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This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.

Printed reports, photographs, slides and audio recordings from Abe S. Ashcanase, USAID (Agency for International Development).

Scope and Contents The collection contains typed letters signed from Petitjean to her parents recounting experiences during assignments abroad as a diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service. Countries to which Petitjean was posted include (chronologically 1951-retirement 1985): Peru, Panama, Germany, Canada, Morocco, Greece, Brazil, and Thailand, with a final posting in Washington, D.C.It also includes photographic slides and prints, clippings, and certificates documenting her posts with the U.S....