Emily Martin Papers, 1912-1979

Summary

Creator:
Emily Martin
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of Emily Martin, who worked for the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Frankwood E. Williams, Clifford Beers, and Thomas Salmon. The collection has 4 series: Photographs, Printed materials, Subject files, and Correspondence.
Extent:
21 boxes 8.55 linear feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the papers of Emily Martin, who worked for the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Frankwood E. Williams, Clifford Beers, and Thomas Salmon. There are 4 series in this collection.

Photographs: This series contains photos from the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and of prominent mental health leaders, including Otto Rank and Adolf Meyer.

Printed materials: These materials have been kept in their original folders and order, but were primarily labelled “miscellaneous clippings,” “clippings,” or not labelled at all.

Subject files: These items have also been kept in their original folders and order and are identified by the original label, when it was provided.

Correspondence: This includes personal and professional correspondence from the National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

Biographical / historical:

Emily Martin was born in 1895 in Middletown, Connecticut to Reverend Karl A. Martin and Amelia Halvorsen Martin and graduated from Jamestown High School. In 1916, she joined the staff of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and was the secretary of Frankwood Williams when he was Medical Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. She worked with him on the program of the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene in Washington D.C. and on other projects in the mental health field, in addition to assisting Clifford Beers and Thomas Salmon. She retired in 1964 from the National Association for Mental Health, the successor to the NCMH.

Acquisition information:
Donated by Emily Martin in 1975 and Jean Carrigan in 1989.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

There are no access restrictions on this material.

Terms of access:

Written permission must be obtained from the Oskar Diethelm Library and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Location of this collection:
DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy and the Arts
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10065, United States
Link to repository site
Contact:
212-746-3728