Papers, 1883-1971, 1908-1971 (bulk)

Bryn Mawr College. Summer School for Women Workers in Industry

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The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry (1921–1938) was a residential summer school program that brought approximately 100 young working women—mostly factory workers with minimal education—to the Bryn Mawr College campus, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, each year for eight weeks of liberal arts study. As part of the workers' education movement of the 1920s and 30s, the experimental program was unique in several ways. It was the first program of its kind for women in the United Stat...

Vineyard Shore Workers' School (West Park, N.Y.)

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Smith, Hilda Worthington, 1888-1984

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Hilda Worthington Smith (June 19, 1888 – March 3, 1984) was an American labor educator, social worker, and poet. She is best known for her roles as first Director of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry and as a co-founder of the Affiliated Schools for Workers (later known as the American Labor Education Service), though she also had a long career in government service supporting education for underserved groups including women, labor workers, African-Americans and the elder...

Hudson Shore Labor School (West Park, N.Y.)

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Founded in 1939 as the Bryn Mawr College Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, the Hudson Shore Labor School (HSLS) moved to its West Park, N.Y. location in 1949, expanding into an institute for training and development for workers and unionists. From the description of Hudson Shore Labor School. Files, 1948-1954. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63541048 ...

Lockwood, Helen Drusilla, approximately 1891-1971

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Lockwood was educated at Vassar and Columbia. She taught at Wellesley College, 1925-1927, and at Vassar College, 1927-1956, and was active in workers' education. From the description of Helen Drusilla Lockwood papers, 1883-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51618945 From the description of Papers, 1883-1971, 1908-1971 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519264 ...

Ware, Caroline F. (Caroline Farrar), 1899-1990

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Social historian, consumer lobbyist; interviewee married Gardiner C. Means. From the description of Reminiscences of Caroline F. Ware : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565371 Caroline Farrar Ware, a professor of history and social science, received her A.B. from Vassar in 1920, her A.M. from Radcliffe in 1924, and her Ph.D. in 1925. Ware was an associate professor of history at Vassar from 1925-1930 and from 1932-1934...

Vassar College.

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Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985

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Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a lawyer, scholar, writer, educator, administrator, religious leader, civil rights and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal minister. She spent much of her life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Proud shoes : the story of an American family : typescript, 1956 / by Pauli Murray. (New York Public Library)....

Brown, Emily Clark

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Professor Emily Clark Brown (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1923) was an associate industrial economist, U.S. Women's Bureau, 1929, assistant professor of economics at Wellesley and assistant professor, later professor, of economics at Vassar College, beginning in 1932. Brown was a specialist in labor economics and wrote on collective bargaining, national labor policy and labor in the Soviet Union. From the guide to the Emily Clark Brown File on the Soviet Union, 1936-1962., (Kheel Ce...

Lockwood, William M.

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Papers collected by William Lockwood. From the description of William Lockwood papers, 1903-1963. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421723 ...

Lockwood, Cordelia.

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Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969

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Hallie Flanagan was the national director of the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939. From the description of Federal Theatre Project visual materials, 1935-1937 and n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 748689080 Hallie Flanagan Davis, whose professional name was Hallie Flanagan, taught drama at Vassar, 1925-1942, and founded its experimental theater; in the 1930s she served as the director of the Federal Theater Project. From the description of Hal...

Robertson, Priscilla Smith

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Lockwood, Mary Lamson.

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Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, 1815-1906

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English poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bonchurch, I.O.W., to Miss Tudor, 1850 Nov. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270853650 Author. From the description of Letter to Mrs. Alexander [manuscript], 1863 May 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806311 English author of novels and educational and devotional works. From the description of ALS : Bonchurch, England, to Eliza Allen Starr, 1890 July 9. (Rose...

Ellery, Eloise, 1874-....

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Ellery, a 1897 Vassar graduate, went on to study at Cornell University and the Sorbonne, and then returned to teach history at Vassar, 1900-1939. From the description of Papers, 1870-1959, 1923-1958 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155518948 From the description of Eloise Ellery papers, 1870-1959, 1923-1958 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576464 ...

Harris, Elizabeth Merwin Page, 1889-1969.

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Elizabeth Merwin Page Harris, author, graduated from Vassar College (1912) and received an M.A. from Columbia University (1914). She was a teacher (1914-1916), Y.M.C.A. worker during World War I, and an International Grenfell Association volunteer (1921-1925) and secretary (1927-1931). Elizabeth Page wrote four books, including the 1939 best seller, The Tree of Liberty. She married Herbert Taylor Harris (1879-1960) in 1954. Harris died in 1969. From the description of Elizabeth Page ...

Clark, Eleanor, 1913-1996

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Eleanor Clark (1913-1996), author of novels and non-fiction works, as well as short fiction, essays, poems, and plays. Novels include Bitter Box (1946), Baldur's Gate (1970), Gloria Mundi (1979), and Camping Out (1986). Non-fiction works include the travel narratives Rome and a Villa (1952), Oysters of Locmariaquer (1964), and Tamrart: 13 Days in the Sahara (1985), and the memoir Eyes, Etc. (1977). From the description of Eleanor Clark papers, 1876-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Wolfe, Gladys Meyer.

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Wellesley College

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