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SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection provides information about Charlotte Hawkins Brown's life and activities, about Palmer Memorial Institute, and particularly about Brown's continuing struggle to enlarge the school, the financial problems she encountered, and her constant fund-raising efforts. Series I, Personal and biographical, contains biographical material by Charlotte Hawkins Brown and by others, including an incomplete draft of an unpublished biography of Brown by Ceci Jenkins. There are also...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains genealogies, diaries, correspondence and speeches, as well as photographs and memorabilia, and was used by Ida H. Harper in preparing her biography of Anthony. The papers provide information about Anthony's schooling and employment, her relationships with her family, particularly her father and two of her nieces, and her work for the abolition of slavery, temperance reform, and woman's rights. There is, however, very little correspondence from the period 1851-1880;...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: These records document the settlement movement in the United States, the history and philosophy of Denison House, the women who started it, the people who worked there and those who took advantage of its services, its administration, and particularly its many neighborhood and summer programs.Series I, History (#1-14), consists of the reminiscences of Vida Scudder, a paper on the "purposes" of Denison House, a radio talk (1945) by Edward Hudson (headworker), a 1980 slide show, and...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: These records document the settlement movement in the United States, the history and philosophy of Denison House, the women who started it, the people who worked there and those who took advantage of its services, its administration, and particularly its many neighborhood and summer programs.Series I, History (#1-14), consists of the reminiscences of Vida Scudder, a paper on the "purposes" of Denison House, a radio talk (1945) by Edward Hudson (headworker), a 1980 slide show, and...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: These records document the settlement movement in the United States, the history and philosophy of Denison House, the women who started it, the people who worked there and those who took advantage of its services, its administration, and particularly its many neighborhood and summer programs.Series I, History (#1-14), consists of the reminiscences of Vida Scudder, a paper on the "purposes" of Denison House, a radio talk (1945) by Edward Hudson (headworker), a 1980 slide show, and...

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Correspondence, miscellaneous writings, clippings and memorabilia of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Calvin Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and other members of the family. Included is Lyman Beecher Stowe's correspondence and research re Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Charlotte Cushman. Also bibliography (on cards) of the Beecher family. Family memorabilia.

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Correspondence, miscellaneous writings, clippings and memorabilia of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Calvin Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and other members of the family. Included is Lyman Beecher Stowe's correspondence and research re Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Charlotte Cushman. Also bibliography (on cards) of the Beecher family. Family memorabilia.

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Correspondence, miscellaneous writings, clippings and memorabilia of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Calvin Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and other members of the family. Included is Lyman Beecher Stowe's correspondence and research re Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Charlotte Cushman. Also bibliography (on cards) of the Beecher family. Family memorabilia.

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Correspondence, miscellaneous writings, clippings and memorabilia of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Calvin Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and other members of the family. Included is Lyman Beecher Stowe's correspondence and research re Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Charlotte Cushman. Also bibliography (on cards) of the Beecher family. Family memorabilia.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Catharine Waugh McCulloch series of the Mary Earhart Dillon collection has been divided into four subseries: Personal and biographical, Writings and speeches, General correspondence, Suffrage and woman's rights.The papers primarily document McCulloch's research on women's legal status, and also her work with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the League of Women Voters (LWV). There is also...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Catharine Waugh McCulloch series of the Mary Earhart Dillon collection has been divided into four subseries: Personal and biographical, Writings and speeches, General correspondence, Suffrage and woman's rights.The papers primarily document McCulloch's research on women's legal status, and also her work with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the League of Women Voters (LWV). There is also...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection has been divided into two series: Personal and biographical, and Professional and volunteer activities.The papers provide information about White's professional and volunteer activities; southern women; the woman suffrage campaign in Tennessee and nationally; the friction between the National Woman's Party and the National American Woman Suffrage Association; the office of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar (Democrat, Tennessee); organizing of women in the Democratic...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: These papers yield almost no information about Jessica Weis' family or her personal life (childhood, adolescence, education, husband and children). There are, however, several letters to and from her mother, Jessie Martin Newhall, and some to or from other family members (see #1-2, 22, 40, 45, 62, 90-91). There is only a small amount of material about Weis' activities outside the Republican Party.The papers do provide information about Weis' involvement in politics and the...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Though the Anna Howard Shaw and Lucy Elmina Anthony papers do not provide a full record of either woman's life, they do reveal something of their personalities. Shaw's humor, sarcasm, and unflagging devotion to the cause of woman suffrage, as well as Lucy Elmina Anthony's fierce loyalty to the cause and to Shaw, are readily apparent.The papers bear evidence of their extensive use by Ida Husted Harper in the preparation of her unpublished Shaw biography, the original of which is in...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: Though the Anna Howard Shaw and Lucy Elmina Anthony papers do not provide a full record of either woman's life, they do reveal something of their personalities. Shaw's humor, sarcasm, and unflagging devotion to the cause of woman suffrage, as well as Lucy Elmina Anthony's fierce loyalty to the cause and to Shaw, are readily apparent.The papers bear evidence of their extensive use by Ida Husted Harper in the preparation of her unpublished Shaw biography, the original of which is in...

