Columbia University Mobilization Committee for Women’s Work/Committee on Women’s War Work

Documents that relate to the overall efforts of the Barnard College community include several Information Bulletins by the Columbia University Mobilization Committee for Women’s Work (later renamed the Committee on Women’s War Work), a government bulletin on War Work of Women in Colleges, a New York City Report of the Committee on Agriculture chaired by Dean Gildersleeve, a form letter calling for volunteers, and handwritten notes and a draft of a “Clearing House” resolution prepared by Virginia C. Gildersleeve, Dean of Barnard College and chairman of the Committee on Women’s War Work, who was a major force behind the war relief efforts at the college. The photographs in the collection relating to the Columbia University Mobilization Committee for Women’s Work/Committee on Women’s War Work include a few photos of the Red Cross Work Room (with duplicates) and six photos that show the dignified celebration accorded French and American officers when they visited the Columbia campus in November, 1918. Personages identified in these photos include Columbia President Butler, Professors Crampton, Knapp, Braun, Baldwin, and Hirst, and undergraduate president Dorothy Brockway.