Overview
Scrapbook, letters, etc., of Madeline Ware Cobb, Radcliffe College Class of 1917.
Dates
- Creation: 1913-1967
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Madeline W. Cobb 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
.83 linear feet (2 file boxes)The collection consists of Madeline W. Cobb's scrapbook containing college memorabilia, examinations, correspondence with college officers, stories, and poems, and photographs. Cobb kept a daily record of her life at college in the form of letters written to her family. These reflect her optimistic attitude towards life. The begin with the state of the weather and describe her courses, college friendships, social life, and cultural events events at the college.
BIOGRAPHY
Madeline Ware Cobb was born in Milton, Massachusetts, April 16, 1895, the daughter of Bertha Browning Barnes and Ernest Cobb, and descendent of Henry Ware, Professor of Divinity at Harvard College in 1805. She graduated form Fall River High School in 1913 and obtained her A.B. from Radcliffe in 1917. After teaching English for a year in Milton High School (1917-1918) she attended the Prince School of Store service at Simmons College, where she received a B.S. in 1920. Afterwards she taught retailing at the Prince School and at the Rochester (New York High Scool before joining the family business, the Arlo Publishing Company in 1924 where she served as business manager and later publisher. Cobb was an active alumna: she served as class secretary, 1936-1957, director, 1942-1945, treasurer, 1952-1956, and chair of the Finance Committee of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association. She also served for a number of years on the editorial board of the Radcliffe Quarterly. MWC was co-author of a French reader and The Mind's Eye on educational psychology, both published by the Arlo Publishingh Company.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: R81-2, R86-42
Part of this collection waws given to the Archives by the Secretary of the class of 1917, the rest was given by Priscilla Cobb Payne, Madeline Ware Cobb's sister in October 1986.
SEPARATION RECORD
Photographs have been removed to:
- Subject files: Choral Society, theatre ("Orpheus," 1916)
- Portrait files: Class of 1917, Margaret Fitzgerals
- Oversize files: Choral Society, 1914, theatre ("Orpheus," 1916, and Guild play n.d.), Theatre (unidentified), Class of 1917, 10th reunion.
CONTAINER LIST
- Box 1: 1v-7
- Box 2: 8v-11
Partial index to letters:
- Barnard Hall 12/14/1916, 12/15/1916
- Biology Courses 3/17/191915, 6/6/1915
- Boody, Bertha 2/11/1914, 10/1/1914
- Briggs, LeBaron Russell Choral Society 9/26/1913, 1/6/1914
- Davison, Archibald 3/18/1915, 3/22/1915
- Flebbe, Beulah Dix 5/26/1915, 12/7/1915
- Forty Seven workshop 2/28/1914
- Gallison, Marie 10/20/1914, 10/28/1914
- Idler Club 3/26/1915
- Kittredge, George Lyman 10/6/1914, 10/15/1914
- Library 10/20/1914
- Student life 2/12/1914, 12/18/1914, 10/28/1915
- Women--Suffrage 5/2-3/1914, 10/15/1915
- World War I, 1914-1918, 5/14/1915
Processing Information
Processed: January 1982; April 1987
By: Isabelle Bland Dry '35
Subject
- Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934 (Person)
- Radcliffe Choral Society (Organization)
- Radcliffe College--Students (Organization)
- Title
- Cobb, Madeline W.. Papers of Madeline W. Cobb, 1913-1967: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Radcliffe College Archives, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00925
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
The preeminent research library on the history of women in the United States, the Schlesinger Library documents women's lives from the past and present for the future. In addition to its traditional strengths in the history of feminisms, women’s health, and women’s activism, the Schlesinger collections document the intersectional workings of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in American history.