Annie Vellna Scott Diary
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three typewritten pages written by Dr. Scott in November 1937, describing her experiences over several days as a medical missionary doctor in China during their war with Japan, just prior to World War II. Entries describe the frequency of bombings, the noise bombs make as they are dropping, the conditions of patients, and her own living conditions and preparations for returning to the United States.
There is a handwritten note at the top of the page that indicates that she was working on the campus of Cheeloo University, which was in Tsinan (a romanized version of Jilan), Shandong, China.
Places mentioned include a medical clinic, the Cheeloo Campus, Tsinan, Nanking, Tsingtao, and Shanghai.
Dates
- 1937
Creator
- Scott, Annie V. (Person)
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Collection is open for research.
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Biographical or Historical Information
Dr. Annie Velna Scott (1889-1975), a 1914 alumna of North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG), served as a missionary medical doctor in China from the early 1920s to just prior World War II (WWII). A war between the China National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army began in 1937, but Dr. Scott did not return to the United States until the bombing at Pearl Harbor in 1941. Dr. Scott returned to China after the WWII and remained until the early 1950s. During the war years, she taught pediatrics at Columbia Medical School. After her return to the United States in the 1950s, she taught at Columbia and later at UNC Chapel Hill.
Extent
0.01 Linear Feet (1 folder.)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Dr. Annie Vellna Scott, a 1914 alumna of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG), served as a medical missionary in China during the war with Japan, just prior to World War II.
The collection consists of three typewritten pages written by Dr. Scott in November 1937, describing her experiences over several days as a medical missionary doctor in China during the war with Japan.
Method of Acquisition
Gift of Katherine Hoskins in August, 1984.
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- Title
- Annie Vellna Scott Diary
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Archives staff. Updated 2022-10-11 by Suzanne Helms.
- Date
- 01/20/2016
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- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Revision Statements
- April 20, 2021: This finding aid underwent changes in Spring 2021 after a reparative archives review. The following link leads to the legacy version of this finding aid: http://library.uncg.edu/info/depts/scua/legacyFA/04.MSS076.legacy.pdf
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository