Scope and Contents of the Collection

Social Work Archives Oral History Collection, 1970-2003

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Collection Overview
	Title:	Social Work Archives Oral History Collection
	Dates:	1970-2003
	Abstract:	Oral history interviews with important figures in the field of social work. Audio tapes and transcriptions available for most interviews.
	Extent:	12 boxes(3.75 linear ft.)
	Language:	English
	Identification:	MS 417

Administrative Information

Related Material

For more collections relating to the history of Social Work, see the guide to the Smith College Social Work Archives.

Additional oral histories are included in papers of social workers Ann Hartman, Florence Hollis and Rosemary Reynolds, Elmina Rose Lucke, and Bertha Capen Reynolds, which are all part of the Social Work Archives.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

This collection includes oral history interviews with important figures in the field of social work, conducted circa 1970-1998. Many were conducted by Vida S. Grayson. Subjects include:

Dorothy C. Bailey, transcript (114p)

Louise S. Bandler, transcript (448p), 14 audiotapes. [Louise Bandler Papers are closed]

Merriall Boselli, transcript (71p)

Dorcas Bowles, transcript and audiotape

Eleanor Clark, transcript (352p), eleven audiotapes (restricted)

Esther Cook, transcript (55p), audiotape

Rose Dawson, transcript (71p), audiotape

Ann Hartman (in Ann Hartman Papers)

Irving Kaufman, transcript (132p)

Jean Leach, transcript (320p) [See also Jean Leach Papers]

Roger Miller, transcript (294 p)

Grace Nicholls, transcript (255p)