Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4290
SALLY LUCAS JEAN PAPERS
Inventory
Abstract: Sally Lucas Jean, pioneer health educator, was
director of the Child Health Organization of America,
1918-1923; a supervisor of health education for the
U.S. Indian Service, 1934-1935; and consultant in
health education in many countries, 1920s and 1950s.
Correspondence of Jean with others in public
health education, Jean's speeches and writings, and
reports on public health and health education prepared
by Jean as a consultant to business and professional
groups in the United States, China, Japan, the
Philippines, Belgium, Panama, and the Virgin Islands.
There is extensive material reflecting Jean's work
with American Indians, 1935; with Japanese-Americans
at the Poston, Ariz., relocation center during World
War II; as a public health nurse in Maryland; as
director of the Child Health Organization of America
and of the Health Education Division of the Child
Health Organization's successor, the American Child
Health Association. Also included are reports and
other material concerning numerous national and
international public health organizations of which
Jean was a member; and clippings, pamphlets, and other
material about Jean and her work and about public
health and health education in general.
Online Catalog Terms:
American Child Health Association. Health Education Division.
Belgium--Social conditions.
Child Health Organization of America.
China--Social conditions.
Health education--United States--History--20th century.
Indians of North America--Health and hygiene--History--20th
century.
Japan--Social conditions.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
Japanese Americans--Health and hygiene--History--20th century.
Jean, Sally Lucas, 1878-1971.
Panama--Social conditions.
Philippines--Social conditions.
Public health--Societies, etc.
Public health nurses--Maryland.
United States--Social conditions.
Virgin Islands--Social conditions.
Size: About 5700 items (6 feet)
Provenance: 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.
Access: No restrictions.
Processing Note: This collection was processed with support
from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United States
copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Series Descriptions
Series 1. Subject Files
Series 2. Volumes
Series 3. Pictures
Shelf List
INTRODUCTION
Biographical Note:
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 begining 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.
Collection Overview:
This collection comprises the professional papers of Jean,
pioneer public health educator. It includes correspondence with
others in the profession, Jean's speeches and writings, and
reports on public health and health education prepared by Jean as
a consultant to business and professional groups in the United
States, China, Japan, the Philippines, Belgium, Panama, and the
Virgin Islands. There is extensive material reflecting her work
with American Indians, 1935; with Japanese-Americans at the
Poston, Arizona, relocation center during World War II; as a
public health nurse in Maryland; as director of the Child Health
Organization of America and of the Health Education Division of
the CHO's successor, the American Child Health Association. Also
included are reports and other material concerning the numerous
national and international public health organizations of which
Jean was a member; and clippings, pamphlets, and other material
about Jean and her work and about public health and health
education in general.
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.
The collection is arranged as follows:
Series 1. Subject Files
Series 2. Volumes
Series 3. Pictures
SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
Series 1. Subject Files
About 5500 items. 1914-1966
Arrangement: alphabetical by file title
Folder 1 American Academy of Physical Education and
American Association of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation
2 American Association for Gifted Children
3 American Child Health Association, History
4 American Child Health Association, Report 1923
5 American Medical Association
6 American National Council for Health Education
of the Public
7 ANCHEP, 1962 Meeting
8 American National Red Cross
9 American School Health Association
10-11 Appreciations
12 Autobiography Outline
13 Autobiography Chapter I
14 Autobiography Chapter II
15 Autobiography Chapter III and IV
16 Awards and Certificates
17 Boston Visit, 1923
18 "Child Health Alphabet"
