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Collection Number: 04290

Collection Title: Sally Lucas Jean Papers, 1914-1966

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This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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Size 9.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5700 items)
Abstract The professional papers of white public health educator Sally Lucas Jean include correspondence, speeches, writings, and reports on public health and health education that were prepared by Jean as a consultant in the United States, China, Japan, the Philippines, Belgium, Panama, and the Virgin Islands. Extensive materials, including photographs, document her work in New Mexico at the Santa Fe Indian School and with people from the Navajo Nation. Also documented is her consultancy in Arizona at the Poston concentration camp where American citizens and residents with Japanese ancestry were incarcerated and denied civil rights during the Second World War.
Creator Jean, Sally Lucas, 1878-1971.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Sally Lucas Jean papers #4290, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Transferred from the Health Sciences Library, UNC-CH, in 1981. HSL had received this material from Sally Lucas Jean of New York, N.Y., in 1967.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Pamela Dean with assistance from Tim West, August 1987; Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

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Pioneer health educator Sally Lucas Jean was born in Towson, Maryland, 18 June 1878, the daughter of George B. and Emilie Watkins (Selby) Jean. She graduated from the Maryland Homeopathic Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1898 and served as an army nurse during the Spanish-American War. From 1914 to 1917, she was a social health worker at the Locust Point School in Baltimore. Jean worked with many organizations concerned with public health, health education, and child health, and served as director of the Child Health Organization of America, 1918 to 1923, and of the Health Education Division of the American Child Health Association, 1923 to 1924.

As a consultant in health education beginning in 1924, she advised on health programs in Belgium, the Philippines, China, Japan, the Panama Canal Zone, the Republic of Panama, and the Virgin Islands. Jean served as a supervisor of health education for the United States Indian Service, 1934 to 1935, and as a consultant in health education for the University of Denver summer school, 1942; the Colorado River War Relocation Authority, Poston, Arizona, 1942 to 1943; and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, 1943 to 1951.

Jean was a member of the advisory education group of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and of many professional health education organizations. She was the author of numerous articles and pamphlets on public health and health education and co-author of "Spending the Day in China, Japan, and the Philippines." Jean died 5 July 1971.

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The professional papers of white public health educator Sally Lucas Jean include correspondence, speeches, writings, and reports on public health and health education that were prepared by Jean as a consultant in the United States, China, Japan, the Philippines, Belgium, Panama, and the Virgin Islands. Extensive materials, including photographs, document her work in New Mexico at the Santa Fe Indian School and with people from the Navajo Nation. Also documented is her consultancy in Arizona at the Poston concentration camp where American citizens and residents with Japanese ancestry were incarcerated and denied civil rights during the Second World War.

This collection was transferred from the UNC-CH Health Sciences Library, which retains Jean's professional library. A copy of the inventory of Health Science Library's Jean collection, and copies of correspondence with Jean about its acquisition are filed in folders 36a and 36b. Although the SHC staff refoldered some material, folder headings and contents generally reflect those at acquisition. It is unclear whether the headings were established by Jean or by the Health Sciences Library before transfer. The SHC staff added a few headings for material that was unlabeled or unfoldered and arranged folders alphabetically.

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Contents list

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About 5500 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by file title.

Folder 1

American Academy of Physical Education and American Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

Folder 2

American Association for Gifted Children

Folder 3

American Child Health Association, History

Folder 4

American Child Health Association, Report 1923

Folder 5

American Medical Association

Folder 6

American National Council for Health Education of the Public

Folder 7

ANCHEP, 1962 Meeting

Folder 8

American National Red Cross

Folder 9

American School Health Association

Folder 10-11

Folder 10

Folder 11

Appreciations

Folder 12

Autobiography Outline

Folder 13

Autobiography Chapter I

Folder 14

Autobiography Chapter II

Folder 15

Autobiography Chapter III and IV

Folder 16

Awards and Certificates

Folder 17

Boston Visit, 1923

Folder 18

"Child Health Alphabet"

Folder 19

Child Health Demonstration Committee

Folder 20

Child Health Organization, 1918-1923

Folder 21

China

Folder 22

China Resolutions and Suggestions, 1929

Folder 23

Cleveland Health Museum

Folder 24

Cleanliness Institute

Folder 25

Consultant Service

Folder 26

England, 1958-1959

Folder 27

European Travelling Fellowship, 1924-1925

Folder 28

Frankel Memos

Folder 29

Gerken, Edna A.

Folder 30

Grout, Ruth - University of Minn.

Folder 31

Health Education History

Folder 32

Health Education Bibliography

Folder 33

Health Education Reports - Miscellaneous Foreign Countries

Folder 34

Health Education Scholarships - Historical

Folder 35

Health Education - Visual Aids

Folder 36a

Health Sciences Library - Sally Lucas Jean Collection - Correspondence

Folder 36b

Health Sciences Library - Sally Lucas Jean Collection - Inventory

Folder 37

"Healthland" Game

Folder 38a-38b

Holt, L. Emmett - Letters

Folder 38c

Holt, L. Emmett - Historical

Folder 39-41

Folder 39

Folder 40

Folder 41

Indian Affairs

Folder 42

International Council for Exceptional Children, April 1953 Meeting

Folder 43-47

Folder 43

Folder 44

Folder 45

Folder 46

Folder 47

International Union for Health Education of the Public

Folder 48

Larimore, Granville W., M.D.

Folder 49

Locust Point, Md. - Letters and Publicity, 1914-1917

Folder 50

Maryland Study

Folder 51

Means, Dr. R. K.

Folder 52-54

Folder 52

Folder 53

Folder 54

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

Folder 55-56

Folder 55

Folder 56

Miscellaneous - Pamphlets, Articles

Folder 57

Mitchell, Harold

Folder 58

Museums (Exhibits)

Folder 59-61

Folder 59

Folder 60

Folder 61

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

Folder 62

Panama

Folder 63-64

Folder 63

Folder 64

Personal Publicity

Folder 65-68

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Philippines

Folder 69-70

Folder 69

Folder 70

Philippines - Letters

Folder 71-73

Folder 71

Folder 72

Folder 73

Pictorial Review Achievement Award

Folder 74-75

Folder 74

Folder 75

Poston, Arizona - Japanese-Americans, 1942

Folder 76

Public Health Education Fellowships

Folder 77

Public Health - Professional Education

Folder 78

Public Health Education, North Dakota

Folder 79

Roseneau, M. J.

Folder 80-105

Folder 80

Folder 81

Folder 82

Folder 83

Folder 84

Folder 85

Folder 86

Folder 87

Folder 88

Folder 89

Folder 90

Folder 91

Folder 92

Folder 93

Folder 94

Folder 95

Folder 96

Folder 97

Folder 98

Folder 99

Folder 100

Folder 101

Folder 102

Folder 103

Folder 104

Folder 105

Speeches

Folder 106-107

Folder 106

Folder 107

Speech material

Folder 108-117

Folder 108

Folder 109

Folder 110

Folder 111

Folder 112

Folder 113

Folder 114

Folder 115

Folder 116

Folder 117

Society of Public Health Educators

Folder 118

Tennessee Valley Authority - Adult Education

Folder 119

University of Denver Workshop, 1942

Folder 120-122

Folder 120

Folder 121

Folder 122

Virgin Islands

Folder 123

Wayside Milk Stations

Folder 124-126

Folder 124

Folder 125

Folder 126

World Federation of Education Associations

Folder 127

World Health Organization

Folder 128-132

Folder 128

Folder 129

Folder 130

Folder 131

Folder 132

Writings

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