Guide to the Records of the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth, 1887-1963
[top]Descriptive Summary
TitleAlliance for Guidance of Rural Youth Records, 1887-1963
Creator
Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth
Extent
21.2 Linear Feet,
ca. 15,900 Items
Repository
ca. 15,900 Items
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Language
English.
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Administrative Information
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Use Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], The Records of the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.
Provenance
The records for the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth, a vocational guidance service organization, were donated to the Manuscript Department between 1950 and 1977 by Amber Arthun Warburton and Clark Warburton.
Processing Information
Processed by: Virginia Daley
Completed June 1988
Encoded by Stephen Douglas Miller
This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
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Historical Note
Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth| 1914, May | Organizational meeting of the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women (initially known as the Women's Occupational Bureau), Richmond, Virginia. |
| 1915, March | Orie Latham Hatcher becomes president of Bureau. |
| 1918, March 17 | Bureau incorporated. |
| 1920 | Unofficial name change to Bureau of Vocations for Women. |
| 1921 | Official name change to Southern Woman's Educational Alliance. |
| 1922, March | Chicago branch established. |
| 1923, November | New York branch established. |
| 1924, January | Atlanta and Washington, D.C., branches established. |
| 1929, June | Richmond branch established. |
| 1929 | Chicago junior auxiliary branch established. |
| 1931 | University of Chicago branch established. |
| 1937, November | Official name change to Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth. |
| 1937 | Washington branch re-established. |
| 1946, April | Howard Dawson becomes acting president of Alliance Board after Hatcher's death. |
| 1947, February | Position of Executive Secretary established to assume Hatcher's former duties. Amber Arthun Warburton hired for position. |
| 1963, September | AGRY disbands. |
| 1868, December 10 | Born, Petersburg. Va. |
| 1884 | Graduated from Richmond (Va.) Female Institute. |
| 1885-1888 | A.B., Vassar College. |
| 19ca. 1888- 1892 | Teacher, Miss Belle Peer's School, Louisville, Ky. |
| 1893-1894 | Teacher, Richmond Female Seminary. |
| 1894 | Professor of history, English language, and literature, Women's College, Richmond, Va. |
| 1901-1903 | PhD., University of Chicago, English Literature. |
| 1904-1915 | Employed at Bryn Mawr College (Pa.) as part-time reader, lecturer, associate professor of English (1912 1915), and chair of comparative literature department (1910-1915). |
| 1906 | Helped organize the Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls. |
| 1907 - 1914 | Chair, Committee on Standardization, Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls. |
| 1915 | Left Bryn Mawr to become full-time director/president of Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women. |
| 1917 | Co-founder and executive board member of Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health. |
| 1917 - 1919 | Chair, Advisory board, Smithdeal Secretarial School, Smithdeal Business College, Richmond, Va. |
| 1918 - 1919 | President, Board of Advisors, Stokes Home for Girls, Richmond, Va. |
| 1920- 1924 | Vice-president, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. |
| 1928 - 1938 | Chair, Rural Section, National Vocational Guidance Association. |
| 1932 - 1935 | Executive Board member, National Council of Women. |
| 1933-1937 | Board of Trustees, National Vocational Guidance Association. |
| 1933-1939 | Member, National Occupational Conference. |
| 1934 | Consultant for the Youth Conference of the Department of the Interior. |
| 1935-1936 | Board of representatives, Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations. |
| 1936-1942 | Technical director, Pine Mountain Guidance Institutes, Harlan County, Ky. |
| 1940, 1941 | Member, White House Conference on Children in a Democracy. |
| 1941, 1942, 1943 | Chair, Institute for Rural Guidance, Washington, D.C. |
| 1942-1946 | Chair, Luncheon Forums of the Washington Youth Service Agencies. |
| 1944 | Member, White House Conference on Rural Education. |
| 1946, April 1 | Died, Richmond, Va. |
Collection Overview
The records of the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth (AGRY) span the years 1887 to 1963, although the bulk of the collection begins in 1914 with the creation of the organization and ends in 1946 with the death of founder and president, Orie Latham Hatcher. Additional records for the Alliance from 1947 to 1963 can be found in the Amber Arthun Warburton papers also located in the Manuscript Department.
The records reflect the organization's pioneering efforts in the American vocational guidance movement, particularly in relation to occupations for southern women and rural youth guidance. The records of the Alliance for Guidance of Rural Youth comprise an extensive set of organizational records for AGRY and its predecessors, the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women (VBVW) and the Southern Woman's Educational Alliance (SWEA). Series include correspondence, administrative files, project files, conference files, subject files, writings and speeches, publications, clippings, press releases, and photographic materials. The records document the organization's evolution from its early focus on increasing vocational opportunities for educated southern women and rural high school girls to its later activities in providing county-wide vocational programming for rural youth.
