Historical Note

The Juvenile Welfare Association was founded in 1921 by Bertha G. Lyons, who remained its director for over half a century. It was incorporated in 1923 as a non-profit agency through the efforts of Victor Arnold, a judge of Chicago's Juvenile Court. The Association maintained that its mission was educational, not charitable. It sought not to give material hand-outs to the needy, but to provide without cost to children orphaned or homeless or words of the state classes in self-development: music, dancing, dramatics, deportment, manners, speech, etiquette, and social skills important in making a person successful. These classes were generally offered through institutions where these children were gathered, including the Chicago Home for the Friendless, the Morgan Park Home for Dependent Children, Marcy Center, St. Hedwig's Orphanage, Union Avenue Parish House, and DePaul Settlement. The Association maintained an independent and non-sectarian status, offering its services to Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish organizations. Financial support was from private donations of members.

In 1947, the Association defined its object as "to assist children in orphanages, social centers, charitable institutions and others that are deserving, by means of courses of special instruction that will affect their welfare as our future citizens by instilling in their minds the value of deportment and by helping to develop such natural abilities as they may posses, both for their own satisfaction in a higher standard of living and its direct effect of the community as a whole. Consequently, the Association has worked . . .to assist children who are, unfortunately, victims of circumstance from needing charity and to help them to become useful, self sustaining, high grade future citizens."

The Association was investigated and audited by the Public Welfare Department of Illinois in 1922 and 1930, and periodically since then, and was always found to be accomplishing its stated purposes satisfactorily. The Association maintained offices at 77W. Washington Street, Chicago, for many years and more recently moved to a suite at 220 S. State Street, where it was located when the records in this collection were given to The Chicago Public Library in 1990.

Bertha G. Lyons

Bertha Gloria Lyons was born February 20, 1896, in New York City. At the age of two and a half, she was taken from the New York Foundling Hospital and place in the home of William and Alice Lyons McCartney. The McCartneys later had six children of their own; Bertha was their only foster child. During her childhood, the McCartneys moved from Indiana to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where William owned a wholesale candy and paper warehouse.

At the age of seventeen, Miss Lyons enrolled in the Waterloo [Iowa] Conservatory of Music, from which she graduated in 1914 with a certificate in Theory in Dramatic Art. She then attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she took courses in educational theory and teacher education. After leaving Cedar Falls, she returned to Waterloo where she performed in local theatrical productions, gave private drama lessons, and edited a small entertainment newspaper, Amusement News. She also worked as a sales manager for an advertising firm in Waterloo, but left it to study with actor and director Elias Day. Later, during her study with actor Donald Robertson, she began to compile and develop a repertoire focusing on monologue and stage gesture technique.

In the late 1910's, Miss Lyons traveled with the Western Lyceum Bureau as a performer doing monologues and behind the scenes as a booking agent in Indiana, Michigan, and Iowa. In 1919, the twenty-three-year-old Lyons settled in Chicago and opened a studio tot each elocution, drama, and social and business deportment to both adults and children. Two years later, doubtless as a result of her own status as an orphan, she founded the Juvenile Welfare Association and extended the services of her studio to children in custodial care. To support the work of the Association, she founded a magazine, The Children's Educator, in 1924. Its lifespan was short (only nine issues were produced in three years), but it merited its publisher a "Citizenship of the Year" award. When the Juvenile Welfare Association was incorporated in 1923, Lyons closed her studio and committed herself full-time to the Association.

Bertha Lyons retired from the Juvenile Welfare Association in the 1970s. She died in 1982.

Scope and Content

This collection is arranged in four series: Records of the Juvenile Welfare Association, files relating to Bertha Lyons' Self-Development Course, Self-Development Course Recitations, and Bertha Lyons Personal Papers. The collection also includes seven photographs, listed at the end of the Box and Folder Inventory.

