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Hamilton, Alice
Variant namesFollowing is a chronology of AH's life and work. For further information, see Notable American Women: The Modern Period and AH's autobiography , Exploring the Dangerous Trades (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942). See also Hamilton family papers (MC 278), available on microfilm (M-24).
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1869 -1886 :-born in New York city; raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana -
1886 -1888 :-attends Miss Porter's School , Farmington, Connecticut -
1893:
-earns M.D. from University of Michigan ; interns at Northwestern Hospital for Women and Children , Minneapolis -
1893 -1894 :-interns at New England Hospital for Women and Children , Boston -
1895:
-works in bacteriology laboratory, University of Michigan -
1895 -1897 :-does postgraduate study in bacteriology and pathology in Germany -
1897:
Baltimore -postgraduate study at Johns Hopkins Medical School , Baltimore -appointed professor of pathology at the Woman's Medical School of Northwestern University -becomes resident and active member of Hull House -
1902 -1910 :Chicago -works as bacteriologist at Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases , Chicago -investigates typhoid epidemic and drug traffic in Chicago -
1903:
-studies at Pasteur Institute , Paris -
1907 -: -studies industrial diseases on her own -
1908:
-appointed to the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases -
1910:
-appointed supervisor of the Illinois Commission on Occupational Diseases, concentrating on lead poisoning -
1911 -1912 :-appointed special investigator for U.S. Department of Labor ; investigates lead -
1913 -1919 :-works for Bureau of Labor Statistics , U.S. Department of Labor; investigates rubber, munitions, other industries -
1915:
-delegate to first International Congress of Women (The Hague) -visits German-occupied Belgium -travels to war capitals and discusses Congress's peace proposal -
1918:
-appointed Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School (after 1928, Harvard School of Public Health), Harvard's first woman professor -
1919:
Zurich -attends second International Congress of Women ( Zurich ) Germany -visits Germany to investigate postwar famine -
1923 -1933 :-consultant to General Electric -
1924:
-reviews industrial hygiene in U.S.S.R. -
1924 -1930 :-serves two consecutive terms on Health Committee of League of Nations -
1925:
-publishes Industrial Poisons in the United States -
1930 -1932 :-member, Herbert Hoover's President's Research Committee on Social Trends -
1933:
-travels in Nazi Germany -
1934:
-publishes Industrial Toxicology -
1935:
Hadlyme, Connecticut -retires from Harvard, moves to Hadlyme, Connecticut with sister Margaret and Clara Landsberg -consultant to Labor Department's Division of Labor Standards -
1937 -38 :-conducts field study of conditions in viscose rayon industry for Division of Labor Standards -
1943:
-publishes autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades -
1944 -49 :-president of National Consumers' League -
1949:
-publishes revised edition of Industrial Toxicology with Harriet Hardy -
1970:
-dies in Hadlyme at the age of 101
From the guide to the Papers, 1909-1965, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
Alice B. Hamilton was a Jersey City, New Jersey based Republican political activist who served as an alternate delegate in the 1936, 1940 (and possibly the 1944) Republican National Conventions. She was interested in elevating the role of women in the Republican Party and encouraged women to be more politically active within the Party. She was married to J. Burt Hamilton.
From the description of Alice B. Hamilton Collection, 1936-1940. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 60757778
A physician who was the first woman professor at Harvard University, Hamilton also worked as a resident researcher at Hull House, a researcher of industrial poisons for the U.S. Department of Labor, and was a member of the League of Nations Health Organization and of President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. For further information, see Notable American Women, The Modern Period (1980); Hamilton's autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades (1942); and Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (1984).
From the description of Papers, 1915. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122471496
A physician who was the first woman professor at Harvard University, Hamilton also worked as a resident researcher at Hull House, a researcher of industrial poisons for the U.S. Department of Labor, and a member of the League of Nations Health Organization and of President Hoover's Committe on Social Trends. For further information see Notable American Women, The Modern Period; Hamilton's autobiography, Exploring the Dangerous Trades (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942); and Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters (Camb., MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1984).
