Mary Beard papers, 1926-1948.
Collection Number: 2641
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Mary Beard papers, 1926-1948.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2641
Abstract:
Papers of Mary Beard, a nurse and writer. Collection consists primarily of diary entries
recording job related activities; speeches concern public health and nursing issues.
Creator:
Beard, Mary, 1876-1946.
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Mary Beard was a nurse and author. She served as Associate Director of the International
Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1924-1938, and was Director of Nursing
Services of the American National Red Cross. She also served on the Advisory Committee
on Nursing of the New York City Department of Health, 1936-1937.
She graduated from the Cornell University School of Nursing in 1903.
| 1876 | November 14, born in Dover, New Hampshire to Ithamar Warren and Mary Foster Beard. | |
| 1903 | Graduated from New York Hospital School of Nursing (later became Cornell University New York Hospital School of Nursing in 1942). | |
| 1904 | Visiting nurse in Waterbury, Connecticut. | |
| 1912-1922 | Director of Instructive District Nursing Association in Boston. | |
| 1922-1924 | Director of the Community Health Association in Boston. | |
| 1924-1938 | Associate Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation of New York City. | |
| 1929 | Author of The Nurse in Public Health. | |
| 1934 | Conferred with honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. | |
| 1938-1944 | Director of Nursing Services for the American National Red Cross. | |
| 1944 | Retired. | |
| 1946 | Died December 4. | |
| Member of: | ||
| National Organization for Public Health Nursing | ||
| National League of Nursing Education | ||
| American Nurses Association | ||
| Episcopalian Club | ||
| Honorary member of: | ||
| Florence Nightingale International Foundation | ||
| Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing | ||
| Honorary degree of Doctorate of Laws, Smith College |
CHRONOLOGY |
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| 1876 | November 14, born in Dover, New Hampshire to Ithamar Warren and Mary Foster Beard. | |
| 1903 | Graduated from New York Hospital School of Nursing (later became Cornell University New York Hospital School of Nursing in 1942). | |
| 1904 | Visiting nurse in Waterbury, Connecticut. | |
| 1912-1922 | Director of Instructive District Nursing Association in Boston. | |
| 1922-1924 | Director of the Community Health Association in Boston. | |
| 1924-1938 | Associate Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation of New York City. | |
| 1929 | Author of The Nurse in Public Health. | |
| 1934 | Conferred with honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities. | |
| 1938-1944 | Director of Nursing Services for the American National Red Cross. | |
| 1944 | Retired. | |
| 1946 | Died December 4. | |
| Member of: | ||
| National Organization for Public Health Nursing | ||
| National League of Nursing Education | ||
| American Nurses Association | ||
| Episcopalian Club | ||
| Honorary member of: | ||
| Florence Nightingale International Foundation | ||
| Association of Collegiate Schools of Nursing | ||
| Honorary degree of Doctorate of Laws, Smith College | ||
Correspondence; diary, 1926-1940; clippings; addresses; speeches; journals; pamphlets;
and notes of Mary Beard. Collection consists primarily of diary entries recording
job related activities; speeches concern public health and nursing issues.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Mary Beard papers, #2641. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Red Cross. United States. American National Red Cross. Nursing Services
Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division
Subjects:
Nurses.
Women -- Diaries.
Women in medicine.
Nursing.
Public health.
Form and Genre Terms:
Pamphlets.
Speeches.
Journals.
Diaries.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Biographical, obituary (The Alumnae News Vol. 21)
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Spring 1947 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Information regarding Mary Beard papers from Miss Virginia M. Dunbar
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Dec. 1944, Apr., May 10, 1948 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Mary Beard diary
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Dec. 4, 1925, Jan. 4-May 21, 1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Mary Beard diary
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May 28-Dec. 31, 1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 3-June 29, 1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Mary Beard diary
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July 18-Dec. 30, 1927 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 3-May 31, 1928 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Mary Beard diary
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June 1-Dec. 30, 1928, Jan. 2, 1929 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 2-May 29, 1929 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Mary Beard diary
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June 3-Dec. 31, 1929 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 1-June 3, 1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Mary Beard diary
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June 4-Dec. 31, 1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 1-Dec. 30, 1931 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 8-Dec. 30, 1932 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 2-Dec. 31, 1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 2-Dec. 31, 1934 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1935 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 2-May 29, 1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Mary Beard diary
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June 1-Dec. 1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 2-May 31, 1937 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Mary Beard diary
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June 1-Dec. 31, 1937 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Mary Beard diary
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Jan. 3-Sept. 30, 1938 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Mary Beard diary
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Oct. 1-Dec. 29, 1938 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Mary Beard diary
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Dec. 30, 1938-May 1, 1940 |
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Advisory Committee on Nursing, New York City Department of Health
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Letters, agendas, reports
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May 19, 1937-Sept. 23, 1938 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Letters, agendas, reports
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Feb. 25, 1936-Sept. 17, 1938 |
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Printed pamphlets and journals
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Public Health Nursing
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
The American Red Cross Nursing Service
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Oct. 1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Midwifery in England
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Dec. 1926 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
American Journal of Nursing
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
The Mobilization of Nursing
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Dec. 1941 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
The Canadian Nurse
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Oct. 1936 |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Ohio Nurses Review
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July 1938 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Addresses and speeches
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1926-1930 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Addresses and speeches
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1931-1935 |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Addresses and speeches
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1936-1939 |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Addresses and speeches
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1940-1943 |
| Box 1 | Folder 32-33 |
Addresses and speeches
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n.d. |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Miscellaneous material
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1936-1938 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Reference journals
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1921, 1928-1929 |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Reference journals
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1930, 1933 |
| Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Reference journals
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1935-1937, 1942 |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 |
Index cards for addresses - seven envelopes of notes
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| Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Index cards for addresses - nine envelopes of notes
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| Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Notes for addresses
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