Guide to the Mary Beard Papers,
1926-1948

Collection Number: 2641

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
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Compiled by:

C. Hasto

Date completed:

1983

EAD encoding:

Martin Heggestad, July 2003

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Mary Beard papers, 1926-1948.

Collection Number:

2641

Creator:

Mary Beard, 1876-1946.

Quantity:

1 cubic ft.

Forms of Material:

Correspondence, diary, clippings, addresses, speeches, journals, pamphlets, and notes.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

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.

Language:

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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.


CHRONOLOGY
	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

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Beard, Mary, 1876-1946.

Red Cross. United States. American National Red Cross. Nursing Services.

Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division.

Form and Genre Terms:

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Mary Beard papers, #2641. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Arranged chronologically by record type.

CONTAINER LIST

Date	Description	Container
Spring 1947	Biographical, obituary (The Alumnae News Vol. 21)	Box 1	Folder 1
Dec. 1944; Apr., May 10, 1948	Information regarding Mary Beard papers from Miss Virginia M. Dunbar	Box 1	Folder 2
Dec. 4, 1925, Jan. 4-May 21, 1926	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 3
May 28-Dec. 31, 1926	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 4
Jan. 3-June 29, 1927	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 5
July 18-Dec. 30, 1927	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 6
Jan. 3-May 31, 1928	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 7
June 1-Dec. 30, 1928; Jan. 2, 1929	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 8
Jan. 2-May 29, 1929	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 9
June 3-Dec. 31, 1929	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 10
Jan. 1-June 3, 1930	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 11
June 4-Dec. 31, 1930	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 12
Jan. 1-Dec. 30, 1931	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 13
Jan. 8-Dec. 30, 1932	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 14
Jan. 2-Dec. 31, 1933	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 15
Jan. 2-Dec. 31, 1934	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 16
Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 1935	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 17
Jan. 2-May 29, 1936	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 18
June 1-Dec. 1936	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 19
Jan. 2-May 31, 1937	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 20
June 1-Dec. 31, 1937	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 21
Jan. 3-Sept. 30, 1938	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 22
Oct. 1-Dec. 29, 1938	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 23
Dec. 30, 1938-May 1, 1940	Mary Beard diary	Box 1	Folder 24
	Advisory Committee on Nursing, New York City Department of Health
May 19, 1937-Sept. 23, 1938	Letters, agendas, reports	Box 1	Folder 25
Feb. 25, 1936-Sept. 17, 1938	Letters, agendas, reports	Box 1	Folder 26
	Printed pamphlets and journals
	Public Health Nursing	Box 1	Folder 27
Oct. 1939	The American Red Cross Nursing Service	Box 1	Folder 27
Dec. 1926	Midwifery in England	Box 1	Folder 27
	American Journal of Nursing	Box 1	Folder 27
Dec. 1941	The Mobilization of Nursing	Box 1	Folder 27
Oct. 1936	The Canadian Nurse	Box 1	Folder 27
July 1938	Ohio Nurses Review	Box 1	Folder 27
1926-1930	Addresses and speeches	Box 1	Folder 28
1931-1935	Addresses and speeches	Box 1	Folder 29
1936-1939	Addresses and speeches	Box 1	Folder 30
1940-1943	Addresses and speeches	Box 1	Folder 31
n.d.	Addresses and speeches	Box 1	Folder 32-33
1936-1938	Miscellaneous material	Box 1	Folder 34
1921, 1928-1929	Reference journals	Box 1	Folder 35
1930, 1933	Reference journals	Box 1	Folder 36
1935-1937, 1942	Reference journals	Box 1	Folder 37
	Index cards for addresses - seven envelopes of notes	Box 1	Folder 38
	Index cards for addresses - nine envelopes of notes	Box 1	Folder 39
	Notes for addresses	Box 1	Folder 40

Guide to the Mary Beard Papers,1926-1948

Collection Number: 2641

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

© 2003 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

CHRONOLOGY

Guide to the Mary Beard Papers,
1926-1948

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library