Mary T. Hall Papers

Collection

Identifier: A2132

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Mary T. Hall Papers consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, flyers, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and other types of material that document her work with various social welfare and world peace organizations. The papers from the Missouri Children's Code Commission document the formation of the group, the recommended bills, the final report, and the efforts to pass all the bills. The collection also includes papers regarding Child Welfare Services and the Board of Children's Guardians. The papers from the Urban League primarily regard the Industrial Committee and efforts to get jobs for African Americans during World War II. They also include a survey of beauty parlor operators (Box 15/Folder 4) with completed questionnaires, and various reports on services for African Americans. The collection also contains papers regarding the United Nations Association, Lindenwood College, the Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital, and political campaigns for Adlai Stevenson and George McGovern. Several boxes of correspondence from Hall's family and friends, dating from the 1930s and 1940s, can be found at the end of the collection.

Dates

1888-2003

Creator

Hall, Mary Taussig, 1911-2015 (Creator, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Conditions Governing Use

For permission to publish, quote from, or reproduce material in this collection, please contact the Archives Reference Desk at archives@mohistory.org. Copyright restrictions may apply. The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming to the laws of copyright.

Biographical Sketch

Mary Bolland Taussig was born February 21, 1911, to Frederick J. and Florence Gottschalk Taussig. She attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania from 1929 to 1933 and then worked for Jane Addams at Hull House in Chicago during the summer of 1933. She graduated from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in 1938 after writing her master’s thesis on factors influencing school attendance in Washington County, Missouri. Following graduate school, she began a long career of public service with various organizations involved with child welfare, race relations, public health, and world peace, including the 1946 Missouri Children's Code Commission, the Missouri Association for Social Welfare, the Urban League and the United Nations Association. She also worked with several political campaigns in the region. She married Louis Benoist Tompkins in 1941 and they had two children. Her husband died suddenly of a heart attack in 1950. She then married Thomas Hall, a dean and professor at Washington University, in 1952. She died August 12, 2015, in St. Louis.

Extent

22.0 Cubic Feet ( (44 boxes))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by organization/topic.

Physical and Technical Requirements

There are no physical or technical requirements.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Most of the Mary T. Hall Papers were donated to the Missouri Historical Society by Mary Taussig Hall on October 22, 2003 (accession number: 2003.145). She donated the correspondence in Boxes 39-44 in 2004 (accession number: 2004.148).