Ruth Frances Woodsmall papers 1863-1963

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Ruth Frances Woodsmall papers 1863-1963

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The Ruth Frances Woodsmall papers contain diaries, personal and professional correspondence, research, publications, speeches, reports, photographs and memorabilia, as well as a complete record of her work as an international executive for the YWCA, 1914-20, and Chief of Women's Affairs for the US High Commissioner for Occupied Germany (HICOG), 1945-1959. The collection also includes documentation of her European war work, 1914-1920, including service in wartime France and postwar Germany; field surveys of the Balkans and Baltic; and surveys of migration conditions in Switzerland, Italy, France, and Belgium. There is extensive source material on women in the Near and Middle East, and (to a lesser extent) Europe and the Far East gathered by Woodsmall in support of her publications: Eastern women, today and tomorrow (1933); Moslem women enter a new world (1936); and Women and the new East (1960); and her research notes and reports on the conditions of women for the World YWCA. In addition, there is a substantial collection of photographs of women from around the world during the first half of the twentieth century.

39.25 linear ft. (84 boxes; 6 volumes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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World Young Women's Christian Association

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Woodsmall, Ruth Frances, 1883-1963

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Ruth Woodsmall Ruth Frances Woodsmall was born in Atlanta, Georgia, September 20, 1883, the youngest of three children of Harrison S. Woodsmall, a lawyer and teacher, and Mary Elizabeth Howes, an art teacher. She grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended local schools. She received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1905 and her A.M. from Wellesley in 1906. From 1906 to 1917 she worked as a high school English teacher and principal in Nevada and Colorado. B...

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