Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles Collected Papers
Scope and Contents
Includes two oral history interview (4 p., 2007 and 2 p., 2003) of Ward Miles and Alice Calder Miles; information about the Civilian Public Service unit at the Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pa.; manuscript "Out of Sight Out of Mind" by Ward C. Miles; information about a psychiatric aide training project conducted for the Rockefeller Foundation under the auspices of the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas in 1948; reference material about mental hospitals and psychiatric aide training, including a manuscript "Sweet Dreams and Stale Delusions" by Leonard Edelstein (1945).
Dates
- Creation: 1944-1948, 2003, 2007
Creator
- Miles, Ward C., 1922- (Person)
Language of Material
Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
No restrictions.
Biographical / Historical
Ward C. Miles; b. 1922; raised a Quaker; conscientious objector to World War II; assigned to Byberry State Hospital (Philadelphia, PA); married Alice Calder; became a physician after the war.
Extent
0.21 linear ft. (2.5 linear in.)
Subject
- Miles, Ward C., 1922- (Person)
- Miles, Alice Calder (Person)
- Byberry State Hospital (Pa.) (Organization)
- Civilian Public Service. Camp (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Organization)
Topical
- Conscientious Objectors -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Mental health services -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- Mentally ill -- Care -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- Pacifists -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Psychiatric aides -- Training of -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Psychiatric hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscientious Objectors -- United States -- Sources
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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