On June 21 Gloria and John Pedevillano visited the Exchange and Gift Division to present to the Library their gift of a collection of 12 photographs dating from the 1920s and 1930s.
Donald P. Panzera, chief of the Exchange and Gift Division, accepted the Pedevillanos' gift for the Librarian of Congress. Bernard Reilly, head of the curatorial section, and Beverly Brannan, curator of photography, represented the Prints and Photographs Division, which will have custody of the photographs, while Peter H. Bridge, senior acquisitions officer, attended for the Collections Policy Office.
Nine of the photographs, taken by one of Gloria Pedevillano's relatives, who served as a missionary, document the work of the Shuntehfu Branch of the United International Famine Relief Committee during the famine in China in 1921. They depict refugees and the distribution of food by the Relief Committee and help fill a gap in the Library's pictorial record of historical events in China.
The other three photographs show Ellen Woodward, a government official who served on the Social Security Board between 1938 and 1946.
