First generation of occupational therapists: a study of dual authority
Brief background on activity treatment before the Twentieth century
Rise of occupational therapy
Jane Addams of occupational therapy: Eleanor Clarke Slagle and women's work in the age of reform
Aspiring professional Eleanor Clarke Slagle
Psychiatry: the medical birthplace of occupational therapy
William Rush Dunton, Jr., at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
Spokesperson for the neophyte profession
Nurses for invalid occupations: Susan E. Tracy and the expansion of occupational therapy
Susan E. Tracy and the Adams Nervine Asylum
Founding of the experiment station for the study of invalid occupations
Altruistic lady or independent professional?
Patient at work is a patient half cured: Herbert James Hall, the arts and crafts movement, and early occupational therapy theory
O.T. equivalents, immunities, and substitutions
Education of the handicapped: occupational therapy and physical rehabilitation before World War I
Authentic self: George Edward Barton at Consolation House
Philip King Brown and the care of patients with tuberculosis
Susan Cox Johnson and Evelyn Lawrence Collins in New York City
World War I and occupational therapy
No more cripples: the reconstruction movement
Wartime reconstruction movement
Do your little bit for the boys: occupational therapy's response to the call for service
National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy
New York war service classes for training reconstruction aides in occupational therapy
Elizabeth Greene Upham and Milwaukee-Downer College
Philanthropic support and the service ethic
Typical career tracks of the reconstruction aide generation
Stabilization and standardization in the 1920s
Professional culture and education in occupational therapy in the 1920s
Professional culture: recruitment, mentoring, and networking
Beginnings of education reform
Minimum standards for courses of training in occupational therapy
Men, medical identity, and survival in the 1920s
Herbert James Hall, Horatio M. Pollack, and record keeping
Thomas B. Kidner, rehabilitation, and tuberculosis
Occupational therapy and the problem of commercialism
William Rush Dunton, Jr., and the Committee on Publicity and Publication
Everett S. Elwood and the perils of professional growth
Seeing is believing: exhibitions and photographs
Prewar era (photographs 11-14)
Wartime (photographs 15-19)
Postwar period (photographs 20-24)
Legacy of the first generation.