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Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Additional records of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association, 1913-2014 (inclusive), 1934-1998 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 594: T-107: Vt-162
Overview:

Additional records of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association, "an environmental group comprised of branches, garden clubs, and special interest environmental organizations," founded in 1914 to promote agricultural and horticultural interests among women.

Aileen Ward papers

FOUND IN: Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Am 3371
Overview:

Research files and correspondence of John Keats and William Blake scholar, Aileen Ward.

Letter of Clara Barton, 23 March 1883

Collection Identifier: A/B29a
Overview:

Letter from Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, to Lucy Larcom, regarding a biographical sketch of Barton.

Biographical essays of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, l975-ca.l978

Collection Identifier: 84-M183--85-M100
Overview:

Photocopies of biographies of approximately 100 women who lived in the United States in the 17th through the early 20th centuries of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, a social service, genealogical, and historical organization.

Papers of Caroline Wells Healey Dall, 1841-1909

Collection Identifier: A-72
Overview:

Correspondence, articles, reminiscences, etc., of Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall, author and social reformer.

Papers of Frances Humphrey Howard, 1923-2003 (inclusive), 1961-2002 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 953: DVD-144: MP-82: T-320: Vt-313
Overview:

Correspondence, oral history transcripts, audiovisual material, photographs, and scrapbooks of Frances Humphrey Howard, sociologist, civil servant, and United States Foreign Service Officer.

Papers of the Julia Ward Howe family, 1787-1984 (inclusive), 1787-1944 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 272: M-133
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, speeches, etc., by Julia Ward Howe, author and reformer, and members of her family.

Notable American women, the modern period, records, 1975-1980

Collection Identifier: MC 307
Overview:

Correspondence, drafts research notes, etc., documenting the preparation of volume four of Notable American Women, The Modern Period, a biographical dictionary of American women.

Papers of Alice Bradley, 1893-1980

Collection Identifier: MC 348
Overview:

Brochures, clippings, biographies, etc., of Alice Bradley, home economist, hospital dietitian, principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery.

Papers of Amy Mims, 1954-2010

Collection Identifier: SC 184
Overview:

Memoir and papers of Amy Mims concerning her studies in Ancient Greek History and Literature at Radcliffe College and her career as a translator of Modern Greek literature. Also included are a biography of and typescript and published volume by her mother Helen Sullivan.

Papers of Caroline Wells Healey Dall, 1829-1956 (inclusive), 1837-1916 (bulk).

Collection Identifier: MC 351
Overview:

Writings, notes, clippings, etc., of Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall, author and social reformer.

Papers of Edith Banfield Jackson, 1907-1977

Collection Identifier: MC 304
Overview:

Correspondence, professional papers, etc., of Edith Banfield Jackson, pediatrician and child psychiatrist.

Papers of Eloise Bittel Cohen, 1898-2005 (inclusive), 1928-2003 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 819: MP-76: T-525
Overview:

Correspondence, diaries, writings, photographs, and home movies of Eloise Bittel Cohen, political and civic volunteer.

Papers of Ida Pruitt and Marjorie King, 1891-1994

Collection Identifier: MC 701
Overview:

Correspondence, articles, photographs, and other papers of author and social worker Ida Pruitt.

Papers of Janet Mabie, 1912-1960

Collection Identifier: MC 451
Overview:

Photographs, clippings, drafts of biography about Amelia Earhart collected by Janet Mabie, journalist and writer.

Papers of Lucy Poate Stebbins, 1732-1994 (inclusive), 1876-1958 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 429
Overview:

Correspondence, photographs, writings, etc., of Lucy Poate Stebbins, author.

Papers of Marion Taylor, 1912-1960 (inclusive), 1912-1940 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: A-86
Overview:

Transcripts of diaries, writings, correspondence, etc., of Marion Taylor, pseudonym of Dorothy Sherman Pencharz, professor.

Papers of Mary Elizabeth Williams, 1933-1976

Collection Identifier: 81-M165
Overview:

Correspondence, biographies, research materials, etc., of Mary Elizabeth Williams, mathematician.

Papers of Ida Pruitt, 1850s-1992

Collection Identifier: MC 465
Overview:

Correspondence, writings, photographs, and papers of Ida Pruitt documenting her life and family in China and United States.

Papers of Mary Brackett Hoyt Ransom, ca.1890-2020 (inclusive), 1905-1960 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1104
Overview:

Correspondence, photographs, poems, of schoolteacher, postmistress, and active member of Democratic party Mary Brackett Hoyt Ransom. Material related to her parents, Jackson M. and Mary Pickering Hoyt and other family members is also included.

Records of Notable American Women, 1607-1950, 1958-1973

Collection Identifier: MC 230
Overview:

Correspondence, drafts, research notes, etc., documenting the preparation of the first three volumes of Notable American Women, a biographical dictionary of American women.

Records of Notable American women: a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century, 1994-2005

Collection Identifier: MC 699
Overview:

Correspondence, printed databases, and biographical writings documenting the research and publication of the fifth volume of the biographical resource series, Notable American Women.

Records of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society, 1954-1968

Collection Identifier: A-150
Overview:

Biographies, autobiographies, articles, etc., of Delta Kappa Gamma Society (Mich.), the Michigan branch of Delta Kappa Gamma, a society for women teachers.

Records of the United States Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, 1943-1985

Collection Identifier: B-9
Overview:

Minutes, reports, directives, etc., of the United States Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, as well as biographies and photographs of women in the armed services, recruiting literature, etc.

Records of the Saturday Morning Club, 1871-1983

Collection Identifier: B-28: MP-1: Vt-131
Overview:

Bylaws, minutes, financial records, etc., of the Saturday Morning Club, established to promote "culture and social intercourse" for young women in Boston, Massachusetts.