Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Betty Brooks Bell, wife of William Bell, discusses life in Mexico with her husband beginning in 1949 as members of an IIAA field party working to improve water supplies to towns. She discusses living conditions, language difficulties, raising her two children, hired help, companionship with the other wives, experience with volcanoes, shopping at local markets, trips around Mexico, and items they were able to purchase. She also discusses the...

Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Eliska Chanlett, wife of Emil Chanlett, discusses life and work in Brazil and Latin America: relations between Brazilians and Americans, IIAA programs, Amazon Valley program, illnesses, and women's organizations, issues, and rights. She also discusses U.S. foreign policies in relation to social and political issues. She also briefly describes her early life in Czechoslovakia and Switzerland, languages, and employment.25...

Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Dorothy Dee Longan, wife of John P. Longan, recalls experiences in Guatemala, Brazil, Venezuela, and Thailand as a woman, wife, and mother. She discusses the challenges of each country with regards to: moving, people, climate, culture, language, living conditions, housing, housekeeping, marketing, church, trips, recreation, friends, and sometimes revolutions and terrorism. Also discusses her family background and experiences, Border Patrol...

Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Evelyn Pineo, wife of Charles Pineo, discusses working for the IIAA with her husband in Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, and other Latin American countries: traveling, adapting to different cultures, living conditions, raising a family, housing, going to market, friends, work on Panama Canal, Panama during WWII, and work with health organizations. Also talks about her life in Massachusetts and Vermont before leaving the U.S....

Scope and Contents INSTITUTE OF INTER-AMERICAN AFFAIRS COLLECTION Elvera L. Williams, married to James D. Williams, discusses her foreign living experiences with the IIAA as a wife, mother, and as a woman in the 1940's and '50's. In Brazil and the Amazon Valley: living conditions, language problems, the Brazilian people, electricity, shopping, weather and climate, housing and housekeeping, marketing, insects and rodents, and recreation. In Mexico: culture shock, housekeeping and marketing, children, Mexicans,...