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American Women's Voluntary Services

 Organization

Biography

American Women’s Voluntary Services; A.W.V.S.; purpose to recruit and train women to do civil defense work, assist with rationing programs, etc.; in peace times, they worked with blood banks, nursery schools, etc.

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

American Women's Voluntary Service, 1943 - 1947

 File — Box: 283A
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Kathleen Burke Hale Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, photographs, and tributes spanning her life as a relief worker during World War I, as the adoptive benefactor of a French village following World War II, and as a Santa Barbara philanthropist throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1943 - 1947

World War II, 1943 - 1944

 File
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Kathleen Burke Hale Papers contain manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, photographs, and tributes spanning her life as a relief worker during World War I, as the adoptive benefactor of a French village following World War II, and as a Santa Barbara philanthropist throughout the first half of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1943 - 1944