RG10 Subgroup 1: Harriet M. Johnson Papers

Sub-Group

Identifier: RG10-SG01

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection documents Harriet Johnson’s professional work from 1917 until her death in 1934, and is divided into four series. These are correspondence; lectures, transcripts, and published and unpublished writings; observations and notes; and personal and biographical materials. See scope and contents note of each series for further information.

Dates

Creation: 1917 - 1937
Creation: 1979

Creator

Johnson, Harriet M. (Harriet Merrill), 1867-1934 (Lead, Person)
Storey, Polly Forbes-Johnson (Collector, Person)

Biographical note

Harriet M. Johnson was born in 1867 in Bangor, Maine. She was a graduate of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and worked as a district nurse at the Henry Street Settlement. Through this work she became interested in the needs of young children, and was among the founding members of the Bureau of Educational Experiments. She was the founder and first director of the Bureau’s Nursery School, which would later be named in her honor.

Extent

2.5 Linear Feet (1 document box, 1 flat oversized box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The bulk of the Harriet M. Johnson Papers were created by Johnson in the course of her professional life, in the early twentieth century. Much of the materials concern her establishing and administering to the Nursery School of the Bureau of Educational Experiments. Her work was collected in observational notes, reports, speeches, correspondence, publications, and other formats.

Physical Location

Bank Street College Archives, New York, NY

Immediate Source of Acquisition

It appears that many of these materials were assembled after Johnson’s death by her colleagues from within their own files and from materials kept in the Library. Additional materials were collected by her daughter, Polly Forbes-Johnson Storey.