The organization was created by Hatcher who dominated its administration until her death. The Alliance was her organization and her life as well. This relationship is evident throughout the records, particularly in the earlier records when it is often difficult to discern the difference between Alliance records and Hatcher's personal papers. Because these distinctions are ambiguous and often contradictory, no attempt has been made to provide a separate category of personal papers. The Virginia DeMott Cox papers held in the Manuscript Department contain several oral history tapes which reveal a more personal side of Hatcher and her work with the Alliance.
Although the Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women was created by Hatcher and several other Richmond women in 1914, the roots of the organization can be traced back to Hatcher's work with the Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls. As one of the association's founders in 1906, Hatcher was quickly elected to chair several successive committees designed to evaluate educational standards in Virginia's women's schools. Several surveys on women's colleges done by these committees clearly showed that educational standards in southern women's colleges were far below their northern counterparts and in fact did little to prepare women for careers other than teaching and homemaking. Hatcher's tenure at Bryn Mawr had exposed her to the women's employment bureaus which were emerging in the North. The Virginia Bureau was thus created out of Hatcher's desire to reform women's education so that it provided a means to meaningful employment.
To meet this lofty mission, the Bureau sought to open up new career paths for women and to provide a reliable source of information and sound counseling regarding education and occupational training for Virginia women. Early correspondence, administrative files, and newsclippings document the Bureau's projects, such as the speaker's bureau and the scholarship program, as well as the Bureau's relationship with other women's organizations such as the Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls, Southern Collegiate Women (later American Association of University Women), National Federation of Business and Professional Women Clubs (BPW), and the National Council of Women.
Strong ties were developed between the Bureau and these organizations during its formative years. Hatcher chaired national and local committees in most of these organizations, and early correspondence and administrative files center on her work with these organizations particularly concerning educational standards and vocational training in women's colleges. In these early records it is often unclear which of these activities were officially adopted by the Bureau or if they were solely Hatcher's activities. Nevertheless, the Bureau's relationship with these other organizations ultimately served to shape and give credibility to the work of the Bureau.
Because so few schools offered a curriculum that would train women directly for a specific occupation, the Virginia Bureau often lobbied various institutions to include educational programs that would prepare women for work. By working with other women's organizations and by using public opinion, the Bureau was an instrumental force in persuading the Medical School of Virginia to admit women to its dentistry, pharmacy, and medical programs, and in fact recruited the school's first twelve female students. In a similar manner, the Bureau was also able to influence the Richmond School of Social Economy to change to the Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health and for the Smithdeal Business College in Richmond to create a secretarial school which would serve women wanting to receive professional clerical training. The Bureau's role as a social advocate for change in these schools is reflected in the early correspondence as well as the clippings files.
By 1920, the Bureau's mission had broadened, and it began to see itself as more of a regional group which represented emerging opportunities for southern women. To reflect this broader constituency, the Bureau changed its name to the Southern Woman's Educational Alliance and acquired new visibility through the addition of prominent regional and national figures to its board. By establishing branches in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Washington, and Richmond, the Alliance was able to broaden its base of support. The primary functions of the branches were fundraising and promotion. Consequently, prominent and wealthy women such as Irene Gibson, her sister Lady Astor, and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were recruited to help organize the branches.
Branch activities as documented in the Branch Files series include benefits, forums, exhibits, and festivals. The New York Branch sponsored several opera benefits to help raise funds during the 1 920s. The Rural Mountain Festival, sponsored by the Richmond Branch, was held in 1938. In 1932, the Alliance commissioned noted New York portrait photographer, Doris Ulmann, to photograph rural youth in Kentucky. The photographs were subsequently exhibited by several of the branches and were used to promote discussion of vocational issues and the work of the Alliance. Forty of these original prints signed by Ulmann are located in the Photographic Materials series.
Organizational changes reflected modifications in the organization's goals. Although SWEA continued many of the projects started by the Virginia Bureau, emphasis shifted away from lobbying efforts aimed to open new careers for women and more towards research on women's occupational trends and model guidance counseling programs based on that research. Correspondence during the early 1920s contains letters from faculty and administrators from women's colleges throughout the Northeast and South which describe various approaches (or lack thereof) to providing vocational guidance to students. Administrative files contain information on vocational guidance surveys and on a vocational guidance course for college women which was developed at Goucher College under the auspices of SWEA and tested at Duke University (then Trinity College) and the College of William and Mary. The Publications and Clippings and Press Releases series also contain considerable information regarding Alliance research and activities during this time period.
The desire to get vocational information to women at a time when it would be most useful to their employment and career development eventually led SWEA to explore the role of vocational guidance for high school girls, especially those who would never attend college. This aspect of vocational guidance was particularly relevant in the South, where rural communities were ripe with youth migrating to the cities to look for work.
