Sally Provence papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 1660

Scope and Contents

The papers include correspondence and writings and research files which document the professional career of Sally Provence. Data from Provence's studies on child development comprise the bulk of the papers, which also include files from her involvement in the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs.

Dates

1951-1991

Creator

Provence, Sally, 1916-

Conditions Governing Access

Research data and patient case files in accession 2000-M-107 contain personal and senstitive information and are closed until January 1, 2086.

All other materials are open to research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the Donor of this collection for unpublished works authored or otherwise produced by Sally Provence. After the lifetime of the Donor, copyright passes to Yale University. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Tim Provence, 1994; transfer from the Yale Child Study Center, 1996 and 2000.

Extent

33.75 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1660

Additional Description

Overview

Biographical / Historical

Sally Provence was born in East Texas in 1916. She completed her undergraduate work at Mary Hardin College and received her M.D. from Baylor Medical College. As a practicing pediatrician, Provence became interested in child development and, in 1949, she came to work in the Yale Child Study Center. In 1951 Provence founded the center's Child Development Unit, which she directed until her retirement in 1986. Her work included standards for children in institutions, studies of children in day care, and clinical intervention with multiply handicapped children. Appointed a Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale Child Study Center in 1967, she extended her teaching when, in 1978, she founded the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs. Sally Provence died in Branford, Connecticut on February 6, 1993.