Series 1. Records of the Juvenile Welfare Association (folders 1:1 to 5:11)
The records of the Juvenile Welfare Association are arranged in alphabetical order. The major components of this series are correspondence with a wide variety of Chicago charitable organizations, records of the JWA's fundraising activities, programs from performances at various institutions under JWA auspices. Also included are twenty-four radio scripts used in the Works Progress Administration Adult Education Program, 1938-39 (4:12 to 5:11). Their relation tot the JWA is unclear. The WPA "Those Adventurous Years" series was designed "to break down prejudices against adult education per se" by looking at the lives of those who achieved great learning after they became adults.

Copies of all nine issues of The Children's Educator are in this collection (1:3 to 1:12). While the magazine purports to be a monthly publication, and each masthead states a copyright date of 1924, the later issues bear advertisements with dates of 1925, 1926, and 1927. The box-folder list indicates other dates where possible; otherwise the date of 1924 is used.

Series 2. Bertha G. Lyons' Self-Development Course (folders 5:12 to 10:12)
This series contains the lessons offered by the Juvenile Welfare Association. The entire package was referred as the "Self-Development Course" and the curriculum outline is in folder 5:12. The lessons themselves are arranged in alphabetical order, folders 5:22 to 7:59. Appearing here as lesson titles is and almost exhaustive catalog of positive personality traits (e.g. accuracy, carefulness, cheerfulness, punctuality, and reliability); difficulties to be surmounted (e.g. arguing, doubt, and fear, pessimism); and information every educated person should know (best-known operas, 100 best books, etc.). A major component of the Self-Development Course appears to have been "Charm"—ten lessons entitled "Charm" another three-part series on "Charm," and seven lessons on "How to Talk with Charm." A number of the self-development lessons were grouped together by Miss Lyons under the heading "Lessons on Character." This heading has not been maintained in the cataloging as nearly all the lessons seem to refer to some aspect of character and it was unclear all the lessons seem to refer to some aspect of character and it was unclear what Miss Lyons' criteria were for separating some lessons by this distinction. All lessons are therefore interfiled.

Following the lessons themselves are materials apparently used by Lyons in constructing these lessons (folders 8:1 to 10:12). Included are play scripts, short stories, twenty-five pieces of popular sheet music, and curricula from purveyors of self-help systems. Alma Archer's course, "The Secrets of Smartness" (folders 8:1-9), may be the basis for Bertha Lyons' course on "Chic." Lessons 3 and 4 of the Margery Wilson Institute's curriculum reappear very little modified in Lyons' Self-Development lessons.

Series 3. Self Development Course—Recitations (folders 10:13 to 18:12)
Bertha Lyons' began her career as monologist with the Western Lyceum Bureau. She never lost sight of the relationship between speaking well and being successful in life. Part of the Self-Development Course was learning how to speak, and the best way to learn anything is by practice. The recitations include not only large collections of "Children's," "Dramatic," and "Humorous" readings, but also a host of ethnic dialects and readings regarding specific holidays. They are arranged alphabetically by topic. They are useful not only as a study in the art of recitation: the subject matter itself is interesting as a reflection of social values in the first third of the twentieth century.

Series 4. Personal Papers of Bertha G. Lyons
This series consists of one piece: Bertha Lyons' diploma from the Ross Conservatory of Music at Waterloo, Iowa.

Separation Record:
One book was received with the papers of the Juvenile Welfare Association. It is The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Cambridge Edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin; [1908?]. This volume was warded Bertha G. Lyons for "First Honors in Recitation" at an oral interpretation contest in Grand Rapids, Michigan about 1912. It has been cataloged for the Special Collections book collection, call number: PS2251 .238 1908.

Provenance

The papers in this collection were donated to the Special Collections Department of The Chicago Public Library in October, 1990.

Processed by Galen R. Wilson, February 1993.

Access

The Juvenile Welfare Association Records are available to the public for research in the Special Collections and Preservation Division Reading Room on the 9th floor of the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60605. The collection does not circulate, although photocopy and photoreproduction services are available depending upon the condition of the original materials. First time patrons to Special Collections must present photo identification and complete a Reader Registration Form. Telephone inquiries on this collection and other Special Collections holdings can be directed to 312-747-4875.

