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- catalog abstract "This collection has been processed as part of the Schlesinger Library's Experimental Archives Project. Every item in the collection has been digitized. It consists of Ida Pruitt’s correspondence; unpublished writings; and notes regarding the China Liberated Areas Relief Association; articles; a booklet and scrapbook of Pruitt’s mother, Anna Seward Pruitt; Pruitt family genealogy; and photographs. In addition to Pruitt's papers, the collection also contains Marjorie King’s correspondence; interviews and notes with Pruitt’s family, friends, and co-workers.".
- catalog contributor b13334665.
- catalog coverage "China History 20th century.".
- catalog date "1891".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch01388".
- catalog description "Ida Pruitt and Marjorie King Papers, 1891-1994; item description, dates. MC 701, folder #. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Marjorie King met Ida Pruitt in the 1980s while she was working on her dissertation at Temple University (Ph.D., 1985) which was entitled "Missionary Mother and Radical Daughter : Anna and Ida Pruitt in China, 1887-1939." King continued her research as a visiting scholar in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona. She published a biography of Ida Pruitt entitled China's American Daughter: Ida Pruitt, 1888-1985.".
- catalog description "There is related material: Ida Pruitt papers, 1850s-1992. MC 465 at Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.".
- catalog description "This collection has been processed as part of the Schlesinger Library's Experimental Archives Project. Every item in the collection has been digitized. It consists of Ida Pruitt’s correspondence; unpublished writings; and notes regarding the China Liberated Areas Relief Association; articles; a booklet and scrapbook of Pruitt’s mother, Anna Seward Pruitt; Pruitt family genealogy; and photographs. In addition to Pruitt's papers, the collection also contains Marjorie King’s correspondence; interviews and notes with Pruitt’s family, friends, and co-workers.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog description "Writer, educator, and social worker Ida Pruitt was born in China on December 2, 1888, the daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries Cicero Washington and Anna Seward Pruitt. She spent the first twelve years of her life in Hwanghsien, a village in Shantung province. She attended Cox College in College Park, Georgia (1906-1909), received a B.S. from Columbia University Teachers' College (1910) and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia. Pruitt returned to China as teacher and principal of Wai Ling School for girls in Chefoo (1912-1918); the Rockefeller Foundation later appointed her chief of the Department of Social Services, Peking Union Medical College (1921-1939). During the Japanese occupation she and social reformer Rewi Alley organized Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC), an international committee that worked to promote Chinese self-sufficiency. She served as executive secretary (1939-1952) of Indusco, the American fundraising arm for the CIC. She was the author and translator of a number of books, including "Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman" (1945), "Yellow Storm" (1951), and "China Childhood" (1978). Pruitt died in Philadelphia on July 24, 1985; she was survived by two adopted daughters, Kuei-ching Ho and Tania (Cosman) Wahl.".
- catalog extent "4.33 linear ft. (3 cartons, 1 file box, 1 folio box).".
- catalog issued "1891".
- catalog language "Materials in English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "China History 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog subject "Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987.".
- catalog subject "Bertram, James M.".
- catalog subject "Children of missionaries.".
- catalog subject "China Liberated Areas Relief Association.".
- catalog subject "Cooperative societies China.".
- catalog subject "Gerlach, Talitha A., 1896-".
- catalog subject "Greene, Felix.".
- catalog subject "Hartshorne, Richard.".
- catalog subject "Indusco, Inc. (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "King, Marjorie.".
- catalog subject "McIntosh, James, 1946-".
- catalog subject "Pruitt family.".
- catalog subject "Pruitt, Anna Seward, 1862-1948.".
- catalog subject "Pruitt, Ida.".
- catalog subject "Reconstruction (1939-1951) China.".
- catalog subject "Snow, Helen Foster, 1907-1997.".
- catalog subject "Social workers China.".
- catalog subject "Zhonggue xie he yi ke da xue.".
- catalog title "Papers of Ida Pruitt and Marjorie King, 1891-1994.".
- catalog type "Biographies. aat".
- catalog type "Drafts (documents). aat".
- catalog type "Genealogies. aat".
- catalog type "Interviews. aat".
- catalog type "Scrapbooks. aat".
- catalog type "collection".