Elizabeth Greene Gardiner papers, 1847-1968,-1910-1968 (bulk)
Collection Number: 2996
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Elizabeth Greene Gardiner papers, 1847-1968,-1910-1968 (bulk)
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2996
Abstract:
Primarily letters written by Elizabeth Gardiner to members of her family and friends
concerning her personal life and her professional career as a social worker and professor.
Also, photographs, official identification papers, her student essays, pamphlets,
poems, prayers and memorabilia; and correspondence of other family members and friends.
Creator:
Gardiner, Elizabeth Greene, 1890-
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Elizabeth Greene Gardiner was a social worker and professor. She served as a nurse's
aide with the Italian Red Cross in Imola, Italy (1915-1916) and with the British Expeditionary
Force in France (1917-1919). She was involved in medical social work on Ellis Island
(1919-1922) and at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital (1926-1928). From 1928
to 1938 she was assistant professor at the University of Minnesota; during 1931 she
served as exchange lecturer at the University of Liverpool, England. She also served
as a consultant for the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness (1939-1942),
an analyst of convalescent homes for the Committee on Convalescent Care Practice,
New York City (1942-1943), and as a Welfare Officer for the United Nations Relief
and Rehabilitation Administration in Egypt, Italy and Germany (1944-1946); also intermittently
for the Citizen's Committee on Displaced Persons, New York City, the American Committee
for Emigre Scholars, Writers and Artists, New York City, and the Travelers Aid Society,
Nashville, Tennessee. Gardiner received her academic training at Simmons College School
of Social Work, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago. She was involved
in numerous professional organizations, and visited many social, health, and educational
agencies in Europe and Asia.
Primarily letters written by Elizabeth Gardiner to members of her family and friends
concerning her personal life and her professional career as a social worker and professor.
Also, photographs, official identification papers, her student essays, pamphlets,
poems, prayers and memorabilia; and correspondence of other family members and friends,
including letters written by Elizabeth Gardiner's mother, Eliza Doane Gardiner, to
Ellen Parkman Vaughan.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Elizabeth Greene Gardiner papers, #2996. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Gardiner, Eliza Doane.
Vaughan, Ellen Parkman, 1873-1912.
Citizen\'s Committee on Displaced Persons (New York, N.Y.)
American Committee for Emigre Scholars, Writers and Artists (New York, N.Y.)
Travelers Aid Society (Nashville, Tenn.)
Red Cross. Italy. Italian National Red Cross
Great Britain -- : Armed Forces -- : British Expeditionary Force.
University of Pennsylvania
University of Liverpool
National Society for the Prevention of Blindness
Committee on Convalescent Care Practice (New York, N.Y.)
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Places:
Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
Subjects:
Social workers.
Women college teachers.
Women -- Diaries.
Social service.
Public health.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographic prints.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Personal papers and correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Biographical materials
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1952, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1847, 1862, 1871- |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
|
1875-1877 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1878-1879 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1880-1885 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
|
1890, 1893, 1896 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
|
1900, 1904-1908 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1910-1911 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1912-1913 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1914 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1915 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Elizabeth Gardiner scrapbook
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June-July 1915 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Elizabeth Gardiner scrapbook
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Aug.-Sept. 1915 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Elizabeth Gardiner scrapbook
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Oct.-Dec. 1915 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Elizabeth Gardiner scrapbook
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Jan.-Mar. 1916 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Elizabeth Gardiner scrapbook
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Apr.-July 1916 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Elizabeth Gardiner scrapbook
|
Aug.-Oct. 1916 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
|
1916 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-Mar. 1917 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
|
Apr.-May 1917 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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June-Aug. 1917 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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Sept.-Nov. 1917 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
|
Dec. 1917, 1917 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-Apr. 1918 |
Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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May-Oct. 1918 |
Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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Nov.-Dec. 1918 |
Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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1919 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1920-1922 |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1923-1924 |
Box 3 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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1925 |
Box 3 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
|
1926-1927 |
Box 3 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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1928 |
Box 3 | Folder 12 |
Correspondence
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1929 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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1930-1931 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1932 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1933 |
Box 4 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1934-1935 |
Box 4 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1936 |
Box 4 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
|
1937 |
Box 4 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1938 |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1939-1941 |
Box 4 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
|
1942-1943 |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-June 1944 |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Correspondence
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July-Dec. 1944 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-May 1945 |
Box 5 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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June-Aug. 1945 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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Sept.-Dec. 1945 |
Box 5 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-Mar. 1946 |
