Lucy Wheelock collection, 1871-1989.

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Lucy Wheelock collection, 1871-1989.

Collection includes artifacts, notebooks, scrapbooks, song books, a weaving book, trade cards, newspaper clippings, diaries, photographs, manuscripts, speeches, reports and documents regarding Wheelock College, the International Kindergarten Union (1892-1928), and the Committee of Nineteen (ca. 1905-1940). It includes a scrapbook and diary of the 1911 Froebel Pilgrimage with glass slides. Correspondents include Herbert Hoover (1928), G. Stanley Hall, Alice Stone Blackwell (1930-1946), Elizabeth Peabody, Henry H. Barnard (1897-1907) and alumni.

4 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7354482

Wheelock College Library

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Wheelock School

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International Kindergarten Union

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Fröbel, Friedrich, 1782-1852

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Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950

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Daughter of suffrage leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell joined her parents in writing and editing the Woman's Journal. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1885-1950 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008749 Editor, The woman's journal and suffrage news. From the description of Letter, 1920 Apr...

Wheelock College

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Wheelock, Lucy, 1857-1946.

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Wheelock College. Office of the President.

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Lucy Wheelock founded the Wheelock Kindergarten Training School (Boston Mass.) in 1888 to provide education for teachers of young children. She served as Principal until 1940 when she was named Principal Emeritus, later President Emeritus when the School became Wheelock College in 1941. She was President of the International Kindergarten Union and served on committees of the National Congress of Mothers, a forerunner of the Parent Teacher Association. From the description of Lucy Whe...

Association for Childhood Education

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Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley), 1844-1924

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Psychologist and educator. From the description of G. Stanley Hall correspondence, 1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984299 Professor of psychologyat Clark University. From the description of Collected papers / G. Stanley Hall. (Clark University). WorldCat record id: 192074947 President of Clark University, Worcester, MA. From the description of Papers / G. Stanley Hall. (Clark University). WorldCat record id: 497070511 From the...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

International Kindergarten Union. Committee of Nineteen

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...

Barnard, Henry, 1811-1900

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American educator. From the description of Papers, 1832-1900. (Trinity College Library). WorldCat record id: 50031643 American educator; first US Commissioner of Education 1867-1870. Includes material from Gordon Ford. From the guide to the Henry Barnard letters, 1853, 1856, 1881, 1884, 1888, 1889, undated, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American educationalist; born Hartford, Conn., January 24, 1811; died Hartford, Con...