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Register of the Clelia Duel Mosher Papers
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California
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- Hoover Institution Archives
- Stanford University
- Stanford, California 94305-6010
- Phone: (650) 723-3563
- Fax: (650) 725-3445
- Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Clelia Duel Mosher papers,
Date (inclusive): 1898-1937
Collection number: XX249
Creator:
Mosher, Clelia Duel, 1863-1940
Collection Size:
7 manuscript boxes
(2.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, office files, photographs, and postcards, relating to relief work of the Red Cross in France from
1917 to 1919, and to the promotion of health education for women in the United States. Includes correspondence with Lou Henry
Hoover.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Clelia Duel Mosher Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired.
Biographical Note
| 1863 December 16 |
Born, Albany, New York |
| 1893 |
A.B, zoology, Stanford University |
| 1894 |
A.M., physiology, Stanford University |
| 1900 |
M.D., Johns Hopkins University |
| 1910 |
Assistant Professor, personal hygiene, and Medical Advisor of Women, Stanford University |
| 1917-1919 |
Medical Investigator, Children's Bureau, and subsequently Assistant/Associate Medical Adviser, Bureau of Refugees, American
Red Cross, Paris
|
| 1923 |
Associate Professor, Stanford University |
| 1928 |
Professor, Stanford University |
| 1929 |
Professor emeritus, Stanford University |
| 1940 |
Died, Palo Alto, California |
Scope and Content Note
The Clelia Duel Mosher papers relate to child welfare and other relief work performed by the American Red Cross in France
during World War I, women war workers, and conditions in France in 1918. They also provide limited information about medical
views of women's physical abilities in the 1910s and 1920s.
Mosher was Medical Investigator for the American Red Cross Children's Bureau, which provided medical care for children whose
lives were disrupted by World War I. Mosher helped open a dispensary at Corbeil, establish a hospital at Limoges, and enlarge
the Preventorium for Boys at Tumiac; she also took a convoy of sixty children from Paris to Evian during the bombardment of
Paris. Much of her work involved inspecting and reporting on conditions at dispensaries, hospitals, schools, and other facilities,
as well as some individual families in need. Her reports, in memorandum form in the American Red Cross File, describe conditions
and itemize needs. While focused on institutions serving children, some reports also include general information about adults,
families, communities, and public health.
The Correspondence series, in particular the letters Mosher regularly wrote to her mother Sarah Burritt Mosher, provides anecdotes
about welfare work in France and general information about life in wartime France. The Speeches and Writings series includes
a number of war sketches based on Mosher's experiences.
Mosher also served as an official photographer for the American Red Cross. More than 200 prints (including many duplicates)
of American Red Cross personnel and activities are included in the Photographs and Postcards series. It is presumed that Mosher
took many of these photographs. However, most of the prints are not identified by name of photographer or subject. The bulk
of the circa 340 postcards relate to France and depict tourist sites, scenes of war damage, wartime posters, and health messages
printed by the American Red Cross.
Some information about Mosher's work on women's athletics and physical education may be found in the Speeches and Writings
series. Additional information is available in the Correspondence series, particularly with Lou Henry Hoover, who was Vice
President of the National Amateur Athletic Federation of America in the early 1920s. Topics covered include apparel, competitive
sports, menstruation, and muscular strength.
Additional papers of Clelia Duel Mosher, including the bulk relating to research work on women's physical education, are housed
at the Stanford University Archives (Collection Number SC 011).
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Subjects
American National Red Cross.
International relief.
Women--Health and hygiene.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918--Civilian relief.
World War, 1914-1918--France.
World War, 1914-1918--War work.
France.
United States--Foreign relations.
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944.
Series Description
box 1
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1910-1931.
Scope and Content Note
Biographical sketches, certificates, commendations, correspondence, passport, receipts, arranged alphabetically by physical
form
box 1
DIARIES, 1918-1922.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged chronologically
box 1-2
CORRRESPONDENCE, 1907-1940.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent
box 3
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1890-1925.
Scope and Content Note
Notes, clippings, drafts, reprints, reviews, transcript, arranged chronologically by title
box 4-5
AMERICAN RED CROSS FILE, 1917-1919.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, index cards, issuances, memoranda, minutes of meetings, notes, publications, reports, transportation orders,
arranged alphabetically by physical form
box 5-6
PRINTED MATTER, 1915-1940.
