Reminiscences of Martha May Eliot and William M. Schmidt : oral history, 1974.

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Reminiscences of Martha May Eliot and William M. Schmidt : oral history, 1974.

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Family background, education, medical training; rickets study and early association with Children's Bureau; Title V of Social Security Act; maternal and child health services in Europe before and during World War II; Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund; tours for World Health Organization, 1949-51; history of Children's Bureau, 1912-73; Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Harvard, 1957-60.

Transcript: 454 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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