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Constance Ray Harvey papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00214

Scope and Contents

This small collection documents Harvey's service with the Department of State, 1930-1952. Materials include correspondence, Department of State memoranda, photographs, one speech (in French), and two articles.

Dates of Materials

  • Creation: 1930-1960

Creator

Language of Materials

English, French

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use without restriction beyond the standard terms and conditions of Smith College Special Collections.

Conditions Governing Use

Materials in this collection may be governed by copyright. For reproductions of materials that are governed by fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. Researchers are responsible for determining who may hold materials' copyrights and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from Smith College Special Collections to move forward with their use.

Biographical / Historical

Constance Ray Harvey graduated from Smith College in 1927. She began her diplomatic service in 1930 and held numerous diplomatic positions, serving as Vice Consul in Ottawa, Milan, Basel; Secretary of the Legation in Berne; Vice Consul at Lyon; and Consul in Zurich. She received the Medal of Freedom in 1947 for meritorious service with the French Underground, 1941-1942.

Extent

0.229 linear feet (1 container)

Abstract

Diplomat. This small collection documents Harvey's service with the Department of State, 1930-1952. Materials include correspondence, Department of State memoranda, photographs, one speech (in French), and two articles.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were donated to the Sophia Smith Collection by Constance Ray Harvey in 1987.

Related Materials

Associated materials: Oral history in Women Ambassadors Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection.

Processing Information

Processed in 1995.

Title
Constance Ray Harvey papers
Subtitle
Finding Aid
Date
2008
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Revision Statements

  • 07/26/2017: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
  • 2017-07-26T17:48:19-04:00: This record was migrated from InMagic DB Textworks to ArchivesSpace.

Repository Details

Part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History Repository

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