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Books
Seller, Maxine, Women educators in the United States, 1820-1993 :
a bio-bibliographical sourcebook, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

Dissertations
Bernhardt, Jacqueline, The life and contributions of Hilda Worthington Smith (dissertation), Texas Woman's University, 1991.

Heller, Rita Rubenstein, The Women of Summer: The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers: 1921-1938, New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University, 1986.


Articles
Dzuback, M.A., Women and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College, 1915-1940. History of Education Quarterly, 33, 4, Special Issue on the History of Women and Education (Winter 1993), pp. 579-608.

New York Times, May 30, 1922. Heads Bryn Mawr Summer School, p. 6.

New York Times, June 18, 1928. Bryn Mawr opens summer school: Has four courses for women in history. p. 10.

New York Times, February 24, 1929. New system urged in adult education; Prof. Lindeman for cooperative group study rather than arbitrary courses; Hits organized control; Sees danger to democratic ideals – tells Teachers’ Union of test made by suburban women. American adult life dull. Found the system successful, p. 37.

New York Times, June 14, 1930, Open industry school at Bryn Mawr today; Two English and one German student are among 104 enrolled for 8 weeks’ study, p. 23.

New York Times, June 14, 1931, Industry school opens; Bryn Mawr has 112 students in Summer Session for Women, p. N4.

New York Times, July 5, 1931, Factory girls take liberal arts work; A glimpse of science for the industrial worker, p. 39.

New York Times, January 12, 1933, gift for jobless women; Relief Committee grants $4,000 to Vineyard Shore School, p. 9.

New York Times, January 3, 1937, Workers seeking new education aid; $4,000,000 bill aiming at four-year experiment will be put before Congress. Permanent policy goals new federal department, that of social welfare, is urged to handle the projects. Schools which might benefit new department envisaged. P. 49.

New York Times, December 4, 1938, Gets Y.W.C.A. post; Mrs. Sherwood Anderson named to head industrial staff, p. D4.

New York Times, March 14, 1984, 1931 Hilda W. Smith, 95, Educator, p. B10.

New York Times, June 24, 1984, Pioneering alumnae hold a reunion, p. NJ5.

Related Collections (descriptions of materials taken from OCLC)

Aaron, Maxine L., Workers Education Records, 1928-1944 - Cornell University Labor Management Documentation Center.

Additional materials include brochures, pamphlets, yearbooks and routine correspondence regarding the Bryn Mawr School, Hudson Shore Labor School and the Southern School for Workers.

Aintuck, Evelyn, Papers, 1945-1946 (inclusive). Harvard University, Schlesinger Library

Collection consists of Alintuck's correspondence with Hudson Shore Labor School officials, including Rhetta M. Arter and Margaret Wood, concerning her work for the school while at Smith College; a group photograph; and a short reminiscence, n.d.

American Labor Education Series, Records, 1921-1961 - Wisconsin Historical Society

Papers of a voluntary organization established in 1927 as the Affiliated School for Workers to promote cooperation among the few existing summer schools for workers which went on to aid unions develop their educational programs and encourage adult- and labor-education projects in colleges and universities. Included are records pertaining to the Bryn Mawr Summer School, 1921-1939, and its successor, the Hudson Shore Labor School, 1939-1951. Smaller groups of papers relate to the Vineyard Shore Labor School, 1920-1933, and the Barnard Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, 1927-1933. Included in the files are correspondence, reports, student applications, statistics, financial statements, faculty lists, course syllabuses, catalogs and handbooks, photographs, and publicity releases.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Hilda Worthington Smith, 1888- [microform] : papers, 1837 (1900-1975). New York Public Library.

Publications relating to Hudson Shore Labor School – New York University
Collection includes pamphlets, leaflets, circulars and catalogs for training sessions issued by the Hudson Shore Labor School. Its former name was Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. Titles include From Bryn Mawr to Hudson Shore; Each man an island; They say; Apprentice training in worker education methods; Hudson Shore, 1921-1949; Regional Institute, Labor's new relationship in the community


Barkas, Benjamin.W., Photographs, 1939-1963 – Temple University Special Collections

Collections contain images of various meetings, conferences, training activities and workshops. The majority of photographs are undated and include exteriors of Central Manual Training School, and Dobbins Vocational Technical High School, and activities at the Hudson Shore Labor School in New York. Other images include various training programs ca. 1939-1941 at the following Philadelphia schools: John Bartram, Edward Bok, Murrell Dobbins, Helen Fleisher, Benjamin Franklin, Jules E. Mastbaum, Overbrook, and William T. Tilden.