During the mid to late 1920s, SWEA sponsored several research projects through its Rural Guidance Project which examined vocational trends of rural girls in North Carolina and Virginia. While the Correspondence and Administrative Files series document how the projects were organized, the comprehensive data collected during these projects is extant only in resulting SWEA publications such as Rural Girls in the City for Work and the unpublished manuscript "Fifty Rural High School Girls."
In exploring the vocational needs of rural high school girls, SWEA quickly realized that it would not be effective to separate guidance services for boys and girls in rural schools and therefore shifted its focus to rural youth in general. Although SWEA did not formally change its name until 1937, the organization was working exclusively on rural youth guidance by 1930.
Alliance projects in the late 1920s and 1930s consisted of experimental and demonstration guidance programs in rural schools. These programs examined aspects of rural youth guidance in relation to surrounding communities, of ten comparing several schools in a county-wide approach to vocational guidance for rural youth. These projects included the Konnarock Training School (Smyth Co., Va.), elementary schools in Albemarle Co., Va., Farm Life School (Craven Co., N. C.), and elementary and secondary schools in Breathitt Co., Ky.
Each of these demonstration projects also resulted in substantial Alliance publications which in most cases represent the bulk of extant documentation of each project. The Photographic Materials series contains a large quantity of snapshots taken in these various communities, although most are of poor quality and unidentified. Additional information may also appear scattered throughout Correspondence, Newsclippings, and Administrative Files series.
The Breathitt County Project Files series, however, provides comprehensive documentation of the demonstration project which grew to become the Alliance's main research activity from about 1934 to 1942. The project encompassed a wide range of activities including data collection on students' home life, teacher training workshops, vocational guidance programming through the county's Planning Council, and a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1938. Particularly noteworthy in these materials are the extensive raw data files consisting of approximately 2500 autobiographical surveys of students. Additional files contain charts of data compilations and teacher reports which identify trends in students' educational behavior. Photographs of Breathitt County schools, students, and home life are contained in the Photographic series.
SWEA and AGRY's emphasis on research and dissemination of information was reflected in the increase of published materials produced by the organization. Much of this material is contained in the Publications series. The Alliance constantly produced brochures which highlighted their mission and activities. In the early 1920s, SWEA began to produce series of bulletins which continued through the late 1930s and featured the organization's research on women's occupational trends, social and vocational orientation for college women, educational and vocational needs of rural girls, rural-urban migration, outlook for rural youth, and community cooperation in guidance programming.
With the success of Hatcher's Occupations for Women (1927), the Alliance began to publish book-length research reports. Rural Girls in the City for Work (1930) and Handicaps of Elementary School Girls (1931) resulted from Rural Guidance Project research done in North Carolina. Guidance Work in the Schools of Craven Co., North Carolina (1930), Guiding Rural Boys and Girls (1930), A Mountain School (1930) and others were the product of the Alliance's work in North Carolina and Virginia with experimental county-wide guidance programs. These longer publications were instrumental 1n promoting the pioneering efforts of the Alliance. Clippings of book reviews document the wide-spread acceptance of these publications in a newly emerging field. Several unpublished manuscripts resulting from Alliance research projects are extant in the Writings and Speeches series and include "Occupations for Educated Women in Durham, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina" (1926), a bound copy of "Fifty Rural High School Girls'' (1930), and final drafts of "When Our Young Folks Come Home to the Smaller Communities" (1945).
Another strategy for publicizing the work of the Alliance was through local and national radio broadcasts. Shows were broadcast from Richmond, New York, and Washington, D.C., and gave information on specific occupations and discussed vocational guidance issues. Broadcast scripts contained in the Writings and Speeches series feature youths interviewing each other and Hatcher about career goals, a dialogue between Eleanor Roosevelt and Hatcher on the future of rural youth (1938), and a presentation by Amelia Earhart on women in aviation (1931).
Prior to these Alliance projects and publications, there had been little research at all done in the area of rural youth guidance. AGRY's research was breaking new ground and calling attention to this unexplored area of guidance and consequently carving out an authoritative niche for the Alliance among occupational, educational, and guidance organizations. The Correspondence, Clippings and Press Releases, and Subject Files series demonstrate the Alliance's shift away from relationships with women's organizations in the late 1920s and towards guidance and educational organizations such as the American Council for Guidance and Personnel Associations (CGPA), National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA), National Occupational Conference (NOC), National Education Association (NEA), and the U.S. Department of Education in the 1930s. In many of these organizations, Hatcher chaired committees on rural youth, and representatives from these groups served on AGRY's Board of Trustees.
