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Papers, 1935-1947
Author
Miller, Lenore M. Sportsman, 1907-2004.
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6
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Papers, 1935-1947
Miller, Lenore M. Sportsman, 1907-2004.
Control Number:
(OCoLC)460188476
Local call number:
SC23140
Author:
Miller, Lenore M. Sportsman, 1907-2004.
Title:
Papers, 1935-1947.
Quantity:
6 boxes (2.0 cubic ft.)
Historical/biog note:
Lenore Sportsman Miller (1907-2004), a specialist in Child psychology, lived and worked in Albany, New York most of her adult life. She would become one of the first female students to enroll and receive a medical degree from Albany Medical College. Later in her career, she was noted for being the founder and director of the Albany Child Guidance Center that later became a division of Parson's Child and Family Center, Albany, N.Y. in 1982. She was married, ca. 1935, to Dr. John King Miller (1906-1972), who was a specialist in medical science research at Albany Medical Center.
Review:
TThese papers consists chiefly of letters Dr. Lenore M. Sportsman, received from her husband while he was serving in the armed forces during the Second World War. The letters indicate that John K. Miller was an officer attached to the U.S. Army, Thirty-Third General Hospital. His letters are full of news from posts in which he was stationed at various times in the United States, North Africa, and Italy. Furthermore, the letters reflect not only his daily activities, but also the frustration of living apart from his wife. Many are written in the form of V-mail and bear the stamps of military censors. There are also numerous letters written by Lenore in return that kept John informed of developments on the home front. She, too, writes movingly of her love for him and the frustrations of their enforced separation. After the war, the letters find John Miller back in Albany writing to Lenore while she appears to have been in residence at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
Abstract:
These papers also include several letters written by Lenore's brother, Benjamin Sportsman, who was an officer in Company H of the 172nd Infantry. His letters indicate he was deployed in the Pacific Theatre, but the content tended to focus mostly on personal and family matters. The collection also includes some papers related to Lenore Sportsman Miller's academic studies at Albany Medical College; photographs, newspapers clippings and miscellaneous memorabilia.
Finding aids:
Unpublished finding aid available in the repository and online: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc23140.htm
Corporate subject:
Unites States. Army. 33rd General Hospital.
Corporate subject:
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment,172nd.
Corporate subject:
United States. Army--Surgeons Correspondence.
Subject:
Physicians Correspondence.
Subject:
Women medical students--United States Correspondence.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American.
Geographic terms:
United States--Armed Forces--Medical personnel Correspondence.
Geographic terms:
Albany (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Personal author:
Miller, John, (John King, 1906-1972.
Electronic access:
Finding aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc23140.htm
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