Social workers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Antonetta Cowsert, Social Worker and Musician, Scrapbook
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3622
Overview
One scrapbook of newspaper clippings, photographs, newsletters, and other material regarding the life of Antonetta (Toni) Canacari Cowsert, a blind musician and social worker. Born in 1932, she earned a bachelor's degree in music at West Virginia University, and a degree in social work at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She worked as a social worker and teacher for social service agencies and public school districts in the Philadelphia area while participating in many local...
Dates:
1942-2007
Scotts Run Settlement House Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3084
Overview
Records of the Scott's Run Settlement House located in Osage, WV and founded by the Women's Society for Christian Service of the Wesley Methodist Church of Morgantown. The settlement house provided a wide range of social services for the inhabitants of the coal mining communities along Scott's Run in Monongalia County. Included in the records are board minutes, staff and statistical reports, director's correspondence, subject files, financial records, scrapbooks and clippings which document...
Dates:
1926-1989
West Virginia University, Women's Studies Center, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 5048
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials from the West Virginia University Women’s Studies Center, now called the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. Materials include financial documents, organization records, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, posters, and textiles. The earliest materials in the collection are letters from the first women to attend West Virginia University in 1885 prior to their admittance to the university in 1889. The latest materials include...
Dates:
1885-2002 and undated