Yale Manuscripts and Archives -- Collections -- C.-E. A. Winslow

Yale Manuscripts and Archives -- Collections -- Charles-Edward Amory Winslow

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow, 1877-1957

Charles-Edward Amory Winslow Papers, 1874-1977. MS 749.
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was born in 1877. He received degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1898 (B.S.) and 1899 (M.S.). He taught at the University of Chicago, the College of the City of New York, Columbia University, and Yale University. Winslow also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology (1916-1944), as a member of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia, as president of the American Public Health Association (1926), as editor of the American Journal of Public Health (1944-1954), and as a member of several professional organizations. He died in New Haven, Connecticut in 1957.
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, organization and subject files, teaching materials, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials documenting the professional career and personal life of C.-E.A. Winslow, a prominent figure in the public health movement. Correspondence focuses on health and social welfare issues with several notable educators, doctors, and social policy advocates. Organization files include material relating to the United States Public Health Service and the American Public Health Association. Records of the Association's Committee on the Cost of Medical Care are also included, as are teaching files from Yale University, writings and lectures, reprints of articles, and family papers. Anne Rogers Winslow's photographic journals of her husband's American Red Cross mission to the Soviet Union in 1917 is an example of family material. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection. 69 linear ft.
Indexes: Unpublished finding aid located in Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library.