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C. Canby Balderston (1897-1979) was the son of John Lloyd Balderston (1849-1921) and Anna Elizabeth Marshall Balderston (1856-1925). John Lloyd Balderston was the son of Lloyd and Catherine Canby Balderston who married under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1843 and settled in Colora, Cecil County, Maryland. They had twelve children including Anne (1844-1934), a teacher; George (1847-1907); C. Canby (1847-1923), teacher at Westtown and businessman; John Lloyd (1849-1921); Jane (1851-1924); Charles (1852-1924); Catherine (1854-58); William (1856-1914); Ellwood (1858-1921); Mark (1860); Alice (1861-64); and Lloyd, Jr. (1863-1933). John L. Balderston married Anna Elizabeth Marshall under the care of New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1881, and both were active members in the Society of Friends. John L. Balderston served as an elder in Kennett Monthly Meeting. After his death, Anna Elizabeth lived with their son Robert W. Balderston in Media, Pennsylvania. John L. and Anna E. Balderston had two sons, Robert W. (1882-1940) and C. Canby Balderston (1897-1979). Robert was a farmer and active in the National Milk Association.
C. Canby Balderston attended Westtown School and earned his bachelor, masters and doctorate at University of Pennsylvania where he served on the faculty for more than 30 years. During WWI, he served with the Friends Relief Service and the Relief Commission for Belgium. A prominent Quaker and businessman, C. Canby Balderston served as Dean of the Wharton School and as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1954-1966 and authored many articles and books on management and banking. e was also active in many institutions including Friends Hospital, Westtown School, Sidwell School, Bryn Mawr College, and Elywn Institute. C. Canby Balderston received many awards including the Medal of Merit for his services during WWII and honorary degrees from University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.
In 1922 he married Gertrude Emery (1902-1941), the daughter of Frederick R. Emery and Jeanne Thomson Balderston. They had two sons: Frederick Emery Balderston (1923-2007), who married Judith Braude in 1949; and Robert Walter Balderston (1924-2012), who married Dorothea Ellinson. Gertrude was hampered by a heart condition and died at the age of 39.
In 1942, C. Canby Balderston married second Ida Roberts Smedley (1896-1993). A long-time teacher, she was the widow of Walter Smedley, a prominent Philadelphia architect.
Both of C. Canby and Gertrude's son attended Westtown School and in September 1942 volunteered with the American Field Service as ambulance drivers. They served with the British 8th and 9th Armies in the Middle East, North Africa, Italy and Austria in 1943-1945. Frederick Emery Balderston was a professor of business administration in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a recognized authority on the savings and loan industry, university administration, and computer simulation research in banking and marketing.
In 1949 Frederick E. Balderston married Judith Braude (1926-1993), daughter of Paul and Anne Braude. She grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946 Judith Balderston earned her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkley, in 1982, and worked as a Research Associate at Berkley.
C. Canby Balderston (1897-1979) was the son of John Lloyd Balderston (1849-1921) and Anna Elizabeth Marshall Balderston (1856-1925). John Lloyd Balderston was the son of Lloyd and Catherine Canby Balderston who married under the care of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1843 and settled in Colora, Cecil County, Maryland. They had twelve children including Anne (1844-1934), a teacher; George (1847-1907); C. Canby (1847-1923), teacher at Westtown and businessman; John Lloyd (1849-1921); Jane (1851-1924); Charles (1852-1924); Catherine (1854-58); William (1856-1914); Ellwood (1858-1921); Mark (1860); Alice (1861-64); and Lloyd, Jr. (1863-1933). John L. Balderston married Anna Elizabeth Marshall under the care of New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1881, and both were active members in the Society of Friends. John L. Balderston served as an elder in Kennett Monthly Meeting. After his death, Anna Elizabeth lived with their son Robert W. Balderston in Media, Pennsylvania. John L. and Anna E. Balderston had two sons, Robert W. (1882-1940) and C. Canby Balderston (1897-1979). Robert was a farmer and active in the National Milk Association.
