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Zilpha Drew Smith Papers, 1892-1945, (bulk 1904-1917).

Title: Zilpha Drew Smith Papers, 1892-1945, (bulk 1904-1917).

Zilpha Drew Smith (ZDS), social worker and educator, was involved in many aspects of social welfare in Boston from 1872-1918. ZDS was the Head Registrar and General Secretary of the Associated Charities, a city wide network of charity organizations, from its founding in 1879 to 1903. In 1888, ZDS along with Charles W. Birtwell formed the Monday Evening Club, a discussion group for social workers. She became the Assistant Director of the Boston School for Social Workers (later the Simmons College School of Social Work) in 1904. The collection contains various published and unpublished writings by ZDS including case histories, materials on the education of social workers, special papers and statistics compiled for an exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and papers and lectures delivered at Boston School for Social Workers and National Conference of Charities and Correction. Also included are clippings, pamphlets, photographs and announcements of guest lecturers at Boston School for Social Workers. Correspondents include Mary E. Richmond, Jeffrey R. Brackett and Annie Haven Thwing.

ArchivalResource: 2 manuscript containers (7.5 linear in.)

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Smith, Zilpha Drew, 1851 or 2-1926. Papers, 1892-1945 (bulk 1904-1917).

Title: Papers, 1892-1945 (bulk 1904-1917).

Biographical notes, memorial material, bibliographies, published and unpublished professional writings, statistics, correspondence, administrative records, course materials, classroom lectures, notes on class meetings, clippings, photos, and other papers, relating to Smith's work as registrar and general secretary of Associated Charities of Boston and role in curriculum development at Boston School for Social Workers and pioneering social work education in the U.S. Includes special papers and statistics compiled for an exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and papers and lectures delivered at Boston School for Social Workers and National Conference of Charities and Correction. Persons represented include Jeffrey Richardson Brackett.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28418507 View

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.)

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Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004

Title: Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits. ca.1852-ca.2004.

Photographs of individuals associated with Harvard University: faculty, students, administrators, staff, honorees, and habitués of Harvard Square. For those whose lives pre-date the era of photography, the contents of the folders are often photographic reproductions of other image types, such as etchings, paintings, or drawings. In a few cases, the images themselves may be original etchings or sketches.

ArchivalResource: 50 cubic ft.; 20,000 photographs; 10,000 folders.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua04006/catalog View

White, Eva W. (Eva Whiting), 1885-1974. Papers, 1885-1974 (bulk: 1909-1974)

Title: Eva Whiting White Papers 1885-1974 1909-1974.

Eva Whiting White, social worker and educator, was involved in education.She was the first graduate of the Boston School for Social Workers (later Simmons College School of Social Work). She went on to become the head worker at the Elizabeth Peabody House (a settlement house in Boston's West End), Dean of the Simmons College School of Social Work, a member of the Boston Board of Public Welfare, Director of the Americanization and Immigration Division of the Massachusetts Board of Education and President of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. The collection contains predominantly professional records including pamphlets, newspaper clippings, genealogies, photographs, financial records, histories, theater programs, post cards and correspondence. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Harriett M. Bartlett, Bancroft Beatley, Leonard Bernstein, Alice Channing, Eleanor Clifton, Ada Comstock, Richard K. Conant, James Michael Curley, Cardinal Richard Cushing, Edward A. Filene, Katharine Hardwick, William J. Holmes, Joseph Lee, Henry Lefavour, William E. Park, William Pear, Robert Rutherford, Leverett Saltonstall and Maida Solomon.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (6.25 linear ft.)

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

Title: Papers, 1728-1955 (bulk 1881-1949).

Biographical and genealogical materials, published and unpublished writings, correspondence, clippings, notes, speeches and addresses, scrapbook, and other papers of Brackett, used by his second wife, Louisa de Berniere Bacot Brackett, Rose W. Bull, and Katharine D. Hardwick for their biography entitled 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.; and papers relating to Brackett's position as lifetime chairman of Harvard University Class of 1883. Professional papers include material on Brackett's work for 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 Hosptial Social Service Dept., and National Conference of Social Work; and special subject files on poor law and customs and scope and organization of charity, two of his life long areas of interest.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28418542 View

Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Title: Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers

Primarily professional correspondence of biographer and editor M. A. De Wolfe Howe.

ArchivalResource: 35 boxes (9 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00489/catalog View

Family and Children's Society of Baltimore. Family and Children's Society records, 1849-1977.

Title: Family and Children's Society records, 1849-1977.

The records of the Family and Children's Society of Baltimore, MD and its predecessor agencies provide a history of private and public charitable work in the city, 1849-1977. The records of each predecessor agency of the Family and Children's Society are arranged into separate series.

ArchivalResource: 100 linear ft. (53 records center boxes, 11 document boxes, ledgers)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49311060 View

Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Title: Barrows family papers, 1861-1931.

Letters and manuscripts of the Barrows family of New York.

ArchivalResource: 53 boxes (26 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00494/catalog View

Instructive District Nursing Association (Boston, Mass.). Records, 1912-1926 (bulk 1914-1918).

Title: Records, 1912-1926 (bulk 1914-1918).

Chiefly correspondence; together with budgets, minutes, annual reports and course materials of Simmons College School of Public Health Nursing, and other records, relating to Simmons College and a joint program in public health nursing and the development of public health nursing. Correspondents include Mary Beard, Jeffrey Richardson Brackett, Mary Adelaide Nutting, and Anne Hervey Strong.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 in. (ca. 50 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28418528 View