Katharine F. Lenroot papers, 1909-1974

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Series I: Writings and Speeches, 1911-1973

The writings contained within the collection are both those of Lenroot and those by other individuals and organizations.


Subseries I.1: Indexed Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1920-1951

This subseries contains Lenroot's speeches, articles, and radio talks dating from her times in the United States Children's Bureau. Although Lenroot began her service in the bureau in 1915, this subseries does not include materials prior to 1920. This material is arranged chronologically; an index, original to the material, accompanies each set of folders.



Box 1 Folder 1 to 4 Speeches and Articles, 1920-1929, (4 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 5 to 8 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1930-1934, (4 Folders)


Box 1 Folder 9 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1935 January-July



Box 2 Folder 1 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1935 August-December


Box 2 Folder 2 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1936-1937 (1 binder), 1936-1937


Box 2 Folder 3 to 6 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1938, (4 Folders)



Box 3 Folder 1 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1939 (1 binder), 1939


Box 3 Folder 2 to 5 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1940, (4 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 6 to 8 Radio Series--"Raising a President,", 1941, (3 Folders)



Box 4 Folder 1 to 7 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1941-1942, (7 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 8 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1943 (1 binder), 1943



Box 5 Folder 1 to 7 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1944-1945, (7 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 8 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1946 (1 binder), 1946



Box 6 Folder 1 to 7 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1947-1949, (7 Folders)


Box 6 Folder 8 to 9 Speeches, Articles and Radio--No Index, 1950, (2 Folders)



Box 7 Folder 1 to 2 Speeches, Articles and Radio, 1951, (2 Folders)


Subseries I.2: Speeches and Writings, 1911-1970

Most of the speeches and writings included in this subseries were produced after Lenroot's retirement from the Children's Bureau, although some material dates from an earlier period. Among the pre-Washington materials are a minimum-wage legislation brief that Lenroot prepared as an undergraduate and her report for the Wisconsin Industrial Commission. This subseries is arranged chronologically, but does not include an index.


Box 7 Folder 3 "Constitutionality of Proposed Law"--Brief for Minimum Wage Legislation in Wisconsin,, 1911


Box 7 Folder 4 to 6 Wisconsin Industrial Commission, 1913-1916, (3 Folders)


Box 7 Folder 7 "The Legal Status and Social Condition of Women and Children in the United States,", 1925


Box 7 Folder 8 Wisconsin State Legislature, 1935


Box 7 Folder 9 National Conference of Social Work, 1935


Box 7 Folder 10 International Conference on Social Work, London, 1936


Box 7 Folder 11 General Council of Congregational and Christian Churches, 1938


Box 7 Folder 12 National Conference of Social Work, 1940


Box 7 Folder 13 "Changes in Social Welfare during the Decade 1931-1940,", 1940


Box 7 Folder 14 Unfulfilled Autobiography--Correspondence with Publisher, 1940


Box 7 Folder 15 "Day Care of Children of Women Employed in War Industries"--Statement for the House Committee Investigating National Defense Migration,, 1942


Box 7 Folder 16 Church Groups--List of Speeches and Articles Given by Lenroot in Connection with,, 1945-1950


Box 7 Folder 17 Unitarian Convocation, 1950


Box 7 Folder 18 Interagency Conference on Personality Development in Children, 1951


Box 7 Folder 19 National Council of Negro Women, 1952


Box 7 Folder 20 New York State Welfare Conference, 1951


Box 7 Folder 21 Educational Forum-- Manuscript, 1951-1952


Box 7 Folder 22 Cornell University--New York Hospital School of Nursing, 1952


Box 7 Folder 23 New York School of Social Work--Lecture Series, 1952


Box 7 Folder 24 Maryland State Conference on Social Welfare, 1952


Box 7 Folder 25 Lincoln Grade School--Wisconsin, 1952


Box 7 Folder 26 Protestant Family Welfare, 1952


Box 7 Folder 27 Church Conference of Social Work, 1952


Box 7 Folder 28 Delaware Commission on Children and Welfare, 1952


Box 7 Folder 29 Introduction for Frank Richardson's Girls Only-- Manuscript and Correspondence,, 1953


Box 7 Folder 30 New York Diet Kitchen Association, 1953


Box 7 Folder 31 Greater Miami Council of Churches, 1953


Box 7 Folder 32 Boston Congregational Club, 1953



Box 8 Folder 1 University of Florida--College Textbook--Correspondence, 1953


Box 8 Folder 2 General Council of Congregational and Christian Churches, 1954


Box 8 Folder 3 Rotary Club, 1956


Box 8 Folder 4 Kew Forest School Association, 1956


Box 8 Folder 5 Community Service Society, 1957


Box 8 Folder 6 New York State Charities Aid Association, 1957


Box 8 Folder 7 Nebraska Welfare Association and Iowa Governor's Conference, 1958


Box 8 Folder 8 National Association of Congregational and Christian Churches, 1958


Box 8 Folder 9 "Clara Beyer and the Children's Bureau,", 1958


Box 8 Folder 10 Book Review of Sophia Robison's Juvenile Delinquency-- Manuscript and Correspondence,, 1960


Box 8 Folder 11 "Provisions for Children in the 1935 Economic and Social Security Program,"1960, 1935


Box 8 Folder 12 Inter-American Children's Institute, 1961


Box 8 Folder 13 "Community Organization for Day Care,", 1961


Box 8 Folder 14 Rutgers University, 1961-1962


Box 8 Folder 15 New Jersey Association of Social Workers, 1967


Box 8 Folder 16 Book Review of Charles Loring Brace's Dangerous Classes of New York-- Manuscript and Correspondence, 1968


Box 8 Folder 17 "Notes for Paper of Role Relations in a Mental Health Program,", 1969


Box 8 Folder 18 Guest Editorial for Child Welfare, 1970


Box 8 Folder 19 Introduction to Mary Carpenter's Juvenile Delinquents Research Materials, circa, 1970


Subseries I.3: Writings and Reports, 1915-1962

This subseries consists of published reports and articles by Lenroot. Studies that Lenroot conducted with the Children's Bureau in the late 1910s appear in this subseries. The materials are arranged alphabetically by title.


