Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)John Adams Kingsbury papers, 1841-1966
Personal name
Main title
- John Adams Kingsbury papers, 1841-1966 (bulk 1906-1939).
Links
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- Finding aid https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003054
- Finding aid (PDF) https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003054.3
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Description
- 57,400 items.
- 163 containers plus 2 oversize.
- 65.5 linear feet.
Access advisory
- Open to research.
- Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Finding aids
- Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003054
Local shelving no.
- Fort Meade
- Oversize 0114W
- Small backlog (Unprocessed ac. 24,006)
Related names
Biography/History note
- Social worker and social reformer.
Organized/Arranged
- Arranged in three parts composed of seventeen series.
- Part I arranged in four series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1895-1935; Series 2: Personal Correspondence, 1883-1918; Series 3: Writings File, 1904-1917; and Series 4: Miscellany, 1908-1917.
- Part II arranged in eight series. Series 1: Journals and Travel Notes, 1904-1952; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1841-1960; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1852-1960; Series 4: Professional File, 1915-1957; Series 5: Subject File, 1896-1960; Series 6: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1891-1956; Series 7: Financial Papers, 1904-1960; and Series 8: Miscellany, 1862-1963.
- Part III arranged in five series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1849-1966; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1902-1964; Series 3: Professional File, 1895-1956; Series 4: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1911-1956; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1902-1963.
Summary
- Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, writings, articles, travel notes, autobiographical material, family papers, legal and financial records, news releases, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Kingsbury's activities as a social reformer and public health advocate. Includes manuscripts of and other material relating to Kingsbury's books, Health in Handcuffs (1939) and Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia (1933).
- Kingsbury's professional files include correspondence, reports, and business records relating chiefly to his attendance at Columbia University Teachers College and to his service as assistant secretary of the State Charities Aid Association in New York from 1907 to 1911, director of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (1911-1914), and Commissioner of Public Charities of New York City during the administration of John Purroy Mitchel (1914-1918).
- Includes material on other organizations with which Kingsbury was affiliated such as the American Council on Soviet Relations, America-Yugoslav Society of New York, American Association of the Red Cross, Milbank Memorial Fund, Progressive Party, Serbian Child Welfare Association of America, U.S. Work Projects Administration, and Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York. Topics include agriculture, American-Soviet and American-Yugoslav relations, astronomy, Chinese life and culture, Eastern European relief efforts, group health insurance, multiple sclerosis, mushrooms, New Deal legislation, public health in America and the Soviet Union, socialist societies, socialized medicine, travel, tuberculosis, unemployment, venereal disease, war relief, welfare, and world peace.
- Correspondents include Jane Addams, Alexander Graham Bell, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Charles C. Burlingham, Bailey B. Burritt, Mary E. Dreier, Paul De Kruif, Albert Einstein, Homer Folks, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, Elbert Hubbard, Charles Evans Hughes, Harold L. Ickes, Walter Lippmann, Jack London, Henry Morgenthau, Sir Arthur Newsholme, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, Jacob A. Riis, Raymond Robins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and William Henry Welch.
LC Subjects
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935--Correspondence.
- Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922--Correspondence.
- Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941--Correspondence.
- Burlingham, Charles C. (Charles Culp), 1858-1959--Correspondence.
- Burritt, Bailey B. (Bailey Barton), 1878-1953--Correspondence.
- De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971--Correspondence.
- Dreier, Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth), 1875-1963--Correspondence.
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Correspondence.
- Folks, Homer, 1867-1963--Correspondence.
- Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd), 1890-1946--Correspondence.
- Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915--Correspondence.
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948--Correspondence.
- Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952--Correspondence.
- Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974--Correspondence.
- London, Jack, 1876-1916--Correspondence.
- Mitchel, John Purroy, 1879-1918.
- Morgenthau, Henry, 1856-1946--Correspondence.
- Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943--Correspondence.
- Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965--Correspondence.
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946--Correspondence.
- Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914--Correspondence.
- Robins, Raymond, 1873-1954--Correspondence.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Correspondence.
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence.
- Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934--Correspondence.
- New York (N.Y.). Department of Public Charities and Correction.
- United States. Work Projects Administration.
- American Association of the Red Cross.
- American Council on Soviet Relations.
- America-Yugoslav Society of New York.
- Columbia University. Teachers College.
- Milbank Memorial Fund.
- New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
- Serbian Child Welfare Association of America.
- State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
- Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York.
- Agriculture.
- Astronomy.
- Charities, Medical.
- Endowments.
- Health insurance.
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Men--Societies and clubs.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Mushrooms.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Peace.
- Poverty.
- Public health.
- Public health--Russia.
- Public service employment.
- Public welfare.
- Public welfare--New York (State)
- Sexually transmitted diseases.
- Socialism--Societies, etc.
- Tuberculosis.
- Unemployment.
- Voluntary health agencies.
- Voyages and travels.
- War relief.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work.
- Yugoslav Americans--Societies, etc.
- China--Social life and customs.
- New York (N,Y.)--Politics and government--1898-1951.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
- New York (State)--Social conditions.
- Soviet Union--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
- United States--Foreign relations--Soviet Union.
- United States--Foreign relations--Yugoslavia.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Yugoslavia--Foreign relations--United States.
- Reformers.
- Social workers.
Notes
- Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
- Collection material in English.
Acquisition source
- Gift, John Adams and Mabel Kingsbury, Virginia Hyatt, and Wendy Hyatt, 1954-1994.
LCCN
- mm 73028662
Invalid LCCN
- su 73028662
Other standard no.
- MSS28662
Repository
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
Type of material
- Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
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