From the description of Papers 1909-1965 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006621
Epithet: daughter of the executor of George Every
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x00033e
Archival Resources
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| referencedIn | Additional papers, (inclusive), (bulk), 1857-1976, 1912-1971 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Hamilton family. Papers of the Hamilton family, 1879-1947 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 4. Correspondence, 1920-1925. [microform]. | Cornell University Library | |
| referencedIn | Hardy, Harriet Louise, 1906-. Papers, 1910-1984 (inclusive), 1924-1980 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Doris Stevens, 1884-1983 (inclusive), 1920-1960 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | American Association for Labor Legislation. Series 1, Subseries 1, part a. Correspondence (A-H), 1905-1910. [microform] | Cornell University Library | |
| referencedIn | Addenda, 1880-1957 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | DeWitt, Lydia Maria, 1859-. Autograph letter signed Lydia M. DeWitt to: Dear Sir. | Wellesley College | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1910-1984 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | League of Women Voters (Cambridge, Mass.). Records, 1916-ca.1976 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Simkhovitch, Mary K. (Mary Kingsbury), 1867-1951. Papers, 1852-1960 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004 | Harvard University Archives. | |
| referencedIn | Dyckman, Mary L. Papers, 1903-1982 (bulk 1940-1972). | Rutgers University | |
| referencedIn | Simkhovitch, Mary K. (Mary Kingsbury), 1867-1951. Papers, 1852-1960 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Eva Whiting White, 1900-1965 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
| referencedIn | Oswald Garrison Villard papers | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Hudson, Manley Ottmer, 1886-1960. Papers, 1894-1960 | Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 | |
| referencedIn | Van Kleeck, Mary, 1883-1972. Papers, 1883-1972 | Smith College, Neilson Library | |
| referencedIn | Elizabeth Blackwell Centennial, photographs. | Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Warren Hunting Smith Library | |
| referencedIn | Collection, 1921-1961 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Saturday Morning Club (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1871-1983 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973. Collection of documents by and about abolitionists and women's rights activists, 1775-1943 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers of of Alma Lutz,1921-1961 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
| referencedIn | Starr, Ellen Gates. Papers 1659-1975 bulk 1850-1970. | Smith College, Neilson Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Grant, Madeleine P. (Madeleine Parker), 1895-. Papers, 1910-1972 (inclusive), 1959-1972 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Alice Hamilton collection, 1904-1995. | University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC | |
| creatorOf | Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970. Papers, 1915. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Van Kleeck, Mary, 1883-1972. Papers, 1883-1972 | Smith College, Neilson Library | |
| creatorOf | Hamilton, Alice. Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1934-1944. | University of Pennsylvania Library | |
| referencedIn | Dummer, Ethel Sturges, 1866-1954. Papers, 1766-1962 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Dorothy Kirchwey Brown, 1917-1957 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of the Hamilton family, 1818-1974 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958. Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Hamilton Family. Hamilton Family papers, 1788-1963. | Indiana State Library - ISL | |
| creatorOf | Hamilton, Alice B. Alice B. Hamilton Collection, 1936-1940. | New Jersey Historical Society Library | |
| referencedIn | Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958. Papers, 1935-1958 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Alumni Association (University of Michigan), Individual Photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1960s | Bentley Historical Library | |
| referencedIn | Rebecca Shelley Papers, 1890-1984 | Bentley Historical Library | |
| referencedIn | American Association for Labor Legislation. Records on Microfilm, 1905-1910 | Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Harvard School of Public Health. Records of the Harvard School of Public Health, 1913-1976 (bulk). | Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1917-1982 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of the Hamilton Family, 1879-1947 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Papers of Alice Hamilton, 1909-1987 (inclusive), 1909-1965 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Elizabeth Glendower Evans, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Hannah Clothier Hull Papers | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| referencedIn | Learned Hand papers | Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 | |
| referencedIn | National Consumers' League Records, 1882-1986, (bulk 1920-1950) | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe "Women in Science" Exhibit, (1936). Records, 1935-1940 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | American Birth Control League records, 1917-1934. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1910-1972 (inclusive), 1959-1972 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century. | Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1929-1961 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Felton, Jean Spencer, 1911-. Papers. | University of California, San Francisco | |
| referencedIn | Hamilton, Edith, 1867-1963. Papers, 1922-1961 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | University of Michigan student portraits, ca. 1860-ca. 1950, 1870-1920 | Bentley Historical Library | |
| referencedIn | Burlingham, Charles Culp, 1858-1959. Papers, 1876-1960 | Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 | |
| creatorOf | Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940. Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
| referencedIn | American Association of University Women, Connecticut Division Records., undated, 1895-2009. | Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center. | |
| referencedIn | William Ernest Hocking papers | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Saturday Morning Club (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1871-1983 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Totenberg, Amy, 1950-. Women reformers from the settlement movement, 1889-1925. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961. Papers, 1885-1961 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Papers of Alice Hamilton, 1909-1987 (inclusive), 1909-1965 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Jane Addams Papers | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| referencedIn | Papers, [186-?], 1871-1976, 1995. | Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine | |
| referencedIn | Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe "Women in Science" Exhibit, (1936) Records, 1935-1940 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Hamilton family. Additional papers, 1850-1976 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Codman, Katherine Putnam Bowditch. Papers, 1880-1960 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Owen, Florence. Correspondence, 1934-1965 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Curran, Jean Alonzo, 1893-. Papers, [186?], 1893-1976. | Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Ethel Sturges Dummer, 1689-1962 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1917-1982 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956. Papers, 1876-1950 (inclusive). | University of Chicago Library | |
| referencedIn | Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, oversize, ca. 1829-1985 | Harvard University Archives. |
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