C. Canby Balderston attended Westtown School and earned his bachelor, masters and doctorate at University of Pennsylvania where he served on the faculty for more than 30 years. During WWI, he served with the Friends Relief Service and the Relief Commission for Belgium. A prominent Quaker and businessman, C. Canby Balderston served as Dean of the Wharton School and as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1954-1966 and authored many articles and books on management and banking. e was also active in many institutions including Friends Hospital, Westtown School, Sidwell School, Bryn Mawr College, and Elywn Institute. C. Canby Balderston received many awards including the Medal of Merit for his services during WWII and honorary degrees from University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.
In 1922 he married Gertrude Emery (1902-1941), the daughter of Frederick R. Emery and Jeanne Thomson Balderston. They had two sons: Frederick Emery Balderston (1923-2007), who married Judith Braude in 1949; and Robert Walter Balderston (1924-2012), who married Dorothea Ellinson. Gertrude was hampered by a heart condition and died at the age of 39.
In 1942, C. Canby Balderston married second Ida Roberts Smedley (1896-1993). A long-time teacher, she was the widow of Walter Smedley, a prominent Philadelphia architect.
Both of C. Canby and Gertrude's son attended Westtown School and in September 1942 volunteered with the American Field Service as ambulance drivers. They served with the British 8th and 9th Armies in the Middle East, North Africa, Italy and Austria in 1943-1945. Frederick Emery Balderston was a professor of business administration in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a recognized authority on the savings and loan industry, university administration, and computer simulation research in banking and marketing.
In 1949 Frederick E. Balderston married Judith Braude (1926-1993), daughter of Paul and Anne Braude. She grew up in the Bronx and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1946 Judith Balderston earned her Ph.D. from University of California, Berkley, in 1982, and worked as a Research Associate at Berkley.
Arranged in three series.
Gift of Sara Balderston, Accession 2016.025 and 2018.012. She is the daughter of Frederick and Judith Braude Balderston.
The original gift was received in four boxes which contained the letters of Judith Braude Balderston before her mariage and one suitcase containing papers concerning C. Canby Balderston and his family. The collection was sorted into series and processed as RG5/299. The plastic deteriorating wallet and unrelated business cards belonging to C. Canby Banderston were discarded. In 2018, the donor added family correspondence centered on C. Canby Balderston's parents which was added as a separate series.
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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- Susanna Morikawa
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- 2017
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Correspondence from C. Canby Balderston to his mother while he was in France as a relief worker during World War I, dated September-October 1917. Describes the voyage to France and the experience of traveling under wartime conditions. Discusses the other passengers, including fellow relief workers and American author Winston Churchill. Upon arrival in France, discusses his sightseeing activities, Red Cross service preparatory training, and Red Cross operations. Describes his first relief work assignment, life and conditions at his relief outpost, and his daily activities. Shares news of various relief workers, including Katharine Wistar Elkinton.
Correspondence from C. Canby Balderston to his mother while he was in France as a war relief worker. Letters dated 1918-06-23 — 1918-12-28. Describes the work and living conditions at his relief unit. Shares news of others including fellow relief workers and their activities. Discusses his work primarily responding to local needs for agricultural assistance, with a focus on agricultural machine repair, maintenance, distribution, and on-site farm labor involving threshers and binders. From October-December, discusses his work in the Transport department, including garage work on relief vehicles and his post-armistice "dispatch" assignment driving throughout France. Describes the armistice conditions in France and details of his sightseeing activities.
