Affiliated Schools for Workers Collection

Dates

1921 - 1951
Majority of material found within 1921 - 1940

Scope and Contents

Partial records, 1928-1950, of the Affiliated Schools for Workers (from 1940 the American Labor Education Service) which coordinated the activities of several summer schools for workers, together with incomplete records, 1921-1951, of several of the schools. The largest part of the collection consists of records--chiefly syllabi, other curricular materials, administrative files and photographs--of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry,... 1921-1939. Additional, but less thorough, documentation present in the collection consists of records, 1939-1951, of the Hudson Shore Labor School (the co-educational successor to the Bryn Mawr School); records, 1927-1932, of the Barnard Summer School for Women Workers in Industry; and records, 1929-ca.1936, of the Vineyard Shore Workers' School.

Extent

ca. 4.5 Cubic Feet (14 boxes and 1 map folder)

Language of Materials

English

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Additional Description

Arrangement

Partial Container List

Box 1

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1921-1922 [ 12 folders], 1923-1933 (part) [15 folders]

Box 2

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Photographs [11 folders], Publicity [4 folders], Public Relations--General

Box 3

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Reports--Curricula, Reports--Director, Reports--Faculty, Reports--Field Work, Reports--Special [3 folders], School Journalism, Self-Government, Statistics, Studies and Surveys

Box 4

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Syllabai, 1923 ([professors are named; 6 folders], Economics, Literature, Physical Education, Psychology, Science), Syllabai, 1924 [5 folders], Syllabai, 1925 [8 folders]

Box 5

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Syllabai, 1926 [8 folders], Syllabai, 1927 [9 folders], Syllabai, 1928 (part) [8 folders]

Box 6

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Syllabai, 1928 (part) [10 folders], Syllabai, 1929 [11 folders]

Box 7

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Syllabai, 1930 [18 folders] (Economics, English, Science)

Box 8

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Syllabai, 1931 [15 folders], Syllabai, 1932 [11 folders]

Box 9

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1923-1933, Syilabai, 1933 [13 folders], 1934-1938 (Alumnae, Books and Reading, Catalogs and Handbooks, Curricula, District Committees, Dramatics, Extra-Curricular Activities, Faculty [2 folders], Finance [3 folders], Forms, Forums, Fundraising, Institutions, Organization and Management [4 folders])

Box 10

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1934-1938 [various headings]

Box 11

Affiliated Schools/Bryn Mawr; 1934-1938, School Journalism, Self-Government, Statistics, Syllabai [16 folders]

Box 12

Affiliated Schools [general]; Institutes and Conferences [4 folders], Public Relations, Publicity [8 folders], Reports [various kinds; 8 folders], Research and Teaching Materials [5 folders]

Box 13

Affiliated Schools [general], Studies and Surveys [2 folders]; Affiliated Schools/Bernard, 1927-1932 [14 folders]; Affiliated Schools/Hudson Shore, 1940-1951 and undated [11 folders]

Box 14

Affiliated Schools/Vineyard Shore [19 folders: 1927-1936]

Box 15

Affiliated Schools/Vineyard Shore [12 folders: 1930-1933; includes student autobiographies]

General

In the 1950s, certain labor education courses offered by the Hudson Shore Labor School were transferred to the Institute of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. This presumably led to the donation of the records to Rutgers University in 1956 by Hilda W. Smith (who was the driving force behind the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry). Smith also gave related collections of records to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (33.2 cubic feet held as records of the American Labor Education Service, 1921-1961) and Cornell University (O.S linear feet held as files of the Hudson Shore Labor School, 1948-1954). Smith's own papers, which might also shed light on her activities in connection with the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, are held by the Schlesinger Library at Radcliff (11.5 linear feet, chiefly 1900-1975) and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library (17.5 linear feet, including oral history interviews, chiefly 1932-1945).