Conference activity took on an increasingly important role in fulfilling the organization's mission of gathering and disseminating information on various vocational topics. From about 1918, the Virginia Bureau co-sponsored conferences with the Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls, National Committee of Bureaus of Occupation for Trained Women, and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. During the 1920s SWEA sponsored several conferences on occupational trends for women, developing guidance programs for women's colleges and schools, and effective guidance aids f or rural girls.
During the 1930s and 1940s, SWEA and AGRY s conference activity increased significantly. Alliance members participated in conferences sponsored by NVGA, CGPA, NOC, and NEA by chairing sessions and presenting papers on rural youth guidance. In addition, the Alliance sponsored several series of guidance conferences and forums on its own. Notable among these are the Pine Mountain Guidance Institutes, 1937-1942; Rural-Urban Institutes on Youth Migration, 1938-1939; luncheon forums for Washington (D.C.) youth-serving agencies, 1942-1947; and the Rural Guidance Institute held in conjunction with the group's annual board meetings.
With the exception of the Pine Mountain Guidance Institute which is documented in its own series, conference activities are reflected in the Conference Files series. Information on pre-1930s conferences is slim, but additional information on all conferences can be gleaned from the Correspondence and Clippings and Press Releases series. Copies of papers delivered by Alliance members and others are located in the Writings and Speeches series: a complete set of conference proceedings and findings is contained in the Publications series.
The Alliance's pioneering efforts in the field of rural youth guidance served to establish the organization as a national authority. After Hatcher's death in 1946, the group continued its research projects, publications, and conference activities under the direction of Amber Arthun Warburton who became the organization's executive secretary. Materials dating past Hatcher's reign in the Alliance are fairly insignificant in the AGRY records and consist mainly of routine administrative correspondence. A more complete set of AGRY organizational records dating from 1947-1963 is located in the Amber Arthun Warburton Papers. These records continue several series started in the AGRY records such as executive board minutes, publications, project files, and correspondence.
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Subject Headings
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Online Catalog
- Business and Professional Women's Clubs.
- American Association of University Women.
- National Vocational Guidance Association.
- American Personnel and Guidance Association.
- Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls.
- Niles, John Jacob.
- Vocational education--Southern States.
- Afro-Americans--Employment.
- Vocational guidance--Southern States.
- Rural youth--Southern States.
- Southern States--Rural conditions.
- Women--Education--Southern States.
- Women--Employment--Southern States.
- Rural women--Education.
- Rural women--Research.
- Rural women--Vocational guidance.
- Rural women--Photographs.
- Women social reformers.
- Higher education of women.
- Vocational guidance for women.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Rural schools--Southern States.
- Rural youth--Education.
- Rural youth--Vocational guidance.
- Rural youth research.
- Rural youth--Photographs.
- Vocational guidance--Research.
- Vocational guidance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women.
- Southern Woman's Educational Alliance.
- Hatcher, Orie Latham.
- Ulmann, Doris.
- Virginia--Henrico County--Richmond.
- American Association of University Women
- American Personnel and Guidance Association
- Business and Professional Women's Clubs
- Hatcher, Orie Latham
- Higher education of women
- National Vocational Guidance Association
- Negroes- -Employment
- Niles, John Jacob
- Rural youth--Southern States
- Rural women--Research
- Rural women--Vocational guidance
- Rural women--Education
- Rural-urban migration
- Rural schools--Southern States
- Rural youth--Education
- Rural youth--Vocational guidance
- Rural youth--Research
- Southern States--Rural conditions
- Southern Woman's Educational Alliance
- Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls
- Virginia Bureau of Vocations for Women
- Women--Education--Southern States
- Women--Employment--Southern States
- Women social reformers
- Vocational guidance for women
- Vocational guidance--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Vocational guidance--Research
- Vocational guidance--Southern States
- Vocational education--Southern States
- Hatcher, Orie Latham (Correspondence series)
- Ulmann, Dories (Photographic Materials series)
- People--Hatcher, Orie Latham (Photographic Materials series)
- Subject--Rural women (Photographic materials series)
- Subject--Rural youth (Photographic materials series)
- Geographic--Kentucky--Breathitt County (Photographic Materials series)
- Virginia--Richmond
Related Material
The Amber Arthun Warburton Papers, 1917-1976
Warburton, Amber Arthun, 1898-1976
ca. 31,400 Items; 79 Boxes
Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Durham, NC 27708
Detailed Description of Collection
Box 1Information Folder
Correspondence Series, 1914-1963, n. d.
