Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago records, 1883-1976.

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Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago records, 1883-1976.

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Miscellaneous correspondence, bulletins, pamphlets, clippings, annual reports, statistical data, etc. of the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago. Correspondence is chiefly with donors (1903-1949, 1957), who included many socially prominent Chicagoans; plus case study data in Patient Service, Nursing Substation & Coordinated Home Care Program reports, 1962-1968. Also, many items on the Mayor's City-County Polio Planning Committee (1956); a VMA 75th anniversary scrapbook; and Society for Ethical Culture correspondence, 1883-1887. Also present is a paper on Lea Demarest Taylor, 1883-1968, and in box 16, folder 2, there is a Masters thesis on the "History of Public Health Nursing in Chicago, 1883-1920," by Helen Lyons (University of Chicago, 1947).

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Lyons, Helen

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Chicago Ethical Society

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Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago

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Taylor, Lea Demarest, 1883-1975.

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Lea Demarest Taylor was Head Resident of the Chicago Commons settlement house and daughter of its founder, Graham Taylor. Lea Taylor grew up at Chicago Commons and was a full resident from the age of 16. She was president of the Chicago Federation of Settlements from 1930 to 1934 and again from 1950 to 1952. She was a member of the Women's Trade Union League and chair of the Cotton Dress Industry Wage Board, which created minimum wage legislation for the female-dominated industry. She served as ...