Edith Elmer Wood papers, 1900-1943

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Series VI: Miscellaneous


MISCELLANEOUS. PEOPLE. CORRESPONDENCE



Box 69 Folder 06 A-B



Box 69 Folder 07 Aronovici, Carol



Box 69 Folder 08 Alfred, Helen



Box 69 Folder 09 Bauer, Catherine



Box 69 Folder 10 C



Box 69 Folder 11 D



Box 69 Folder 12 E-F



Box 69 Folder 13 Ely, Richard T.



Box 69 Folder 14 Ford, James



Box 69 Folder 15 G



Box 69 Folder 16 Godfrey, Grace



Box 69 Folder 17 H



Box 69 Folder 18 I-L



Box 69 Folder 19 Ihlder, John



Box 69 Folder 20 Issacs, Stanley



Box 69 Folder 21 La Guardia, Fiorello H.



Box 69 Folder 22 M



Box 69 Folder 23 Mallon, Guy W.



Box 69 Folder 24 Mayer, Albert



Box 69 Folder 25 N-R



Box 69 Folder 26 Nolen, John



Box 69 Folder 27 Randall, Alexander B.



Box 69 Folder 28 Robbins, Ira



Box 69 Folder 29 S



Box 69 Folder 30 Stein, Clarence



Box 69 Folder 31 T-Z



Box 69 Folder 32 Tounsend, Harriet



Box 69 Folder 33 Unwin, Raymond



Box 69 Folder 34 Wright, Henry



Box 69 Folder 35 Zug, George B.


MISCELLANEOUS. BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION. ESSAYS AND ORGANIZATIONS



Box 69 Folder 36 The American Housing Council



Box 69 Folder 37 Biographical Data on Edith Elmer Wood



Box 69 Folder 38 Building and Construction



Box 70 Folder 01 Committee for Economic Recovery



Box 70 Folder 02 Department of Citizenship. National Council for the Prevention of War. National War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A.



Box 70 Folder 03 Joint Conference of Housing and Welfare Officials, Public Administration Clearing House, 1939



Box 70 Folder 04 National Industrial Conference Board



Box 70 Folder 05 National Municipal League



Box 70 Folder 06 New York World's Fair, 1939



Box 70 Folder 07 Photographs of Edith Elmer Wood



Box 70 Folder 08 Works Progress Administration



Box 70 Folder 09 Adair, Frederick, John B. Ogden, Luke C. Quinn, "Proposals for housing the unemployed;" "Proposal for establishing a work project under the Department of Public Welfare", 1934 Jul



Box 70 Folder 09 "America's Standard of Shelter, a New York World's Fair Exhibit on Housing"



Box 70 Folder 09 "An American Housing Council"



Box 70 Folder 09 Andrews, Benjamin J. "Education and the Home." Teachers College Record, 1924 Jan



Box 70 Folder 09 Aronovici, Carol. "Minimum Homes and Maximum Families," Birth Control Review, 1932 Mar



Box 70 Folder 09 Australian Vital Statistics. Science, vol 73, No. 1892



Box 70 Folder 09 Baruch, Bernard M. "Priorities? The Synchronizing Force." Harvard Business Review, Reprint, 1941 Spring



Box 70 Folder 09 Boyd, John Taylor, "How intensively must we use the land?" The American City, Reprint



Box 70 Folder 09 [Brody?] essay on government supported housing.



Box 70 Folder 09 Excerpt from pamphlet "What Social Workers Should Know about their Own Communities"



Box 70 Folder 10 "City Planning," Public Reporting



Box 70 Folder 10 Delano, Frederic A. "Memorandum on the subject of housing for the low income groups", 1938 Jan 6



Box 70 Folder 10 Deutsch, Maurice. Address before the Rotary Club, "Establishing a principle for the permanent elimination of blighted areas", 1933 Aug 31



Box 70 Folder 10 Deutsch, Maurice. Address before the Rotary, "The Importance of the merchant and businessman of the elimination of juvenile delinquency (slum conditions and consequent crime)", 1933 Sep 12



Box 70 Folder 10 Deutsch, Maurice. "Comments re: 'Deutsch Plan' for low rental housing permanent slum elimination", 1933



Box 70 Folder 10 Eldridge, Seba. "Projected investigation of collective ownership and control of economic enterprise", 1937



Box 70 Folder 10 Fantin, Renee. "Survey of British and American Housing", 1940



Box 70 Folder 10 Ford, James. "Good Housing for Families of Modest Means", 1929 Apr



Box 70 Folder 10 Goell, Milton J. "The Cash Surplus in public housing." Dynamic America. Reprint, 1940 Mar



Box 70 Folder 10 Gove, George. "Community Values in Government Housing."