Box 8 Folder 20 Advisory Committee on Education--Report--Lenroot as Member, 1938


Box 8 Folder 21 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , 1921-1940



Box 10 Folder 1 Chart on Curriculum Materials Used in Church Schools-- for the National Association of Congregational and Christian Churches, circa 1950s



Box 9 Folder 2 "Children of the Depression"--Social Service Review, 1935


Box 9 Folder 3 Child Welfare as a Field of Social Work Practice-- Child Welfare League--Edited by Lenroot,, 1959


Box 9 Folder 4 Department of State Bulletin , 1952-1962


Box 9 Folder 5 "Education's Part in the Development of Healthy Personality in Children and Youth"--Educational Forum, 1952


Box 9 Folder 6 "Henrietta Szold: Social Pioneer"--Hadassah Newsletter, 1945


Box 9 Folder 8 "National Education Objectives in a Post-War Program for Children and Youth"--Iowa Law Review, 1945


Box 9 Folder 9 "The Child as the World's Best Hope for Peace"--Methodist Woman,, 1952


Box 9 Folder 10 "The Children's Year Program as Related to Children in Institutions, National Conference on the Education of Truant, Backward, Dependent and Delinquent Children Proceedings, 1919


Box 9 Folder 11 "The Child, the Family, and the Court"--National Probation Association Proceedings, 1928


Box 9 Folder 13 "Working Together for Children"--for the International Union for Child Welfare,, 1956


Subseries I.4: Printed Materials, 1918-1973

Within this small subseries are articles and publications by other individuals and organizations in the field of child welfare with whom Lenroot often worked closely. The folders have been arranged alphabetically by author.


Box 9 Folder 14 Abbott, Edith, 1940-1941


Box 9 Folder 15 Abbott, Grace, 1923-1924


Box 9 Folder 16 American Public Welfare Association, 1963



Box 10 Folder 1 Child Welfare League of America, 1955


Box 10 Folder 2 Eisenberg, Leon, 1960


Box 10 Folder 3 International Child Welfare Review , 1962-1963


Box 10 Folder 4 to 5 Lathrop, Julia, 1918, (2 Folders)


Box 10 Folder 6 Lesser, Arthur J., 1969


Lundberg, Emma O.


Box 10 Folder 7 Child Dependency in the United States , 1932


Box 10 Folder 8 "Foster Care of Dependent Children,", 1930s


Box 10 Folder 9 New York Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, 1931-1934



Box 11 Folder 1 to 3 New York Temporary Emergency Relief Administration, 1931-1934 (3 bound volumes), 1931-1934



Box 12 Folder 1 Michigan Joint Legislative Committee to Study Foster Care, 1951


Box 12 Folder 2 National Child Labor Committee, 1954


Box 12 Folder 3 National Committee for Children and Youth, 1966


Box 12 Folder 4 National Conference of Social Work, 1973


Box 12 Folder 5 New York School of Social Work, 1961


Box 12 Folder 6 Perlman, Selig--on John Rogers Commons, 1945


Box 12 Folder 7 Rees, John R., 1966


Box 12 Folder 8 Simons, Savilla Millis, 1965


Box 12 Folder 9 Smith, Caineweaver, 1942


Box 12 Folder 10 Social Work , 1962-1963


Box 12 Folder 11 Social Work Process , 1954


Box 12 Folder 12 Survey , 1929-1930


Box 12 Folder 13 UNICEF News , 1965-1973


United States Children's Bureau


Box 12 Folder 14 General--Reprints, 1913, 1946, 1913, 1946


Box 12 Folder 15 Pamphlets, 1934-1942


Box 12 Folder 16 Children , 1957


Box 12 Folder 17 "Children's Bureau during World War II,", 1945


Box 12 Folder 18 "For Our Children in Wartime,", 1942


Box 12 Folder 19 "Goals for Children,", 1960-1961


Box 12 Folder 20 "History of Public Relief"--Typescript, mid-1930s


Box 12 Folder 21 "Policy Manual,", 1951


Box 12 Folder 22 United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1965


Box 12 Folder 23 Witte, Ernest, 1954-1959


Box 12 Folder 24 Wright, Helen R., 1949


Subseries I.5: Writings-- By Burton Jesse Hendrick, 1928-1940s

This subseries contains the original hand-written and typed manuscripts, and research notes of Burton Jesse Hendrick, three-time Pulitzer winner, and author ofThe Life of Andrew Carnegie.The materials here relate to the biographies of Andrew Carnegie and his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie. In writing these biographies, Hendrick was financed by Mrs. Carnegie, but his connection with Lenroot is unknown.



Box 13 Folder 1 "Benefactors of Andrew Carnegie"--Manuscript, 1930s


Life of Andrew Carnegie


Box 13 Folder 2 to 10 Original Manuscript, 1930s, (9 folders)



Box 14 Folder 1 to 7 Original Manuscript, 1930s, (7 Folders)


Box 14 Folder 8 to 9 Research Notes, 1928, (2 Folders)



Box 15 Folder 1 Louise Whitfield Carnegie Research Notes, 1940s