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Sources consulted for the biography of:Emily Wayland Dinwiddie (1879–1949)
Primary Sources
- birth date in Dinwiddie family Bible records (1830–1919), Accession 20521, Library of Virginia
- Durward Howes, ed., American Women: The Standard Biographical Dictionary of Notable Women (1939), 3:234, with self-reported birthplace of Greenwood, Albemarle County
- correspondence, memoranda, and reports in The Papers of William A. Dinwiddie, Emily Dinwiddie, and the Dinwiddie Family (second quotation in report dated April 25, 1936, box 10), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Emily Wayland Dinwiddie Scrapbook regarding World War I and Women's Suffrage (1913–1918), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- unpublished Dinwiddie MS on Albert Taylor Bledsoe and other materials, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
- publications include Dinwiddie, "The Truth about Trinity's Tenements," The Survey 23 (1910): 797–809 (first quotation on 807)
- partial bibliography in Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Housing: References to Books and Magazine Articles (1912), 19–22, 35
- Bureau of Vital Statistics Death Certificate (no. 3105523), Augusta County, Virginia Department of Health-Division of Vital Records, Richmond, Virginia (with variant birth date of August 18, 1879, birthplace of Alexandria, and cremation location)
Secondary Sources
- Arthur W. James, The State Becomes a Social Worker: An Administrative Interpretation (1942), 94–95 (with birthplace of Albemarle County)
- Elizabeth Dinwiddie Holladay, comp., Dinwiddie Family Records (1957), 54–55
Newspapers
- New York Times, July 19, 1904; February 25, 1910; November 11, 1910; May 7, 1913; May 14, 1914; January 14, 1917
- Richmond News Leader, May 13, 1927; September 6, 1932
- Washington Post, February 7, 1930
- The Survey 25 (1910): 145–146
- Virginia Department of Public Welfare Public Welfare 4 (May 1927): 2, and 12 (Oct. 1934): 1, 4
Obituaries
- New York Times, March 13, 1949
- Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 13, 1949
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