WAUUA19_24_4394FarberArthur4394.xml Guide to the Arthur S. Farber Papers 1956-1992 Farber (Arthur S.) Papers Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2006 (Last modified: 4/19/2018)
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Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard). University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections (Accession No. 4394-003) Farber, Arthur S. (Arthur Sigmund), 1918-1980 Arthur S. Farber papers 1956-1992 1.05 cubic feet (3 boxes) Collection materials are in English. Papers of a professor of social work and author focused on health, aging, death, and dying

Arthur S. Farber, born in 1918, was an author and professor of social work. A native of New York, New York, Farber received his masters degree from Columbia University and completed an Advanced Degree in social work curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania in 1951. He served as executive director of Seattle's Jewish Family and Child Service and executive director of the Caroline Kline Galland Home for the Aged in Seattle before joining the University Washington School of Social Work in 1963. Farber died in 1980.

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The papers consist of correspondence, course material, reports, speeches and writings, ephemera, and clippings relating to Arthur S. Farber's research and teaching in the areas of health, aging, and death and dying, especially the "Peckham Experiment" at the Pioneer Health Center in Peckham, England. The papers also document Farber's work in wellness and health promotion as one of the initiators of the community-based Wallingford Wellness Project in Seattle, Washington. Correspondents include Janet D. Bunbury and Innes Hope Pearse.

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Arthur S. Farber Papers. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, Washington.

Source: Ruth Farber, August 11, 1992.

 Farber, Arthur S. (Arthur Sigmund), 1918-1980--Archives Bunbury, Janet D Pearse, Innes Hope, 1889- University of Washington--Faculty Pioneer Health Centre (Peckham, London, England) University of Washington. University Archives Sociologists--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives Sociology teachers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives College teachers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives Sociology--Study and teaching (Higher)--Washington (State)--Seattle Health promotion--Research--Washington (State)--Seattle Health promotion--Social aspects Health promotion--England--London--Case studies Death--Social aspects correspondence curricula reports writings Speeches, addresses, etc University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington) Colleges and Universities Medicine and Health Seattle

 

1/1 Biographical information undated 1/2 General correspondence 1956-1992, undated Subject files 1/3 Arthur Farber Wellness Fund undated 1/4 Human Life Styling undated 1/5 Nielsen, Aage - colloquium and University of Washington visit 1970-1971 Peckham Experiment General correspondence 1/6 Bunbury, Janet D. 1975-1980 1/7 Pearse, Innes Hope 1973-1978 1/8 Pepper, Allan D. 1979-1980 1/9 Miscellaneous 1975 1/10 Speeches and writings of others - Innes Hope Pearse undated 1/11 Articles undated 1/12 Grant file undated 1/13 Reports - Pioneer Health Center, Ltd. 1978-1979 1/14 Bibliography 1979 1/15 Ephemera undated 2/1-2 Wallingford Wellness Project undated Course material 2/3 Aging undated 2/4-5 Cultivating health undated 2/6 Death and dying undated 2/7 Death and dying workshops undated 2/8 Wellness workshop circa 1979 2/9 Miscellaneous courses undated Speeches and writings of Farber 3/1 "The Last of Life for Which the First Is Made" undated 3/2-3 Miscellaneous undated of Others 3/4 Levine, Naomi undated 3/5 Conferences and conventions undated 3/6 Clippings undated 3/7 Miscellany undated