wallet
notes: label: Description
content: This wallet was used by Caleb Canby Balderston, known as C. Canby Balderston (1897-1979), during his service with humanitarian relief agencies in France and Belgium during World War I.
label: Description
content: A member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Balderston served with the Ambulance Unit of the Friends’ Relief Service in France and then he worked with the Commission for Relief of Belgium. He sailed for Europe on August 28, 1917. Over the next years, he worked as a mechanic and drive for the Friends’ Ambulance Unit and oversaw the distribution of relief supplies for refugees in Belgium.
label: Description
content: Later in life, Balderston was a prominent businessman and professor finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a governor and vice chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Philanthropy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Daniel, Jonathan, Sara, and Thomas Balderston
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0328.03
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0328.03
label: accession number
content: 2019.0328
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wallet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric; metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall (closed): 19.5 cm x 16 cm; 7 11/16 in x 6 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall (open): 19.5 cm x 32.3 cm; 7 11/16 in x 12 23/32 in