Wald, Lillian D. (1867-1940)

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Progressive National Service, Child Welfare Committee

Jane Addams to Stella R. Sax, January 14, 1901

Jacob A. Riis to Jane Addams, March 9, 1901

Meyer Bloomfield to Jane Addams, May 23, 1901

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, August 27, 1901

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, March 24, 1902

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, April 6, 1902

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, April 11, 1902

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, May 30, 1902

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, March 22, 1904

Address on Neighborhood Improvement, June 25, 1904 (Extract)

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, October 5, 1904

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, March 24, 1905

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, October 4, 1905

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Julian William Mack, June 18, 1906

Hull-House Year Book 1906-1907

Viola Percy Conklin to Jane Addams, March 17, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, October 8, 1908

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, May 13, 1909

Discuss Negroes Yearly, June 2, 1909

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June 17, 1909

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 1, 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 13, 1910

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, February 7, 1911

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, March 3, 1911

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, March 13, 1911

Bernard Flexner to Jane Addams, May 23, 1911

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, May 26, 1911

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June 6, 1911

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, August 24, 1911

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman, November 1911

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 27, 1911

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, February 26, 1912

Edward Thomas Devine to Members of the Committee on Industrial Relations, May 23, 1912

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, July 1, 1912

Frances Alice Kellor to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

Jane Addams to John A. Kingsbury, January 6, 1913

Samuel McCune Lindsay to Jane Addams, July 25, 1913

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 15, 1914

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 24, 1914

Paul Underwood Kellogg to George W. Nasmyth, September 24, 1914

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, December 21, 1914

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, January 19, 1915

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, March 13, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, April 2, 1915

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, August 3, 1915

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, August 6, 1915

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, August 7, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, August 17, 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, August 19, 1915

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Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, May 9, 1901

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, May 17, 1901

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, September 17, 1901

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, April 3, 1902

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, ca, April 6, 1902

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 31, 1903

Jane Addams to Lillian Wald, May 19, 1903

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, February 7, 1904

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, February 24, 1904

Mary Rozet Smith to Lillian D. Wald, March 2, 1904

Mary Rozet Smith to Lillian D. Wald, ca. June [15-28?], 1904

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald. June 20, 1904

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, July 7, 1904

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, October 3, 1904

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, April 7, 1905

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, October 3, 1905

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, October 5, 1905

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, [1906?]

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, [1906]

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 6, 1906

Jane Addams to Lillian Wald, August 5, 1906

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, September 9, 1906

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, November 24, 1906

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 2, 1906

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December [15], 1906

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 27, 1906

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 26, 1907

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 8, 1907

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, June 16, 1907

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 16, 1908

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 18, 1908

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, April 3, 1908

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, February 14, 1909

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, June 9, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 22, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 28, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 31, 1910

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, January 4, 1911

Jacob H. Schiff to Lillian D. Wald, February 24, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, February 26, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 3, 1911

Bernard Flexner to Lillian D. Wald, May 23, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, July 10, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, August 11, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 11, 1911

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 21, 1911

Isaac N. Seligman to Lillian D. Wald, 1912

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, March 6, 1912

Jane Addams and Julius Rosenwald to Lillian D. Wald, April 12, 1912

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, April 12, 1912

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Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, October 6, 1908

Jane Addams et al. to William Howard Taft, December 30, 1911

Lillian D. Wald to Amos Pinchot, October 14, 1912

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 9, 1914

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, April 13, 1914

Lillian D. Wald to Emily Greene Balch, September 22, 1914

List of Invitees to Henry Street Conference on September 29, 1914, September 22, 1914.

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, December 17, 1914

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, December 24, 1914

Towards the Peace That Shall Last, March 6, 1915

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, March 25, 1915

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, July 14, 1915

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, July 23, 1915

Lillian D. Wald to Mary Rozet Smith, September 20, 1915

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, May 6, 1916

Jane Addams et al. to Curtis Publishing Company Board of Directors, January 23, 1917

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 10, 1917

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 17, 1917

Jane Addams and Lillian D. Wald to John R. Parker, April 13, 1917

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, April 16, 1917

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, April 17, 1917

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, August 14, 1917

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, October 1, 1917

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, November 13, 1917

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 19, 1918

Lillian D. Wald to Clara Ragaz-Nadig, April 1918

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, July 30, 1918

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, November 6, 1918

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 23, 1919

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 25, 1919

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 26, 1919

Lillian D. Wald to Mary Rozet Smith, March 13, 1919

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, November 10, 1920

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, November 15, 1920

Secretary of Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, May 10, 1921

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, March 20, 1922

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams October 11, 1922

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, June 28, 1923

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 28, 1924

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, ca. January 1925

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 15, 1925

List of Potential Members of the Barnett Memorial Fellowship Committee, January 15, 1925

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, February 17, 1925

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, April 5, 1926

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, June 3, 1926

Margaret Grace Bondfield and Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, January 19, 1927

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Birth Date

1867-03-10

Death Date

1940-09-01

Birthplace

Cincinnati, OH

Biographical Text

Lillian D. Wald was a nurse who trained at New York Hospital and the Women's Medical College in New York. Wald was dedicated to helping immigrant working-class families in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Working with nurse Mary Schiff, Wald secured financial support from Jacob Schiff and others to set up a tenement house as a settlement. Wald opened her first settlement at 27 Jefferson Street, but shortly thereafter relocated to 265 Henry Street, where she remained until her death. Although she never sought recognition or celebrity, she was a well-known and widely respected advocate for the poor. In 1922, the New York Times hailed her as one of the twelve greatest living women in America.

At the Henry Street Settlement, Wald organized a visiting nurse service, conducting classes and seeing patients at the settlements as well as in their homes. Wald set up branches of the Visiting Nurse service in other sections of the city, and trained public health nurses from all over the country and the world. Wald persuaded insurance companies to offer the nursing service to their clients and set up public school nurses in New York City. Wald worked to clear and clean up slum conditions, fought against child labor, and established a playground, all to improve the lives and health of the poor. Wald became an influential leader in New York, despite her desire to remain anonymous, working to help resolve strikes, supporting suffrage, and organizing peace work at the start of World War I.

Wald became acquainted with Jane Addams sometime in the late 1890s, and the two women were lifelong friends. Over the years, they were colleagues in social reform, woman's suffrage activities, and the peace movement. Wald never married, but she had close relationships with two women and her friendships within the social work community with women like Addams helped her balance somewhat her deep commitment and dedication to her life's work. Wald wrote two books detailing her work, The House on Henry Street (1915) and Windows on Henry Street (1934). She cut back on active work in 1932, spending her final years recuperating from an operation and retiring as Head Resident at Henry Street in 1933.