Emma Octavia Lundberg Papers, 1834-1971

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Emma Octavia Lundberg Papers, 1834-1971

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This collection contains research files, speeches, writings and other material related to Emma O. Lundberg, a child welfare leader who served the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, the United States Children's Bureau, the Child Welfare League of America, and the New York Temporary Emergency Relief Administration. Throughout her nearly forty-year career in social work, Lundberg wrote extensively about child welfare; most of the papers relate to her writings and research.

4 linear feet (9 document boxes)

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Child Welfare League of America

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Lenroot, Katharine F. (Katharine Frederica), 1891-1982

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Lundberg, Emma O. (Emma Octavia)

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Emma Octavia Lundberg, child welfare leader, was born in Västergötland, Sweden on October 8, 1881, to Frans Vilhelm Lundberg and Anna Kajsa Johanson. The family emigrated from Sweden in 1884, and Lundberg spent her childhood in Rockford, Illinois, graduating from Rockford High School in 1901. Two years later Lundberg entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison, earning her B.A. in 1907 and a master's degree in 1908. From 1908 to 1913, Lundberg worked in several cities...