Papers 1915-1965

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Papers, 1915-1965

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Papers 1915-1965

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00233/catalog

Abstract

Minutes, reports, correspondence, etc., of the Massachusetts Society for Social Health.

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9 file boxes

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6386315

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

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Simmons University (Boston, Mass.)

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Simmons University (previously Simmons College) is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established in 1899 by clothing manufacturer John Simmons. In 2018, it reorganized its structure and changed its name to a university. Its undergraduate program is women-focused while its graduate programs are co-educational. Simmons is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. As of 2020, 83 percent of applicants to undergraduate programs were accepted. The university ...

Elizabeth Peabody House (Boston, Mass.)

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Since 1896, EPH has supported low-income and immigrant families in Boston and Somerville. One of the first settlement houses in Boston, the Elizabeth Peabody House empowers families with the tools they need to thrive through early childhood education, youth development, and family assistance....

Massachusetts Society for Social Health

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The Massachusetts Society for Social Hygiene, founded in 1911 and incorporated in 1915, worked to "help people understand and manage sex in its relation to health, good citizenship, marriage, parenthood and family life." In the early years the Society focused on medical and protective measures to combat venereal diseases but in 1928 reorganized to put greater emphasis on educational activities. Through counseling and discussion groups, lectures, a library and visual aids the Societ...

Solomon, Maida H. (Maida Herman), 1891-1988

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Maida Herman Solomon, pioneer psychiatric social worker and professor of psychiatric social work at Simmons College School of Social Work, was born in Boston, March 9, 1891, the daughter of Joseph Michael and Hennie (Adler) Herman. She was educated at public schools: the Prince School and the Boston Grils' Latin School, and then earned an A.B. from Smith College (1912) and an S.B. from Simmons College (1914.) She took one course at Portia School of Law in 1914. In 1916 she...

White, Eva Whiting, 1885-1974

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Eva Whiting was born in Webster, Mass., in 1880, daughter of Frederick Herbert and Marie Emma (Le Roy) Whiting. In 1902 she married Wesley Dunn Allen White. Having earned the first B.S. in social work from Simmons College in 1907, she pursued graduate studies in social work at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. Whiting was Headworker at Elizabeth Peabody House (EPH), 1909-1944; professor of social economy at Simmons College, 1922-1950; non-resi...

Friends of Framingham Reformatory.

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The Friends of Framingham, Inc. (FOF) was formed in 1948 in support of Miriam Van Waters and the progressive methods she had implemented as Superintendent of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham, with emphasis on rehabilitation of women prisoners rather than on punishment. Van Waters had served with distinction and to the satisfaction of six Commissioners of Corrections from 1932 to 1948. Eliot McDowell became Commissioner in February 1948; Van Waters...

Massachusetts. Reformatory for Women (1911-1952)

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The Reformatory Prison for Women was opened in Sherborn in 1877. It was renamed Reformatory for Women by St 1911, c 181 and because of a redrawn boundary line its fuller designation was changed from Reformatory for Women at Sherborn to Reformatory for Women at Framingham by St 1932, c 180, s 24. Under St 1955, c 770 it received its current name, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Framingham. From the description of Photographs of recreational events, 1911-1950 (bulk 1917-1924)....

Van Waters, Miriam, 1887-1974

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Miriam Van Waters, penologist, was born October 4, 1887, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, the eldest living child (an older daughter died before Miriam was born) of George Browne (1865-1934) and Maude Vosburg (1866-1948) Van Waters. She had two sisters and two brothers: Ruth Van Waters Burton (1893-1967); Rebecca Van Waters Bartholomew (1898-1974?); George, Jr. (1899-19??); and Ralph (1906-). She graduated in 1904 from St. Helen's Hall in Portland, Oregon, and then attended the Univers...

Essex County Homemaking School

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Family Service Association of Greater Boston

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Fiumara, Nicholas J., 1912-

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American Social Health Association

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At the beginning of the twentieth century venereal disease was a prevalent concern for social health organizations. Diseases such a syphilis and gonorrhea affected many people and the social stigma attached to sexually transmitted disease prevented most people from discussing or addressing means of treatment for venereal disease. In 1913, at a conference in Buffalo, New York, several organizations dedicated to fighting prostitution and venereal disease joined together to form the Am...

Ohio Social Hygiene Council

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Dearborn, Lester W.

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Rep. Kathryn E. Granahan

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National Council on Family Relations.

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Smith, George G. (George Gilbert), 1825-

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Institute for Chaplains.

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Clayton C. Hones

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Force, Elizabeth S.

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Dr. Guy W. Brugler.

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Boston University

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Hodder Hall Institute

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American public health association

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The American Public Health Association was founded in 1872 as a professional organization of physicians, nurses, educators, sanitary engineers, environmentalists, social workers, optometrists, podiatrists, pharmacists, dentists, hygienists, and other community health specialists. In pursuit of its goal of protecting and promoting personal and environmental health, the APHA offers services including the promulgation of standards, the establishment of uniform practices and procedures, development ...

Affiliates and Association of Social Hygiene Executives

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Bell, William Y. (William Yancy)

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United Service Organization

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Massachusetts Public Health Conference

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Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956

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George Washington Corner worked as an anatomist, endocrinologist, and medical historian. From the guide to the George Washington Corner papers, 1889-1981, 1903-1982, (American Philosophical Society) Alfred C. Kinsey, most famous for his work on human sexual behavior, was a world authority on gallflies, also known as Cynipidae or gall wasps. Kinsey began his entomological studies in 1917, eventually traveling to 54 locations in 36 states, and accumula...

Cooperative Extension Service

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Three acts signed by President Lincoln in 1862 shaped the U.S. Agricultural history: the act authorizing a U.S. Department of Agriculture ; the Homestead Act, encouraging settlement of public domain lands; and the Morrill Act establishing land grant colleges in every state and placing instruction in agriculture and home economics in higher education. The history and formation of the cooperative extension dates back to The Hatch Act of 1887 which established a cooperative...

Papers 1915-1965

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