Public health administration

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This series consists of sanitary surveys of various towns, cities, and counties throughout the United States from 1920-1948. Surveys were conducted by students to fulfill requirements of the Harvard Medical School class in Preventative Medicine and Hygiene.

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The Harvard School of Public Health Office of the Dean executive administrative files, 1913-1996 (inclusive) are the product of the administrative activities of Deans’ offices through the history of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Overview: Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991), A.B., 1923, University of Kansas; M.A., 1925, University of Kansas; Ph.D., 1932, Yale University; M.D., 1934, Yale University, was the first female Commissioner of Public Health for New York City, 1954 to1962, and later became an Assistant Director of the Agency for International Development, a position she held until 1965. She was named Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1966, where she served until her retirement in...

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Writings, correspondence, professional reports and papers, and photographs of Lini M. De Vries, author, public health nurse, and teacher who was a nurse in the Spanish Civil War, and later worked with rural and indigenous communities in New Mexico and Mexico.

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Correspondence, printed material, photographs, etc., of Margaret Louise Murray Blizard, public health official, Democratic Party worker, and lawyer.