mnsss218 Lucy Barnard Briggs Papers, 1955-1955 Finding Aid Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Northampton, MA

Finding aid exported into EAD from InMagic DB/Textworks 7.01. Encoded by Margaret Jessup and Jennifer Smar. 2006-02-01 Finding aid written in English. Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Lucy Barnard Briggs Papers, 1955-1955 Finding Aid MS 512 Burd Schlessinger 2005 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Briggs, Lucy Barnard Lucy Barnard Briggs Papers1955-1955 MS 512 1 box (.25 linear ft.) English Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Volunteer, Korean War Widows Committee. Collection consists of one photograph album compiled by the Korean War Widows Project Committee containing photographs and memorabilia. Biographical Note

Lucy Barnard Briggs was born in 1903 in Harlem, New York to Therina Townsend and Everett Larkin Barnard. She graduated from Smith College in 1925. In 1928 she married career diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, and over the years was posted with him to Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Korea, Peru and Uruguay. The couple had two children, Lucy Therina (1930-1994) and Everett Ellis (b.1934). Briggs was active in the Korean War Widows Committee, a self-help project, when her husband was U.S. Ambassador to Korea in the early 1950s; she was given the Order of Merit for this work by Korean President Rhee prior to her departure in 1955.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

This collection consists of one photograph album compiled by the Korean War Widows Project Committee as a gift for Lucy B. Briggs when she departed Korea. It contains photographs (mostly group shots of the Korean war widows their projects) and memorabilia.

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Lucy Barnard Briggs Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Search Terms Ambassadors' spouses--Korea--Sources Korean War, 1950-1953--Women--Sources Korean War Widows Project Committee Additional Information