Register of the Susan Louise Dyer papers

Finding aid prepared by David Jacobs

Hoover Institution Library and Archives

434 Galvez Mall

Stanford University

Stanford, CA 94305-6003

hoover-library-archives@stanford.edu

URL: http://www.hoover.org/library-and-archives

Title: Susan Louise Dyer papers

Date (inclusive): 1874-1966

Collection Number: 60023

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, 10 envelopes, 1 phonotape, memorabilia (4.2 Linear Feet)

Abstract: The Susan Louise Dyer papers contain materials that reflect Dyer's personal ties to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, her association with Stanford University, and her service with the American Red Cross and the Girl Scouts of the United States. The papers largely consist of correspondence, clippings, diaries, photographs, and printed matter.

Creator: Dyer, Susan Louise, 1877-1966

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1960.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Susan Louise Dyer papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

1877	Born, Ottawa, Illinois
1899	Awarded bachelor's degree, Stanford University
1901	Awarded master's degree, Stanford University
1901-1918	Biology teacher, Alameda High School, Alameda, California
1918-1919	Served with American Red Cross in France and Germany
1925-1926	Head of Education Department, Girl Scouts of America, New York City
1932	Chairwoman, Women's Hoover for President Club, Palo Alto, California
1966	Died

Scope and Content of Collection

The Susan Louise Dyer papers contain materials that reflect Dyer's personal ties to Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, her association with Stanford University, and her service with the American Red Cross and the Girl Scouts of the United States. The papers largely consist of correspondence, clippings (arranged in an extensive subject file), diaries, photographs, and printed matter.

Dyer became friends with Lou Henry Hoover while both were students at Stanford University. While at Stanford, Dyer also met Herbert Hoover, and she remained close to both Hoovers during their lifetimes. The papers contain correspondence with Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover, as well as numerous clippings (in the Subject file series) about Herbert Hoover's political career and his many activities after leaving the presidency. Dyer's friendship with the Hoovers was the focus of an extensive oral history interview conducted with her in 1966; a transcript of this interview can be found in the Biographical file of the papers. Additionally, there are short entries in Dyer's diaries (also found in the Biographical file) that record her visits to the White House during the Hoover administration.

Dyer's work with the American Red Cross in France and Germany after World War I is described in detail in the many letters she wrote at the time to Louise P. Fullerton, copies of which can be found in the Correspondence series of the papers. This series also contains Dyer's correspondence with Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford University, as well as with officials of the Hoover Institution. This correspondence largely relates to Dyer's involvement with fundraising activities on behalf of the university and the Hoover Library. There are also a number of monographs and pamphlets published by Stanford University in the printed matter series of the papers.

The papers also contain Dyer's correspondence with officials of the Girl Scouts of the United States, an organization with which she was associated for many years.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into 10 series: Biographical file; Correspondence; Writings; Subject file; Printed matter; Small memorabilia; Photographs; Photo file; Oversize materials; and Large memorabilia