Box and Folder Inventory

BOX 1

Series I. Records of the Juvenile Welfare Association
1. Blank stationery
2. Chicago Laboratory Theatre—Brochure; [1920s]
3. Children's Educator [v.1, n.1]; 1924
4. Children's Educator [v.1, n.2); 1924
5. Children's Educator [v.1, n.3); 1924
6. Children's Educator [v.1, n.4); 1924
7. Children's Educator [v.1, n.5); [1925]
8. Children's Educator [v.1, n.6); [1926]
9. Children's Educator [v.1, n.7); [1927]
10. Children's Educator [v.1, n.8); [1927]
11. Children's Educator [v.1, n.9); [1927?]
12. Children's Educator—Manuscripts used
13. Christmas cards; 1974, 1980
14. Clayton F. Summy Company—Catalog of readings with music &
melodrama; [c. 1918]

Correspondence:
15. Ada S. McKinley Community House; 1956
16. Angel Guardian Orphanage; 1971
17. Beacon Neighborhood House; 1954-58
18. Benton House; 1951
19. Berger, Ernest M.; 1941
20. Bohemian Old Peoples' Home and Orphan Asylum; 1935-42, n.d.
21. Catholic Social Center; 1932-44
22. Central Charity Bureau (Catholic); 1925-26
23. Chase House; 1946-48
24. Chicago Boys Clubs; 1958-78
25. Chicago Home for the Friendless; 1924
26. Chicago Orphan Asylum; 1924
27. Chicago Printing Ink Manufacturers Association; 1974
28. Daggett Studio Publications; 1929
29. DePaul Settlement and Day Nursery; 1942-49
30. DePaul Settlement House; 1963-71
30a. DuSable Community Center
31. Erie Neighborhood House; 1965-67
32. Excerpts in praise of the Juvenile Welfare Association
33. Firman House; 1956-65
34. Fourth Presbyterian Church; 1956
35. Henry Booth House; 1963
36. Hoover, Herbert (form letter); 1948
37. House of the Good Shepherd; 1953
38. Illinois Protestant Children's Home; 1930-1956,1961
39. Interracial Organization for the Destruction of Race Hatred; 1946
40. Juvenile Welfare Association (outgoing correspondence)
41. Keller, Helen; 1960
42. Laird Community House; 1952-55
43. Marcy Center; 1948-51
44. Marks Nathan Jewish Orphans Home; 1924-47
45. Marillac House; 1964-80
46. Marillac Seminary; 1936
47. Miscellaneous
48. Mission of Our Lady of Mercy; 1924-26

BOX 2

1. Parkway Community House; 1951-63
2. Protestant Child Haven Association; 1933-36; 1957-59
3. Protestant Children's Aid; 1929-31
4. St. Chrysostom's Church; 1944-58
5. St. Eilzabeth High School; 1949-56
6. St. Hedwig Industrial School; 1948
7. St. Michael Grade School; 1956-58
8. St. Patrick High School; 1930-70
9. St. Vincent's Infant Hospital; 1967-69
10. Sisters of Divine Charity; 1924-26
11. South Chicago Neighborhood House; 1956-69
12. Southside Community Committee; 1956
13. Uhlich Orphan Home (Uhlich Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Asylum); 1925-44
14. Unidentifiable
15. Union Avenue Parish House; 1948
16. United States Treasury Department; 1933

17. Extracts from Musical Monologues—Lyon & Healy booklet;
[c.1910]
18. Financial papers—Miscellaneous

Fund-raising:
19. Correspondence—outgoing; 1929-30
20. Correspondence—outgoing; 1931
21. Correspondence—outgoing; 1932
22. Correspondence—outgoing; 1933
23. Correspondence—outgoing; 1934
24. Correspondence—outgoing; 1935
25. Correspondence—outgoing; 1936-39
26. Correspondence—outgoing; 1940-44
27. Correspondence—outgoing; 1947
28. Correspondence—outgoing; 1949
29. Correspondence—outgoing; 1950-59, 1962
30. Correspondence—outgoing; 1929, 1940-50
31. Correspondence—outgoing; 1951-53, 1960
32. Detail work
33. Form letters
34. Running accounts of certain donors
35. Telephone solicitation scripts

