HTM_WCMss258.xml Guide to the Walla Walla County Chapter of the American Red Cross Collection 1946-1978 Walla Walla County Chapter of the American Red Cross Collection Whitman College and Northwest Archives 2011
345 Boyer Avenue Walla Walla, WA 99362 Archives@whitman.edu https://library.whitman.edu/archives/
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-04-03. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. English Whitman College and Northwest Archives
345 Boyer Avenue Walla Walla, WA 99362 Archives@whitman.edu https://library.whitman.edu/archives/
Walla Walla County Chapter of the American Red Cross Collection American Red Cross. Walla Walla County chapter WCMss.258 1.2 linear feet 1 record carton, 1 manuscript box 1946-1978 The Walla Walla County Chapter of the American Red Cross Collection contains materials related to the American Red Cross and training conducted at the Red Cross chapter in Walla Walla, Washington. There are pamphlets, training material, and certification cards included. This collection, which dates from 1946 through 1978, also consists of civil defense information, emergency preparation and care instructions, as well as scrapbooks, meeting minute, and photographs.

Collection is open for research.

Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Dixie Ferguson, a Walla Walla County Red Cross volunteer. The accession number associated with this donation is 2017-033.

The collection consists of materials related to the Walla Walla County Chapter of the American Red Cross from 1946 to 1978, including pamphlets, training materials, certification cards, Civil Defense information, emergency preparation and care instructions, and the "American Red Cross Home Nursing: Care of the Sick and Injured" instructors' guide, along with two textbooks regarding health care. The collection also contains scrapbooks, binders with newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, and photographs. One scrapbook is related to the Walla Walla Overseas Wives Club, which was a group sponsored by the Red Cross for women who had a spouse serving in Vietnam.

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