bMS 16190/4 (18) no caption, three men planting in field
- bMS 16190/4 (19) no caption, graveyard (South America?)
- bMS 16190/4 (20) no caption, art photo—graveyard with people superimposed behind (makes them appear ghostly)
- bMS 16190/4 (21) no caption, two men in front of building
- bms 16190/4 (22) no caption, young child
- bMS 16190/4 (23) no caption, home
- bMS 16190/5 (1) no caption, scene in poor neighborhood, southwestern U.S.? or Mexico?, c. 1970s?
- bMS 16190/5 (2) no caption, art photo—man in jail
- bMS 16190/5 (3) no caption, art photo—man in jail
- bMS 16190/5 (4) no caption, young girls serving dinner, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (5) Field workers from Community Relations Project—Rankin(?) City—meeting with community members in rural area
- bMS 16190/5 (6) no caption, young children and man in southwestern U.S.? or Mexico?, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (7) no caption, children and teacher outside of classroom, South America?, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (8) no caption, two men outside of home, South America? c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (9) Chicago, 1970—shack
- bMS 16190/5 (10) no caption, two photos, one man, one woman, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (11) no caption, woman at grocery store, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (12) no caption, farm workers, South America?, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (13) no caption, two photos, one older man, one classroom scene, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (14) no caption, two photos, one woman, one woman in class, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (15) no caption, two photos and one advertisement: one of woman with bullhorn, one of woman with camera, advertisement "La Paz Es Posible...," San Salvador, 1973
- bMS 16190/5 (16) no caption, workers laying foundation, South America?, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (17) no caption, small children, Africa?, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (18) no caption, group of women, c. 1960s
- bMS 16190/5 (19) no caption, farm, 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (20) no caption, two photos, one of man outside of police station, one of policeman handcuffing individual
- bMS 16190/5 (21) no caption, young couple, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/5 (22) no caption, man in front of United Urban Project Los Angeles, 1971
- bMS 16190/5 (23) no caption, trial list and design, Chicago NCC, 1970
- bMS 16190/6 (1) Children playing pool, caption reads "beginning in 1954 USC supported an Integrated Neighborhood Boys' Club"
- bMS 16190/6 (2) no caption, kids with video camera, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (3) no caption, kids singing, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (4) no caption, two men at radio station, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (5) no caption, gathering of people, USC staff?, includes Richard Scobie, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (6) youth of First Unitarian church Louisville, Kentucky, April 1975
- bMS 16190/6 (7) no caption, woman in front of class, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (8) no caption, two men, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (9) two photos, Richard Scobie, Ernest White
- bMS 16190/6 (10) no caption, two photos, one of two men, one of a single man
- bMS 16190/6 (11) no caption, Richard Scobie
- bMS 16190/6 (12) no caption, one man, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (13) no caption, one woman with camera, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (14) no caption, one man, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (15) no caption, one man, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (16) no caption, one man, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (17) no caption, two photos, both of a single man and woman (each photo different), c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (18) no caption, two women, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (19) no caption, two women and a man around a tape player, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (20) no caption, two women, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (21) no caption, one woman at a meeting, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (22) no caption, two photos, one of a man, one of a woman, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (23) two photos, one of Warren Salinger, Assoc. Director Development; one with no caption of group at a meeting, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (24) no caption, one man addressing a committee, c. 1970s
- bMS 16190/6 (25) no caption, art photo—two men in jail, c. 1970s