Women of valor : booklet and posters, 1998.

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Women of valor : booklet and posters, 1998.

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As educational tools to celebrate women's history month, the Jewish women's archive as a joint venture with Ma'yan: The Jewish women's project, produced the three posters and booklet. The posters of Rebecca Gratz, Molly Picon and Lillian Wald present their lives through images, a timeline and quotations. The booklet contains further information, biographical entries and teaching tools which put the women's lives in historical context.

4 items (1 booklet, 3 posters) ; 45.5 x 61 cm. posters.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8319483

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Picon, Molly

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Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869

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Rebecca Gratz was born on March 4, 1781, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1801, at the age of 20, Rebecca Gratz helped establish the Female Association for the Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances, which helped women whose families were suffering after the American Revolutionary War. In 1815, after seeing the need for an institution for orphans in Philadelphia, she was among those instrumental in founding the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum. Under Gratz' auspices, a Hebrew Sunday Scho...

Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Director of Henry Street Settlement in New York City. Miss Wald retired from active directorship in 1932. From the guide to the Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1895-1936, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a public health nurse and social worker in New York City on the Lower East Side, was a pioneer in American social work and public health. She founded the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of...

Ma'yan.

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Jewish women's archive.

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