Edna Mahan papers, 1913-1988 (bulk 1914-1970).

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Edna Mahan papers, 1913-1988 (bulk 1914-1970).

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Biographical materials, 1952, 1968-1969, 1987 and undated; diary, January 1, 1928-February 3, 1929, and August 3-28, 1941; "character book," 1914-1915, filled in by friends; miscellaneous correspondence, 1923-1968 and undated; scattered press clippings, 1922-1963 and undated; three educational certificates, 1918-1923; and school papers, 1913-1922 and undated. Also correspondence, 1968-1970 and undated, received by Lois Morris (an assistant at the Clinton Farms facility) after Mahan's death and research materials gathered (chiefly from sources in California) by Mahan's biographer Mary Q. Hawkes. Mahan's earlier diary volume was kept at first in or near Boston (until mid-August 1928) and then in New Jersey. It contains regular entries which are generally brief, but which are often somewhat longer later in the volume, after she had begun her new job at the New Jersey State Reformatory for Women. The entries pertain to both Mahan's professional career and her personal life, including her relationship with fellow corrections official Frank Loveland, who remained in Massachusetts after she moved to New Jersey. The later diary volume is a vacation journal pertaining to a visit to California which begins with very brief entries (written several days later?) relating to her travel across the country. Among the correspondents represented by letters received is television talk show host David Susskind (1 letter : 1964). Mahan's school papers pertain to both high school and college, but primarily consist of course materials, student exercises and ephemera from the University of California. Among the items present is a paper by Mahan entitled "Progress Made in California for the Education of Feeble-Minded Children." Also included are notes on abnormal psychology (dated July 1913) that were evidently recorded by someone else.

.5 cubic ft. (2 boxes).

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Mahan, Edna, 1900-1968

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Corrections official; born in 1900; grew up in California; was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1922; worked successively at the California Bureau of Juvenile Research, at the Los Angeles County Probation Department and on the juvenile delinquency portion of the Harvard Law School Crime Survey; served as superintendent of "Clinton Farms," the New Jersey State Reformatory for Women (now the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women) in Union Township, Hunterdon...

New Jersey Reformatory for Women

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Hawkes, Mary Q.

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University of California (1868-1952)

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Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...

Susskind, David, 1920-1987

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Morris, Lois B.

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Loveland, Frank, 1901-

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