WAUSamaritanSocietySeattleWash2620.xml Guide to the Samaritan Society Records 1924-1960 Samaritan Society (Seattle, Wash.) Records Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries ©2007 (Last modified: 4/18/2018)
Seattle, WA 98195
Finding aid written inEnglish. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections 2620 (Accession No. 2620-001) Samaritan Society (Seattle, Wash.) Samaritan Society records 1924-1960 .11 cubic foot Collection materials are inEnglish. Records of the society founded to obtain free medical care for Swedish people

The Samaritan Society (Samarit for bundet) was founded in affiliation with the Swedish Hospital in Seattle to obtain free medical care for needy Swedish people and, where appropriate, to help the sick person after discharge from the hospital. Membership was open to Swedish women in the area "who felt called upon to aid and help their suffering and needy countrymen."

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Donated by Mrs. Art Kostadius, 8/27/1975.

 Samaritan Society (Seattle, Wash.)--Archives University of Washington. Libraries. Scandinavian Archives Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Clubs and Societies Medicine and Health Scandinavian Americans