Finding Aid
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Records of the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department. Copyright: Please read The University of Iowa Libraries' statement on Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished Materials. Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. Please read our Use of Manuscripts Statement. Acquisition and Processing Information: These materials were transferred to the University Archives from the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station at various times. Guide posted to the Internet January 2007. Photographs: Box 8 |
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Organization History Note
Program was founded as the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station in 1917; name changed to Institute of Child Behavior and Development in 1964; institute closed in 1974.
Box Contents List
Box 1:
Emergency Education Program, 1934-1935
Financial Current Reports, 1930-1931
----. 1931-1932
Form letters and notices to staff, 1930-1931
Millis, Cora B., 1930-1931
Historical file: Hillis and Seashore correspondence, 1913-1917
Box 2:
Publications
Publicity for Station
Reading Clinic
Rooms
Staff lists
Staff meeting summaries
Students
Box 3:
Hillis-Seashore correspondence, 1918-1921
Historical file: miscellaneous
History
Home Laboratory
Institute of Character Research
Language Behavior Studies
McCloy, C.H.
Manry, James C.
Manual of Pre-School Practice, 1931-32
Mental Hygiene Institute, 1930-1931
Parent Education
Spelman Reports (financial)
1930-1931
1931-1932
Spelman Fund
1934-1935
1936-1937
Box 4:
Stoddard, George D.
Radio Child Study Club
Elementary School Child, 1941-1945
Radio Child Study
Understanding Iowa Children, 1943-1944
Radio Child Study Club, 1941-1942
Understanding Iowa Children, 1941-1942
Radio Child Study Club
The Family, 1941-1942
Radio Child Study Club, 1943-1944
Box 5 & 6:
Radio Child Study Club
Box 7:
Annual Reports, 1942-1944
Assistantships and scholarships, 1943-1944
Bibliography-Anthropometry
Bird T. Baldwin memorial
Bivin Foundation
Boy Scouts of America, 1942-1943
Cobb, W.H., 1942-1943
Commission for Younger Children
Committee on War Research
Committee to Study the Child Welfare Research Station
Conference, June 1941-1944
Council on Children & Youth, 1952-1953
Current courses
Equipment lists
Financial current reports
Form letters and notices to staff
General Education Board
Iowa State Council on Child Study and Parent Education
Iowa Remedial Education Program
Irwin Film
Miscellaneous file
Morrissey, Mary
National Research Council on Nutrition Study
Parents Magazine
Personnel, 1942-1943
Pre-school administration
Photographs of classroom activity, height measurement of children; n.d., possibly 1930s
"Informal Report of Recommendations and Researches," April 17, 1929
Conferences and workshops, 1952-1957 (11 folders)
Addendum 1
Box 1 & 2:
Preschool, 1950-1962
Addendum 2
Box 1 - 6:
Child Welfare subject files, received 12/1980; 1917-1933, 1960-1972; 3.0 ft.
Box 7 & 8:
Child Welfare subject files, received 1/1993; 1965-1975; 1.0 ft.
Box 9 - 11:
Pamphlets and leaflets, sorted by type and date; 1.75 ft.
Box 12:
Child Welfare Review, 1972 ("Institute of Child Behavior and Development"); 0.25 ft.
Box 13 - 40:
Staff files, about 1917-1960, arranged alpha by last name of individual; 14.0 ft.
Addendum 3: Institute of Child Behavior / Preventive Psychiatry Research Program
Box 1:
Correspondence A-J 1959-1960
Box 2:
Correspondence K-Z 1959-1960
Box 3:
Correspondence A-G 1961-1962
Box 4:
Correspondence A-H 1960-1961
Box 5:
Correspondence I-Q 1960-1961
Box 6:
Correspondence R-Z 1960-1961
Box 7:
Correspondence H-O 1961-1962
Box 8:
Correspondence P-Z 1961-1962
Box 9:
Correspondence A-J 1962-1963
Box 10:
Correspondence M-Z 1962-1963
Box 11 & 12:
Preventive Psychiatry Research Program reports, 1950-1960
Oversize Box 1:
Scrapbook (fragile), 1915-1926
Oversize Box 2:
Scrapbook (fragile), 1927-1952