BOX 3
1. George, Anna E. (Composer, piano teacher)—Stationery and recital programs; [1929-31]
2. Grace Hickox Studios—Summer course brochure; [1920s]
3. Graphics—Original artwork
4. History and purpose of Juvenile Welfare Association
5. Ideas for talks
6. Juvenile Welfare Association Junior Member—Information sheets
7. Knowles, Almon B.—"Some thoughts on the use of radio in the classroom"; 1939
8. L' Hiver, Eleanore—Publicity brochure; [1920s] Marks Nathan Jewish Home:
9. Annual reports; 1923, 1925, 1929
10. Dance program (conducted by JWA); 1933 May
11. Marks Nathan Times; 1937 Sept
12. Testimonial Dinner for President Charles T. Herron; 1938 Oct 2

13. Miscellaneous notes
14. Miscellaneous printed and typed materials
15. O'Sullivan, Frank Dalton, "How to make sales by telephone"
16. Other charities

Performance programs:
17. DePaul Settlement Players; 1944-48
18. Kinsolving Musical Mornings (Blackstone Hotel); 1922-23
19. Marcy Center; 1948
20. Marion Vincent's School of Dancing; n.d.
21. Mildred Schooler students' musicale; 1924, 1926
22. Morgan Park Home [orphanage?]; n.d.
23. Ruth Draper (Harris Theatre); n.d.
24. St. Elizabeth High School; 1950
25. St. Jadwiga's Orphanage; 1948
26. St. Patrick Girls' High School/St. Patrick Academy: 1930-42
27. St. Patrick Girls' High School/St. Patrick Academy: 1943-46
28. St. Patrick Girls' High School/St. Patrick Academy: 1947-50
29. St. Patrick Girls' High School/St. Patrick Academy: 1951-53

BOX 4

1. St. Patrick Girls' High School/St. Patrick Academy:1954-57
2. St. Patrick Girls' High School/St. Patrick Academy:1959-62
3. St. Patrick Girls' High School/St. Patrick Academy:1963, 1965-68, n.d.
4. The Theatre Club; n.d. (5 programs)
5. Report to Better Business Bureau; 1945 Jan
6. Royden, Maude—Flyer—Orchestra Hall address; [c.1920]
7. Saffir, Milton A. (1910- )—Resume; [c.1943]
8. Supplies—Correspondence, lists, ordering; 1941-45
9. Thanksgiving letter; n.d.
10. Twenty-fifth anniversary—Card; 1948
11. Uhlich Orphan Home—Programs and publicity; 1933-35, n.d.

W.P.A. Adult Education Program—"Across the River" Series:
12. Script #1—"1832—The Ferry"; 1939 Mar 22
13. Script #2—"1833—Sauganash Tavern"; 1939 Mar 29
14. Script #3—"1849—The Desplaines Flood"; 1939 Apr 5
15. Script #4—The Rush Street Bridge"; 1939 Apr 12

W.P.A. Adult Education Program—"Better Americans" Series
16. Script #1—"A Business Letter"; 1939 Jan 12
17. Script #4—"Pa Drives a Car"; 1939 Feb 9

W.P.A. Adult Education Program—"It Pays to Learn" Series
18. Script #1—"Steve Kowalsky"; n.d.
19. Script #2—"Eddie Gordon"; 1938 Dec 13
20. Script #4 [i.e. #3]—"Lawrence Grey"; Dec 27
21. Script #4—"Sir Fowler"; 1939 Jan 3
22. Script #5—"George Novak and his Chicago Madonna"; 1939 Jan 3
23. Script #6—"Saved by a Handkerchief"; 1939 Jan 10
24. Script #7—"Abroad at Home"; 1939 Jan 17