19 Child Health Demonstration Committee
20 Child Health Organization, 1918-1923
21 China
22 China Resolutions and Suggestions, 1929
23 Cleveland Health Museum
24 Cleanliness Institute
25 Consultant Service
26 England, 1958-1959
27 European Travelling Fellowship, 1924-1925
28 Frankel Memos
29 Gerken, Edna A.
30 Grout, Ruth - University of Minn.
31 Health Education History
32 Health Education Bibliography
33 Health Education Reports - Miscellaneous
Foreign Countries
34 Health Education Scholarships - Historical
35 Health Education - Visual Aids
36a Health Sciences Library - Sally Lucas Jean
Collection - Correspondence
36b Health Sciences Library - Sally Lucas Jean
Collection - Inventory
37 "Healthland" Game
38a-b Holt, L. Emmett - Letters
38c Holt, L. Emmett - Historical
39-41 Indian Affairs
42 International Council for Exceptional
Children,
April 1953 Meeting
43-47 International Union for Health Education of
the Public
48 Larimore, Granville W., M.D.
49 Locust Point, Md. - Letters and Publicity,
1914-1917
50 Maryland Study
51 Means, Dr. R. K.
52-54 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
55-56 Miscellaneous - Pamphlets, Articles
57 Mitchell, Harold
58 Museums (Exhibits)
59-61 National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
62 Panama
63-64 Personal Publicity
65-68 Philippines
69-70 Philippines - Letters
71-73 Pictorial Review Achievement Award
74-75 Poston, Arizona - Japanese-Americans, 1942
76 Public Health Education Fellowships
77 Public Health - Professional Education
78 Public Health Education, North Dakota
79 Roseneau, M. J.
80-105 Speeches
106-107 Speech material
108-117 Society of Public Health Educators
118 Tennessee Valley Authority - Adult Education
119 University of Denver Workshop, 1942
120-122 Virgin Islands
123 Wayside Milk Stations
124-126 World Federation of Education Associations
127 World Health Organization
128-132 Writings
Series 2. Volumes
7 Items. 1918-1934.
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 133 Volume 1: 1918-1934, 200 pp. Scrapbook chiefly
containing clippings and other printed items by
and about Jean.
134 Volume 2: 1921-1933, 25 pp. Articles and
reports by and about Jean.
135 Volume 3: 1925-1926, 11 pp. School Health
Bureau, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
pamphlets and other publications.
136 Volume 4: 1928-1948, 200 pp. Clippings and
typed excerpts from published works, all
regarding health education.
137 Volume 5: 1968, 252 pp. "Sally Lucas Jean--Her
Contribution to Health Education," by Marguerite
Vollmer. Doctor of Education thesis, Teachers
College, Columbia University, 1968.
138 Volume 6: 1971, 45 pp. "Notes made by Sally
Lucas Jean as "The Career of Sally Lucas Jean,"
thesis by Marguerite Vollmer [see Vol. 5] was
read by Dorothy A. Goodwin," ca. 1971.
139 Volume 7: 1948, 14 pp. Autograph book to Sally
Lucas Jean from the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
Series 3. Pictures
P-4290/1-2 About 35 photographs, mostly portraits, of Jean
and professional associates, ca. 1920s-1930s and
1967.
/3 About 30 photographs taken in the Philippines and
the Virgin Islands, ca. 1929-1933.
/4 About 30 photographs taken in Panama and Haiti,
ca. 1920s.
/5 About 65 photographs of Navajo Indians, ca.
1930s.
Oversize Pictures. 7 miscellaneous images.
PA-4290/1 "Glimpses of Belgium's Children," 1922.
PA-4290/2 "Haiti, Canal Zone and Panama," 1924.
PA-4290/3 Chiefly the Philippines, Japan, and the Virgin
Islands, ca. 1928-1933.
PA-4290/4 "Navajo Institute of Nurses Aids, June 11 -
July 11, 1934, Santa Fe Indian School."
Shelf List
Series 1. Subject Files
Box 1 (folders 1-6)
Box 2 (folders 7-15)
Box 3 (folders 16-25)
Box 4 (folders 26-35)
Box 5 (folders 36-39)
Box 6 (folders 40-43)
Box 7 (folders 44-51)
Box 8 (folders 52-55)
Box 9 (folders 56-61)
Box 10 (folders 62-66)
Box 11 (folders 67-75)
Box 12 (folders 76-88)
Box 13 (folders 89-104)
Box 14 (folders 105-113)
Box 15 (folders 114-126)
Box 16 (folders 127-132)
Series 2. Volumes
Box 17 (folders 133-134)
Box 18 (folders 135-139)
Items Separated:
P-4290/1-5
PA-4290/1-4