Child Development

These interviews, a continuation of Dr. Senn's previous child development oral history project, range over a variety of related subjects with emphasis on child guidance. Notable interviewees are John Bowlby and Anna Freud.

Tapes and transcripts exist for each interview.

PARTIALLY PROCESSED COLLECTION. Films address a range of topics including nursing, prenatal and neonatal care, infant and child development, mental health, medical ethics, aging, and human sexuality.

Consists of annual reports of the director. Dr. Alfred H. Washburn was director of the Child Research Council from 1930-1960.

Helen Thompson (1897-), worked with Arnold Gesell, at the Gesell Institute of Human Development and Yale University.

Julius B. Richmond Papers (1941-2004) document the career of the pediatrician and public health advocate. The collection highlights his time as the U.S. Surgeon General as well as his academic career at the State University of New York at Syracuse and Harvard Medical School. It also details important programs which Richmond help establish, such as Head Start.

Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, talks, drafts, reprints and printed matter. Among the organizations and conferences represented are the Gesell Clinic, the Yale University Child Study Center, the Cornell-N. Y. Hospital Institute of Child Health, the World Health Organization and the 1940 White House Conference. A sizable portion of the correspondence and reprints pertain to individual projects and publications.

Lester W. Sontag, Antioch College's (Yellow Springs, Ohio) physician, was appointed as the first Director for the Fels Longitudinal Study in 1929.

Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, talks, drafts, reprints and printed matter pertaining to the child development movement. Among the organizations and conferences represented are the Gesell Clinic, the Yale University Child Study Center, the Cornell-N. Y. Hospital Institute of Child Health, the World Health Organization and the 1940 White House Conference. A sizable portion of the correspondence and reprints pertain to individual projects and publications.

The collection includes the papers of Herbert Rowell Stolz. It also contains biographical and genealogical data, correspondence files with individuals and organizations, child development materials, lecture notes, talks, typescripts, reprints, and photographs.

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. These mostly educational films were produced by both smaller, independent companies and major filmmaking entities during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Topics range from concerns about overpopulation to the function of human organs to divorce and racial prejudice. Many of the films deal with mental health, child development, and the health of the environment.