Box 3
Container
Contains 34 Results:
CAP: Linn Economic Action Project (LEAP): Adult basic education, 1965
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Box 3
Dates:
1965
"History of Jane Boyd" committee, 1979-1980, 1986
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Box 3
Dates:
1979-1980, 1986
Box 3
box — Box: 3
Identifier: Box 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Laura H. Davis papers date from 1869 to 1993 and measure 8.75 linear feet. The papers are arranged in five series: Social Work; Clubs, Church and Civic groups; Education; Personal; and Financial records. This collection provides a glimpse of one woman's role in social welfare from Roosevelt's New Deal of the 1930s to the period following Johnson's war on poverty of the 1960s. The Social Work series (1942-1985 and undated) illumnated Davis's professional life. The series documents her role in various positions, from paid caseworker to her voluntary membership on community boards and task forces. Davis worked to start a Family Service Agency in Cedar Rapids and this effort is documented by a report in 1956 and through her involvement with the committee that hired the first director of the agency. The topical speeches and notes provide insight into Davis's views on child welfare, the elderly and the community's role in the life of all individuals. The series also...
Dates:
1869-1993
Mental Health Center of Linn County, 1957
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Box 3
Dates:
1957
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers
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SOCIAL WORK
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Health Services
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Box 3
Evaluation committee report, 1977
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Box 3
Dates:
1977
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers
/
SOCIAL WORK
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Health Services
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Box 3
Maternal child health grant, undated
File — Box: 3
Identifier: Box 3
Dates:
1869-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
/
Laura F. Hutchison Davis papers
/
SOCIAL WORK
/
Health Services
/
Box 3