Pension: Provident and Benevolent Funds

mnsss165 Emma France Ward Papers, 1922-1966 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by mnsss. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College

Northampton, MA

2003

Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Laura Cutter. 2003-06-13 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mnsss165 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Sophia Smith CollectionSmith College Emma France Ward Papers, 1922-1966 Finding Aid MS 170 2002 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview Ward, Emma F. (Emma France) Emma France Ward Papers1922-66 MS 170 2 boxes (2 linear ft.) Sophia Smith Collection

Smith College Northampton, MA

Public health specialist and personnel manager. The strength of this collection is its documentation of Ward's career as a woman government bureaucrat during a period in which governmental influence in the regulation of industry increased dramatically. It is also a rich source of information about women workers, especially those in the shipbuilding industry during the World War II period. Materials include correspondence; articles written by Ward about the health and safety of women workers; and publications devoted to women industrial workers' health and safety. English. Biographical Note

Letter to Emma Ward from Herbert Wenzel, regional Industrial Advisor, August 26, 1944

Emma France Ward, the daughter of Wilbur F. and Emma Albert Ward, was born in Baltimore in 1886. She graduated from Goucher College in 1909; later she received a degree in public health medicine from Johns Hopkins University, and engaged in further studies at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University, and in Europe. Early in her career Ward did settlement work. In 1931 she was the official delegate from the U.S. Public Health Service and one of three American women out of 500 delegates to attend the 6th International Congress of Accidents and Industrial Diseases in Geneva. Her long government career included appointments with the U.S. Children's Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Internal Revenue Service. During WWII Ward worked for the Maritime Commission as the officer in charge of women workers in shipyards. After the war she worked with the Brookings Institution in Washington until her retirement in 1958. She died of a stroke in Baltimore in 1963.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Papers include biographical information; personal and professional correspondence; articles written by Ward about the health and safety of women workers; and pamphlets, reprints, periodicals and other publications devoted to women industrial workers' health and safety, especially in shipyards. The strength of this collection is its documentation of Ward's career as a woman government bureaucrat during a period in which governmental influence in the regulation of industry increased dramatically. It is also a rich source of information about women workers, especially those in the shipbuilding industry, and especially during the World War II period.

Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

The copyright owner of this collection is unknown. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Emma France Ward Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

History of the Collection

Emma France Ward donated her papers to the Sophia Smith Collection from 1955 to 1961.

Finding aid revised in 2002 by Gayla Spaulding, intern.

Search Terms Industrial safety--United States--History--20th century--Sources Shipbuilding industry--Employees--History--Sources World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Sources Ward, Emma F. (Emma France) Women--Employment--United States--History--20th century Women--Health and hygiene--History--20th century--Sources 1 1 Contents Biographical materials 1 2 Biographical sketch and bookplate, 1923, 1933 1 3 Obituary, 1964 Correspondence 1 4 A-Z, 1922-55 1 5 Photocopies of correspondence, 1922-55 1 6 to Margaret Storrs Grierson, 1955-60 1 7 Application to the United Nations, 1954 Writings and research 1 8 Accident prevention, 1926-43 1 9 Articles by Emma Ward, 1923-30 1 10 Child labor, 1924 1 11 Industrial health, 1925-45 Shipbuilding 1 12 General, 1944-46 1 13 England, n.d. 1 14 Publications, 1943-45 1 15 Women in industry, 1943-44 Printed materials Bournville Works Publications: pamphlets, 1927-29 2 1 Pension: Provident and Benevolent Funds 2 Education in the Factory 2 Bournville Housing Pamphlets loose in box: A Study of Absenteeism Among Women, 1943 Two Studies on Hours of Work, 1928 Artificial Humidification in the Cotton Weaving Industry, 1927 The Assessment of Psychological Qualities by Verbal Methods, 1938 Inventory of the County and Town Archives of Maryland, 1939 The Family Status of Breadwinning Women, 1922 Negro Women in Industry, 1922 Health Problems of Women in Industry, 1921 Hours and Conditions of Work for Women in Industry in Virginia, 1920 The New Position of Women in American Industry, 1920 Women in Maryland Industries, 1922 Institute of Citizenship and Government, 1923 Skoda Works, 1929 Book: Away in a Manger by Jean Thoburn, 1942