Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934- |
| Title: | Lynn Z. Bloom Collection Relating to Benjamin Spock |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1963-1971 |
| Quantity: | 7 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Collection of research material amassed by Lynn Z. Bloom for and during the writing of her 1972 biography of Dr. Spock. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) was an American pediatrician, author, and peace activist. He is the author of the worldwide best-selling book Baby and Child Care.
Lynn Z. Bloom is an American author and professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is a scholar in the areas of literary biography and biographers, and is the author of numerous books including a biography of Dr. Benjamin Spock.
The Lynn Z. Bloom Collection Relating to Benjamin Spock consists of research material amassed by Dr. Bloom for and during the writing of her 1972 biography of Dr. Benjamin Spock. The collection consists of general files, writings, news clippings, notes, biography, published material and audio recordings.
General files contain notes, copies of correspondence, and interviews which cover both Dr. Spock's years as a pediatrician and his work as a political activist.
Writings contain published essays about child care and files recounting the evolution and publication of Dr. Spock's more influential books.
News clippings mostly cover crucial political events of the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as Vietnam War, anti-war protests, civil rights, dissent, and Dr. Spock's Boston conspiracy trial.
Bloom's Notes include 8 spiral-bound notebooks and other material generated while working on her book, while typescripts of the Biography comprise sixteen folders.
Published material contains pamphlets and books, mostly concerning baby care the Vietnam War.
Audiorecordings contain one box of taped interviews with Dr. Spock, Mrs. Jane Spock, and others with intimate insight into Dr. Spock's personal, professional and public life. The collection also includes a tape machine for playing back the tapes.
Within the series listed above, material is arranged in alphabetical order by title or topic.
Access to audiorecordings requires advance notice for creation of a use copy.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
See also the Benjamin Spock Symposium Collection and the Benjamin Spock Papers.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Lynn Z. Bloom Collection Relating to Benjamin Spock,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Lynn Z. Bloom, 1972, 1978.
Created by: -
Date: circa 1978
Revision history:
| General files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Anti-war campaigns | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Article about Spock, Glamour magazine Nov 1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Awards | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Baby book marketing | ||||||||||
| Boston conspiracy trial 1968 | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Appeals for financial aid | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lynn Bloom's coverage | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Defense source material | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Transcripts | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Campaign for Peace | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Caring for Your Disabled Child | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Civil disobedience, Levi trial | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Criticism from feminists | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Documentary film, "Dr. Spock and His Babies" | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Essays, miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Family and friends | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fan mail testimonials | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Files, Spock | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | First Amendment | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Fluoridation | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Houghton Mifflin Company | ||||||||||
| Interviews | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | General | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1966-1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | By David Lyle and Lynn Bloom 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Lyndon Johnson - correspondence | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | John F. Kennedy | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Ladies Home Journal | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Life and work in New York City | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Medical advice to laymen | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Medical reports and pamphlets | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | New Haven | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Permission to reprint, quote | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Philanthropy | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Phillips Andover Academy | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Philosophy | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Photographs, Spock family | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Pittsburgh (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Praise for Baby and Child Care | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Private life | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Radio, movies, television | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Redbook - correspondence | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Regrets, speaking | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | SANE [National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy] (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Schedule 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Skating, boats, other recreation | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Spock as a pediatrician | ||||||||||
| Western Reserve University | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | General | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Child rearing study (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Clinical science course | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Baby articles | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Baby and Child Care, Pocket Books | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | A belief in man | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Bibliography | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Feeding Your Baby and Child | ||||||||||
| Medical articles | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | General | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Rochester, Minnesota | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Political articles | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Redbook articles 1963-1971 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Dr. Spock on Vietnam, evolution of the book 1967-1968 | ||||||||||
| News clippings | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Agnew vs. Spock | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Anti-war protest 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Baby and Child Care background and criticism | ||||||||||
| Boston conspiracy trial 1968 | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | General (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1968 | ||||||||||
| Protest | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Speaking engagements | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Dr. Spock 1969-1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Dr. Spock misbehaves, Esquire article | ||||||||||
| Vietnam War | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | 1967-1969 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Protest 1970 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Anti-war protest and draft resistance | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Biography, miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Lynn Bloom notes on Spock family | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Other baby books | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Notebooks (8 spiral-bound notebooks) | ||||||||||
| Biography | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Lynn Bloom, typed chapters (10 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Lynn Bloom, typed chapters (6 folders) | ||||||||||
| Published material | |||||||||||
| Pamphlets | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Child care | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Protest | ||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | American Power and the New Mandarins | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Baby Manual | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Better Homes and Gardens Baby Book | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Bradley Stoughton | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Emotion and Conduct in Adolescence | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Facts of Life and Love for Teenagers | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Mothers' Manual | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Nature of Substance | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Nuremburg and Vietnam | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Nutrition | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | When Mercy Seasons Justice: The Spock Trial | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Student Voices | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | A Time for Action | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Vietnam | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Vietnam and International Law | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | The Vietnam Reader | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Youth and the Establishment | ||||||||||
| Audiorecordings | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Baby books | ||||||||||
| Baby and Child Care | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Pocket Books | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Professional critiques | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Publishing | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | A Baby's First Year 1954 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Boston conspiracy trial 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Mrs. Brackner 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Civil issues 1969 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Correspondence 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Dr. Joseph Cramer and Dr. Milton Senn 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Dissent 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Early professional practice | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Face the Nation, Vietnam 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Fellow doctors 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | 50s activities | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Files 1962 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Foreign affairs and politics | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Dr. Martin Luther King | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Ladies Home Journal 1956 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Liberalism | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Likes and dislikes 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Vernon and Margaret Lippard 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | March on Washington 27 Nov 1965 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Margaret Mead 1959 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Mayo Clinic 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Mothers 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | National Conference for New Politics 1967 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Pediatrician | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Personal life | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Pittsburgh, Baby and Child Care 1968 | ||||||||||
| Politics | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | 1960s | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Controversial issues | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Marie Runyon | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | SANE 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Senators 1960 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Spock's childhood and education | ||||||||||
| Mrs. Jane Spock | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Courtship through fame | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Family and friends | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Family matters | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Private life | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Public issues 1966 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Dr. Spock's appearance | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Mike Spock | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Stein, Duell and Esselstyn | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Sue Strieter 1968 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Violence in the family | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Western Reserve University activities | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Tape machine and one cassette | ||||||||||