1914-1922
(7 folders)
Box 2
1923-1931
(6 folders)
Box 3
1932-1933, March
(6 folders)
Box 4
1933, April-1935, May
(6 folders)
Box 5
1935, June-1938
(6 folders)
Box 6
1939-1940, January
(5 folders)
Box 7
1940, February-1941, February
(6 folders)
Box 8
1941, March-November
(5 folders)
Box 9
1941, December-1942, August
(6 folders)
Box 10
1942, September-1943, August
(6 folders)
Box 11
1943, September-1944, September
(5 folders)
Box 12
1944, October-1945
(6 folders)
Box 13
1946-1963,
undated
(6 folders)
Administrative Files Series, 1919-1963
Alliance relationship to other organizations and agencies, 1923-1942,
undated
Annual financial reports, 1946-1963
Audit reports, 1920-1949
(3 folders)
Budget reports, 1924-1940,
undated
By-laws, 1936,
1946,
undated
Directory questionnaires, 1936,
1945,
undated
Financial papers-misc. (notes, receipts, authorizations), 1924-1946,
undated
Financial papers-Pine Mountain Institute,
1942,
undated
Financial procedures. 1924-1936
Box 15
Fifty rural girls reunion, 1932,
1936,
undated
"Find Yourself"
vocational orientation course (Duke University),
1926
Hatcher death and will. 1946
Box 15
"Heaven Bound"
(play production), 1934
Home service course for general maids, 1933-1934
Mailing lists, undated
Membership lists, 1949-1950
Memorandum-misc., 1926-1944,
undated
Minutes-Board of Advisors (Bureau of Vocations),
1920
Minutes-Executive Board (SWEA),
1921-1925
Minutes-Executive Board (SWEA),
1926-1930
Box 16
Minutes-Executive Board (SWEA),
1931-1935
Minutes-Board of Trustees (SWEA and AGKY),
1935-1946
Minutes-misc., undated
Monthly financial statements, 1930-1945,
1940-1948
Office procedure manual, 1925-1926
Officers and trustees, 1934-1939
President's annual report, 1920,
1926-1938
(4 folders)
Project proposals-misc., 1932,
1940,
undated
Box 17
Requests (for information), 1937-1943
(4 folders)
Rural Guidance Project (general), 1924-1927
Rural Guidance Project (Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial grant),
1924-1927
Rural youth study:
"Youth migration in Virginia counties"
(proposal), 1935-1939,
undated
Salary/staffing controversy, 1934-1937
Speaker's bureau, 1919-1920
Statement of purpose (Book of Reference), 1920-1949,
undated
Student aid,
1920-1925
Box 18
Transfer of Alliance records to Duke University,
1939-1942
Travel and desk diary, 1937-1940
Virginia Association of Colleges and Schools for Girls,
1914-1920,
undated
Virginia School of Social Work,
1916-1923
Vocational orientation for college women (Dr. Peter's course), 1925,
undated
Vocational value of graduate study (Vassar study), ca. 1930
Vocational survey of southern colleges,
ca. 1919-1926
White House tea (Alliance 25th anniversary),
1939-1940
Branch Files Series, 1922-1945, undated
Atlanta Branch, 1924-1925
Atlanta Branch-news clippings, 1923-1925
Branch by-laws, 1924-1925
Branch treasurers and financial committees, 1935-1940
Chicago Branch-financial reports, 1923-1944,
undated
Chicago Branch-membership and dues, 1930-1945,
undated
Chicago Branch-minutes and reports, 1923-1938,
undated
Chicago Branch-misc., 1922-1944,
undated
Chicago Branch-news clippings, 1922-1941,
undated
New York Branch-correspondence, 1931-1944,
undated
New York Branch-financial reports. 1934-1939,
undated
Box 20
New York Branch-membership and dues, 1923-1942,
undated
New York Branch-membership lists, 1932-1941
New York Branch-minutes and reports, 1920-1938,
undated
New York Branch-misc., 1923-1934
New York Branch-misc., 1935-1940,
undated
New York Branch-opera benefit (receipts and authorizations), 1939
New York Branch-news clippings, 1922-1923
New York Branch-news clippings, 1924-1941,
undated
Box 21
New York Branch-weekly report of the opera committee, 1939
Richmond Branch-correspondence, 1929-1936,
undated
Richmond Branch-financial reports, 1933-1936
Richmond Branch-membership and dues, 1930-1937,
undated
Richmond Branch-minutes and reports, 1929-1936,
undated
Richmond Branch-misc., 1929-1938,
undated
Richmond Branch-news clippings, 1929-1935
Richmond Branch-news clippings, 1936-1939,
undated
Richmond Branch-rural festival, 1938
Washington Branch-financial reports, membership and dues, 1937-1938,
undated
Washington Branch-minutes and reports, 1930-1943,
undated
Washington Branch-misc. and news clippings, 1924-1938,
undated
Conference Files Series, 1918-1947, undated
Conference chronology, 1918-1935
Conferences, 1918-1929
Conference on Guidance for Rural Girls and Boys,
February 23, 1930
Dinner forum
"Just Where are Women Now?"
