Papers of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1909-1945, undated
Overview
Photograph, poem, and notes of feminist, suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate Alice Stone Blackwell.
Dates
- 1909-1945
- Undated
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Originals closed; use digital images.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Alice Stone Blackwell as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderCollection consists of a photograph of Blackwell with inscription referring to suffrage and the Sheppard Towner Maternity Bill, a printed Easter card, a poem about suffrage, thank you notes to Francis Jackson Garrison and Katherine Woodbury Baxter, and a Christmas / suffrage poem addressed to Emily Howland. This collection also includes two letters to Abraham Lincoln Filene. Topics include Carrie Chapman Catt, defeating Senator John Wingate Weeks, Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Association, contributions, and Filene's position as the Jewish owner of a large department store.
BIOGRAPHY
Alice Stone Blackwell was born on September 14, 1857, to Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell in Orange, New Jersey. The Blackwell family moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1870, and Alice Stone Blackwell attended schools in the Boston area. Blackwell graduated from Boston University in 1881; she was one of two women in her graduating class. After graduation, Blackwell joined her parents at The Woman's Journal, the women's rights newspaper they had founded and edited. Blackwell served as secretary for the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1890 to 1918. She also served as president of the New England and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage associations and honorary president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters.
Alice Stone Blackwell supported numerous humanitarian causes. She was affiliated with Friends of Russian Freedom, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the NAACP, among other organizations. Blackwell also translated the works of Mexican, Armenian, Russian, Yiddish, and Hungarian poets into English. Alice Stone Blackwell died on March 15, 1950, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 946, 1016
The papers of Alice Stone Blackwell was acquired by the Schlesinger Library from Paul Richards in 1965 and 1966.
Processing Information
Updated with additional description: September 2020
By: Cat Lea Holbrook.
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Zetlin Sisters Fund and the Jane Rainie Opel '50 Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01845
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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