Box 5 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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Apr.-June 1946 |
Box 5 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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July-Dec. 1946 |
Box 5 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-Mar. 1947 |
Box 5 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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Apr.-Dec. 1947 |
Box 5 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-June 1948 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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July-Dec. 1948 |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-Sept. 1949 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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Oct.-Dec. 1949 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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Jan.-Apr. 1950 |
Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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May-Dec. 1950 |
Box 6 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1951 |
Box 6 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
|
1952 |
Box 6 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
|
1953 |
Box 6 | Folder 8 |
Correspondence
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1954 |
Box 6 | Folder 9 |
Correspondence
|
1955-1956 |
Box 6 | Folder 10 |
Correspondence
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1957 |
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
|
1958-1959 |
Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1961 |
Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
|
1962 |
Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
|
1964 |
Box 7 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
|
1965-1968 |
Box 7 | Folder 6 |
Correspondence
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n.d. (pre-1910?) |
Box 7 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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n.d. (post-1910?) |
Box 7 | Folder 8 |
Doane-Gardiner Furniture Inventory
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Box 7 | Folder 9 |
Gardiner Estate, Northeast Harbor, Maine (blueprint)
|
1920 |
Box 7 | Folder 10 |
Doane-Gardiner Family Newsclippings
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1879, 1912-1958 |
Box 7 | Folder 11 |
Elizabeth Gardiner Identification Papers
|
1917, 1925, 1945, 1952, 1959 |
Box 7 | Folder 12 |
Miscellaneous Papers and Memorabilia
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1878, 1913-1969 |
Box 7 | Folder 13 |
Miscellaneous Poems and Prayers
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1944-1945, n.d. |
Box 7 | Folder 14 |
Early family photographs
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Box 8 |
Elizabeth Gardiner Diaries (some travel accounts, engagements, addresses)
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1916, 1919, 1921-1922, 1939-1944, 1946-1968 | |
Box 8 |
Elizabeth Gardiner Passports and Visas
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1916, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1938, 1944-1945, 1951, 1961 | |
Series II. Subject files
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Box 9 | Folder 1 |
"AASW - 1949-1950"
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1948-1953 |
Box 9 | Folder 2 |
American Association of Social Workers
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1953-1954 |
Box 9 | Folder 3 |
"AASW - International Social Work Committee - Middle Tennessee Chapter up to Jan.
1955"
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1949-1955 |
Box 9 | Folder 4 |
AASW Stamp Project
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1949-1954 |
Box 9 | Folder 5 |
American Indian Missions
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1902, 1914, 1926 |
Box 9 | Folder 6 |
"Demonstrations of Medical Social Work in Eye Clinics"
|
1942 |
Box 9 | Folder 7 |
Displaced Persons
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1947 |
Box 9 | Folder 8 |
Ellis Island
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1921-1923 |
Box 9 | Folder 9 |
"Fight for Freedom, Inc."
|
1941 |
Box 9 | Folder 10 |
Harvard Surgical Unit - newsclippings"
|
1919 |
Box 9 | Folder 11 |
"International Organization for Social Welfare"
|
1946-1952 |
Box 10 | Folder 1-3 |
The Junior League Crippled Children's Home
|
1948 |
Box 10 | Folder 4 |
KEEP (Kiyosato Educations Experiments Project)
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1960-1963 |
Box 10 | Folder 5 |
Leprosy
|
1965, 1968-1969 |
Box 10 | Folder 6 |
Medical Social Service
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1919 |
Box 10 | Folder 7 |
Newspaper Clippings - Miscellaneous
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1877, 1928, 1941-1961 |
Box 10 | Folder 8 |
Miscellaneous notes -
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1947, 1962, 1965, 1968-1969 |
Box 10 | Folder 9 |
Notes
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n.d. |
Box 11 | Folder 1 |
Pamphlets - Buchenwald Camp, Hong Kong
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1944-1946, 1957-1958 |
Box 11 | Folder 2 |
"Personal Clippings" of Elizabeth Gardiner
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1947-1948 |
Box 11 | Folder 3 |
St. Michael's House
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1961 |
Box 11 | Folder 4-5 |
"Seventh International Conference of Social Work," Toronto
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1954 |
Box 11 | Folder 6 |
Social Service Study
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n.d. |
Box 11 | Folder 7 |
"Survey of the Surgical Discharges"
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1913, 1927, 1930 |
Box 11 | Folder 8 |
Unitarian Service Committee
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1944-1946 |
Box 11 | Folder 9 |
UNRRA Mission in Germany: Photographs
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1946-1947 |
Box 11 | Folder 10 |
UNRRA
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1944-1945 |
Box 12 | Folder 1 |
UNRRA and other: news clippings
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1944-1946 |
Box 12 | Folder 2 |
Certificates -
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1914, 1917, 1927, 1935, 1946, 1950, 1953, 1955 |
Box 12 | Folder 3 |
Miscellaneous papers -
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1922, 1946, 1953, 1961-1962 |
Box 12 |
Autographs (notebook)
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1918 | |
Printed material
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Box 12 |
Convalescence & Rehabilitation
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1944 | |
Box 12 |
Convalescent Care
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1940 | |
Box 12 |
Convalescent Care in Great Britain
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1935 | |
Box 12 |
The Road to Recovery from Illness
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1945 | |
Series III. Photographs and memorabilia
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Box 13 |
Photographs and memorabilia, and postal cards mainly from travel
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Box 14 |
World War I sourvenirs including regiment badges (i.e. RoyalHighlander Black Watch),
dog tags, and medals (i.e. Italian Red Cross); currency - foreign and American (1
dated 1750 ); commemorative coins (i.e. Booker T. Washington, 1946 ); tax tokens.
Also UNRRA epaulets, insignias and tie.
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1750, 1946 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
5 items: diplomas, letters
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1908-1909, 1918-1919, 1927 |