Papers of Abigail Adams Eliot, 1858-1979

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Eliot, Abigail Adams, 1892-1992. Papers, 1858-1979

Title

Papers of Abigail Adams Eliot, 1858-1979

Date

1858-1979

Resource Link

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00139/catalog

Abstract

Correspondence, course materials, photographs, etc., of Abigail Adams Eliot, an expert on early childhood education and child psychology.

Extent

7 1/2 file boxes, 8 photograph folders,1 folio folder, 1 folio+ folder, 1 oversize folder, part of reel of microfilm (M-100)

Languages

eng, Latn

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 6386221

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Eliot (Family : Boston, Mass.)

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The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew (1627-March 1, 1703...

Eliot, Martha M. (Martha May), 1891-1978

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Martha May Eliot (April 7, 1891 – February 14, 1978), was a foremost pediatrician and specialist in public health, an assistant director for WHO, and an architect of New Deal and postwar programs for maternal and child health. Her first important research, community studies of rickets in New Haven, Connecticut, and Puerto Rico, explored issues at the heart of social medicine. Together with Edwards A. Park, her research established that public health measures (dietary supplementation with vitamin...

Holman, Anna Eveleth, 1892-1969

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Anna Eveleth Holman graduated from Radcliffe College in 1914. A science teacher, she was an active alumna, and was editor of the Radcliffe Quarterly (1942-1952, 1954-1964). From the description of Papers, 1893-1967 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009408 Science teacher (Radcliffe, A.B., 1914; Harvard Graduate School of Education, Ed.M., 1928), Holman was head (April 1919-May 1920) of the Radcliffe Unit in France established by the Radcliffe Alumnae ...

Eliot, Abigail Adams, 1892-1992

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Abigail Adams Eliot was born October 9, 1892, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Reverend Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856-1945) and Mary Jackson (May) Eliot (1859-1926). Her sister, Martha May Eliot (whose papers are in the Schlesinger Library, MC 229), was head of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor between 1951 and 1956. Her brother, Frederick May Eliot, was head of the Unitarian Association of America starting in 1937 till his death in 1958. ...

Alumnae Council

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United Community Services

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Unitarian Sunday School Teachers Union

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Shoals Religious Education Institute.

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Board of Visitors

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Village Nursery School and Kindergarten

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A. D. Sheffield's

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Boston University. School of Nursing

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Boston University

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Concord (Massachusetts) Alternative Residence, Inc./Community Action Committee for the Elderly

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Committee on Continuing Education

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Harvard University. Graduate School of Education

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The Harvard University Graduate School of Education was established in 1920. From 1891 to 1920, the study of education at Harvard took place within two different divisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Until 1906, education faculty were appointed to the Division of Philosophy. In 1906, a separate Division of Education was established. Paul Henry Hanus held Harvard’s first faculty appointment in the field of education. Hanus was chair of the Division of Education from 1906 to 1912. Henr...

Wheelock College, Boston

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Eliot, Christopher Rhodes, 1856-1945

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Unitarian minister. A.B. Washington University, St. Louis, 1876; S.T.B. Harvard Divinity School, 1881. Minister at First Parish Church, Dorchester, Mass. (1882-1893); Bulfinch Place Church, Boston (1894-1927); minister at large for the Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches, Boston (1927-1932). From the description of Papers, 1872-1943 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 269367967 Christopher Rhodes Eliot (1856-1945) graduated...

Abby Adams Crance Eliot

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Walden Guidance Association

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May family

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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887

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Dix was a humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill. She investigated the conditions of the hospitalized insane in many U.S. states and some European countries, and petitioned state and national legislatures for reforms. She was also superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War. Eliot was a Unitarian minister, an educator, and assisted in the founding of Reed College in Oregon. From the description of Letters to Thomas Lamb Eliot, 1869-1885. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Boston Parents' Council.

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The Council was founded in 1930 by a small group of professional and volunteer social agency administrators to bridge the gap between scientists studying child development and parents who wanted information on normal child growth. It disbanded in 1938. From the description of Records, 1930-1938 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006924 The members of the Boston Parents' Council, a small group of professional and volunteer social agency adm...

Wheelock, Lucy, 1857-1946.

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Conant, James B.

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Thomas Lamb Eliot.

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Nursery Training School, Boston

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Pearson, Elizabeth Ware

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Diana Roberts

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Comprehensive Community Mental Health Program

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Pacific Oaks Friends School, Pasadena, California

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May, Abigail Williams; 1829-1888.

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New England Association for Nursery Education.

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Cambridge Association of Ministers

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Parent Education Conference

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Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

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Daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell joined her parents in writing and editing the Woman's Journal. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008749 Editor, The woman's journal and suffrage news. From the description of Letter, 1920 Apr...

H. S. Field

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Eliot-Pearson School for Nursery School and Kindergarten Training (Medford, Massachusetts)

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Dr. Jenny P. Waelder

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Greater Boston Institute of Religious Education

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Tufts University, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study

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Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887

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Born August 5, 1811 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887) traveled to St. Louis as a missionary in 1834 and became the first Unitarian minister west of the Mississippi. He went on to become one of St. Louis's most influential and respected citizens, working in favor of the Union, emancipation, temperance, and women's rights. Eliot was also the co-founder of Washington University, served as the president of the board of directors from 1854 to 1887, and served as Chanc...

Papers of Abigail Adams Eliot, 1858-1979

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