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Brackett, Jeffrey Richardson, 1860-1949. Jeffrey Richardson Brackett Papers, 1728-1955, 1881-1949.

Title: Jeffrey Richardson Brackett Papers, 1728-1955, 1881-1949.

The collection contains biographical and genealogical materials, published and unpublished writings, correspondence, clippings, notes, speeches and addresses, a scrapbook, and other papers of Brackett's. Most were used by his second wife, Louisa de Berniere Bacot Brackett, Rose W. Bull, and Katharine D. Hardwick for their biography : Jeffrey Richardson Brackett, Everyday Puritan (1956), including much material with annotations by the authors and copies of the biography. Personal papers include Brackett family papers; journal (1879) of George B. Morison, a fellow student of Brackett at Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass.; papers related to Brackett's position as lifetime chair of the Harvard University Class of 1883; and a 1728 deed to land owned by the Brackett family in Braintree, Mass. (now Quincy, Mass). Professional papers include material on Brackett's work with public charity organizations in Baltimore; the Boston School for Social Workers (later Simmons College School of Social Work); involvement with various charity and social work organizations including Massachusetts Civic League, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Welfare, Massachusetts General Hospital Social Service Dept., and National Conference of Social Work; and special subject files on poor law and customs and the scope and organization of charity, two life-long areas of interest. Major correspondents include Richard Conant, Ida Cannon and Zilpha Drew Smith. Other correspondents include Jane Addams, Richard C. Cabot, Robert W. DeForest, John M. Glenn, Henry Lefavour, Ada Eliot Sheffield and William H. Taft.

ArchivalResource: 7 manuscript containers (4 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24345369 View

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers, 1874-1977, 1915-1945

Title: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers 1874-1977 1915-1945

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, organization and subject files, teaching materials, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of C.-E.A. Winslow, a prominent figure in the public health movement. Correspondence focuses on health and social welfare issues with several notable educators, doctors, and social policy advocates. Organization files include material relating to the United States Public Health Service and the American Public Health Association. Records of the Association's Committee on the Cost of Medical Care are also included, as are teaching files from Yale Univesity, writings and lectures, reprints of articles, and family papers. Anne Rogers Winslow's photographic journals of her husband's American Red Cross mission to the Soviet Union in 1917 is an example of family material. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 69 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0749 View

Parsons, Geoffrey, 1879-1956. Papers, ca.1919-1959.

Title: Papers, ca.1919-1959.

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, notebooks, memorabilia, a tape cassette, photographs, and printed materials. The collection is primarily correspondence files, both personal and professional, along with book reviews, awards and diplomas, letters of condolence on his death, clippings, and correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials relating to THE STREAM OF HISTORY. The correspondence relates specifically to the third edition. The manuscripts are typed and holograph inserts for the third edition and possibly for the second edition as well. Among the manuscripts are twenty-two notebooks containing holograph notes and drafts of chapters. The printed material consists of one copy of THE STREAM OF HISTORY, 1934 edition.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (ca.2,700 items in 8 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122632687 View

Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940. Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957.

Title: Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957.

Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, writings, and collateral papers documenting Wald's career in public health nursing and social work in New York City, her association with the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service, and her many other social welfare concerns, such as child labor, housing, recreation, sanitation, peace, prohibition, and women's suffrage.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 21 linear feet (50 boxes, 1 oversize folder)Copies: 37 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122408341 View

Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957

Title: Lillian D. Wald Papers 1889-1957

Lillian D. Wald, a public health nurse and social worker on New York City's Lower East Side, was a pioneer in American social work and public health. She founded the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in 1893 and was a crusader for liberal, social welfare and philanthropic causes including child welfare, civil liberties, immigration, unemployment and the peace movement during World War I. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, articles and printed materials relating to Wald's involvement with various social initiatives.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear feet; 50 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3201 View

New York (State). Charities Aid Association. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1915.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1915.

Correspondence to Theodore Dreiser from Holmer Folks, Secretary, New York State Charities Aid Assoc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892747 View

Folks, Homer, 1867-1963. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1910.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1910.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155889194 View

Homer Folks Papers, 1890-1963.

Title: Homer Folks Papers 1890-1963.

This collection consists of papers and correspondence of Homer Folks, (1897-1963), social worker.

