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      How America Mobilized

      A modest fundraising campaign became a nationwide movement uniting presidents, celebrities, and schoolchildren around a common cause.

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    • Relief Worker Memorial

      A living memorial to the more than 1,000 Americans and international colleagues who served, 1915–1930.

    • Voices of Near East Relief

      First-person accounts from relief workers and survivors

    • On Film

      Newsreels, documentaries and fundraising films, 1919–1930

    • Dispatches

      In-depth stories from the orphanages, relief workers, and campaigns of Near East Relief

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      Photographs, letters, and field reports from the relief effort

      Browse archival collections from NER relief workers and orphanages across Armenia, Greece, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.

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    • Bayard Dodge Photographs (1922)

      Follow Armenian orphans from Anatolia to NER orphanages around Beirut.

    • Barclay Acheson Photographs (1922–1928)

      Follow NER’s overseas operations through Barclay Acheson’s photographs, 1922–1928.

    • Near East Relief Periodicals (1918–1927)

      Read NER’s field reports, photographs, and appeals in its periodicals.

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Relief Worker Memorial

Near East Relief worker Dorothy H. Sutton

Dorothy H. Sutton, Near East Relief worker, c. 1920–1926.

Near East Relief became the Near East Foundation in 1930, and the Foundation kept photographs of the organization's staff and work. This portrait of Dorothy H. Sutton comes from that collection, now part of the Near East Foundation records at the Rockefeller Archive Center. The photographer is not recorded.

The Rockefeller Archive Center scanned the print in 2014, and NERHS holds two files of that scan.

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