Scope and Content Note
Booklets, bulletins, clippings, form letters, programs, reports, arranged alphabetically by name of organization or company
box 6
EPHEMERA, 1918?
Scope and Content Note
Alimentation cards, baggage tags, bread tickets, leaflets, opera programs and ticket stubs, poems, ration cards, signs, unarranged
box 6
MEMORABILIA, 1918-1919?
Scope and Content Note
Buttons, place card, ribbon, small steel fork, uniform insignia, unarranged
box 6-7
PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS, 1891-1925.
Scope and Content Note
Photographs arranged alphabetically by subject, followed by loose postcards and postcards arranged in an album
Container List
Box/Folder 1
BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, 1910-1931
Box/Folder 1 : 2
Appointment correspondence, American Red Cross, 1917
Box/Folder 1 : 3
Appointment papers, Stanford University, 1910-1929
Box/Folder 1 : 4
Biographical sketches,1919-1931
Box/Folder 1 : 5
Certificate and commendation, American Red Cross, 1919
CORRESPONDENCE, 1907-1940
Box/Folder 1 : 29
American Red Cross, 1919-1920
Box/Folder 1 : 31
Burrell, Ellen, 1917-1937
Box/Folder 1 : 32
Burrett, Emeline, 1917-1922
Box/Folder 1 : 33
Burrett, Lydia, 1922-1928
Box/Folder 1 : 35
Coolidge, Mary Roberts, 1907-1937
Box/Folder 1 : 36
Farrand, Margaret, 1918-1919
Box/Folder 1 : 37
Faure, Marielouise, 1918-1922
Box/Folder 1 : 38
Haynes, Royal Storrs, Dr., 1919-1922
Box/Folder 1 : 39
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1913-1940
Box/Folder 2 : 1
Johnson, Edith E., Dr., 1917-1919
Box/Folder 2 : 3
Lucas, June Richardson, 1918
Box/Folder 2 : 4
Mosher, Eliza, Dr., 1915-1928
Box/Folder 2 : 5-12
Mosher, Sarah Burritt (Mrs. Cornelius D.), 1911-1920
Box/Folder 2 : 13
Owen, Ethel Dale, Dr., 1918
Box/Folder 2 : 14
Palmer, Virginia Murray, Dr., 1915-1922
Box/Folder 2 : 17
Storey, Phyllis Moore, 1918-1923
Box/Folder 2 : 20
Vickery, Martha Ellen, 1914-1918
Box/Folder 2 : 21
Walker, May E., Dr., 1918-1920
Box/Folder 2 : 22
Willcox, Mary Alice, Dr., 1915-1934
Box/Folder 2 : 23
Withington, Alfreda, Dr., 1919-1920
Box/Folder 3
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1890-1925
Box/Folder 3 : 1
College papers, 1890-1892
Box/Folder 3 : 4
"All in a Day's Work," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 5
"Brittany in War Time," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 3 : 6
"Health and Efficiency," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 7
"Medical Examinations and Supervision of Athletics for Women," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 3 : 8
"Personal Narratives and Letters about The California Earthquake of April 18, 1906," with Corabelle Kimball, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript (incomplete?)
Box/Folder 3 : 9
"War Time Vignettes," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Typescript, printed copy (incomplete)
Box/Folder 3 : 10
"Wayside Inn," n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 3 : 11
Health and the Woman Movement, 1916.
Scope and Content Note
Reviews
Box/Folder 3 : 12
"Somewhere in France, During the War," 1918 February 12.
Scope and Content Note
Holograph, typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 13-14
"The Strength of Women," speech, International Conference of Women Physicians, New York, 1919 September 22.
Scope and Content Note
Mimeograph transcript, clippings
Box/Folder 3 : 15
"A Spring Song," 1920 February 29.
Scope and Content Note
Holograph, typescript
Box/Folder 3 : 16
"Madame," 1921 March 9.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 3 : 17
"When the Class of 1918 Was Called to the Colors," 1921 March 12.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 3 : 18
"Amalfi," 1922 September 1.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 3 : 19
"Mothers," 1922 September 7.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 3 : 20
"Richard Dairnaut's Wife," 1925 May 28.
