Frontier and pioneer life

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.

Typed translations of family letters and genealogical information of the d'Autremont family.

Correspondence, mostly by19th century American women, compiled by Richard James Hooker of Chicago, Illinois.

Correspondence, journals, manuscript, etc., of Elizabeth Millar Wilson, postmistress of The Dalles, Oregon.

Lecture notes, tales and songs, correspondence, photographs, etc., of Mary Elizabeth Barnicle Cadle, teacher of folklore and English literature.

Papers of Joseph Burt Holt and Julia Evelyn Rollins Holt, who homesteaded in Minnesota and were instrumental in founding the town of Champlin; aided freedmen in Jackson, Mississippi; they taught school in Atlanta, Georgia; and worked on Indian reservations in Lac Court d'Oreilles, Wisconsin, and Los Pinos, Colorado.

Diaries, commonplace books, and correspondence of the Byram, Gay, Swanton, and Worcester families of Maine and Massachusetts.

Papers of minister, physician, lecturer, and suffragist, Anna Howard Shaw.