Eloise Emerson papers
Collection Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, documents and other material from Eloise Emerson, an accomplished nurse who worked in Southern California. The majority of materials in the collection focus on her nursing career, as well as her lobbying effort against California State mandatory retirement of age 70. Items related to her career include a variety of papers and personal notes by Emerson on nursing procedures and tips, mainly centered around hearing impairments, child abuse and child birth. The collection also contains materials on the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, and newspaper clippings on Easter Passover.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1930-1995
Creator
- Emerson, Eloise (Person)
Languages
The collection is in English.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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Biographical Note
Eloise Emerson was born on December 14, 1910 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. She moved to Long Beach, California sometime after that, graduating from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1928. Emerson then entered nursing school, and trained at Seaside Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, where she was working when a devastating earthquake hit the city in 1933.
After getting married to Howard Emerson in 1939, she worked as a school nurse in Orange County while raising four children. In 1970, Emerson moved to Riverside and took a position as a public health nurse with the Riverside County Department of Health. During her career there, she did a great amount of work with gerontology patients, and served on several boards and advisory committees for local programs and senior centers.
In 1979, Emerson was forced to retire by the county, which she successfully fought and was reinstated to her position. Her experience led her to lobby against the California state mandatory retirement age, which was abolished in 1983. She was then assigned to the Rubidoux Health Center, where she focused on abuse cases, drug issues, and teen pregnancies. She passed away in 1992 at the age of 81.
Extent
1.25 Linear Feet (1 box)
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, documents and other material from Eloise Emerson, an accomplished public health nurse who worked for the Riverside County Department of Health. The majority of materials in the collection focus on her nursing career, and her lobbying effort against the California State mandatory retirement age.
Collection Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Dorothy & Clark Emerson, 1995.
Processing History
Processed by Carlota Ramirez, Student Processing Assistant, 2017.
Processing of the Eloise Emerson papers was completed by undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside as part of the Special Collections & University Archives Backlog Processing Project started in 2015. This project was funded by the UCR Library and administered by Jessica Geiser, Collections Management Librarian.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Eloise Emerson papers
- Status
- Processed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Carlota Ramirez, Student Processing Assistant.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscript Collections Repository
University of California
Rivera Library
P.O. Box 5900
Riverside 92517-5900 USA
specialcollections@ucr.edu