Primarily correspondence from C. Canby Balderston to his mother Anna Elizabeth Marshall Balderston (1856-1925) while he was in Europe as a relief worker. Letters dated 1919-01-19 — 1919-07-11. Also includes Balderston's Red Cross Secretarial appointment certificate (dated 1919-04-07). Discusses Red Cross war reconstruction operations in Belgium, with Balderston primarily stationed in Bruges. Details working in warehouse and office administration, his personal responsibilities chiefly involving the acquisition, distribution, and dispersal process of relief supplies in response to investigative reports compiled on local postwar living conditions and needs; supplies in high demand included building material and construction tools in addition to cloth and bandages. Shares news of various aid workers and his recreational activities.
2 ALsS from C. Canby's mother
Long letter expressing her appreciation for Lindbergh's book North to the Orient. She explains that she has been bedridden for most of the previous ten years and travels through books.
2 ALsS
Robert, brother of C. Canby, died in an accident on Feb. 12, 1940. He had spent a year in Germany in the Child Feeding Program after WWI and worked for the National Milk Association in Chicago at the time of his death. In 1939, he visited Europe and reported business conditions. The 1941 letter is a carbon copy to his widow, Martha, concerning salary owed to him.
Family news from Chicago
Friends from relief work in Belgium; sympathy on death of his brother Robert W. Balderston (1882-1940), etc.
From Brian Mennell, South Africa, and William Morley, Wales. Political, financial, Quaker concerns
Student at Westtown
From Westtown and subsequently Deep Springs College, CA
Student at Deep Springs College
Small journal, Aug. 29, 1917 - Jan. 8 1918, in France. Account book, etc., 1917
Journal written by C. Canby Balderston while he was in school and later in Europe as a relief worker during World War I. Entries in the first half, dated 1916-1917, are comprised of academic planning notes and class timetables. Entries dated approximately 1917-08 — 1918-11 list his expenses and notes while in Europe as a war relief worker. Includes the contact information of various people including fellow relief workers.
Pocket journal of C. Canby Balderston while he was in France as a relief worker during World War I. Entries dated 1917-08-29 — 1918-04-21, covering events between 1917-08-29 — 1918-01-08. Recounts the voyage from the United States to Paris, where he engaged in sightseeing while preparing for his assignment. Primarily discusses his time as a relief worker while assigned to the Sermaize headquarters, which was comprised of a garage, hospital, and refugee homes. His responsibilities reflected local needs for agricultural machinery maintenance, repair, and assistance, including performing threshing services for locals. Also details his leisure activities with fellow aid workers, interactions with locals and soldiers, and the impact of war on the area.
Miscellaneous foreign service materials from C. Canby Balderston's time as a relief worker in France and Belgium (September 1917 - July 1919). Includes Balderston's American National Red Cross Foreign Service certificate, Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee tie bar, and Red Cross pin; various photographs, including photos of people worshipping at the war-damaged Saint Nicholas Church in Keiem, Belgium; and receipts from while he was stationed in Bruges, Belgium.
Deed, Friends Hospital financial report, etc
Included is a clipping circa 1915 on her award winning temperance essay
Also the wedding invitation
Addresses, miscellaneous notes, 2 loose ALsS
Sporadic entries in 1925 with entries of 1935 in middle of volume
Cash books, household accounts and inventory, small date books. With notes on health, addresses, handmade booklet created from bark.
Business cards, Ozone Golf Club, etc.
Westtown graduation, doctor visits, drawings for his mother. Robert student essay
Snapshots in envelope labeled C. Canby and Gertrude Balderston. Most not labeled
Loose negatives and some in glassine folders in Kodak booklets. A sampling scanned and appear to be family photographs and scenes of Washington, D.C.
4 x 2.25 inches. 50 Pfennig banknote, emergency currency (Notgeld) issued in Germany during World War I, signed by the Lord Mayor of Trier. Reverse side features an image of the Porta Nigra in Trier.
3.75 x 2.38 inches. One (Eine) Mark banknote, German State loan currency (Darlehenskassenschein) issued by the Reich Debt Ordinance (Reichsschuldenverwaltung).
4.25 x 2.63 inches. Two (Zwei) Mark paper banknote, German State loan currency (Darlehenskassenschein) issued by the Reich Debt Ordinance (Reichsschuldenverwaltung).
