Series 6 - Elizabeth Brown

0.73m of textual records, artifacts, photographic material, and video

This series consists of Elizabeth Brown’s professional and personal files. Files within this series include correspondence to family members including Egerton Brown, Harcourt Brown, Dorothy Brown, and Jennifer Brown. Elizabeth Brown, Quentin Brown and Robert Young Brown all contributed their journal entries/correspondence for the “The Army’s Mister Brown” a book of their family wartime experiences edited by Harcourt Brown. Elizabeth Brown’s experiences with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration (UNRRA) in Jerusalem and Palestine is discussed in this book and in her correspondence files.
Documentation also covers Elizabeth Brown’s work and experiences with the UNRRA, the International Refugee Organization, the American Red Cross, and the Foster Parents’ Plan. These experiences were noted in Elizabeth’s professional notes, transcripts, and her “Middle East Diary”. Drafts of her unpublished autobiography similarly detail her career and personal life. Also included are photographs and a video documenting her career and travel, photographs of herself, her family, and her friends, a VHS tape, a box of mementos, and several medals earned for her work with the UNRRA.

Material in B2022-0009/001 and B2022-0009/002 follows the chronological order in which it was transferred to us. B2022-0008 maintains the imposed order it was given at The University of Manitoba, from where it was transferred to UTARMS.

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This series is composed of two different accessions, one of which was transferred from the University of Manitoba Archives to UTARMS in 2022. File titles include the original University of Manitoba numbering scheme (for example: MSS 336 A 11-17 11-12, MSS 336 A 11-17 13-14).