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Collection Overview
Title: Caroline Webster Papers, 1917-1921
ID: 89/1/21
Primary Creator: Webster, Caroline
Extent: 1.0 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject divisions, then by subject title and chronologically by date thereunder
Date Acquired: 00/00/1974
Subjects: Committee on Work with the Blind, Hospital Library Service, Rider, Gertrude, War Services Committee, Webster, Caroline, World War I
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Papers of Caroline Webster, (assistant to the director of the Library War Service head of the Hospital Library Service, and member of the Committee on an Enlarged Program for American Library Service), contains correspondence with the American Red Cross (1918-1921), with Gertrude Rider of the committee on Work with the Blind, the New York Association for the Blind, and the Perkins Institute for the Blind (1919-1920), with dispatch offices (1919- 1920), includes the establishment of public libraries in the Virgin Islands (1917, 1919-1920), with the Hospital Library Service personnel (1919-1921), postwar library service correspondence with national organizations (1919-1921), and postwar library service records (1919-20).
Entire series is digitized.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
The American Library Association Archives
Other Note:
3 Pages
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Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: American Red Cross, 1918-1921],
[Series 2: Committee on Work with the Blind],
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Series 3: Hospital Library Services, 1919-1921],
[
Series 4: Postwar Library Service Records, 1919-1921],
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All]
- Series 2: Committee on Work with the Blind
- Box 1
- Folder 4: Committee on Work with the Blind, 1919-1920
- Library of Congress, correspondence between Gertrude Rider, Committee on Work with the Blind, and Caroline Webster, Hospital Library Service and Hospital librarians concerning braille for the blind; New York Association for the Blind, correspondence with Caroline Webster of the hospital library service; Perkins Institute for the Blind, correspondence with Caroline Webster, Work with the Blind; the Booklist of Revised Braille and an article "Notes on Braille".
- Folder 5: Library of Congress, 1920
- Library of Congress, correspondence between Gertrude Rider, Committee on Work with the Blind, and Caroline Webster, Hospital Library Service and Hospital librarians concerning braille for the blind.
- Folder 6: Dispatch Offices, 1919-1920
- File containing book purchase requests sent to the dispatch offices at New York City, Newport News, Virginia, and Philadelphia; lists of U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals and marine hospitals, librarians, and hospitals which ordered specific magazines and newspapers; memoranda, reports, and correspondence to and from the dispatch offices concerning book requests for the hospital libraries
- Folder 7: Establishment of Public Libraries in the Virgin Islands, 1919-1920
- Reports and correspondence of the Enlarged Program of the War Service, Caroline Webster and Ola M. Wyeth with the American Red Cross and Virgin Island officials concerning a request for and the subsequent plans for the establishment of libraries in the Virgin Islands and the Bulletin of Pan American Union.
- Folder 8: Establishment of Public Libraries in the Virgin Islands, 1920
- Reports and correspondence of the Enlarged Program of the War Service, Caroline Webster and Ola M. Wyeth with the American Red Cross and Virgin Island officials concerning a request for and the subsequent plans for the establishment of libraries in the Virgin Islands and the Bulletin of Pan American Union.
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Series 1: American Red Cross, 1918-1921],
[Series 2: Committee on Work with the Blind],
[
Series 3: Hospital Library Services, 1919-1921],
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Series 4: Postwar Library Service Records, 1919-1921],
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All]
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