1.75 x 2.5 inches. Shows three people, likely relief workers, posing on the barrel of heavy artillery used in World War I; note on reverse states "Miss Schardt Miss Cecile Knoppen, Gun that fired on Dunkirk from Couckelaere." The third unidentified individual is possibly C. Canby Balderston. Associated with A00187030 and A00187083.
2.5 x 1.75 inches. Shows three people, likely relief workers, posing on the barrel of heavy artillery that fired on Dunkirk from Koekelare during World War I. Associated with A00187029 and A00187083; a note on the reverse of A00187029 identifies two of the people as Miss Schardt and Miss Cecile Knoppen. The third unidentified individual is possibly C. Canby Balderston.
1.75 x 2.63 inches. Photograph shows evacuees receiving bread outdoors in Noncourt during World War I.
1.75 x 2.75 inches. Group photo of war relief staff in Sermaize, France.
1.75 x 2.5 inches. Shows military or relief work personnel posing in a line in front of a "hospital train," a procession of medical vehicles.
1.75 x 2.63 inches. Photo of five people standing side by side in Érize-la-Petite, France, possibly amongst ruins. Note on reverse says "M. Rousselot. Erize-la-Petite and some of personnel."
2.5 x 3.5 inches. Shows ruined buildings surrounded by rubble in Diksmuide, Belgium in the aftermath of World War I.
3.5 x 2.5 inches. Shows the ruined remains of a church destroyed during World War I in Slijpe, Belgium.
3.31 x 2.25 inches. Shows C. Canby Balderston at the beach with others in Het Zoute while he was in Belgium as a relief worker. Note on reverse says "Le Zoute- Knocke [sp?] Ym. [sp?]. Juillet 1919. LDS."
2.5 x 1.75 inches. Shows the ruined remains of a church and the surrounding landscape destroyed during World War I in Merkem, Belgium.
2.57 x 1.75 inches. Shows the Strasbourg Statue bearing mourning emblems at Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.
1.75 x 2.63 inches. Photo of World War I relief workers outside a building at "la Source" in Sermaize-les-Bains, France; note on reverse identifies the individuals conversing in the foreground as "Bruner and John Ransome," likely Ralph P. Bruner and John A. Ransome.
1.75 x 2.69 inches. Shows various vehicles inside the garage of a war relief unit in Sermaize-les-Bains, France.
2.5 x 1.75 inches. Shows the ruined remains of a church destroyed during World War I. Possibly located in Keiem, Belgium; note on reverse says "Keyem?"
2.63 x 1.75 inches. Shows the Panthéon viewed from from Place du Pantheon in Paris, France.
2.5 x 1.75 inches. Shows spectators watching the Procession of the Holy Blood during Ascension Day in Bruges, Belgium.
2.25 x 2.31 inches. Photograph of Lt. Pat Vail and Cecile Knoppen, who were likely war relief workers, standing outdoors in Kemmelberg, Belgium.
1.75 x 2.75 inches. Photo of four people posing together outdoors in Brocourt, France. Note on reverse identifies them as "Ben Darling" and "Doc Calvert," likely World War I relief workers Benjamin A. Darling and Leland Calvert, alongside French locals Abija Legrand and Georgette Legrand.
2.5 x 1.75 inches. Shows the ruined remains of a church destroyed during World War I in Merkem, Belgium. Note on reverse says "Church at Merckem. Tallest building in village."
1.75 x 1.5 inches. Portrait of an unidentified youth, likely C. Canby Balderston's son Frederick E. Balderston (1923–2007).
1.75 x 2.63 inches. Shows a Red Cross vehicle parked at the front door of the Chateau Hospital in Sermaize-les-Bains, France.
1.75 x 2.69 inches. Shows an unidentified wartime ambulance driver standing in the doorway of a building near stacked crates of "Benzo Moteur Essence" (gasoline) in Érize-la-Petite, France.
