Oral history interview with Katherine Lenroot 1965
Other Titles
Reminiscences of Katherine Lenroot : oral history
Abstract
Family background, childhood in Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, 1912; Wisconsin Industrial Commission, 1913-14; United States Children's Bureau from 1915: studies on infant mortality and child labor, early Mother's Aid laws, development of Social Security Act, Bureau's relations with states and Congress; Reorganization Act, 1945; Bureau under Social Security Administration. Impressions of Emma Lundberg, Edwin Witte, Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others.
Social security--United States; Lenroot, Katharine F. (Katharine Fredrica), 1891-1982
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1965
Physical Description
173 pages
Note (Biographical)
Government official, social worker.
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
Interviewed by Peter A. Corning on February 22 and June 1, 1965.
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.