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Lucy Barnard Briggs Papers, 1955-1955Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2005
Biographical NoteLucy Barnard Briggs was born in 1903 in Harlem, New York to Therina Townsend and Everett Larkin Barnard. She graduated from Smith College in 1925. In 1928 she married career diplomat Ellis O. Briggs, and over the years was posted with him to Chile, China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Korea, Peru and Uruguay. The couple had two children, Lucy Therina (1930-1994) and Everett Ellis (b.1934). Briggs was active in the Korean War Widows Committee, a self-help project, when her husband was U.S. Ambassador to Korea in the early 1950s; she was given the Order of Merit for this work by Korean President Rhee prior to her departure in 1955. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThis collection consists of one photograph album compiled by the Korean War Widows Project Committee as a gift for Lucy B. Briggs when she departed Korea. It contains photographs (mostly group shots of the Korean war widows their projects) and memorabilia. NOTE: The container list for this collection is available in the Sophia Smith Collection. Please contact us to request a copy. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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