November 7, 1930
National Education Association, Department of Superintendent's convention,
"Working Together for the Children of America,"
February 21, 1931
National Education Association, Department of Rural Education, biannual meeting, February 22, 1931of
"Talent with Plastic Arts,"
January 17, 1932
SWEA National Board forum,
"The Discovery and Development of Talent in Music,"
January 26, 1932
National Vocational and Guidance Associations annual convention, February 18, 1932
A Conference on Supply, Demand and Outlook in the Major Occupations Open to Educated Women in Richmond, October 14, 1932
SWEA annual board meeting,
"The Plight of Rural Young People Today,"
October 31, 1932
Luncheon conference on Present Supply, Demand and Outlook for Educated Women, November 1, 1932
National Occupational Conference, general meeting, April 10, 1933
International Council of Women, July 16, 1933
National Occupational Conference, Regional Occupational Conference on Vocational Guidance, August 28-September 2, 1933
Box 23
The Cleveland Conventions of Guidance and Personnel Associations (SWEA and NVGA Rural Section), February 21-25, 1934
SWEA conference and board meeting,
"Guidance Aids for Rural Young People,"
March 27, 1934
National Occupational Conference, Southern Regional Conference on Vocational Guidance and Education, April 23-28, 1934
SWEA joint conference on Guidance Aids for Rural Young People, May 25, 1934
U.S. Office of Education Conference on Youth Problems, June 1-2, 1934
National Education Association annual meeting, June 30-July 6, 1934
Conference on individual Development and Guidance, July 31 August 2, 1934
Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations annual meeting, February 24, 1935
National Occupational Conference, general meeting, March 4, 1935
SWEA conference on Guidance Aids for Rural Youth,
November 8, 1935
Conference on Nursing in Rural Areas,
October 12, 1936
Occupational forums,
1936-1937
SWEA and Graduate Nurses Association, joint session, January 12, 1937
American Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations, annual convention, February 17-20, 1937
Forum conference on Nursing Service in Rural Areas,
March 3, 1937
Conference on Art Needs in Rural Areas,
April 21, 1937
Rural Youth Institute,
November 1, 1937
American Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations, annual convention, February 23, 1938
"Rural Youth in the City for Work,"
April 11, 1938
Rural-Urban Institute on Youth Migration,
"Youth Comes to the Big City."
(New York),
October 21-25, 1934
Box 24
Rural-Urban Institute on Youth Migration,
"Youth Comes to the City"
(Washington),
January 26, 1939
Rural-Urban Institute on Youth Migration,
"From Virginia Small Towns and Rural Areas,"
February 15, 1939
Conference on Guidance Aspects of Youth Migration in and from North . Carolina, July 28, 1939
American Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations, annual convention, February 18-22, 1941
Institute for Rural Youth Guidance,
February 27, 1941
American Council for Guidance and Personnel Associations, annual convention, February 17, 1942
Institute for Rural Youth Guidance,
April 23, 1942
National Institute on Education and the War,
August 28-31, 1942
Luncheon forum, 1942
Box 25
Luncheon forum, May 17, 1943
Institute on Postwar Problems of Youth Migration,
May 26, 1943
Luncheon forum, November 30, 1943
Luncheon forum, January 17, 1944
Luncheon forum, February 29, 1944
Luncheon forum, March 27, 1944
Luncheon forum, May 18, l944
Box 25
Institute on War and Postwar Problems of Rural Youth Migration,
May 18-19, 1944
White House Conference on Rural Education,
October 3-5, 1944
Luncheon forum, November 28, 1944
Luncheon forum, January 23, 1945
Luncheon forum, February 19, 1945
Luncheon forum, March 28, 1945
Luncheon forum, May 28, 1945
Washington Institute on Postwar Problems,
1945
Luncheon forum, January 15, 1946
Luncheon forum, April 7, 1947
Miscellaneous, undated
Breathitt Co. (KY) Project Files Series, 1930-1944, undated
Autobiographies-Adkins School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Baker School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Bethel School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Big Hill School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Birch Lick School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Black Lick School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Blackwater School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Blooming-Grove School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Bond School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Buffalo School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Buncombe School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Carpenter School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Cavanaugh School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Chestnut Flat School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Cloverbottom School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Collier School District,
1934-1935
Box 27
