Personal Information for Lillian D. Wald




	Personal Information for Lillian D. Wald Born: March 10, 1867 Died: September 1, 1940 Occupations: Educators, Human Rights Worker, Humanitarians, Medical Personnel, Nurses, Political Activists, Scientists, Social Reformers Subjects: Jews - Charities, Medicine, Public Welfare, Reform, Social, Science, Social Settlements, Charities, Civil Rights, Education, Emigration and Immigration Biographical Information: As a young nurse working with poor immigrants in New York City's Lower East Side tenements, Lillian Wald observed first hand the poverty and desperation of America's urban immigrant populations. Her early experiences led to founding the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service and to becoming a passionate advocate for public health nursing and the rights of poor immigrant women and children. In later years, Wald achieved national and international recognition for her work in the suffrage movement and her efforts in the field of welfare and public health. 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Wald papers Lillian Wald papers Related Resources Art Works Henry Street Logo, 1915 Henry Street Modern Logo Articles 20 Reasons Why You Should Vote Suffrage, October 26, 1915 A Pioneer Among Settlement Workers Is Miss Wald, March 23, 1905 Good Metal In Our Melting Pot, Says Miss Wald, January 1, 1913 Henry Street Celebrating its 20th Birthday, January 1, 1913 New Buildings for the Citizens Club of Henry Street, January 1, 1914 News-Sheet of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Geneva, Switzerland, 1920 Organization Amongst Working Women, May 1906 The Feeding of School Children, June 13, 1908 Artifacts Commemorative Medal , 1938 Books Lillian Wald, Neighbor and Crusader, January 1, 1938 Lillian Wald, The Nurse in Blue, January 1, 1966 The House on Henry Street , January 1, 1915 Windows on Henry Street, January 1, 1934 Ephemera A Public Health Flyer From the Child Health Organization of America, 1920 A Stern Task For Stern Women Handbill Drawn-up to Garner Support for a Community Response to the Influenza Epidemic Hot Streets and Stifling Tenements Make Helpless Children Suffer Henry Street Fundraising Flyer Lillian D. Wald, 1867-1940: Hall of Fame for Great Americans, September 19, 1971 Promotional Flier for Visiting Nurse Service The Ameriacn City, June 1912 The Door is Open Public Health Nursing Fundraising Flyer, c. 1942 The New Patriotism Is Peace Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Flier Visiting Nurse Promotional Brochure What Public Health Nursing Offers You as a Profession Public Health Nursing Flyer Essays Settlements Speach to Jamaica Women's Club, February 2, 1913 We Called Our Enterprise Public Health Nursing. Forward to The Public Health Nurse in Action by Marguerite Wales, January 1, 1941 Illustrations Henry Street Settlement House's Doorway , 1966 Henry Street Sidewalks, 1934 The House Itself, 1934 The Sky Line of Henry Street, 1934 Letters Letter from Emma Goldman to Lillian Wald, 1904 Letter from Lillian Wald et al. to the President of the United States Washington D.C., April 16, 1917 Letter to Emma Goldman from Lillian Wald December 5, 1910 Letter to the Members of the House of Representatives From Lillian Wald, Chair of the American Union Against Militarism Newspaper Clippings Figures in Big Labor Meet: Miss Lillian D. Wald, Suffrage Leader. Newspaper Clipping, Tuesday, October 7, 1919 Governor 'Al' Aids Henry Street Settlement Opening, article from The American Pictorial: A Paper for People Who Think, 1923 Lillian Wald cited in Mrs. Dilling's "Little Red Book of Radicals" Newspaper Clipping from Wald's Personal Papers Periodicals Annals of the American Academy of Political Science, January 1, 1905 Report of the Henry Street Settlement 1893-1913, January 1, 1913 Photographs (black and white) A Visiting Nurse on Call A Henry Street Classroom A Nurse Visiting a Tenement, 1915 A Red Cross Public Health Nurse Poses with her Model T Ford before Setting Out on Her Rounds At Ellis Island Backyard of a Henry Street Branch, 1915 Children Playing on Henry Street's Roof, 1915 Getting working papers. New York, 1908 Greel's Shoe-Shining Parlor. Said he was 15 years old. Works some nights until 11 P.M. Indianapolis, Ind. Henry Street's Backyard: The �Bunker Hill� of Playgrounds, 1915 Lavinia Dock (third from left) holding a "Votes for Women" staff, 1913 Lillian Wald Lillian Wald at her House on the Pond in Westport, Connecticut, 1938 Lillian Wald at the Height of her Career Lillian Wald in Evening Attire Lillian Wald in Nurse's Uniform, 1893 Lillian Wald's Maternal Grandfather, "Favey" Goodman Schwarz , 1938 Lillian Wald�s Father, Max D. Wald , 1938 Lillian Wald�s Friend and Colleague, Mary Brewster, 1915 Lillian Wald�s Mother, Minnie Schwarz Wald , 1938 Nurses Trek Through the Snow Nurses in a Row Portrait of Lillian Wald Putting bottles into the Annealing Oven. 1 A.M. Indianapolis, Ind. The "Henry Street Family": (back row, left to right) Jane Hitchcock, Sue Foote, Jeannne Travis; (middle row) Mary Magoun Brown, Lavina Dock, Lillian Wald, Ysabella Waters, Henrietta van Cleft; (in front) 'Little Sammy' Brofsky and 'Florrie' Long, c. 1900 Visiting Nurse Takes Shortcut Over the Roofs of the Tenements, 1915 Women Marching for Peace, 1934 How to Cite This Page For a bibliography: Jewish Women's Archive. "Personal Information for Lillian D. Wald." <http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/perInfo.jsp?personID=578>. For a footnote: Jewish Women's Archive, "Personal Information for Lillian D. Wald," <http://jwa.org/archive/jsp/perInfo.jsp?personID=578>.