Zone d'identification
Cote
Nom et localisation du dépôt
Niveau de description
Collection
Titre
Florence and Robert Kerr '1912 Papers
Date(s)
- 1914 - 1957 (Production)
Importance matérielle
One box
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Robert Y. Kerr, a native of Newton, Iowa, served on the editorial staff of The American Lumberman and as Executive Secretary of Grinnell College.
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Born in Tennessee in 1890, Florence Stewart Kerr and family moved to Iowa when she was an infant. She grew up in Marshalltown and attended Grinnell College from 1908-1912 where she formed a lifelong friendship with Harry Hopkins. Florence married Robert Y. Kerr in 1915; she taught English at the College from 1921-26 and 1931-32.
In 1930 she was named a member of the Iowa Unemployment Relief Council; in 1935 Hopkins recommended her as one of five regional directors of the Division of Women's and Professional Projects within the Works Progress Administration (alternately called the Work Projects Administration). She was promoted to Assistant Administrator of the WPA and Director of the Women's and Professional Projects in 1938 and worked in Washington, D.C. until the WPA ended in 1943.
She became director of the war public services of the Federal Works Agency and later served as an executive with Northwest Airlines. She retired in the mid 1950s and lived in D.C. until her death in 1975.
Robert Y. Kerr, a native of Newton, Iowa, served on the editorial staff of The American Lumberman and as Executive Secretary of Grinnell College.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Mode de classement
Folders are in alphabetical order
Letters are in chronological order
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Open for use
Accès physique
Accès technique
Conditions de reproduction
For permission to quote for publication from writings of the Kerrs in this collection, contact Thomas Hunter, 57 Avon Street South #28, St. Paul, MN 55105
Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Instruments de recherche
Éléments d'acquisition et d'évaluation
Historique de la conservation
The letters and newspaper clippings were acquired by the Grinnell College Libraries Special Collections and Archives after a descendant of the tenants on Robert Kerr's farm in Newton, IA (the Wormleys) donated the letters Robert Kerr sent to Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wormley
Source immédiate d'acquisition
Donated by Linda K. Wormley
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
other Kerr papers