The Stony Wold - Herbert Fund, Inc

In 1885 Katharine Herbert founded the Working Girls' Vacation Society (later known as the Katharine Herbert Fund) to assist working women in the New York metropolitan area. It was a time when female labor was cheap and largely restricted to factories and sweat shops -- conditions which lead to a high incidence of tuberculosis. In 1901 Mrs. James Edward Newcomb, a director of the Society, began a fund raising campaign which resulted in the Stony Wold Sanatorium in the Adirondack Mountains.