Bosworth, Louise Marion, 1881-1982. Papers, 1890-1946. Living Wage Survey, Questionnaires. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
Described briefly below are links to personal papers included in Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930. These manuscript materials are held by various repositories at Harvard University and may be part of larger collections. For further information on these materials, please contact the owning repository listed in the catalog record for each item.
While working for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU), Louise Marion Bosworth participated in the general duties of the Union's research department and conducted a survey of the incomes and expenses of working women in Boston. The survey questions included country of birth, employment history, income and expenditures, and housing. Among the respondents were immigrants from Russia, Ireland, England, Italy, and Canada. Included in the questionnaires were detailed inquiries about the amount of money women spent on lodging, food, clothing, health, recreation, and education. The surveys were complemented by reports describing visits to women in their rooming houses and dining halls.
The survey and questionnaires below are among the holdings of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Louise Marion Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946 (inclusive). Included here:
These papers, and more personal correspondence from Louise Marion Bosworth, are also part of the Women Working, 1800-1930 collection.
The full finding aid for the Louise Marion Bosworth papers can found at:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00053
Jane Maud Campbell was born in Liverpool, England. Campbell's family moved to the US when she was 12, and she later returned to Great Britain, graduating from the Ladies' College of Edinburgh University and the Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy. Campbell returned to the United States and worked in libraries, eventually becoming head of public libraries in Passaic, New Jersey. Increasingly concerned with the plight of newly arrived immigrants, Campbell became active in providing library and educational services to immigrants.
The correspondence, speeches, photographs, and clippings below are among the holdings of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
Jane Maud Campbell Papers, 1860-1994 (inclusive), 1886-1947 (bulk). Included here:
George (Giorgio) La Piana, Roman Catholic priest, scholar, and, for almost 30 years, member of the Harvard Divinity School faculty, was born in 1878 in the village of Piana degli Albanesi, outside Palermo, Sicily. La Piana emigrated to the United States in 1913, settling, like many newcomers, where he had family. Two of his brothers, one a druggist and one a medical student, lived in Milwaukee, a city with a large population of German, Irish, Polish, and Italian Catholics. Here he was a volunteer with the local Associated Charities, where he served as a "friendly visitor" to the poor and conducted studies of the city's immigrant Italians. In 1915, he received a fellowship at the Harvard Divinity School. Appointed an instructor in church history in 1919, he was the first Roman Catholic to hold a position at the Divinity School. The University named him the John H. Morison Professor of Church History in 1932. Throughout his time in the Boston area, La Piana continued the social service work that he had undertaken in Milwaukee. As an official of the Family Service League (formerly the Associated Charities), he was the organization's director for Boston's heavily Italian North End, and his studies of the Italian community combined scientific investigation with cultural interpretation of his fellow countrymen. During his tenure at Harvard he published widely in both English and Italian.
Samples of La Piana's lecture notes and manuscripts, below, are among the holdings of the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School.
George La Piana Papers, 1878-1972 (inclusive). Included here:
The full finding aid for the George La Piana papers can be found at:http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/bms/bms00104.html
A military and civic leader, Yaroslav J. Chyz was born in Dubliany, near Lviv, Ukraine. He served as an intelligence officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, and then, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, he helped to organize the Sich Riflemen, a paramilitary group who fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War (1917-1922). In 1921 he joined the Ukrainian Military Organization, but was forced to seek asylum in Prague. He emigrated to the United States in 1922. In addition to his involvement in the cultural and civic affairs of American nationality groups, Chyz was an adviser to the United States government on foreign-language press and ethnic affairs.
The press releases below, written by Chyz while he was employed by the Ukrainian Burean of the US Foreign Language Information Service, are among the holdings of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
Yaroslav J. Chyz Papers, 1912-1983 (inclusive). Included here:
Stefania Halychyn was born in Hnylche, Ternopil district, Ukraine. Once she emigrated to the United States, she became an active organizer and leader in Ukrainian-American women's activities. She served as the organizer and president of the Ukrainian Gold Cross, a humanitarian relief and educational association of Ukrainian women in the United States. In 1923, Halychyn's husband, Dmytro Halychyn, emigrated to the United States, where he worked as vice chairman of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and as secretary and president of the Ukrainian National Association.
Dmytro Halychyn's immigration paperwork, below, is among the holdings of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
Stefania Halychyn Papers, 1913-1962 (inclusive). Included here:
A military leader, businessman, philatelist, and publisher, Lysiuk Kalenyk was born in Bubnivka, Haisyn county, Podilia gubernia, Ukraine. During World War I, he served in the Russian Imperial Army, and during the revolutionary period in the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic. Kalenyk emigrated to the United States in 1923 and became an active member of the Ukrainian-American community. He founded the Ukrainian National Museum in Ontario, California, in 1954 and served as its president until 1958. That same year, he established the Ukrainian-American Foundation and presided over it until 1974. Lissiuk was a member of various Ukrainian organizations, including Wake Up America, the Ukrainian Republican Committee of the State of New Jersey, the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee, the Union of Ukrainian Veterans, and the Congress of Freedom.
Kalenyk's cancelled US passport, below, is among the holdings of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
Lysiuk Kalenyk Papers, 1948-1973. Included here:
Bohdan Krawciw was born in Lopianka, Dolyna County, Ukraine. He was a poet, journalist, and literary critic. After emigrating, he worked in the US as an editor and journalist for the newspapers Ameryka and Svoboda, the Plast journal Molode zhyttia, the journal Suchasnist', and the Entsyklopediia ukraïnoznavstva (Encyclopedia of Ukraine). In his editorial work, Krawciw kept files of newspaper clippings, correspondence, and photographs regarding artists, literary figures, community organizations, and the Ukrainian press.
The postcard, below, featuring the Ukrainian Workers' Theatre in Detroit, is among the holdings of the Ukrainian Research Institute Reference Library, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.
Bohdan Krawciw Papers, 1915-1976. Included here: