Caroline Farrar Ware Papers, 1924-1990 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Title: Caroline Farrar Ware Papers, 1924-1990

Primary Creator: Caroline Farrar Ware (1924-1990)

Extent: 82.92 Cubic Feet

Arrangement:

The papers were originally arranged in one alphabetical series containing several large subject files, established by Dr. Ware, interspersed with many smaller files. Because her interests were often inter-related, there is information on some topics in several different files. For example, materials on housing are found under housing and under consumer interests; materials on ethnic and cultural studies are found under Vassar College, Howard University, and American University (where Dr. Ware taught courses on these topics) as well as under ethnic studies. Material on Latin American women's issues is found under both Latin America and under women's issues. Some of the subject files are inter-related also. For example, there are files on both civil rights and race relations; health and housing are separate subject files but both are almost exclusively devoted to the consumer aspects of those topics.

The archival staff retained her arrangement except where changes facilitated use by researchers. Hence some series have since been introduced to identify those subject areas that are of greater topical interest to scholars.  

Note: A complete listing of Caroline Ware's writings is found in her papers under "Bibliography of C.F. Ware Writings"

The Caroline Farrar Ware Papers is a 175-box collection in three series. The papers contain correspondence, lists, maps, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, notes, press releases, printed materials, programs, reports, and teaching materials relating to Dr. Ware's research and teaching career.

The collection spotlights her government service and international, civic, and professional activities. It includes material relating to women's issues, race relations, ethnic and cultural studies, social work, consumer issues, community development, and social developments in Latin America.

Other materials provide information on various organizations Ware was part of, including the Washington Urban League, InterAmerican Commission of Women, Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, National Defense Advisory Commission, Office of Price Administration, and The President's Commission on the Status of Women. These organizations focused on issues such as health, housing, youth, workers' education, and Social Security.

From 1920 to 1962, Dr. Ware held various teaching positions in schools, colleges and universities, in the U.S. and abroad. First and foremost, she considered herself a teacher, taking vacations or leaves of absence to pursue other interests. Her teaching method of general class discussion rather than lectures is reflected in the methods she used in seminars, conferences and workshops. Her accumulated files and papers reflect her long-standing interests in the fields of social work, social development, women, consumers, housing, health, labor, and workers education. None of her files could be considered a separate entity as they all reflect the interweaving of her many interests in her daily activities. Dr. Caroline Ware was married to economist Gardner Means with whom she collaborated on New Deal research analytics and whose Papers also reside at the FDR Library.

From 1945 to 1976, Dr. Ware visited and engaged in professional activity in all the countries of Latin America except Uruguay. She served as an expert technical consultant for the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, the Inter-American Commission of Women, the Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, and the American International Association and also responded to direct invitations from public and private Latin American agencies. She was also visiting professor, evaluator of national programs, conductor of seminars, workshops, short courses and training institutes, advisor to the Latin American Association of Schools of Social Work, member of the Board of the InterAmerican Council of Social Welfare, researcher, editor and reporter, and participated in interagency efforts to coordinate the technical assistance activities of international agencies. Her manuals on community organization and community development were widely used throughout Latin America, and led to many requests for her services as a consultant. A meeting of a United Nations seminar in 1962 declared her to be "the foremost Latin American worker in community development and organization."

Biographical Sketch

Born: August 14, 1899, Brookline, Massachusetts

Parents: Henry and Louisa Farrar (Wilson) Ware

Married: Gardiner C. Means, June 2, 1927

Education: Winsor School, Boston, 1916; Vassar College, A.B. 1920; Oxford University, 1922-1923; Radcliffe College, M.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1925

Academic positions:

Baldwin College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Teacher, 1920-1922

Vassar College, History Department: Instructor -Associate Professor, 1925-1934

Sarah Lawrence College: Social Science Faculty, 1935-1937

American University, Departments of History and Sociology: Associate Professor, Lecturer, 1936-1955

Howard University, History Department: 1942-1944; School of Social Work: Professor, 1945-1961

University of Puerto Rico, College of Social Science and Department of Social Work: Visiting Professor, 1945-1948

Schools of Social Work, Bogota and Medellin, Colombia: Visiting Professor, 1953

School of Social Work, El Salvador: Visiting Professor, 1955

Graduate Institute, School of Social Work, Chile: Visiting Professor, 1962

Research:

Columbia University Social Science Research Council: Community Study of Greenwich Village, New York City, 1930-1932

American Labor Education Service: study of university labor education programs, 1946

United Nations: study of community development activities in Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru; study of social work training in Latin America, 1963-1964

Government Service:

Consumer Advisory Board, National Recovery Administration and Consumer Division, National Emergency Council: Special Assistant, 1934-1935

National Resources Committee, Industrial Section: Social Science Analyst, 1938

National Defense Advisory Commission and Office of Price Administration: Assistant to Consumer Commissioner, 1940-1942

Consumer Advisory Committee to the Office of Price Administration: Chairman of the Executive Committee, 1943-1946; Secretary of the Committee, 1943-1946

Office of Price Administration, Regional Office for Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands: Consultant, 1945-1946

Consumer Advisory Committee to the Council of Economic Advisors: Chairman, 1947-1952

President's Commission on the Status of Women: Member, 1961-1963

Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Social Security Administration: Consultant, 1961; Office of the Secretary: Consultant, 1965

Consumer Advisory Council, Executive Office of the President: Member, 1962-1964

Public Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiation: Member, 1964-1967

Citizens Advisory Council on the Status of Women: Member, 1964-1968

International Activity:

American International Association: Member of technical mission to plan pilot community development program in Venezuela, 1948

Pan American Union (Organization of American States), Division of Social Affairs: Consultant, 1951-1959;

Social Work Section: Acting Chief, 1952; Technical assistance missions to Colombia in 1953, 1959, El

Salvador and Guatemala, 1955, Mexico, 1975; Visiting Professor, Chile, 1962

UNESCO, International Commission for a History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind, 1954- 1966. Editor of volume on the twentieth century.