2.63 x 1.69 inches. Shows the Luxor Obelisk at Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.
3.38 x 2.25 inches. Shows the Luxor Obelisk at Place de la Concorde in Paris, France.
3.38 x 2.38 inches. Shows C. Canby Balderston at the beach with two others in Het Zoute while he was in Belgium as a relief worker. Note on reverse says "Le Zoute- Knocke [sp?] Ym. [sp?]. Juillet 1919. LDS."
3.38 x 2.38 inches. Shows C. Canby Balderston at the beach in Het Zoute while he was in Belgium as a relief worker. Note on reverse says "Le Zoute- Knocke [sp?] Ym. [sp?]. Juillet 1919. LDS."
2.63 x 4.19 inches. Shows C. Canby Balderston (back row, third from left) posed with others on an outdoor porch while he was in France as a relief worker. Likely associated with A00187103.
2.25 x 3.25 inches. Shows the ruined remains of a church destroyed during World War I in Kemmelberg, Belgium.
3.25 x 2.25 inches. Shows the ruined remains of a church destroyed during World War I in Diksmuide, Belgium. Note on reverse says "Eglise de St. Pierre?"
3.44 x 5.69 inches. Shows people and livestock standing amidst war-damaged buildings in either France or Belgium.
2.75 x 1.75 inches. Shows people standing and kneeling before an outdoor altar during the Procession of the Holy Blood, part of Brocourt's Ascension Sunday observance. Alternate version of A00187060.
2.75 x 1.75 inches. Shows people standing and kneeling before an outdoor altar during the Procession of the Holy Blood, part of Brocourt's Ascension Sunday observance. Alternate version of A00187059.
1.75 x 2.63 inches. Shows a Red Cross car parked out front of a French chateau that functioned as a hospital for women and children during World War I. Note on reverse says "Bettancourt Chateau and the Hup," likely referencing the Hupp automobile brand.
2.5 x 1.75 inches. Shows spectators watching the Procession of the Holy Blood during Ascension Day in Bruges, Belgium.
2.75 x 1.75 inches. Shows service members of the 371st Infantry Regiment, an African American unit of the United States Army that served under French command during World War I, standing outside a mill in Jubécourt, France. Note on reverse says "Epicerie at the Moulin. Americans of 371 in front of window," and identifies the figure in the background as "Georgette," possibly French local Georgette Legrand.
1.75 x 2.5 inches. Shows four unidentified individuals standing along a road amidst the war-damaged landscape of Merkem, Belgium in the aftermath of World War I. Note on reverse says "Merckem - Road Rousbrugge to Roulers."
2.63 x 1.75 inches. Shows Saint-Étienne-du-Mont viewed from Place du Pantheon in Paris, France.
2.56 x 1.75 inches. Shows a monumental outdoor sculpture of a figure on a pedestal in Paris, France.
1.75 x 2.56 inches. Street scene of Noncourt-sur-le-Rongeant, France featuring children standing in a road by a cafe.
1.75 x 2.5 inches. Shows a group of people standing at the entrance of a small cafe in Woumen, Belgium; the third figure from the right is likely relief worker C. Canby Balderston. Note on reverse says "M. Tyberghein (Thourout) and secretaire communal de clercken."
1.75 x 2.5 inches. Shows Chris Morland, likely a relief worker, sitting in the driver's seat of a Ford Coupe in Klerken, Belgium.
2.31 x 3.5 inches. Shows a road amidst the war-damaged landscape of Lens (either Lens, Belgium or Lens, France) that sustained damage during World War I.
2.31 x 3.5 inches. Shows Lt. Pat Vail, likely in Belgium as a relief worker, posing by a Red Cross vehicle. Note on reverse says "Lt. Vail and Argyll," probably referencing the Argyll automobile brand.
3.5 x 2.5 inches. Shows the exterior of a church in either France or Belgium that sustained damage during World War I.
