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In addition to general collections and online subscription databases, journals, and ebooks, the Library holds more than 500 named collections which are distinguished by their specialized subject matter, age, uniqueness, or value. Most of the listed collections on this page are located in the John Hay Library. To locate digitized collections, see the list available at the Center for Digital Scholarship site and search the Brown Digital Repository.
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Martha and Waitstill Sharp Collection
Brown alumna Martha Dickie Sharp (Pembroke 1926) and her husband Rev. Waitstill Sharp were co-founders of the Unitarian Service Committee during World War II. The collection documents their strenuous efforts throughout the course of the war to provide relief and assistance to thousands of refugees in Czechoslovakia and France, under the most dangerous and difficult of circumstances.Format(s): Manuscripts, Graphics, Letters, Documents
Library: John Hay
NOTE: This collection is housed off-site. Prior notice is needed for retrieval
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Access to the collection:
Online Catalog (BruKnow):
Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection, 1905-2005
Other Online Access:
Digital Collection: Martha and Waitstill Sharp Collection
Non-brown Web Page: Martha Sharp Cogan and Waitstill Hastings Sharp (Notable American Unitarians)
Non-brown Web Page: Unitarian Service Committee. Executive Director. Records, 1940-1951
Non-brown Web Page: Waitstill and Martha Sharp (Yad Vashem)
Non-brown Web Page: Two Who Dared: the Sharps' War, a film by Artemis Joukowsky III
Non-brown Web Page: Martha and Waitstill Sharp (USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia)
Non-brown Web Page: Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Executive Director, Robert Dexter. Records, 1940-1941
RIAMCO: https://www.riamco.org/render?eadid=US-RPB-ms2011.008
In-house Access to the Collection:
Typescript Inventory
Typescript finding aid prepared by the staff of the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and is available online via RIAMCO.
Related Collections:
Dexter (Robert C. and Elisabeth A.) Papers