Papers, 1941-1997 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1941-1997 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232008806

This collection documents the personal and professional life of Jane Hope Hastings. The bulk consists of drafts and a published copy of her memoir, USO in Skagway, Alaska, 1943-1944; the drafts contain material not included in the published version. The remainder includes letters to her first husband Parkhurst Whitney, and Harold J. Barrett and his first wife Rose Barrett, who died in 1953 or 1954. Also included are a scrapbook, given to her at her retirement in 1955; a photograph album made by Hastings while she was stationed in Alaska; reports sent by Hastings to the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and her supervisor within the USO, and the feedback received from her supervisors; and two oral history interviews with Hastings conducted by Eva Moseley of the Schlesinger Library in 1995 and 1997.

.83 linear feet (2 file boxes), 1 folio box, 8 photograph folders, 2 audiotapes.

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

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

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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board

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The International Board of Women's and Young Women's Christian Associations and the American Committee of Young Women's Christian Associations merged to form the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of the U.S.A. in 1906. From the description of National Board predecessors and formation of National Board, 1876-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84462658 Women's advocacy and social service organization. In the mid-nineteenth century women's or...

United Service Organizations (U.S.)

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The United Service Organizations (USO) was incorporated in the state of New York on February 4, 1941, as a joint operation by the YMCA, YWCA, National Catholic Community Service, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Traveler's Aid Association, and the Salvation Army, to provide religious, spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and entertainment services to men and women in the armed forces during World War II. The USO has continued to provide these services to the present. From t...

Moseley, Eva Steiner

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Eva Moseley is curator of manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. From the description of Sources for the new women's history. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007813 Eva (Steiner) Moseley (b. 1931) is the daughter of Isabella (Zetlin) Steiner, a Russian Jewish dressmaker who migrated from Russia to Vienna, Austria, with her family in 1905 and to the United States in 1939. Steiner ran a successful dressmaking business, first in Vienna and then ...

Hastings, Jane Hope, 1902-

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Jane Hope Hastings was born Katherine Kelenen in Budapest, Hungary, on April 16, 1902. Her mother and father left for the United States in 1907 or 1908, leaving their three daughters in convents. A year later the girls left with an older cousin, landed at Ellis Island, and took a train to join their parents in St. Louis, Missouri. Shortly thereafter, Hastings' father returned to Hungary and her mother eventually remarried. When Hastings graduated from high school she immediately left for New Yor...