See also http://library.temple.edu/collections/urbana/pc41.htm

Lockwood, Helen Drusilla, Papers, 1883-1971 -- New York State Historical Documents

Brochures, newsletters, reports, speeches, school publications, and Lockwood's notes and outlines relating to her association with the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, the Vineyard Shore Workers' School, the Hudson Shore Labor School, and other workers' education projects, 1922-1952; diaries for 1903 to ca. 1911 concerning school, her family summer activities, trips, and student life at Vassar; Vassar alumnae questionnaires she used for an article on the part-time paid employment of women, 1948; letters from former students at the time of her retirement, 1956; and miscellaneous family items including her parents' student notebooks, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Peterson, Esther, Papers: Series I-V, 1984-1998 -- Cornell University Labor Management Documentation Center

Other individuals and organizations represented in the collection include: Cornell ILR School professor Maurice F. Neufeld; Carl Sandberg; Chaim Weizmann; local unions and joint boards of the ACWA; the American Labor Education Service; the Democratic National Committee; the Hudson Shore School; the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions; the National Consumers League; the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Dept. of Labor; and the Women's Trade Union League.

See also http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel/collections/overview.html

Internet sites

Bloom, Jonathan D., Workers’ Education and Adult Education, http://www-distance.syr.edu/bloom.html Retrieved November 19, 2004.

Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry, Paper, Photographs, Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/wild/browse_coll.cfm. Retrieved November 19, 2004.

Coit, Eleanor G. Papers, 1894-1971: A Finding Aid Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Radcliffe College February 1989 http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/sch00224.html. Retrieved November 19, 2004.

Esther Eggertsen Peterson (1906 - 1997) Labor Educator, teacher at Hudson Shore Labor School
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/history/peterson.cfm

Heller, Rita , THE WOMEN OF SUMMER: THE BRYN MAWR SUMMER SCHOOL FOR WOMEN WORKERS, 1921-1938, Origins and Founders http://www-distance.syr.edu/heller.html

Hudson Shore Labor School, 1942 -- Photo: Eleanor Roosevelt speaks to members of the CIO, AFL, and unaffiliated unions at the Hudson Shore Labor School, 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. http://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/workers/workerpics/Hudson.html

John Beecher biography (taught at Hudson Shore Labor School) http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/beecher/bio.htm

Kemp, Maida Springer, 1910- . Papers, 1942-1981: A Finding Aid (Kemp taught at the Hudson Shore Labor School).
http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/sch00289.html

Lockwood, Helen Drusilla, 1891- 1971. Manuscript descriptions http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/collections/manuscripts/ManuscriptDescriptions/L.html

Papers of M. Carey Thomas, Reel listing http://microformguides.gale.com/Data/Download/3039000R.pdf Retrieved November 19, 2004

PAPERS OF HILDA W. SMITH 1888-1972 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu:8000/findbrow.cgi?collection=Smith,+Hilda+W.

Santora, Ellen Durrigan, Bridging Differences in Culture and Class The Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly, Phoenix, AZ, November 21, 2002. http://www.courses.rochester.edu/santora/BMSSWW.htm Retrieved November 19, 2004.

ESOPUS/LLOYD SCENIC AREA OF STATEWIDE SIGNIFICANCE (which includes the Smith estate housing the Hudson Shore Labor School) http://nyswaterfronts.com/SASS/SASS1/Esopus.htm

 

Works by Hilda Worthington Smith

Poems, Washington : Merkle Press. n.d.

Workers' education as determining social control, [N.p.] Federal emergency relief administration.

Bryn Mawr: Poems: Castle of Dreams. S. l., 1910.

Women Workers at the Bryn Mawr Summer School, New York City, Affiliated Summer Schools for Women Workers in Industry and American Association for Adult Education, 1929. Can be accessed electronically via Harvard University's Library Open Collections Program at: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:415746

Factory Girls Take Liberal Arts Work; a Glimpse of Science for the Industrial Worker, New York Times, July 5, 1931.

Education and the worker-student : a book about workers' education based upon the experience of teachers and students (with Jean Carter Ogden). New York City : Affiliated Schools for Workers, 1934.

A workers' education office in the federal government, Philadelphia: Bryn Mawr alumnae bulletin : Bryn Mawr Alumnae Association, 1935. vol. XV, no. 9, December, 1935. p. 9-14.

A summary of workers' education under the WPA : address given at Temple University, Philadelphia, May 10, 1938, S.l. : s.n, 1938.

Selected poems, New York : Institute for Education and Research on Women and Work, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1977.

Opening vistas in workers' education : an autobiography, S.l., 1978.

Verses, S.l. : s.n, 1990.