Wilbur C. and Elsie C. Phillips papers 1849-1965

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Wilbur C. and Elsie C. Phillips papers 1849-1965

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The Wilbur C. and Elsie C. Phillips papers document Wilbur Phillips's development of the Social Unit Plan, a democratic neighborhood structure that emphasized citizen participation in community affairs. It also reflects Wilbur and Elsie's early-20th century reform activities in New York, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati, especially their efforts to improve child health by securing clean milk and educating mothers in the principles of child hygiene.

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Social Welfare History Archives

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Mitchell, Wesley C. (Wesley Clair), 1874-1948

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED American economist, teacher. Professor of economics at Berkeley, 1903-1912, and at Columbia University, 1913-1919 and 1922-1944; a founding faculty member of the New School for Social Research, 1919-1922; and the founder and director of the National Bureau of Economic Research, 1920-1945. In 1912, he married Lucy Sprague, educator and founder of Bank Street College of Education. From the guide to the Wesley Clair Mitchell Papers, 1898-1953., (Columbia University. Ra...

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Consumers and Producers Organizing Committee

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Phillips, Wilbur Carey

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Wilbur Carey Phillips was born March 10, 1880, in Nunda, New York, and educated at Colgate Academy and Harvard University, graduating from the latter in 1904. He worked as secretary of the New York Milk Committee, 1907-1911 and as secretary of the Milwaukee Child Welfare Commission, 1911-1912. In both positions he concentrated on improving child health by securing clean milk and educating mothers in the principles of child hygiene. Years later his concept of an "educational health c...

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Phillips, Elsie Cole, 1879-1961

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Consumers and Producers Foundation of America

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National Social Unit Organization.

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