United Nations: Community Development Specialist, 1961- 1972; Evaluation mission, Rural Development Program, Ceylon, member, 1961-1962; Community Development Programs, Venezuela: Chief of evaluation mission, 1963, 1964; Peru 1966; Consultant, Community Development Training Center, Venezuela, 1966-1972; Consultant, regional seminars in Ecuador, 1962 and Chile, 1964; Organizer, seminar on planning for social welfare, Central America, 1964

Interamerican Development Bank, Office of Program Director, 1966-1969, Office of Personnel, 1972-1974: Consultant

Panamerican Health Organization, 1971, Member First Advisory Committee on Social Welfare and Health; 1974, Consultant

U.S. Informat ion Service, Yugoslavia, 1961, Lecturer

Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, U.S.A., 1966-1971, Program Consultant, with consultation and training activities with women civic leaders and volunteers in Panama, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Dominican Republic

Government of Panama, Institute of Housing and Urbanism: Consultant, 1968

Government of Venezuela, National Planning Office (Cordiplan): Consultant, 1973

Other Employment:

Labor Education, Teacher in labor schools: summers 1922, 1930, 1937, 1943, 1944

Vassar Summer Institute: Faculty member, summers, 1942-1944

Civic and Professional Activities:

American Association of University Women: Member of the Board as Social Studies Chairman and member of legislative committee, 1939-1951

Washington Urban League: 1951ff., Board member and member of Advisory Council; President of Advisory Council, 1953-1955

National Association of Social Workers, Member of committees on Community Organization, Research, International Social Work

Inter-American Conference on Social Welfare, Member of the Board, 1961-1965; Advisor, 1961-1965, 1968ff.

Council on Social Work Education, member of various committees

American Labor Education Service, Member of boards and committees of affiliated schools for workers

Consumer Clearinghouse: Chairman, 1945-1950

National Consumers League: Board member

Latin American Association of Schools of Social Work: Advisor, 1965-1974

National Council of Negro Women, International Program, 1975ff.; Member of Advisory Board

Clearinghouse on Women's Issues, 1963-1980

Overseas Education Fund of the League of Women Voters, 1967ff., member of the Latin American Program Committee

Inter-American Commission of Women, 1968 Assembly, member of U.S. delegation

Awards and Distinctions:

Hart, Schaffner and Marx Economics Prize, 1929

Honorary Professor, University of San Marcos, Peru, 1965

Graduate Achievement Medal, Radcliffe Graduate Society, 1967

Whitney M. Young Memorial Award, 1974

Principal Publications:

The Early New England Cotton Manufacture, 1931; reprint 1965

Greenwich Village, 1920-1930, 1935; paperback 1965

The Modern Economy in Action, 1936, co-author with Gardiner C. Means

The Structure of the American Economy, 1938, an assistant author (National Resources Committee)

The Cultural Approach to History, 1940, Editor; reprint 1965

The Consumer Goes to War, 1942

Labor Education in Universities, 1946

Estudio de la Comunidad, 1947; revised edition, 1952; - -numerous reprints

Organizacion de la Comunidad para el Bienestar Social, 1954

Trabajos Practicos en Organizacion y Desarrollo de la Comunidad, 1962, Editor

History of Mankind, Volume VI: The Twentieth Century, 1966: U.S., French and Greek editions, 1967-1968, author-editor, (co-authors J.M. Romein and K.M. Panikkar)

Women Today: Trends and Issues, 1964

Analisis y Evaluacion de Programmas Desarollo  de la Comunidad, published by CIADEC, Venezuela, 1970

Articles for Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences , 1930-1935, on "Emigration,” “Immigration,” “Ethnic Communities,” “Foreign Language Press”

Various articles and publications on community development and/or social work in Puerto Rico and Latin America, published by the Pan American Union, in reports of seminars or elsewhere and reprinted in several countries from time to time and in the Community Development Review

Articles on social work and community development in Social Work Journal (1949) and International Social Work (1967)

"Ano Internacional de la Mujer: Dimension Historica y Social" in Selecciones de Servicio Social, 1975

Repository: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum

Access Restrictions: None

Use Restrictions:

Copyright: Caroline Ware donated copyright interest in the unpublished writings contained in these papers to the public domain effective following her death; writings of other individuals are subject to copyright restrictions under Title 17 of the U.S. Code.

Restrictions: Materials which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy have been removed.

Acquisition Method: The papers were donated to the Library by Caroline F. Ware between 1979 and 1985.

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