3.38 x 2.25 inches. Shows an unidentified individual playing tennis in Bruges, Belgium.
2.94 x 1.94 inches. Shows two unidentified individuals standing amidst a war-damaged landscape in either France of Belgium.
2.44 x 3.38 inches. Group photo of relief workers who likely served in France during World War I. Note on reverse identifies the women in the photo as "Miss Kennedy, Miss Greenfield, Mrs. Harvey, Miss Ubsdell, Miss Coale, Miss Holdsworth;" possibly refers to relief workers Ruth Kennedy, Ethel H. Ubsdell, Edith Skipwith Coale, and Ruth Isabel Holdsworth Midgley.
1.75 x 2.5 inches. Shows a group of crates and artillery shells (?) amidst the war-damaged landscape of Merkem, Belgium.
3.5 x 2.25 inches. Shows a man identified as "Lownes," likely a relief worker, sitting in the driver's seat of a tarp-covered vehicle in Ghent, Belgium. Note on reverse says "Lownes in Isotta Gand," probably referencing the Isotta automobile brand.
3.38 x 2.25 inches. Photo of artist Samuel Arlent Edwards standing outside, likely in Belgium circa 1919.
3.38 x 2.31 inches. Photo of artist Samuel Arlent Edwards sitting outside, likely in Belgium circa 1919.
2.38 x 3.38 inches. Group photo of relief workers who likely served in France during World War I. Note on reverse identifies them as "Miss Coale, Mrs. Elliot, Miss Kennedy, Miss Mitchell, Miss Garstin, Tim Robinson;" possibly refers to relief workers Edith Skipwith Coale, Henrietta Elliott, Ruth Kennedy, and Bessie Mitchell.
2.25 x 3.31 inches. Shows the war-damaged landscape of Diksmuide, Belgium. Note on reverse side states "Between church and hospital."
3.25 x 2.25 inches. Shows two unidentified individuals playing tennis at a court in Bruges, Belgium.
3.31 x 2.25 inches. Shows three people, likely relief workers, posing on the barrel of heavy artillery that fired on Dunkirk from Koekelare during World War I. Associated with A00187029 and A00187030; a note on the reverse of A00187029 identifies two of the people as Miss Schardt and Miss Cecile Knoppen.
3.38 x 2.38 inches. Shows a nurse identified as Miss Holdsworth, likely relief worker Ruth Isabel Holdsworth Midgley, minding four small children "on back steps at Bettancourt," a chateau that functioned as a hospital for women and children during World War I in Bettancourt, France.
2.38 x 3.5 inches. Shows two men named Jack (left) and Lt. Pat Vail (right), likely war relief workers, seated in a car along a road in Ghent, Belgium. Note on reverse says "in Renault," probably referencing the Renault automobile brand.
2.31 x 3.5 inches. View of the Bruges cityscape from the canal.
4.5 x 2.5 inches. View of the Bruges cityscape from the canal, featuring the Belfry of Bruges.
2.56 x 4.44 inches. Photo of seven people, possibly war relief workers, posing side by side in either France or Belgium. Note on reverse identifies Thomas Holt (far left), Lt. Mellon, and Tom Butler.
3.38 x 2.38 inches. Shows a nurse identified as Miss Coale, likely relief worker Edith Skipwith Coale, holding small children Rene and Georg at a chateau in Bettancourt, France, which functioned as a hospital for women and children during World War I.
3.5 x 2.5 inches. Shows two unidentified people standing before the ruins of a building (possibly a church) destroyed during World War I, possibly relief workers C. Canby Balderston and Miss Schardt.
3.5 x 2.5 inches. Shows the ruined remains of building(s) destroyed during World War I in Middelkerke (possibly Slijpe), Belgium.
2.5 x 3.5 inches. Shows the damage to the forested landscape of Houthulst, Belgium that was sustained during World War I.
