Series I. HISTORY, 1843-1971, undated (#1v-21f)
Scope and Contents
Series I, HISTORY, 1843-1971, undated (#1v-21f), includes the bylaws and constitution; lists of officers, nominations, and ballots; yearbooks; Historian's records, other historical information; and photographs.
This series includes a historian's records scrapbook started by Julia A. Sprague, and was intended partly as an autograph collection and includes letters, poems or messages by Louisa May Alcott (copy of a poem for Club Tea, 1875); Julia R. Anagnos; William Henry Channing; Ednah Dow Cheney; James Freeman Clarke; Abby Morton Diaz; Kate Field (article re: New England Women's Club, 1869); Isabella Stewart Gardner; William Lloyd Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. (poem to New England Women's Club, 1897); Lucy Goddard; Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic and story of its writing, encomiums); Mary Holman Ladd; Mary A. Livermore; Abigail Williams May; Maria Mitchell; Lucretia Mott; Louise Chandler Moulton; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; Lucia M. Peabody; Olive A. Perry; Wendell Phillips; George Ripley; Caroline M. Severance; Julia A. Sprague; Lucy Stone; Henry David Thoreau (fragments of poem, "The Winter's Walk," by Gavin Douglas, in handwriting of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843); Kate Gannett Wells; John Greenleaf Whittier; Abba Goold Woolson; and Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska.
A photograph album found in this series (#19) include images of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Stone Blackwell, Henry Brown Blackwell, Ednah Dow Cheney, James Freeman Clarke, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Follen, William Lloyd Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, Harriot K. Hunt, Mary A. Livermore, Abigail Williams May, Maria Mitchell, Louise Chandler Moulton, Lucia M. Peabody, Julia A. Sprague, Lucy Stone, Booker T. Washington, Kate Gannett Wells, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska.
Dates
- Creation: 1843-1971
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
TERMS OF USE
Access. Originals are closed; use microfilm (M-145).
Extent
7.75 linear feet ((5 cartons, 2 file boxes, 2 folio boxes) plus 4 folio+ folders, 1 oversize folder, 1 folio photograph folder.)Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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