Subjects and Indexing Terms

International relief

World War, 1914-1918 -- War work

Girl Scouts

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace

Stanford University

American National Red Cross

Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944

Biographical file 1888-1966

box 1, folder 1

Address book 1960

box 1, folder 2

Calendar 1919

box 1, folder 3

Certificates 1917-1965

box 1, folder 4

Clippings 1894-1966

box 1, folder 5

Curriculum vitae 1940

Diaries 1888-1937

box 1, folder 6

1888

box 1, folder 7

1894-1895

box 1, folder 8

1896

box 1, folder 9

1913

box 1, folder 10

1928-1932

box 1, folder 11

1929-1930

box 2, folder 1

1933-1937

Invitations 1895-1962

box 2, folder 2

1895-1932

box 2, folder 3

1941-1962

box 2, folder 4

Map used on trip taken with Lou Henry Hoover 1941

box 2, folder 5

Passports 1918-1931

Programs 1895-1960

box 2, folder 6

1895-1929

box 2, folder 7

1930-1931

box 2, folder 8

1941-1960

box 2, folder 9

School records 1896

box 2, folder 10

Transcript of oral history interview 1966

Correspondence 1911-1966

box 2, folder 11

Unidentified 1918

box 2, folder 12

Alameda City Schools 1918

box 2, folder 13

American Red Cross 1918-1920

box 2, folder 14

Bishop, Claire Huchet 1944

box 2, folder 15

Bowman, G. L. 1944

box 2, folder 16

Campbell, Mildred Hall 1933-1964

box 2, folder 17

Committee for the Dedication of the Hoover Library 1940

box 2, folder 18

Crumpton, Helen 1918-1919

box 2, folder 19

Decourt, Marguerite 1920

box 2, folder 20

Fesler, Ruth 1928

box 3, folder 1-2

Fullerton, Louise P. 1918-1919

box 3, folder 3

Fullerton, William D. 1918-1919

box 3, folder 4

Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1965

box 3, folder 5

Henle, Raymond 1966

box 3, folder 6

Hicks, John D. 1960-1961

box 3, folder 7

Hoover, Herbert 1942-1964

box 3, folder 8

Hoover, Lou Henry 1920-1941

box 3, folder 9

Hoover, Margaret Coberly 1962

box 3, folder 10

Hoover family 1911-1940

box 3, folder 11

Hoover Institution 1965

box 3, folder 12

Kendrick, Kathryn 1944

box 3, folder 13

Klein, J. J. 1966

box 3, folder 14

Loesch, May B. 1930

box 3, folder 15

Miller, Bernice 1961

box 3, folder 16

Rickard, Edgar 1944

box 3, folder 17

Santa Clara County Girl Scout Council 1966

box 3, folder 18

Stanford University 1928-1966

box 3, folder 19

Stanford Women's Relief Unit 1918

box 3, folder 20

Taylor, Myron 1931

box 3, folder 21

Wickett, F. A. 1949

box 3, folder 22

White, Howard P. 1919

box 3, folder 23

Wilbur, Ray Lyman 1940-1947

box 3, folder 24

Witcofski, Christina 1944-1964

Writings 1901-1964

box 3, folder 25

"Studies on the Central Nervous System of Bdellostoma Stouti Lock." 1901

box 3, folder 26

"The Friends of Music at Stanford" 1958

box 3, folder 27

Notes on Herbert Hoover and the Hoover family 1964

Subject file 1899-1966

box 4, folder 1

American Red Cross 1919

box 4, folder 2

Democratic Party 1932-1933

box 4, folder 3

Dyer family 1889-1910

box 4, folder 4

Eisenhower, Mamie 1958

box 4, folder 5

Fields, Alonzo 1960

box 4, folder 6

Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1944

box 4, folder 7

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library 1962-1965

Hoover, Herbert 1928-1965

box 4, folder 8-10

1928

box 4, folder 11-12

1929

box 4, folder 13

1930

box 4, folder 14

1931

box 4, folder 15-17

1932

box 4, folder 18

1933-1934

box 4, folder 19

1936-1937

box 5, folder 1

1939-1940

box 5, folder 2-3

1941

box 5, folder 4

1942-1943

box 5, folder 5

1944-1945

box 5, folder 6

1946-1949

box 5, folder 7

1951-1953

box 5, folder 8

1954-1955

box 5, folder 9

1956

box 5, folder 10

1957

box 5, folder 11

1958-1959

box 5, folder 12

1960

box 5, folder 13

1961

box 5, folder 14

1962-1963

box 5, folder 15-16

1964

box 6, folder 1

1965

box 6, folder 2

Hoover, Herbert, Jr. 1954-1962

box 6, folder 3

Hoover, Lou Henry 1944-1962

box 6, folder 4

Hoover, Margaret Coberly 1958

box 6, folder 5

Hoover Institution 1958-1966

box 6, folder 6

Kappa Kappa Gamma 1897-1963

box 6, folder 7

Pedlow, James A. 1921

box 6, folder 8

Roosevelt, Theodore 1919

box 6, folder 9

Stanford, Leland 1893

Stanford University 1895-1966

box 6, folder 10

1895-1901

box 6, folder 11

1941

box 6, folder 12

1949-1955

box 6, folder 13

1960-1962

box 6, folder 14

1964

box 6, folder 15

1965-1966

box 6, folder 16

United States Army 1919

box 6, folder 17

Wilbur, Ray Lyman 1949

box 6, folder 18

Wilson, Woodrow 1917

box 6, folder 19

World War II 1939

