Still (Claire) scrapbooks, 1933-1959

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Title:
Claire Still scrapbooks
Dates:
1933-1959
Creators:
Still, Claire
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.
Extent:
5.8 Linear Feet (9 flat boxes)
Language:
English .
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.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Date Event
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.
Acquisition information:
Gift of Claire Still in 1995.
Processing information:

Processed by Alexis Schwarz in 1998.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Alexis Schwarz; machine-readable finding aid created by Michael C. Conkin, 1998.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-07-23 18:07:07 UTC .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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.

Location of this collection:
P.O. Box 19557
Irvine, CA , US
Contact:
(949) 824-3947
spcoll@uci.libanswers.com
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