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WOOD.001.CaTurCSU
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Contributing Institution:
California State University Stanislaus Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Bernice Wood collection
Creator:
Wood, Bernice (1887-1963)
Identifier/Call Number: WOOD.001.CaTurCSU
Physical Description:
4 Boxes
Date (bulk): 1918-1940
Language of Material:
English
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Bernice Wood (1887-1963), known as an innovator of immigrant education in Hughson and Modesto in the years 1920-1940, was
a teacher, banker, real estate agent, Turlock Irrigation District (TID) employee, as well as an owner of a small farm. The
collection includes letters received from immigrants she taught or assisted, scrapbooks, photographs, songbooks, and related
documents. A biography and transcriptions of the Bernice Wood correspondence and scrapbooks can be found in three published
volumes, compiled and edited by Bob Santos, available in the Special Collections: Bernice Wood: friend of the foreigner (LC3719
.S26 1999) and Bernice Wood: a collection of her memoirs and correspondence 2 vols. (LC3719 .W66 1999).
Collection is open for research.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Education, Rural
Hughson High School (Calif.)
Immigrants--Education
Modesto High School
Turlock Irrigation District (Calif.)
Women--Education
Wood, Bernice (1887-1963)