Emma France Ward Papers 1922-66

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Emma France Ward Papers 1922-66

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Public health specialist and personnel manager. The strength of this collection is its documentation of Ward's career as a woman government bureaucrat during a period in which governmental influence in the regulation of industry increased dramatically. It is also a rich source of information about women workers, especially those in the shipbuilding industry during the World War II period. Materials include correspondence; articles written by Ward about the health and safety of women workers; and publications devoted to women industrial workers' health and safety.

2 boxes; (2 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6322765

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Ward, Emma F. (Emma France)

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Letter to Emma Ward from Herbert Wenzel, regional Industrial Advisor, August 26, 1944 Emma France Ward, the daughter of Wilbur F. and Emma Albert Ward, was born in Baltimore in 1886. She graduated from Goucher College in 1909; later she received a degree in public health medicine from Johns Hopkins University, and engaged in further studies at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, and in Europe. Early in her career Ward did settlement work. In 1931 she was th...