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Ella Haith Weaver papers
- Title
- Ella Haith Weaver papers, 1933-1993.
- Author
- Weaver, Ella Haith
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 702 Box 3 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 702 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 702 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 1 lin ft. (3 archival boxes)
- Summary
- A small body of papers (1933-1993) of Dr. Ella Haith Weaver. The bulk of the collection is comprised of newspaper clippings, documenting the Weavers' Washington D.C. years; class notes from her doctoral studies; field notes from her research; recipes; and guest lists. Weaver's dissertation, "An Approach to Language Behavior from the Point of View of General Semantics", is included in the collection.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Recipes.
- Academic dissertations.
- Biography (note)
- Ella Virginia Haith Weaver (1911-1991) was an educator and the wife of Robert C. Weaver, who became the first Black cabinet appointee, serving as the Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (1966-1968).
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 702
- OCLC
- NYPW02-A360
- Author
- Weaver, Ella Haith.
- Title
- Ella Haith Weaver papers, 1933-1993.
- Biography
- Ella Virginia Haith Weaver (1911-1991) was an educator and the wife of Robert C. Weaver, who became the first Black cabinet appointee, serving as the Secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (1966-1968).A speech pathologist, Weaver spent most of her professional career at Brooklyn College, 1949-1967, directing the Speech Correction Clinic. She also acted as a consultant on a number of federal social development projects. Included among these projects were the Women Training Centers, Job Corps, and the Changing Dialects Research Projects at the Detroit public schools. In 1968, Dr. Weaver functioned as the chairperson for a project ("These Are My Jewels") aimed at serving children at Northside Center for Child Development in New York City and Washington D.C. (Department of Psychiatry of the Children's Hospital).
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- Weaver, Ella Haith. Approach to language behavior from the point of view of general semantics.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 702