Hazel Lee Davies Papers, 1895-1976

Summary Information

Title: Hazel Lee Davies Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1895-1976

Creator:
  • Davies, Hazel Lee, 1890-1980
Call Number: Mss 363; PH Mss 363; Micro 883

Quantity: 1.0 cubic feet (3 archives boxes), 2.2 cubic feet of photographs (1 archives box, 1 card file box, and 4 flat boxes), 2.9 cubic feet of negatives (7 negative boxes and 1 folder), and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:
Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Diaries, correspondence, family papers, and photographs of Hazel Lee Davies, a graduate nurse from Hortonville, Wisconsin, who from 1918 to 1947 worked as a clerk and statistician-economist for the U.S. Coal Commission of the Bureau of Mines. Included are girlhood letters and a 1906 senior class-meeting notebook from Jennings Seminary in Aurora, Illinois, and the Chicago Training School, both girls' boarding schools; letters and reminiscent articles about nursing and nurses' training, circa 1908-1918, at St. Luke's Hospital, Racine, Wisconsin; and files on homes in Florida and Lake Tomahawk, Wisconsin. Among the correspondence are letters from Davies' niece, Lt. Col. Frances M. McClurkin, an Air Force nurse, 1955-1975, who was stationed in Japan and the Philippines; and letters from German and English women after World War II. On microfilm is a scrapbook which includes material on the National Recovery Administration, the United Mine Workers and John L. Lewis, employment discrimination against married women, and World War II. Family papers include a notebook of John R. Davies, Hazel Davies' husband's grandfather, concerning his invention of a pressed paper railroad car wheel, and genealogical information on the Robert E. Lee family, believed to be relatives of Davies' husband.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00363
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