ArchivalResource: circa 6,000 items (32 boxes, 1 oversized portfolio)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4078770 View

Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954. Papers, 1890-1955

Title: Frank Manny papers 1890-1955

Progressive educator, student of Thomas Dewey at the University of Chicago, served as head of the state Normal School at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, superintendent of the Felix Adler School of Ethical Culture in New York City and as head of teacher education in the city of Baltimore. The papers include extensive personal correspondence, scrapbooks, journals, writings and other materials concerning his professional interests. Correspondence includes letters from distinguished authors and educators.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-852267?rgn=main;view=text View

Papers, 1917-[ca. 1966]

Title: Papers, 1917-[ca. 1966]

Papers primarily concern her work in France during World War I with the American Committee for Devastated France and include a diary for 1917, letters written to her family, 1917-1919, and photographs. Other items include a tribute to her father, Homer Folks, Zimand's publications, yearbook from Yonkers High School, 1911, letters received on her retirement from the National Child Labor Committee, 1955, an inventory of her papers at the Social Welfare History Archives Center, University of Minnesota, and biographical material.

ArchivalResource: .5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155520399 View

John Adams Kingsbury papers, 1841-1966, (bulk 1906-1939)

Title: John Adams Kingsbury papers

Social worker and social reformer. Includes correspondence, journals and diaries, family papers, autobiographical material, travel notes, manuscripts of Kingsbury's books, speeches and articles, news releases, legal and financial papers and documents his activities as a social reformer and public health advocate such as his efforts to improve the conditions of public institutions in New York and Eastern European relief work.

ArchivalResource: 57,400 items ; 165 containers ; 65.5 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003054 View

John Adams Kingsbury papers, 1841-1966, (bulk 1906-1939)

Title: John Adams Kingsbury papers

Social worker and social reformer. Includes correspondence, journals and diaries, family papers, autobiographical material, travel notes, manuscripts of Kingsbury's books, speeches and articles, news releases, legal and financial papers and documents his activities as a social reformer and public health advocate such as his efforts to improve the conditions of public institutions in New York and Eastern European relief work.

ArchivalResource: 57,400 items ; 165 containers ; 65.5 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003054 View

Folks, Homer, 1867-1963. Homer Folks papers, 1890-1963.

Title: Homer Folks papers, 1890-1963.

Papers and correspondence relating to Folk's activities with the Red Cross after World War I, as a special agent to the military governor of Cuba in 1900, and as president of the New York State Probation Commission, 1907-1917. The collection also reflects his interest in mental hygiene, the care of neglected and delinquent children, tuberculosis, and public health and welfare.

ArchivalResource: 26 boxes & 1 oversized portfolio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/495526581 View

Manny, Frank Addison, 1868-1954. Frank Addison Manny papers, 1890-1955.

Title: Frank Addison Manny papers, 1890-1955.

Correspondence, 1890-1953, largely concerning the progressive education movement, including extensive correspondence with John Dewey; journal, 1922-1950, diary, 1932-1934 and 1937, articles, newspaper clippings, and a memorial address, June 25, 1955, by Rolland Emerson Wolfe in tribute to Manny and his wife, Annette; also photographs.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80634577 View

Gertrude Folks Zimand and Savel Zimand papers, 1911-1958.

Title: Gertrude Folks Zimand and Savel Zimand papers, 1911-1958.

The Zimand papers primarily concern Gertrude Folks Zimand's work in France during World War I with the American Committee for Devastated France. There is additional biographical materials as well as items relating to her father, Homer Folks, Zimand's publications, and her work with the National Child Labor Committee. There is also a significant collection of material relating to Savel Zimand's work as a writer and journalist.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 cubic ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51576694 View

Folks, Homer, 1867-1963. Reminiscences of Homer Folks : oral history, 1949.

Title: Reminiscences of Homer Folks : oral history, 1949.

American social work; Children's Aid; New York, N.Y. politics and social work, 1900-35.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 98 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309734081 View

Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers, 1874-1977 (inclusive), 1915-1945 (bulk).

Title: Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers, 1874-1977 (inclusive), 1915-1945 (bulk).

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, organization and subject files, teaching materials, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of C.-E.A. Winslow, a prominent figure in the public health movement. Correspondence focuses on health and social welfare issues with several notable educators, doctors, and social policy advocates. Organization files include material relating to the United States Public Health Service and the American Public Health Association. Records of the Association's Committee on the Cost of Medical Care are also included, as are teaching files from Yale University, writings and lectures, reprints of articles, and family papers. Anne Rogers Winslow's photographic journals of her husband's American Red Cross mission to the Soviet Union in 1917 is an example of family material. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

ArchivalResource: 69 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702158895 View