2.5 x 3.5 inches. Shows the remains of a building in Klerken, Belgium that sustained damage during World War I.
3.5 x 2.5 inches. Shows an unidentified individual posing amongst the rubble and ruins of a building used as a German outpost during World War I. Note on reverse states "Avant-poste (Boche) Home of M. Baert, Dixmude." Associated with A00187095.
3.5 x 2.5 inches. Shows the war-damaged landscape and ruins of a building in Diksmuide, Belgium that was used as a German outpost during World War I. Associated with A00187094.
2.5 x 3.5 inches. Shows the ruined remains of a building (possibly a church) destroyed during World War I in Slijpe, Belgium.
2.5 x 4.5 inches. Shows an American Red Cross garage in France or Belgium with war relief personnel posed by vehicles (possibly ambulances).
3.38 x 5.63 inches. Shows an unidentified individual seated on a crate outside of a building; likely C. Canby Balderston while he was in France or Belgium as a war relief worker.
3.38 x 2.25 inches. Shows a sitting uniformed individual, likely war relief worker C. Canby Balderston. Note on reverse says "Le Zoute- Knocke Ym. [sp?] Juillet 1919. LDS."
2.38 x 3.56 inches. Shows C. Canby Balderston standing in front of a car with an unidentified woman during his time as a relief worker in France or Belgium. Note on reverse says "Show this to Baldys mother He ought to be arrested for having a picture like this taken with my camera and my car and my girl."
2.5 x 4.5 inches. Shows an American Red Cross garage in France or Belgium with war relief personnel posed by vehicles (possibly ambulances).
2.25 x 3.38 inches. Shows C. Canby Balderston servicing a vehicle on the side of road during his time as a war relief worker in France or Belgium.
4.5 x 2.5 inches. Shows C. Canby Balderston with others on an outdoor porch while he was in France as a war relief worker. Note on reverse says "End of Cross country race Xmas morning 1918 / [Balderston] standing up in group of 4 in middle." Likely associated with A00187055.
3.5 x 5.5 inches. Shows Thomas Holt, likely a war relief worker, posing with another person against a Red Cross vehicle loaded with mattresses (?) in Adinkerke, Belgium. Note on reverse says "Thomas Holt and 'Karrier'," likely referencing the Karrier automobile brand.
3.5 x 5.5 inches. Postcard from Gertrude Pim, probably addressed to C. Canby Balderston while they were in France as war relief workers. Wishes the recipient well. Obverse features a photograph of a chateau in Bettancourt that functioned as a wartime hospital for women and children.
2 pages. Mission order issued by the American Expeditionary Forces authorizing C. Canby Balderston to travel in restricted zones and operate as a driver for officers in his capacity as an American Red Cross representative, valid through 1919-04-15. The reverse side, titled "Memorandum Permits and Passes," features "instructions for visitors and [workers] at the Front."
1 page. Mission order issued by the American Expeditionary Forces authorizing C. Canby Balderston to travel through French and Belgian restricted zones and meet with Major William Mordey (1882-1975) in his capacity as an American Red Cross representative, valid through 1919-07-30.
2 pages. Report regarding the post-war living conditions of Belgian people, supply transportation and distribution to those in need, and the conditions and requirements of the relief personnel in Bruges. Discusses the establishment of four stores serving Belgian refugees, the proceeds of which are used for further reconstruction efforts.
2 pages. Unsigned reconstruction work report addressed to Capt. William Mordey (1882-1975), a British relief worker who served with the American Red Cross in 1919, overseeing the acquisition and distribution of supplies to Belgian people in the aftermath of World War I. Reports on the needs of various Belgian families and communes, store stocks and proceeds, and the distribution efforts of household supplies and furniture.
72 pages. Written while Balderston was stationed as a relief worker in Bruges, Belgium, coordinating the distribution of relief supplies in the aftermath of World War I. Entries dated approximately February-August 1919. Content is primarily miscellaneous relief work notes; includes notes on the living conditions and aid status of local inhabitants and refugees, in addition to supply inventories (mostly clothing and domestic items). Also contains some contact information and notes regarding personal finances.