Autobiographies-Drip Rock School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Dry Fork School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Dry Fork H.L. School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Durham Ridge School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Egypt School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Fairview School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Fall Rock School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Flat Top School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Gravel Lick School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Gray Hawk Community School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Green Hill School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Hickory Flat School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-High Knob School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Huff School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Hugh School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Hurst School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Lower Indian Creek School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Upper Indian Creek School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Indian Springs School District,
1934-1935
Box 28
Autobiographies-Johnson School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Kerby Knob School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Laurel Branch School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Letter Box School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Lewis School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Lite School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Maulden School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-McKee School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Moores Creek School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Morris School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-New Zion School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Old Bend School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Pigeon Roost School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Pine Flat School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Pine Grove School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Powell School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Privett School District,
1934-1935
Box 29
Autobiographies-Rice Hill School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Sand Gap School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Sand Lick School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Sand Springs School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Salt Rock School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Seven Pines School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Sinking Valley School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Smith School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-South Fork School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Sparks School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Terrill Creek School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Travis School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Tyner School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Union School District,
1934-1935
Autobiographies-Welchburg School District,
1934-1935
Box 30
Breathitt Co. HighSchool teachers' reports, 1935-1936
Breathitt Co. High School teachers' reports: Agriculture, 1936-1937
Breathitt Co. High School teachers' reports: English, 1936-1937
Breathitt Co. High School teachers' reports: Home Economics-Physical Education, 1936-1937
Breathitt Co. High School teachers' reports: Sciences-Social Studies, 1936-1937
Breathitt Co. High School teachers' reports, 1937-1938
Carnegie Corporation grant, 1935-1937,
undated
Box 31
Comprehensive program report, ca. 1936
(2 Folders)
Correspondence, 1933-1943,
undated
(2 folders)
Guidance workbooks, ca. 1936
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous, 1935-1943,
undated
Miscellaneous reports, 1934-1937,
undated
Box 32
Printed materials, 1937-1944
(2 folders)
Problem book, 1935-1936
(2 folders)
Problem book (from selected school diaries of the teachers), 1936-1937
(2 folders)
Publications and brochures, 1930-1937
Box 33
Publicity (news clippings), 1934-1942,
undated
Student art, 1936-1937,
undated
Survey (data compilations), undated
(3 folders)
Survey (general), undated
Survey (misc.), undated
Survey (store), ca. 1935
Teachers' diaries, 1935-1936
Pine Mountain Guidance Institute Files Series, 1936-1937, undated
Bristol conference, 1942
Harlan Co. correspondence, 1939-1942
Harlan Co. Guidance Institute, 1947
Harlan Co. junior counseling service, 1940-1941,
undated
Harlan Co. misc., 1936-1941,
undated
Harlan Co. supervisor's report of visit to schools, 194?
Harlan Co. workshop (University of Kentucky), 194?
Pine Mountain Guidance Institute (PMI),
1937-1938
PMI-notes and proceedings, 1939
PMI,
1940
Box 35
PMI-notes and proceedings, 1941
PMI-findings, 1941
PMI-correspondence, Jan.-Apr. 1942
PMI-correspondence, May-Dec. 1942
PMI-misc., 1942
PMI-notes, 1942
PMI-proceedings, 1942
PMI-summaries and reports, 1942
Box 36
PMI-teacher survey I, 1942
PMI-teacher survey II, 1942
PMI-misc., 1941-1942,
undated
PMI-publicity (news clippings), 1937-1945,
undated
PMI-reason for discontinuing, 1942
Pine Mountain Settlement School-correspondence, 1939-1943
(2 folders)
Pine Mountain Settlement School-information and studies, 1934-1942
Pine Mountain Settlement School-printed materials, 1938-1946,
undated
Report on teacher shortages, 1942
Subject Files Series, 1919-1946, undated
American Association of University Women,
1920-1940,
undated
American Council on Education,
1941-1945,
undated
