Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957

Authors:Lillian D. Wald, Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, George Alger, Margaret Bondfield, Mary Maud Brewster, Louis I. Dublin, Haven Emerson, Homer Folks, Lee K. Frankel, Josephine Goldmark, Helen Hall, Alice Hamilton, Sidney Hillman, Helen Hartley Jenkins, Florence Kelley, Helen Keller, Paul Underwood Kellogg, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Herbert H. Lehman, Katharine F. Lenroot, Alice Lewisohn, Irene Lewisohn, James Ramsay McDonald, Henry Morgenthau, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Jacob H. Schiff, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Norman Thomas, Felix M. Warburg, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Street Settlement (New York, N.Y.), League of Red Cross Societies, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, National League for Nursing, United States Children's Bureau, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, White House Conference on Child Health and Protection

Summary:Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, writings, and collateral papers documenting Wald's career in public health nursing and social work in New York City, her association with the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service, and her many other social welfare concerns, such as child labor, housing, recreation, sanitation, peace, prohibition, and women's suffrage. Correspondence contains letters to and from Wald concerning the social conditions she encountered and sought to improve. Correspondents include friends, professional associates, government officials and well-known people in the U.S. and abroad. Other papers consist of speeches, articles and notes written by Wald; collateral materials which include articles and speeches by her colleagues in nursing and social work; letters she wrote during trips to the Orient in 1910 and to Russia in 1924; notes, minutes, reports, and printed matter from various conferences she attended; and miscellaneous biographical materials