Box 70 Folder 11 Magnusson, Leifur. "Housing by Employees in the United States" Monthly Review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1917 Nov



Box 70 Folder 11 Neifeld, M.R. "The Growth of Cash Savings in the United States and the National Income", 1932 Jun 24



Box 70 Folder 11 Ogburn, William F. "A Study of Rents in Various Cities." Monthly Labor Review



Box 70 Folder 11 Philips, Wilbur C. "Adventure of democracy" or "The Social Unit Theory and Plan," Brief synopsis



Box 70 Folder 11 Purdy, Lawson. "New York's New Dwelling Bill," The Survey, 1928 Feb 15



Box 70 Folder 11 [Captain Reiss] Incomplete, untitled essay



Box 70 Folder 11 Rodger, Robert W. Aldrich. "The Part which the building industry can play in a sound recovery program"



Box 70 Folder 11 "Reconstruction and production," 66th Congress, 3rd session, Senate Report, 1920



Box 70 Folder 11 Stone, Peter A. "A technique for establishing relative values of realty." Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, vol 131, no. 21 (3402)



Box 70 Folder 11 Swan, Herbert S. and George W. Tuttle. "Land subdivisions and the city plan." National Municipal Review, Supplement, 1925 Jul



Box 70 Folder 11 Tylor, W. Russell. "Importance of the human factor in city planning"



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, "Danger in National Defense Housing of Permitting High-pressure Home Purchase Plans to get Underway," Memorandum, 1940



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, "Federal agencies and activities requires for an all-around housing program", 1942



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, "Housing as an Economics Factor." Abstract.



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, "Must working people live in frayed-out houses?"



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, Report of the Committee on Housing, 1921 Mar 29



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, Report on the economic conditions of the South. Prepared for the President of the National Emergency Council, 1938 Jul 25



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, "What the American people have a right to expect in the way of shelter."



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, Reviews

"Cost of Living in the United States"; "Housing," by Robert Moses. Popular Science Monthly;"Laborer's Homes," by D. Stephen Smith,



Box 70 Folder 12 EEW, Untitled Essay


MISCELLANEOUS, MAGAZINES AND REPORTS



Box 70 Folder 13 Architecture



Box 70 Folder 13 The American Institute of Architects. Program. 51st annual convention, 1918



Box 70 Folder 13 Holden Arthur C. "Architectural Law," Zoning, Traffic and Building Types," The Architectural Forum, Reprint, 1928 Feb



Box 70 Folder 14 Building materials



Box 70 Folder 14 Kind, Merris. "How Portland Cement is Distributed"



Box 70 Folder 14 "Lakeolith"



Box 70 Folder 14 "The Morrill Moulded Concrete Houses"



Box 70 Folder 14 "Solving Industrial Problems with Concrete"



Box 70 Folder 15 Defense housing



Box 70 Folder 15 Airplane view of Yorkship Village and Characteristic Types of Homes



Box 70 Folder 15 Childs, Richard S. "The First War Emergency Government Towns for Shipyard Workers. I. Yorkship Village," Camden, NJ The Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 1918 May



Box 70 Folder 15 Defense Papers, No. 3



Box 70 Folder 15 Selected bibliography of industrial housing in America and Great Britain during and after the war. US Department of Labor



Box 70 Folder 15 "Suggestions for Housing Women War Workers", 1918 Jan



Box 70 Folder 15 "War and City Planning," Brochure



Box 70 Folder 16 Health



Box 70 Folder 16 Average expectation of life, chart



Box 70 Folder 16 City Health , 1929 Jul-Aug



Box 70 Folder 16 Fisk, Eugene Lyman. "Extending the health span and life after forty"



Box 70 Folder 16 The Medical Times, Reprint, 1923



Box 70 Folder 16 Journal of the Outdoor Life , 1916 Mar



Box 70 Folder 16 Messenger, Hiram J. "The Underdeveloped field in the life insurance business", 1911



Box 70 Folder 16 Committee on Municipal Health Department Practice of the American Public Health Associations, First report, 1921 Nov



Box 70 Folder 16 "Protect of the home and the home circle"



Box 70 Folder 16 Summary of estimates of the hygienic performance of laundries," Boston University. Bureau of Consumer Research, 1928



Box 70 Folder 17 Home Making Booklets. Issued by McCall's Magazine



Box 70 Folder 17 Goldsborough, Lillian Purdy, "The New Hospitality"



Box 70 Folder 17 Mead, Marcia, "The Small House"



Box 70 Folder 17 Walsh, Dorothy Ethel. "Decorating your home"



Box 70 Folder 17 Wood, Ruby Ross. "The House of Good Taste"



Box 70 Folder 18 Industrial Management, 1920, 1926



Box 70 Folder 18 Building investment and maintenance, 1927 Feb



Box 70 Folder 19 The Nation , 1920 Apr 17, 24



Box 70 Folder 20 Small Homes



Box 70 Folder 20 Hamlin Winthrop. "Low Cost Cottage Construction in America" Department of Social Ethics. Harvard University. No. 7, 1917



Box 70 Folder 20 The Small Home , 1925 Jun



Box 70 Folder 20 White, Charles E. "What you should know when building a little house"



