Box 18

Scope and Contents: SERIES III, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1910-1971, undated (#112-158), contains both professional and (non-family) personal correspondence. The correspondence is this series highlights Van Waters's professional life, with the exception of her work at El Retiro, which can be found in Series IV; and at the Reformatory for Women at Framingham, which can be found in Series V.The letters in this series reveal the spectrum of topics that interested Van Waters, including the Shakers (The...

Scope and Contents: SERIES III, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1910-1971, undated (#112-158), contains both professional and (non-family) personal correspondence. The correspondence is this series highlights Van Waters's professional life, with the exception of her work at El Retiro, which can be found in Series IV; and at the Reformatory for Women at Framingham, which can be found in Series V.The letters in this series reveal the spectrum of topics that interested Van Waters, including the Shakers (The...

Scope and Contents: SERIES III, GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1910-1971, undated (#112-158), contains both professional and (non-family) personal correspondence. The correspondence is this series highlights Van Waters's professional life, with the exception of her work at El Retiro, which can be found in Series IV; and at the Reformatory for Women at Framingham, which can be found in Series V.The letters in this series reveal the spectrum of topics that interested Van Waters, including the Shakers (The...

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Includes re: budgeting, students, a proposed film about El Retiro.

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Includes issues of El Retiro Bugle; articles re: El Retiro.

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Includes re: students; "Los Angeles Business Girls Club Conference" report.

Scope and Contents: SERIES IV, EL RETIRO AND RELATED WORK, 1920-1971, undated (#159-174), includes correspondence, case studies, reports and articles related to El Retiro. This series includes correspondence, reports and testimonies from students regarding the 1927 firing of Alma Holzschuh from the directorship of the school; and five folders of correspondence between Van Waters and students or former students. This series has only a very few items about Van Waters as referee of the Juvenile Court (see #174);...

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Includes re: the firing of Alma Holzschuh from the superintendency of El Retiro and the resultant student walkout.

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Includes re: firing of Alma Holzschuh and student walkout.

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Includes program of performance by El Retiro students; handwritten album with letters and photographs given to Van Waters, "When You Think of One," 1927.

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Includes re: former students.