Guide to the Claire Still scrapbooks MS.R.052
Finding aid prepared by Alexis Schwarz; machine-readable finding aid created by Michael C. Conkin, 1998.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
(cc) 1998
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine 92623-9557
spcoll@uci.edu
Note
History --History, United States(excluding California)SocialSciences --Area and Interdisciplinary Studies --Women's Studies
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Claire Still scrapbooks
Creator:
Still, Claire
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.052
Physical Description:
5.8 Linear Feet
(9 flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1933-1959
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 of Material:
English
.
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-R052. Special Collections and Archives, The UCI Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
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. |
Collection Scope and Content Summary
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Theater programs
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Archives.
Poliomyelitis -- History -- Sources
Theater -- United States -- History -- Sources
Ephemera
Theater -- Archives
Military nursing -- United States
Scrapbooks
Women and war -- United States -- History -- Sources
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