Box 70 Folder 20 Wright, Henry. "Platting City Areas for Small Homes," The Journal of the American Institute of Architects, Supplement, 1920 Aug



Box 70 Folder 21 The Survey , 1920-1921



Box 71 Folder 01 United States Steel Corporation. Bulletin, 1928 Dec, 1924 Jul



Box 71 Folder 02 Urban, Industrial Housing



Box 71 Folder 02 "Housing Plans for Cities"



Box 71 Folder 02 Magnusson, Leifer. "A Modern Industrial Suburb." Monthly Review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. US Department of Labor, 1918 Apr



Box 71 Folder 02 "Modern Industrial Housing"



Box 71 Folder 03 Workingmen's Homes



Box 71 Folder 03 Atterbury, Grosvenor. "The Economic production of workingmen's Homes", 1930 Jan



Box 71 Folder 03 "Good Homes make contented Workers"



Box 71 Folder 03 "Home Building for Wage Earners"


MISCELLANEOUS



Box 71 Folder 04 Building and Construction



Box 71 Folder 04 Better Built Homes. Vol VI



Box 71 Folder 04 The Center of Your World



Box 71 Folder 04 Forty Ways to lower home building costs



Box 71 Folder 04 Here's how to cut 1/3 from brickwork cost



Box 71 Folder 04 The Linotype Bulletin, vol 18, no. 1



Box 71 Folder 04 Metal Fence



Box 71 Folder 04 Monthly Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Institute, 1933



Box 71 Folder 04 Plumbing and Heating Magazine , 1932 Apr



Box 71 Folder 04 Restful rooms



Box 71 Folder 04 Whitehead, Russell, F., "Good Houses"



Box 71 Folder 04 Why Build Fireproof



Box 71 Folder 05 Pamphlets and brochures



Box 71 Folder 05 American Federation of Labor, Report of Proceedings



Box 71 Folder 05 Guiding City Growth



Box 71 Folder 05 How other people get ahead



Box 71 Folder 05 Low rent, high quality, cooperative housing



Box 71 Folder 05 A memorandum to the steel corporation



Box 71 Folder 05 Nolen, John, "Town Planning and its Relations to the Professions Involved," American Society of Civil Engineers, Paper No. 1643



Box 71 Folder 05 Report of the Information and Education Service, 1919



Box 71 Folder 05 School and Society , 1931 Apr



Box 71 Folder 05 That alley of yours



Box 71 Folder 06 Pamphlets and Brochures



Box 71 Folder 06 [Allen, Leslie K.] Industrial housing problems



Box 71 Folder 06 Community Planning…National Housing Act



Box 71 Folder 06 How to modernize your farm and home



Box 71 Folder 06 "Knot Knotes"



Box 71 Folder 06 The Modern Home



Box 71 Folder 06 Play and Home Planning



Box 71 Folder 06 Realism in Housing



Box 71 Folder 06 Soper, George A. "The Curious Career of Typhoid Mary," The Diplomate, 1939 Dec



Box 71 Folder 06 The Tenant and his landlord



Box 71 Folder 06 Tretter, Maxwell H., "Public Housing Finance," Harvard Law Review, Reprint, 1941 Jun



Box 71 Folder 07 to 10 Miscellaneous (4 folders)



Box 71 Folder 11 to 12 Newspaper clippings (2 folders)



Box 72 Folder 01 The Dunbar News , 1931 Nov-Dec



Box 72 Folder 01 The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators , 1932 Apr



Box 72 Folder 01 The Lavanburg News , 1931 Mar



Box 72 Folder 01 Tomorrow's Town , 1944-1945


PHOTOGRAPHS AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS



Box 72 Folder 02 Blueprint, aerial view "Le Foyer Remois" (Remis) Booklet "pictures of Welwyn Garden City" (Hertfordshire)



Box 72 Folder 03 Postcards depicting Welwyn Garden City, Poplar Borough Council House plan



Box 72 Folder 04 City Maps and House plans Bagnolet, Verdun, Reims, and Malabry (France)



Box 72 Folder 05 Photographs, city maps, Dugny (France), various "cite-jardin" maps



Box 72 Folder 06 Photographs and post cards of houses in Tergnier (chemin de Fer du Nord, France)



Box 72 Folder 07 Photographs of houses in Brussels, Belgium and Tenements (New York)



Box 72 Folder 08 Photographs and postcards of houses and apartment buildings, Rome, Italy



Box 72 Folder 09 Miscellaneous city maps, postcards of housing (France), photographs of Paris street



Box 72 Folder 10 Miscellaneous photographs (France, Belgium), postcards of Riverdale Courts and Spruce Court (Toronto)



Box 72 Folder 11 Photograph

1 from Foote, marked "Foote Homes"—photos-city tenement Memphis views), postcards of Amsterdam Housing



Box 72 Folder 12 Postcards (houses, workers, streets) Reims, France; Misc. photographs of Belgium and France



Box 72 Folder 13 Ephemera-letters found within "American Legion Magazine"