Mrs. Mary Jacquith i.e., Jaquith

Photograph shows Mrs. Mary Jaquith (Marie Harin) (1898-1985), wife of Harold Clarence Jaquith (ca. 1889-1943) director of Near East Relief in Istanbul and Athens from 1920 to 1929. Mrs. Jacquith was a Russian refugee who worked for the Near East Relief in Istanbul. She later became a language teacher and was also one of the first simultaneous interpreters at the United Nations. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012 and Interpreters at the United Nations: a history, Jesus Baigorri Jalo, pp. 67-68)
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
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