The collection documents World War I, France, The American Red Cross, San Diego State College of Business, stenography and shorthand, and fashion in the late 1930s. It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, resumes, report cards, photos, scrapbook, various artifacts including patches, pins, buttons and a bracelet, and souvenir and guide books.

Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan on June 4, 1883, Georgia Amsden arrived in San Diego in 1909 as a stenography teacher at San Diego High School. The majority of the collection concerns her volunteer work in France for the American Red Cross in 1918-1919 during World War I. She then returned to San Diego and became an associate professor of business education at San Diego State College in 1925. She retired from the College in 1957. Ms. Amsden died in 1968.

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