Joyce P. De La Hunt Papers
name: label: Creator
content: De La Hunt, Joyce P., 1924-1986
label: Creator
content: Ward, Lucille E.
label: Names
content: Marquette University -- 1940-1950
place: label: Place
content: Milwaukee (Wis.)
label: Place
content: Atlantic City (N.J.) -- 1940-1950
topic: label: Topic
content: Reporters and reporting -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Women in the press -- 1940-1950
label: Topic
content: Sports -- 1940-1950
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This collection was donated by Lucille E. Ward on February 19, 1997.
creator: label: Creator
content: De La Hunt, Joyce P., 1924-1986
label: Creator
content: Ward, Lucille E.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Joyce P. De La Hunt Papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: Two photograph albums, two scrapbooks, carbon copy typescript of master's thesis, miscellaneous photographs, etc. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings about De La Hunt's career as a "girl sports reporter" and articles by her.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Joyce P. De La Hunt was a horticulturist with a Davidsonville, Maryland, nursery and a hospital administrator, social worker, and newspaper writer.  A graduate of Marquette University (Ph.B.) in her native Milwaukee, where she was a sports reporter and women's sports editor for the Marquette University Tribune (1943), Miss De La Hunt took a Master of Social Work degree at Catholic University.  In 1944 she was working for the MilwaukeeSentinel , and, in 1945, for first the Atlantic City, New JerseyDaily World , where she was sports editor (also doing special assignments), then advertising manager for the Atlantic CityJersey Times .  She later moved to the Washington, D.C. area, obtaining her master's degree in 1950.  In the 1950s she was a social worker for Travelers Aid in Washington, and from 1959 to 1967  served as administrator of what later became the Hospital for Sick Children, and then spent three years as an assistant administrator of Junior Village.  She was director of Anne Arundel County's "Open Door," a drug counseling facility, 1970-1974.   Later Miss De La Hunt studied horticulture at the University of Maryland, and since 1975 worked at Bitter Hill nursery in Davidsonville.  She died October 10, 1986, at Anne Arundel General Hospital after a stroke.

Obituary, The Washington Post, October 14, 1986, page B4.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (5 boxes )
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1860-1950
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0573
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Clippings
label: Type
content: Theses
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Albums
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into three series. 

Series 1: Scrapbooks

Series 2: Photographs

Series 3: Miscellaneous
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by David haberstich, 1997.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Theses
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 1900-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Albums -- 1940-1950
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains two scrapbooks, two photograph albums, a typescript of Miss De La Hunt's Master's thesis, and miscellaneous photographs.  The photograph albums contain a variety of family snapshots and the scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings about De La Hunt's career as a "girl sports reporter" as well as articles written by her.  In addition, there are miscellaneous photoprints and an American passport, 1926. This collection is arranged into three series: Series 1: Scrapbooks, 1943-1945, Series 2: Photographs, ca. 1860s-1950s and Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1926, 1950.