box 6, folder 20

Young Women's Christian Association 1962

Printed matter 1903-1966

Monographs 1903-1942

box 7, folder 1

1903

box 7, folder 2-3

1919

box 7, folder 4

1927

box 7, folder 5

1941

box 7, folder 6

1942

Pamphlets 1921-1966

box 7, folder 7

1921-1925

box 7, folder 8

1939-1951

box 7, folder 9

1957-1966

Serial issues 1957-1966

box 7, folder 10

1957

box 7, folder 11

1965-1966

Small memorabilia 1899-1932

box 8, folder 1

American flags 1918

box 8, folder 2

Campaign buttons and ribbon 1928-1932

box 8, folder 3

Diploma covers 1899-1901

box 8, folder 4

Embroidered insignias for American Red Cross unit 1918

box 8, folder 5

Letter opener 1920

Photographs (arranged in 2013) 1885-1966

box 8, folder 6

One print depicting Susan L. Dyer and elementary school classmates 1885

box 8, folder 7

Two prints depicting Susan L. Dyer 1896-1899

box 8, folder 8

Five prints depicting Susan L. Dyer and friends 1902-1910

box 8, folder 9

Nine prints depicting Susan L. Dyer 1918

box 8, folder 10

Four prints depicting Susan L. Dyer and American Red Cross personnel in France 1918

box 8, folder 11

Two prints depicting Susan L. Dyer and Eva Sorensen 1919

box 8, folder 12

Six prints depicting Susan L. Dyer, Bush Fullerton, and others in Germany 1919

box 8, folder 13

Two prints depicting Susan L. Dyer 1928-1932

box 8, folder 14

One print depicting Susan L. Dyer 1950

box 8, folder 15

One print depicting Susan L. Dyer and fellow Stanford alumni 1959

box 8, folder 16

One print depicting Susan L. Dyer and Raymond Henle 1966

box 8, folder 17

Two prints depicting Lou Henry Hoover 1898

box 8, folder 18

One print depicting Lou Henry Hoover 1900

box 8, folder 19

Eleven prints depicting Herbert Hoover and others at a motorcade in Palo Alto, California 1928

box 8, folder 20

One print depicting the unveiling of a portrait of Lou Henry Hoover 1955

box 8, folder 21

Four prints depicting Bush Fullerton 1919

box 8, folder 22

Two prints depicting Madame Melein 1922

box 8, folder 23

Two prints depicting the home of Susan L. Dyer in Alameda, California 1918

box 8, folder 24

Two prints depicting a captured German tank near Rheims, France 1918

box 8, folder 25

Twenty one prints depicting scenes in France and Germany 1918-1919

box 8, folder 26

Fourteen prints depicting American Red Cross personnel in Germany 1919

box 8, folder 27

One print depicting elementary schoolchildren 1889

box 8, folder 28

Twelve prints depicting French war orphans 1919

box 8, folder 29

Two prints depicting the Hoover Library 1945

box 8, folder 30

One print depicting Hoover Tower 1960

Photo file (photographs separated prior to 2013) 1874-1960

envelope A

One print depicting Wallace Sterling and one print depicting Reuben Head 1940-1960

envelope B

Seven prints depicting Lou Henry Hoover and four illustrations of scenes in Arizona 1874-1941

envelope C

Twenty prints depicting Lou Henry Hoover, Herbert Hoover, and various members of the Hoover family 1897-1954

envelope D

Six prints depicting Lou Henry Hoover 1898-1931

envelope E

One print depicting Susan L. Dyer, one print depicting Clara Guenough, and one print depicting Kathy Bingham 1897-1951

envelope F

One print depicting Peggy Ann, Peter, and Joan Hoover; and two prints depicting reunions of the Stanford class of 1899 1930-1936

envelope G

Four prints depicting Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover 1918-1932

envelope H

Seven prints depicting Lou Henry Hoover and one print depicting Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover 1931-1932

envelope mI

Six prints depicting Lou Henry Hoover; one print depicting Lou Henry Hoover and Peggy Ann Hoover; one print depicting David Starr Jordan; one print depicting S. R. Lewis; two prints depicting Hoover Tower 1920-1950

envelope mJ

Sixteen lithographs depicting scenes in Washington, D.C., France, and Germany; and one watercolor painting of a child 1918-1937

Oversize materials 1904-1961

box 9, folder 1

One album of photographs depicting scenes of Stanford University 1904

box 9, folder 2

One album of clippings and photographs relating to Susan L. Dyer's service in the American Red Cross 1918-1919

box 10

One album of clippings relating to Herbert Hoover 1930-1961

Scope and Contents note

Items previously located in Box/Folder 9 : 3.

Large memorabilia 1920-1940

memorabilia_cabinet 26

Large handbell, small handbell, and candle holder 1920

memorabilia_cabinet 26a

Small statue of Buddha 1940

memorabilia_cabinet 26b

Stand for statue of Buddha 1940