BOX 5

1. Script #14—"Margery's Room"; 1939 Mar 8
2. Script #18—"Decorating by the Secretary Inc."; 1939 Apr 5
3. Script #19—"Art for Paul's Sake"; 1939 Apr 12 W.P.A. Adult Education Program—"Those Adventurous Year" Series
4. Script #1--[Colonel John Stevens]; n.d.
5. Script #3—"Minna Moscherosch Schmidt"; 1939 Feb 21
6. Script #7—"Edmund Cartwright"; 1939 Mar 21
7. Script #8—"Mary Schroeder"; 1939 Mar 28
8. Script #9—"George Stephenson"; 1939 Apr 4
9. Script #10—"John James Audubon"; 1939 Apr 11

W.P.A. Adult Education Program—Miscellaneous
10. Radio Workshop script—"West Point and Benedict Arnold"; n.d.
11. Series unidentified—"The Story of Santa Claus"; n.d.

SERIES 2. Bertha Lyons' Self-Development Course

12. Curriculum
13. Introductory lecture; "What Self-Development will do for You"
14. Lesson 1
15. Outline and lesson index
16. Pack of 52 cards, aspects of character, used by Lyons to develop
course (?); 1919
17. Report of training
18. Student essays on charm; 1923
19. Student essays on self-development; 1924
20. Student essays on self-development; 1928
21. Student essays; 1954 May Self-Development Course—Lessons
22. Accuracy
23. Acting
24. Action
25. Adaptation
26. Ambition
27. Appearance
28. Arguing
29. Attention
30. Belief and faith in self
31. Best-known opera list
32. Bragging
33. Bridge lessons
34. Business (see also "Work")

BOX 6

1. Cabbages or Gold?
2. Carefulness
3. Character molding—Ideas for
4. Character molding (curriculum list)
5. Charm (Lesson 1)
6. Charm (Lesson 2)
7. Charm (Lesson 3)
8. Charm (Lesson 4)
9. Charm (Lesson 5)
10. Charm (Lesson 6)
11. Charm (Lesson 7)
12. Charm (Lesson 8)
13. Charm (Lesson 9)
14. Charm (Lesson 10)
15. Charm (Parts, I, II, and III)
16. Charm—Questionnaire for students
17. Cheerfulness
18. Chic (Introduction and Lesson 1: Grooming the body)
19. Chic (Lesson 2: First impressions)
20. Clearness of thought and expression
21. Compromise
22. Concentration
23. Confidence
24. Consideration of others
25. Constructive thought
26. Contentment
27. Contradictions and interruptions
28. Conversation (Lessons 1-4 and miscellaneous)
29. Cooperation
30. Cosmic consciousness
31. Courage
32. Courtesy
33. Criticism
34. Culture (Lessons 1-5)
35. Decision
36. Details
37. Diligence
38. Doing as essential as feeling
39. Doubt and fear
40. Dramatic art and technique
41. Dress
42. Duty
43. Enthusiasm
44. Ethics
45. Etiquette for personal calling cards
46. Famous painters list
47. Fifteen Minute Memory Course
48. Fifty of the world's famous painters
49. Friendship
50. Gossip
51. Grammar and vocabulary lists

BOX 7

1. Health and cleanliness
2. Home
3. Honesty
4. Honesty/Perseverance/Neatness—Student quiz
5. How to fascinate men
6. How to talk with charm (Lesson 1)
7. How to talk with charm (Lesson 2)
8. How to talk with charm (Lesson 3)
9. How to talk with charm (Lesson 4)
10. How to talk with charm (Lesson 5)
11. How to talk with charm (Lesson 6)
12. How to talk with charm (Lesson 7)
13. Imagination
14. Initiative
15. Introductions
16. Letter writing
17. Mannerisms
18. Manners
19. Memory
20. Mental alertness
21. Moral maxims
22. Mythology—List of gods
23. Naturalness
24. Obedience
25. Observation
26. One hundred best books (Sir John Lubbock's list)
27. Opportunity
28. Originality
29. Overcoming obstacles
30. Perseverance
31. Personality and common sense
32. Pessimism and optimism
33. Planning and concentration of effort
34. Poise
35. Posture
36. Pronunciation
37. Psychology
38. Public speaking
39. Punctuality
40. Reason