Largely letters from Anne Braude
Mostly camp correspondence: Camp Robinson Crusoe, Sturbridge, Mass.
Mostly letters from her mother on summer travels, stored in a binder
Mostly camp correspondence
Other than camp correspondence
Mostly camp correspondence
Other correspondence
The letter are verery descriptive of college life - gentle freshman hazing, studying in the dome of Parrish - Parrish belfry, courses
Spring of freshman year and fall of junior year. Settling into coursework, Navy and Chinese officers are on campus
College life, social and coursework.
Coursework, studying in math library at top of Parrish, enjoys folk and modern dance
Excitement about the War news. Social life with the Navy, continued studies during summer months. Moved to Worth dormitory in the fall. Campaigning for Democrats and interested in labor issues
Working hard, busy social life, folk dance competition. Death of FDR, distress about finding a lasting peace. Collection to mark V-E day, dance competition in NYC. Uncomfortable that at Collection there is regular hymn singing, not very Quakerly and also visiting the pretentious home of a classmate whose parents live in Philadelphia. She write that she is glad that she is a Jew from the Bronx.
Applying for graduate school. Graduation with a B.A., Mathematics major and minor in Economics. This was followed 1946-1947 with graduate work at Columbia University in Mathematical Statistics.
Bond to Hiram Taylor, Cecil County, MD
Letter tTo his son
To his brother at Westtown School. Family and business news, including a proposed liquid coffee. 2mo 10, 1864 letter mentions that Eliphaz Cheyney was visiting the family; a false rumor had circulated that he had been arrested for his strong abolitionist sentiments. 1863 letter sent from Westtown where Canby worked as a teacher.
John at home, Canby at Westtown, his first semester at boarding school.
Two letters to Canby or John. Charles is a student, mentions railroad almost connected to depot at Rising Sun.
Student at Westtown
Letters to her brother. Also a printed invitation 1869 from Mark and Lydia Marshall to J. L. Balderston to dine
Family news
Correspondence with children. Anna at Westtown
Family and Quaker news. Phebe Roberts and Abbie Hall preaching.
Letters to their daughter. Mention of Africans coming through.
Anna mentions that a Hicksite woman, Sarah Fell, was visiting to observe Westtown in the hope of starting her own boarding school.
Letter to his son reports the death of cousin Sarah Child, who regards as having fallenl away from the way of Friends with the distraction of women's suffrage and abolition.
Beginning of courtship corrrespondence
Note with his carte-de-visite portrait enclosed
Courtship correspondence. Interesting mention in letter of 2nd month of a "passing dress."
They married 3 month 17, 1881
Early parenthood, family news.
From home to Anna at Asbury Park, NJ
Family news. John's letter of 11 month 1887 relates Robert's visit to the Philadelphia Zoo and museum; 12 month 1887 describes his travel on the Cornwall Railway carrying ore in Lebanon County, PA.
In honor of Canby C. and Mary Anna Balderston's anniversary
Family news.
Letters home sent from Alexandra Hotel, visiting Chicago Worlds Fair
Family news. John's letters express political views. In a 1902 letter he wonders if the U.S. will give Cuba trade reciprocity
Robert was visiting the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis World's Fair), staying in Camp Lewis, the "city of tents."
Uncle of John L. Balderston with family history information about his grandfather Caleb H. Canby
Family news including the death of George Balderston, John L. Balderston's older brother on 4mo 28, 1907. Father Lloyd Balderton died 12mo 23.
Letter to her cousin explaining that she had been given family letters to dispose of, and they included a letter from Anna M. Balderston's mother dated 1870 which she enclosed for Anna with an explanation of the family connection
Letterhead of Inter-State Milk Producers' Association to his father in Orlando, Florida