Edith and Grace Abbott, Social Work Papers
Scope and Contents
The papers of Edith Abbott contain professional and personal correspondence, lecture notes for courses taught at the University of Chicago School of Social Administration (SSA), articles, the draft of the unfinished biography of Grace Abbott, and biographical materials. The papers reflect Edith's interests centered on the status of women in industry and the establishment of high professional standards in social work education. The papers of Grace Abbott contain personal and professional correspondence, articles, speeches, radio broadcasts, biographical material, and materials relating to the United States Children's Bureau and the the Child Labor Amendment of 1924-25. Grace devoted her career to the conditions of child labor and to maternal and child health issues. Both sisters shared an interest in the problems of the immigrant and the public assistance programs of the New Deal. Within the collection, correspondents include Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Julia Lathrop, Frank Norris, Frances Perkins, Samuel Ratcliffe and Julius Rosenwald. Subjects include child labor laws, child welfare, immigration, philanthropy, and public welfare administration.
Dates
- 1905-1976
Creator
- Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957 (Person)
- Abbott, Grace, 1878-1939 (Person)
Extent
20.00 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.) Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Law and Legislation Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Photographs Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Social Work Education Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- United States Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Original finding aid created by Ginger Uzendoski; Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Karen Anderson (2008) and Ginger Uzendoski (2006), University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries 2004
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Box: 001 (Records)
- Box: 002 (Records)
- Box: 003 (Records)
- Box: 004 (Records)
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- Box: 017 (Records)
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- Box: 019 (Records)
- Box: 020 (Records)
Repository Details
Part of the Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries Repository
Archives & Special Collections
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
P.O. Box 884100
Lincoln NE 68588-4100 United States
402-472-2531
archives@unl.edu