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Notice for 21 February 1909 suffrage meeting was glued to Chicago poster; removed November 1988. Clippings (discarded after filming): Mary Jane Whiteley Coggeshall letters to editor: [after 1893], 27 July 1906 regarding Iowa Equal Suffrage Association convention, Des Moines, 27-31 October 1902.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The papers provide some information about Emma Guffey Miller's college education, the Guffey family (especially her brother, Senator Joseph F. Guffey), her husband, Carroll Miller, her sons, and her travels. They document her many interests and volunteer activities: Democratic Party politics on the local, state, and national levels, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, Slippery Rock State College, the National Woman's Party...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The papers provide some information about Emma Guffey Miller's college education, the Guffey family (especially her brother, Senator Joseph F. Guffey), her husband, Carroll Miller, her sons, and her travels. They document her many interests and volunteer activities: Democratic Party politics on the local, state, and national levels, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, Slippery Rock State College, the National Woman's Party...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Catharine Waugh McCulloch series of the Mary Earhart Dillon collection has been divided into four subseries: Personal and biographical, Writings and speeches, General correspondence, Suffrage and woman's rights.The papers primarily document McCulloch's research on women's legal status, and also her work with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the League of Women Voters (LWV). There is also...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Catharine Waugh McCulloch series of the Mary Earhart Dillon collection has been divided into four subseries: Personal and biographical, Writings and speeches, General correspondence, Suffrage and woman's rights.The papers primarily document McCulloch's research on women's legal status, and also her work with the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association (IESA), the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the League of Women Voters (LWV). There is also...

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This series consists mainly of correspondence but also includes clippings, a reminiscence, a statement, a proclamation, and a photograph, all providing information about Harriett Reid, her struggle with the Civil Service Commission, and her work as an arbitrator. It appears that Reid gave Catharine Waugh these papers in the 1940s.

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This series combines the former series I and XIV of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection. It consists of flyers, brochures, pamphlets, political cartoons for and against suffrage (both clippings and original drawings), postcards, posters, photographs, drawings of women, poems, songs, a play, autographs, a scrapbook of clippings, and memorabilia. These materials are from various suffrage organizations and provide an...

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains some of the office files of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations and Bureau of Vocational Information. The bulk of the material consists of Bureau of Vocational Information correspondence, questionnaires, and printed material, the material about secretarial work making up the largest portion. The Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations files consist mostly of the transcripts of a series of lectures (1915-1916) on vocational opportunities for women. Some of the...

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Includes clippings concerning art frauds; also about the Queen Isabella statue, including "Facsimilie of the Letter... from His Holiness, Leo XIII, to the Queen Isabella Association..."

SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains some of the office files of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations and Bureau of Vocational Information. The bulk of the material consists of Bureau of Vocational Information correspondence, questionnaires, and printed material, the material about secretarial work making up the largest portion. The Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations files consist mostly of the transcripts of a series of lectures (1915-1916) on vocational opportunities for women. Some of the...