Guide to the Claire Still Scrapbooks, 1933-1959
Processed by Alexis Schwarz; machine-readable finding aid created by
Michael C. Conkin
Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Phone: (949) 824-3947
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Email: spcoll@uci.edu
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Note
History --History, United States
(excluding California)
Social
Sciences --Area and Interdisciplinary Studies --Women's Studies
Guide to the Claire Still Scrapbooks, 1933-1959
Collection number: MS-R 52
Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries
University of California
Irvine, California
Contact Information
- Special Collections and Archives
- The UCI Libraries
- P.O. Box 19557
- University of California
- Irvine, California 92623-9557
- Phone: (949) 824-3947
- Fax: (949) 824-2472
- Email: spcoll@uci.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- Alexis Schwarz
- Date Completed:
- 1998
- Encoded by:
- Michael C. Conkin
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Claire Still Scrapbooks,
Date (inclusive): 1933-1959
Collection number: MS-R 52
Creator:
Still, Claire, 1916-
Extent:
Number of containers: 9 flat boxes
Linear feet: 18 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: The Claire Still Scrapbooks are comprised of newspaper clippings and ephemera collected
in scrapbooks between 1933 to 1959 by Claire Still, a medical social worker and medical
librarian. She resided in Nebraska, Kentucky, Washington DC, Virginia, Wisconsin and
California during the years that she was compiling the scrapbooks. The materials include
theater reviews on programs she attended and society news such as debutante, engagement
and wedding announcements. Many articles pertain to medical advancements or diseases,
particularly polio, and women's wartime activity during World War II. Still also
collected numerous articles about women working in the military and for the Red Cross.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and University Archives.
Preferred Citation
Claire Still Scrapbooks. MS-R 52. Special Collections and Archives, The UCI Libraries,
Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Claire Still in 1995.
Processing History
Processed by Alexis Schwarz in 1998.
Biography
Claire Still was born on June 29, 1916 in Hastings, Nebraska, the last of three children.
In 1922 she and her family relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska where she graduated from
Lincoln High School in 1934.
Still attended the University of Nebraska located in Lincoln with a Regents' Scholarship.
In 1938 she graduated with an A.B. in Sociology and then continued her studies at
Lincoln, attending the Graduate School of Social Work until 1939. She completed her
graduate degree in 1943 at the National Catholic School of Social Service in Washington
DC.
During World War II, she worked for the American Red Cross at hospitals in Kentucky,
Virginia and Washington, DC. From 1945 to 1968, she was employed as a medical social
worker, living first in Washington, DC, then moving to Virginia, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Nebraska, and finally California. She received a Master's Degree in Library Science from
the University of California at Berkeley's library school in 1969. From that year until
her second retirement in 1981, she was a librarian at the Stanford University Medical
School Library.
She was reared with an appreciation for travel and fine arts that has followed her
throughout her life. Her mother enrolled her in piano, ballet and elocution courses. As a
student, she volunteered at the high school library and worked as a property manager for
a Little Theater group in Alexandria. By 1959 she had visited all fifty U.S. states and
had toured Europe. This love for travel and an enthusiasm for the performing arts are
reflected in her scrapbooks.
Since her retirement, Still has held a number of offices in various associations,
including chapter president of the American Association of University Women (1985-1986
and 1994-1995) and of the Leisure World Historical Society.
Chronology
| 1916 |
Born in Hastings, Nebraska on June 29th. |
| 1922 |
Moved to Lincoln, Nebraska with family. |
| 1922-1934 |
Attended public schools in Lincoln. |
| 1934 |
Graduated from Lincoln High School. |
|
Received Regents' scholarship to University of Nebraska. |
| 1938 |
Elected to honorary psychology and sociology societies. |
|
Graduated from University of Nebraska with A.B. in Sociology. |
| 1938-1939 |
Attended Graduate School of Social Work at University of Nebraska. |
| 1939-1940 |
Worked at United States Census Bureau and Government Printing Office in Washington DC. |
| 1941 |
Worked for D.C. Home Service, American Red Cross. |
| 1943 |
Applied for Red Cross Scholarship to complete master's degree in Social Work at National Catholic School of Social Service
in Washington DC.
|
| 1944 |
Received degree from Catholic University. |
| 1944-1945 |
Worked for American Red Cross Hospitals in Louisville, Kentucky; Staunton, Virginia; and at Walter Reed General Hospital in
Washington DC.
|
| 1945-1948 |
Medical social worker at Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC. |
| 1949-1952 |
Medical social worker at the Alexandria Virginia Community Center (an outpatient clinic). |
| 1952-1953 |
Medical social worker for National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in Wisconsin and Minnesota. |
| 1953-1959 |
Medical social worker at the Rehabilitation Center at St. Joseph's Hospital and Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 1959-1960 |
Medical social worker at Stanford Medical Center. |
| 1963 |
Social worker at The Albertinum in Ukiah, California. |
| 1964-1968 |
Social Worker for Catholic Charities in San Jose, California. |
| 1968-1969 |
Attended library school at U.C. Berkeley. |
| 1969 |
Received M.L.S. degree. |
| 1969-1981 |
Librarian at Medical School Library at Stanford University. |
| 1981 |
Retired and moved to Leisure World, Laguna Hills. President of Leisure World Historical Society. |
| 1985-1986 |
Chapter president of American Association of University Women. |
| 1994-1995 |
Chapter president of American Association of University Women. |
Scope and Content
The Claire Still Scrapbooks are comprised of newspaper clippings and ephemera collected
in scrapbooks between 1933 to 1959 by Claire Still, a medical social worker and medical
librarian. She resided in Nebraska, Kentucky, Washington DC, Virginia, Wisconsin and
California during the years that she was compiling the scrapbooks. The materials include
theater reviews on programs she attended and society news such as debutante, engagement
and wedding announcements. Many articles pertain to medical advancements or diseases,
particularly polio, and women's wartime activity during World War II. Still also
collected numerous articles about women working in the military and for the Red Cross.
For the most part, the scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by the predominant year.
Within each book there is no discernible month-to-month chronology, and documents of a
particular date are often inserted in the scrapbook for a different year. The scrapbooks
are intact as they were created by Claire Still.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Military nursing--United States--Archival resources.
Women and war--United States--Archival resources.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Archival resources.
Poliomyelitis--History--Archival resources.
Theater--United States--Archival resources.
Theater--Archival resources.
Orange County (Calif.)--Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Scrapbooks.
Theater programs.
Ephemera.
Index Terms Related to this Collection
Online Archive of California.
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