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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.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The American Library Association Archives
Other Note:
3 Pages
PDF Box/Folder List
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: American Red Cross, 1918-1921],
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Series 2: Committee on Work with the Blind],
[Series 3: Hospital Library Services, 1919-1921],
[
Series 4: Postwar Library Service Records, 1919-1921],
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All]
- Series 3: Hospital Library Services, 1919-1921
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Jones, Caroline - New York City, 1919-1920
- File containing the correspondence, memoranda, telegrams and reports of Miss Caroline Jones as librarian at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Ellis Island, New York, and hospital field representative in New York City and vicinity with Caroline Webster, in charge of hospital libraries and assistant to the director of the War Service.
- Folder 2: Jones, Kathleen and Assistants -Boston, 1920-1921
- Correspondence of E. Kathleen Jones, field representative in the Hospital Library Service with Caroline Webster, in charge of Hospital Libraries, concerning materials and personnel involved in the Hospital Library Service in the Boston area.
- Folder 3: Jones, Kathleen and Assistants - Boston [2 folders], 1920
- Correspondence of E. Kathleen Jones, field representative in the Hospital Library Service with Caroline Webster, in charge of Hospital Libraries, concerning materials and personnel involved in the Hospital Library Service in the Boston area.
- Folder 4: Sanatoria, 1919-1920
- Correspondence to and from Miss Caroline Webster and Ola Wyeth and those in charge of library service to the sanitariums at Battle Mountain, South Dakota, the State Sanatarium of North Dakota, Phoenix, and Rutland, Massachusetts.
- Folder 5: Sanatoria, 1920
- Correspondence to and from Miss Caroline Webster and Ola Wyeth and those in charge of library service to the sanitariums at Battle Mountain, South Dakota, the State Sanatarium of North Dakota, Phoenix, and Rutland, Massachusetts.
- Folder 6: Webster, Caroline - Braille, 1919-1920
- Correspondence to and from Miss Webster concerning the hospital library service to ex-servicemen, books, supplies, and braille materials.
- Folder 7: Webster, Caroline and Ola M. Wyeth, 1919-1920
- Correspondence of Caroline Webster, assistant to the director of the War Service and member of the Committee on ALA Enlarged Program, and Ola M. Wyeth of the Hospital Field Service, to and from hospital libraries, memoranda and minutes of the meetings of the Committee on ALA Enlarged Program.
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: American Red Cross, 1918-1921],
[
Series 2: Committee on Work with the Blind],
[Series 3: Hospital Library Services, 1919-1921],
[
Series 4: Postwar Library Service Records, 1919-1921],
[
All]
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