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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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Repository:
The American Library Association Archives
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3 Pages
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Box and Folder Listing
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]
- Series 1: American Red Cross, 1918-1921
- Box 1
- Folder 1: American Red Cross, 1918-1921
- Correspondence between the American Red Cross and ALA Hospital Library Service concerning postwar services to ex-servicemen in hospitals
- Folder 2: Foreign Language Government Information Bureau, 1919-1921
- Correspondence with Caroline Webster, in charge of hospital libraries.
- Folder 3: Miscellaneous, 1920-1921
- Third Red Cross call plan book and a Red Cross community survey questionnaire.
- 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.
- 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.
- Series 4: Postwar Library Service Records, 1919-1921
- Box 3
- Folder 1: National Committee for Mental Hygiene & National Country Library Conference, 1920
- National Committee for Mental Hygiene file containing correspondence concerning conferences on hospital library work. National Country Life Conference, a report of the National Country Life Conference appointed to confer with national organizations engaged in rural social work at which ALA was represented by George B. Utley.
- Folder 2: National Tuberculosis Association - New York City, 1919-1921
- File concerning books supplied by the National Tuberculosis Association to be distributed by ALA to the hospital libraries.
- Folder 3: National Tuberculosis Association - Regional Conferences [2 folders], 1919-1921
- Correspondence with National Tuberculosis Association concerning ALA exhibits on work they did for ex-servicemen at National Tuberculosis Association regional conferences.
- Folder 4: Correspondence, 1919-1920
- Correspondence between the War Service and Carnegie Public Library, Boise, Idaho; St. Mary's Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Tulane Receiving School, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Cushman Hospital, Tacoma, Washington, concerning book supplies to ex-servicemen there.
- Folder 5: Hospital Library Circulars, 1919-1920
- Hospital library circulars to its librarians, memoranda, reports on hospital library work, hospital library service personnel directory, articles and drafts of articles concerning hospital library work. Old publicity materials for hospitals including memoranda, articles, pictures of men in hospitals and a newspaper clipping the blind and libraries.
- Folder 6: Inventory-War Service Hospital Libraries, War Service Committee, 1920
- War Service Hospital Libraries and War Service Committee files. Including inventories of hospital libraries which contain correspondence to and from ALA and hospital librarians. Also included is the Library War Service Directory.
- Folder 7: War Service Book Lists, 1920
- File includes lists of hospital librarians, magazines, newspapers, books and supplies at each hospital library.
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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