American Council of Guidance and Personnel Associations (CGPA),
1936-1946,
undated
(3 folders)
Broadcasting,
1930-1942
Community counseling centers,
1938-1946,
undated
Craven Co. (NC) guidance, 1931,
1933
Education during wartime,
1942-1945,
undated
(2 folders)
Box 38
Federal Council of Churches of Christ,
1936-1942,
undated(2folders)
Federation of Business and Professional Women,
1919-1946,
undated
National Council of Women,
1933
National Education Association,
1923-1936,
undated
(2 folders)
National Information Bureau,
1923-1944
National Occupational Conference,
1933
National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA),
1929-1933
Box 39
National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA),
1934-1941,
undated
(2 folders)
National Work Conference on Veteran's Education,
1946
Negro education,
1931-1946
Negro nurses,
1935-1944
Negro occupations,
1928-1942,
undated
Negro vocational guidance,
1930-1938,
undated
Box 40
Negro youth,
1937-1940
(2 folders)
North Carolina youth-serving agencies, 1938-1939
Postwar vocational guidance,
1942-1945,
undated
Pre-school (nursery school) guidance,
1926,
undated
Richmond Urban League,
1930-1942,
undated
Rural education,
1939-1946,
undated
Rural life,
1933-1946,
undated
Box 41
Rural migration (general),
1938-1946,
undated
Rural migration-New York,
1932-1935
Rural migration-North Carolina,
1929-1937,
undated
Rural migration-Ohio,
1930-1942
Rural migration-postwar,
1946
Rural schools,
1930-1937,
undated
Rural youth,
1931-1951,
undated
Box 42
Rural youth (wartime),
1942-1943,
undated
Social Science Research Council,
1927
United Council of Social Work,
undated
Virginia Rural Youth Survey,
1941
Vocational guidance (general),
1923-1944,
undated
Vocational guidance-girls in secondary schools,
1925
Vocational guidance-rural youth,
1930-1943,
undated
Vocational guidance-veterans,
1944-1946,
undated
Vocational rehabilitation-handicapped,
1940-1946,
undated
Vocational schools,
1929-1944,
undated
Box 43
War work,
1940-1945
War workers-Recreation,
1942-1944,
undated
Washington Federation of Churches,
1943
White House Conference on Children in a Democracy,
1939-1942
Women-occupations,
1924-1945
YWCA,
1919-1943
Youth delinquency,
1929-1945,
undated
Youth organizations-Misc.,
1938-1945,
undated
Writings and Speeches Series, 1919-1946, undated
Child Development and Guidance in Rural Schools (notes and ms. fragments), 1942
"Fifty Rural High School Girls"
(unpublished ms.), 1930
"Fifty Rural High School Girls"
(ms. fragments), ca. 1930
Findings of the 1944
Rural Guidance Institute (unpublished ms.), 1944
(2 folders)
Box 45
"Guide to Wartime Washington, D. C."
(youth migration handbook), 1944
Hatcher, O. Latham speeches, 1919-1944,
undated
(7 folders)
Hatcher, O. Latham published articles, 1922-1946
Memorials, 1932
Box 46
Misc. writings and speeches by Alliance, 1924-1943,
undated(2folders)
Misc. writings and speeches by others, 1928-1944,
undated
Misc. writings and manuscripts fragments, n. d.
"Occupations for Educated Women in Durham, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem, N.C."
(unpublished ms.), 1926
Radio broadcast scripts, 1925-1939,
undated
(3 folders)
"When Our Young Folks Come Home to the Smaller Communities"
(unpublished ms.), ca. 1945
Publications Series, 1918-1943, undated
List of publications, 1921-1939,
undated
Annual reports, 1918-1919,
1921-1923,
1939-1941
Brochures, ca. 1919-1940
Bulletins, 1921-1922,
1928-1929,
1932-1934,
1938
(3 folders)
Conference proceedings, 1930-1943
(2 folders)
Newsletters, 1924-1927,
1929-1936,
1943
Box 48
Misc., 1921-1939,
undated
Occupations for Women,
1927
Guidance Work in the Schools of Craven Counter, North Carolina,
1930
Guiding Rural Boys and Girls,
1930
A Mountain School,
1930
Rural Girls in the City for Work,
1930
Experimentation in Simple Guidance Programs for Rural Schools,
1931
Handicaps of Elementary School Girls,
1931
Box 48
The Need for Guidance Programs in Privately Supported Mountain Schools,
1933
Twenty-five Years of Work,
1939
Child Development and Guidance in Rural Schools,
1943
Clippings and Press Releases Series, 1914-1946, undated
Alliance activities, 1914-1946,
undated
(9 folders)
Box 50
Book reviews, 1923-1942,
undated
(4 folders)
Photographic Materials Series, ca. 1920s-1930s
Photographs-Orie Latham Hatcher,
1887,
1901.
Photographs-Breathitt Co. Ky.,
ca. 1920s-1920s
Photographs-Pine Mtn., Ky.,
ca. 1920s-1920s
Photographs-misc. and unidentified, ca. 1920s-1920s
Photographs-misc. and unidentified, ca. 1920s-1930s
Photographs-manuscript fragments, ca. 1930
Photographs-manuscript fragments, ca. 1930
Negatives, ca. 1920s-1930s
Notes and misc., ca. 1930's
Box 52
Doris Ulmann photographs-notes, undated
Doris Ulmann photographs-publication copies, undated
Doris Ulmann photographs
(40 prints)
Oversize Materials, 1920-1942, undated
*
Note: These materials have corresponding folders in the series listed
above.
Box 53 [OVERSIZE BOX 15]
Administrative files series.
"Heaven Bound"
(playbill), 1934
Administrative files series. President's annual report, 1920,
1925
Administrative files series. Rural youth study: Youth migration in Virginia counties (proposal), 1935-1939,
undated
Administrative files series. Vocational survey in southern colleges,
ca. 1919-1926
Breathitt Co. project files series. Survey (data compilations, ca. 1935
(3 folders)
Subject files series. Negro occupations,
1928-1942,
undated
Publications series. Brochures (SWEA membership poster), undated
Publications series. Newsletters, 1925-1926
