Beijing Red Cross Society Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MS C 641

Scope and content

Collection consists of an assortment of administrative operational reports covering a variety of functional areas such as finance, personnel, general operations, leadership guidance, member representatives, conference/meeting planning, and general notices of the Red Cross Society in the People's Republic of China. The reports cover a wide variety of activities such as improving local sanitation; establishing community first aid stations and trainings; combatting coal gas poisonings from home heating stoves; establishing finance, accounting, and banking rules; and creating promotional materials.

Dates

Creation: 1951-1965

Extent

0.84 Linear Feet (2 boxes + 2 oversize folders)

Creator

Chinese Red Cross Society (Organization)

Restrictions on Access

No restrictions on access.

Copyright and Re-use Information

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Privacy Information

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Biographical / Historical

The Red Cross Society of China was founded as the Shanghai International Red Cross Committee on March 10, 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War. After the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party re-organized the Red Cross organization in Beijing and was admitted to the International Federation in 1950 under the name of Red Cross Society of China.

Scope and content

Language of Materials

Chinese

Additional Description

Custodial History

Collection was separated from a larger purchase made by the then-HMD Prints and Photographs Collection of Chinese public health graphic materials from Don Cohn in 2006.

Provenance

Purchase; Don Cohn; 2006/2015. Accession #2015-014.

Processing Information

Chinese characters and English translations derived from photographs taken of cover sheets and transformed using Google Translate/Lens and Chinese (Simplified) language detection.