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Elizabeth Ferrer Collection (2081) Finding Aid

Collection Item Number: 20810000000
Title
Finding Aid
Pages
1
Language(s)
English
Dates
Creation: 07 November 2014
Other: Majority of material found within 01 January 1967 - 31 December 1988
Scope and Contents
3 Books, 870 slides, 75 photographs, 4 artifacts, and approximately two linear feet of correspondence, articles, brochures, and a periodical document Elizabeth Ferrer's service in the 1960s and 1970s with Children' Medical Relief International's Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Saigon. One page is in restricted access as it contains a medical record.
Biographical / Historical
Elizabeth Ferrer worked as Chief Nurse for the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (CPRS) and as Executive Director of the Children's Medical Relief International, INC (CMRI) in Vietnam from 1967 to1975. In 1985, she moved to Lubbock, Texas served as the Director of Nursing at St. Mary of the Plains Hospital and Habitation Center.
3
Books
They Come to Stay by Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and Ruth Gruber, 1976
Ten Anh Viet (loai bo tui): English-Vietnamese Pronouncing Poket Dictionary by Ba Kong Le, 1965
Sequelae of Noma by Tran-Tien Sum, 1971
3
Photographs
75 photographs of children and workers at the Childrens medical Relief International hospital
VAS068488-VAS068560
VAN020007-VAN020009
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1
Slides
870 photographs of children and workers at the Childrens medical Relief International hospital
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4
Museum Objects
2081museum4594: oil painting: rice paddy
2081museum4598: Lacquer Vietnamese Fishing Scene
2018museum4599: Framed Tapestry from Childern's Medical Relief International, INC
2081museum4600: Framed Drawing of the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Saigon
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  • Box 1: [Barcode: 1] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks [D087.2 ]]
  • Box 1000: [Barcode: 1000] [TTU - Southwest Collections Building, Stacks, D056.3 Individual Oversize Collection Box 13 [D056.3]]
  • Report of the Survery Team Children's Medical Relief International (CMRI), INC, Vietnam, March 1967
  • Cancrum Oris by Michael N. Tempest
  • Report of Second South Viet-nam Survey by Children's Medical Relief International, INC, June, 1976
  • Children's Medical Relief International (CMRI): Publicity Releases-1 of 3
  • Children's Medical Relief International (CMRI): Publicity Releases-2 of 3
  • Children's Medical Relief International (CMRI): Publicity Releases-3 of 3
  • The Inauguration of Hien Mau Day Care & Central Nguyen-Trai Social Cultural Center, 22, February 1975
  • Letters and cards to Elizabeth Ferrer-1980 1 of 2
  • Letters and cards to Elizabeth Ferrer-1980 2 of 2
  • Letters and cards to Elizabeth Ferrer-1981
  • Letters and cards to Elizabeth Ferrer-1982
  • Letters and cards to Elizabeth Ferrer-1983
  • Letters to Elizabeth Ferrer-1984-1985
  • Wartime Nursing Experience Panel conference material 4/7/1988
  • Kim Phuc oversize newspaper clippings (1 page restricted)
  • Children's Medical Relief International (CMRI): Oversize Publicity Releases-1 of 2
  • Children's Medical Relief International (CMRI): Oversize Publicity Releases-2 of 2
  • RCA Telgrams

Perma Link
https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=20810000000

Citation
Elizabeth Ferrer Collection (2081) Finding Aid, Elizabeth Ferrer Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=20810000000, Accessed 08 Feb 2026.

Pub Credit Line
20810000000, Elizabeth Ferrer Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University

Added: 06 Nov 2014 [Updated: 15 Oct 2025]