Overview
Letter and greeting cards by feminist, suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate Alice Stone Blackwell.
Dates
- Creation: 1940
- Creation: 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 includes four custom printed Christmas and Easter cards created by Blackwell. The greeting cards include verses and messages from Alice Stone Blackwell, as well as quotes from other authors. This collection also contains a letter to Roberta B. Forgie, thanking her for the gift of homemade goodies. Blackwell also explains that she can no longer attend meetings of the League of Women Voters, but that they have her warm, good will.
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: 1528, 71-116
The papers of Alice Stone Blackwell were given to the Schlesinger Library by Elizabeth Schlesinger and Mrs. Roberta Forgie between 1969 and 1971.
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.
Subject
- League of Women Voters of Massachusetts (Organization)
- 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
- sch01846
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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