Alice Beal Baker Hyde Papers 1897-1972

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Alice Beal Baker Hyde Papers 1897-1972

Psychiatric social worker, Social work educator. The Papers primarily date from 1914 to 1972 and focus on Hyde's life after graduation from the Smith College School of Social Work, her marriage to Mark Hyde, their divorce, her life as a single mother, her early career as a psychiatric social worker, and retirement. Comprised mostly of extensive family correspondence, as well as correspondence dealing with her experiences as a social worker at state hospitals in Boston and Detroit, circa 1919 to 1921. The collection also includes photograph albums, loose photographs, a journal, a sketchbook, and a short story. Major topics found throughout these papers are courtship, family structures and relationships in the early twentieth century, social work, and travel. Her letters also reveal the close family ties between Hyde and her father, journalist Ray Stannard Baker.

6 Boxes; (2.5 linear ft.)

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Smith College School for Social Work-United States

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Baker, Ray Stannard, 1870-1946

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American journalist. From the description of Letter : to the Cosmos Club, 1910 Mar. 31. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122545959 American journalist and author who also wrote under the name David Grayson. From the description of [Notebooks] [microform]. 1880-1946. WorldCat record id: 36820111 American author and journalist. He is also known by the pseudonym David Grayson. Fr...

Hyde, Alice Beal Baker, 1897-1972

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Alice Beal Baker Hyde, Boston, 1953 Alice Beal Baker Hyde was born on 16 May 1897 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was Ray Stannard Baker, a prominent McClure's magazine reporter who later won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Woodrow Wilson. Her mother, Jessie Irene Beal Baker, was a homemaker and mother of four children: Alice Beal, James Stannard, Roger Denio, and Rachel Moore. During Alice's early childhood, the family moved from Chicago to Bronxville, New Yor...