BOX 7

41. Reliability
42. Self confidence
43. Sensitiveness
44. Silent reminders
45. Social advancement
46. Study
47. Success
48. Suggestions
49. Table manners
50. Tact
51. Team work
52. Telephone calling
53. Thoroughness
54. Thoughtfulness
55. Thrift
56. Types of humanity
57. Vocational guidance
58. Women's dealing with men
59. Work and business

BOX 8

Self-Development Course—Outside materials used
1. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 3 & 4
2. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 5 & 6
3. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 7& 8
4. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 9 & 10
5. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 11 & 12
6. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 13 & 14
7. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 15 & 16
8. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 17 & 18
9. Archer, Alma—The Secrets of Smartness—Lessons 19 & 20
10. List, Irma—"Bible lessons" nos. 7, 10-61 (incomplete)
11. List, Irma—"God's message to you"; [1950s]
12. Lyons, Bertha—Notes taken at various lectures
13. Margery Wilson Institute—Lesson 1—"Cosmic consciousness"; 1933
14. Margery Wilson Institute—Lesson 2—"Enthusiasm"; 1933
15. Margery Wilson Institute—Lesson 3—"Men"; 1933
16. Margery Wilson Institute—Lesson 4—"The unconscious demand"; 1933
17. Margery Wilson Institute—Lesson 5—"The art of compromise"; 1933 18. Morris, Charles Dwight—Correspondence; 1958-62
19. Morris, Charles Dwight—"Creative thinking through concentration" (Books 1-3); 1945

BOX 9

1. Morris, Charles Dwight—"Demonstration through mental alchemy"; 1942
2. Morris, Charles Dwight—"Momentous revelations"; 1942
3. Morris, Charles Dwight—"Success attainment"; 1942

Music scores:
4. "The chilcoot maiden" (Eleanor Freer); 1926
5. "A China tragedy" (R. S. Hichens, Clayton Thomas); 1904
6. "Com-pren-a-voo?" (N. A. Jennings, John L. Golden); 1896
7. "Dawning" (Abner Silver, Maceo Pinkard); 1927
8. "Don't be what you ain't" (Hobart, Royle & Hein); 1921
9. "Hats" (Lytton Cox); 1921
10. "The hours I spent with you" (young & Lewis); 1927
11. "It all depends on you" (DeSylva, Brown, & Henderson); 1926
12. "I've got the mumps" (Irene Franklin, Burt Green); 1909
13. "Japanese love song" (Clayton Thomas); 1900
14. "Laff it off" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby); 1924
15. "A lesson with the fan" (guy d'Hardelot); 1898
16. "The legend of the piper (Eleanor Freer, Josephine Peabody); 1922
17. "Massimillian the court jester" (Elia Peattie, Eleanor Freer); 1925
18. "Mindin' my business" (Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson); 1923
19. "Miss Annabelle Lee" (Sidney Clare, Lew Pollack); 1927
20. "The naughty little clock song" (Harry B. Smith, Reginald D Koven); 1899
21. "The song is ended" (Irving Berlin); 1927
22. "Speak up, Ike, an' ‘spress yo'se'f" (Paul L. Dunbar, Henry S. Sawyer); 1922
23. "Star dust" (Lytton Cox); 1921
24. "The story book ball" (Billie Montgomery, George Perry); 1917
25. "There must be somebody else" (Archie Gottler); 1927
26. "The tin gee-gee" (Fred Cape); 1894
27. "To victory" (Just Rose); 1934
28. "Together, we two" (Irving Berlin); 1927

Palmer Institute of Authorship:
29. Advertising brochures and mailings
30. Correspondence; 1952-53
31. Fiction course—Lessons 1-5

