Descriptive Summary
Information for Researchers
Biography of Josephine Smith
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Series Arrangement
Subject Headings
Descriptive Summary
Title: Guide to the Josephine Smith Papers
Creator:
Smith, Josephine
Dates: 1890-1996
Extent: 17 linear feet (8 boxes)
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library.
1090 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California 91711
Abstract:
Collection Number: d2009.1
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Location: Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont University Consortium.
Information for Researchers
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research with permission from Ella Strong Denison Library staff.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with Scripps College. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact Ella Strong Denison
Library staff.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Josephine Smith Papers. Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Acquisition Information
This collection is a gift from Josephine Smith's family.
Processing Information
Arranged and Processed by Special Collections Staff
Accruals
No addition to the collection is anticipated.
Biography of Josephine Smith
Josephine Smith, an author, who wrote about the elderly, married to Dwight Smith, and wrote a column, "On Aging", for the
Claremont Courier while she lived in the area. After the couple retired they lived in Pilgrim Place, a retirement community
in Claremont, California. She taught classes at Mt. San Antonio College. With her husband she produced a weekly radio program,
served on the Claremont Human Services Commission and was involved in several programs for the elderly. Her previous professions
include being a nurse, a college teacher, a social worker, a mother, a wife, a Sunday school teacher, and an activist for
the elderly.
Mrs. Smith graduated from Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and then entered St. Luke's Hospital in New York City to train
as a nurse.
Mrs. Smith started her radio career during World War II while her husband was a Methodist minister in Olympia, Washington.
During the 1950s she and her husband moved back to East Coast. Mrs. Smith enrolled at Boston University School of Social
Work.
The Smiths retired an moved to Pilgrim Place in 1970. She then enrolled at LaVerne University so she could teach in California.
She was born in 1898 and died in 1996 in Claremont, California.
"Busy Teacher hasn't time to practice at 82". Progress Bulletin, August 27, 1980.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection contains correspondence, scrapbooks of her article on "On Ageing", photographs, subject files, letters and
newspaper clippings.
Series Arrangement
Series 1 Subject Files
Series 2 Correspondence
Series 3 Letters and Newspaper Clippings
Subject Headings
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
Smith, Josephine
Claremont Courier
Journalist,
Western Americana, 1900 -2000
newspaper articles