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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 |
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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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.
Back to TopThe 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.
Back to TopArrangement: alphabetical by file title.
Arrangement: chronological.
Image Folder PF-4290/1-2
PF-4290/1PF-4290/2 |
About 35 photographs, mostly portraits, of Jean and professional associates, circa 1920s-1930s and 1967. |
Image Folder PF-4290/3 |
About 30 photographs taken in the Philippines and the Virgin Islands, circa 1929-1933. |
Image Folder PF-4290/4 |
About 30 photographs taken in Panama and Haiti, circa 1920s. |
Image Folder PF-4290/5 |
About 65 photographs of Navajo Indians, circa 1930s. |
Image Folder PF-4290/6-10
PF-4290/6PF-4290/7PF-4290/8PF-4290/9PF-4290/10 |
Group photographs of nurses in the field and outdoors |
Photograph Album PA-4290/1 |
"Glimpses of Belgium's Children," 1922. |
Photograph Album PA-4290/2 |
"Haiti, Canal Zone and Panama," 1924. |
Photograph Album PA-4290/3 |
Chiefly the Philippines, Japan, and the Virgin Islands, circa 1928-1933. |
Photograph Album PA-4290/4 |
"Navajo Institute of Nurses Aids, June 11 - July 11, 1934, Santa Fe Indian School." |
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4290/1 |
Miscellaneous images |