Scope and Content Note
Notes
Box/Folder 4
AMERICAN RED CROSS FILE, 1917-1919
Box/Folder 4 : 1
Card catalog of women doctors, 1918
Box/Folder 4 : 2
Diary letters of June Richardson Lucas, France, 1917-1918
Box/Folder 4 : 3
Final report, Clelia Duel Mosher, 1918-1919
Box/Folder 4 : 4
Issuances, American Red Cross, 1918-1919
Box/Folder 4 : 5-9
Memoranda and related materials, 1917-1919
Box/Folder 5 : 2-3
Minutes, staff meeting, Children's Bureau, 1918
Box/Folder 5 : 4
Proposal, Argonne Society, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 5
Publications, Croix-Rouge Américaine, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 6
Report, work of the Children's Bureau, William Palmer Lucas, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 7
Reports, American Red Cross in France, 1918
Box/Folder 5 : 8
Transportation orders and passes, 1918
PRINTED MATTER, 1915-1940
Box/Folder 5 : 9
Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930
Box/Folder 5 : 11
Allied Women on War Service, 1918
Box/Folder 5 : 12
American Fund for French Wounded, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 13
American Posture League, 1928
Box/Folder 5 : 14
American Women's Hospitals, 1918
Box/Folder 5 : 15
Angier Chemical Company, 1919
Box/Folder 5 : 16
Argonne Association, 1923
Box/Folder 5 : 17
B. Pasquale Company, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 18
British Army and Navy Leave Club, Paris, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 19
Butterick Publishing Company, n.d.
Box/Folder 5 : 20
California Civic League, n.d.
Box/Folder 6 : 1
Committee to Defend America by Aiding Allies, 1940
Box/Folder 6 : 3
L'École pour L'École, 1920
Box/Folder 6 : 4
Internationl Conference of Women Physicians, 1919
Box/Folder 6 : 6
League to Enforce Peace, 1919
Box/Folder 6 : 7
Mead Johnson and Company, n.d.
Box/Folder 6 : 8
Medical Women's Federation, 1918
Box/Folder 6 : 9
National Adult School Union, n.d.
Box/Folder 6 : 10
National Amateur Athletic Federation, 1924-1926
Box/Folder 6 : 11
National Association of Manufacturers, 1939
Box/Folder 6 : 12
Paris Chamber of Commerce, 1917-1919
Box/Folder 6 : 13
La Résidence Sociale, 1921-1936
Box/Folder 6 : 14
Société des Gens de Lettres, n.d.
Box/Folder 6 : 15
Stanford University, 1915
Box/Folder 6 : 16
United States. Food Administration, n.d.
Box/Folder 6 : 17
United States. Office of Home Economics, n.d.
Box/Folder 6 : 18
United States. Public Health Service, 1918
Box/Folder 6 : 19
United States. Treasury Department, 1917
Box/Folder 6 : 20-23
EPHEMERA, 1918?
Scope and Content Note
Alimentation cards, baggage tags, bread tickets, leaflets, opera programs and ticket stubs, poems, ration cards, and signs
Box/Folder 6 : 24
MEMORABILIA, 1918-1919?
Scope and Content Note
Buttons, place card, ribbon, small steel fork, and uniform insignia
PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS, 1891-1925
Box/Folder 6 : 25
16 prints depicting friends and family
Box/Folder 6 : 26
11 prints depicting North American scenes?
Box/Folder 6 : 27
2 prints depicting Stanford University
Box/Folder 6 : 28
20 prints depicting buildings and grounds
Box/Folder 6 : 29-30
65 prints depicting children
Box/Folder 6 : 31
4 prints depicting documents
Box/Folder 6 : 32
6 prints depicting hospital treatment
Box/Folder 6 : 33
42 prints depicting landscapes and street scenes
Box/Folder 6 : 34
19 prints depicting officials
Box/Folder 7 : 1
12 prints depicting personnel in uniform
Box/Folder 7 : 2
16 prints depicting refugees and others
Box/Folder 7 : 3-4
62 prints depicting women personnel in uniform
Box/Folder 7 : 5
55 loose postcards primarily depicting France
Box/Folder 7 : 6
Souvenir album containing 385 postcards primarily depicting France