BOX 10

Play scripts:
1. "The little pink lady"
2. "The magic star"
3. "Mary Cary" by Kate Langley Bosher (monologue)
4. "The minuet"
5. "My maid on the bamboo screen" by Grace & William Boldenburg
6. "Our first performance"
7. Unidentified 8. Short story—"The Littlest Rebel" by Edward Peple
9. Whitaker, Claudine—"Fundamentals of divine science" course
10. "Laws of the mind" course
11. Lectures in Kimball Hall, Chicago; 1947-50, n.d.
12. "Steps in Demonstration" course

Series 3. Self-Develop Course—Recitations

13. Backwoods dialect: A-M
14. Backwoods dialect: N-Z
15. Children's: List
16. Children's: A
17. Children's: B
18. Children's: C

BOX 11

1 Children's: D
2 Children's: E
3 Children's: F
4 Children's: G
5 Children's: H
6 Children's: I
7 Children's: J
8 Children's: K
9 Children's: L
10 Children's: M
11 Children's: N
12 Children's: O
13 Children's: P

BOX 12

1. Children's: R
2. Children's: S
3. Children's: T-V
4. Children's: W
5. Christmas: A-G
6. Christmas: H-Z
7. Dramatic: Lists
8. Dramatic: A
9. Dramatic: B
10. Dramatic: C
11. Dramatic: D
12. Dramatic: E

BOX 13

1. Dramatic: F
2. Dramatic: H
3. Dramatic: I-J
4. Dramatic: K
5. Dramatic: L
6. Dramatic: M
7. Dramatic: N
8. Dramatic: O
9. Dramatic: P
10. Dramatic: R
11. Dramatic: S
12. Dramatic: T

BOX 14

1. Dramatic: V
2. Dramatic: W
3. Dutch dialect
4. Easter
5. English dialect
6. Excerpts
7. French dialect
8. German dialect: A-K
9. German dialect: L-Z
10. Greek dialect
11. Humorous: Lists
12. Humorous: A
13. Humorous: B
14. Humorous: C
15. Humorous: D

BOX 15

1. Humorous: E
2. Humorous: F
3. Humorous: G
4. Humorous: H
5. Humorous: I
6. Humorous: J
7.Humorous: K
8. Humorous: L
9. Humorous: Ma-Mi

BOX 16

1. Humorous: Mo-My
2. Humorous: N
3. Humorous: O
4. Humorous: P
5. Humorous: R
6. Humorous: S
7. Humorous: T
8. Humorous: U-V
9. Humorous: W
10. Humorous: Y

BOX 17

1. Irish dialect: A-K
2. Irish dialect: L-Z
3. Italian dialect: A-H
4. Italian dialect: I-Z
5. Jewish dialect
6. Lincoln's birthday
7. Lists by dialect
8. Lists by holiday
9. Miscellaneous dialogs
10. Miscellaneous dialogs
11. Miscellaneous monologues
12. Miscellaneous monologues
13. Miscellaneous short stories
14. Musical readings: A-H
15. Musical readings: I-Z

BOX 18

1. Negro dialect: A-H
2. Negro dialect: I-M
3. Negro dialect: N-Z
4. Scottish dialect
5. Swedish dialect
6. Thanksgiving day
7. Toasts
8. Voice readings: Lists
9. Voice readings: A-K
10. Voice readings: L-Z
11. Washington's birthday
12. Weddings

Series 4. Personal Papers of Bertha G. Lyons

13. Diploma, Ross Conservatory of Music, Waterloo, Iowa; 1914 June 19

PHOTOGRAPHS

The following photographs were received with the papers of the Juvenile Welfare Association.

1.1 Juvenile Welfare Association. Program (Girl Scout Troop 91?) 1940s.

1.2 Bertha G. Lyons--Age 2 ½; 1898
1.3 Bertha G. Lyons--With five other orphan children; 1898.
1.4 Bertha G. Lyons--Age about 8; c. 1906.
1.5 Bertha G. Lyons--Graduation from Ross Conservatory of Music; 1914.
1.6 Bertha G. Lyons--Portrait; c. 1916.
1.7 Bertha G. Lyons--Portrait