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Girls--Social life and customs--20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Frances Pass Addelson, 1922, 1971-1987

Collection Identifier: A/A223
Overview:

Diary and articles (primarily about abortion rights) by social worker Frances Pass Addelson.

Papers of Wilhelmina Batchelder-Brown, 1934-2019 (inclusive), 1939-1985 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1021
Overview:

Letters from Radcliffe College alumnae Wilhelmina Batchelder-Brown to her parents Edward and Alice Van Liere, World War II ration books, report cards, and letters from other family members to Edward and Alice Van Liere.

Order of the Rainbow for Girls Collection of Sally Sullivan Benson, 1929-2015 (inclusive), 1948-1955 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1101
Overview:

Pamphlets, memorabilia, photographs, and an Order of the Rainbow for Girls Bible that belonged to librarian Sally Sullivan Benson.

Records of Camp Onaway, 1908-2021 (inclusive), 1960-2010 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 768: T-403: Vt-208: MP-71
Overview:

Correspondence, brochures, photographs, financial records, audio and videotapes, and motion pictures of Camp Onaway, one of the first girls' camps in the United States. Also includes the organization's web site.

Records of Camp Walden (Denmark, Me.), 1916-2014 (inclusive), 1930-1970 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 762: DVD-101
Overview:

Photographs, camp uniforms, song books, campers' letters, DVD, and memorabilia of Camp Walden, a girls' camp established in 1916.

Papers of Charlotte Cusack, 1922-1935

Collection Identifier: MC 988
Overview:

Correspondence, diary, and paper dolls created by Charlotte Cusack.

Papers of Beth Goff, 1883-2005

Collection Identifier: MC 886: Vt-95: M-139
Overview:

Diaries, correspondence, clippings, etc., of Beth Twiggar Goff, writer and social worker.

Commencement album of Evelyn Z. Goodman, 1920

Collection Identifier: A/G653
Overview:

Commencement album of Evelyn Z. Goodman, a student at Alcuin Preparatory school.

Scrapbook of Lillian Nobue Kajikawa, 1936-1951

Collection Identifier: MC 1261
Overview:

Scrapbook created by Lillian Nobue Kajikawa containing photographs of Kajikawa and her classmates, certificates, report cards, and other ephemera documenting Kajikawa 's school years in Honolulu, Hawaii, and her early professional years working as a stenographer.

Papers of Edith Culver Hagar, 1905-2000

Collection Identifier: SC 144
Overview:

Diaries and other Radcliffe and Harvard papers of Edith Hagar documenting the social lives of college students and cultural life in Boston and Cambridge.

Papers of Jean Elizabeth Wolfe, 1865-1997 (inclusive), 1980-1996 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 686: T-267: MP-69
Overview:

Papers of physical education instructor and medical illustrator Jean Wolfe document her family history, twenty-six years at summer camps for girls, professional work, medical issues, and her complicated relationships with women.

Papers of Jeanne Schinto, 1913-2016

Collection Identifier: MC 835
Overview:

Diaries and correspondence of writer Jeanne Schinto.

Papers of Mabelle Smith Kent, 1904-1908

Collection Identifier: SC 150
Overview:

College scrapbooks and papers of Mabelle Smith Kent, Radcliffe College Class of 1908.

Papers of Patricia Miller King, 1864, 1882-1994

Collection Identifier: MC 711
Overview:

Personal papers of Patricia Miller King, former director of the Schlesinger Library (1973-1994). Also contains papers of her father, Donald Knox Miller, and his family.

Papers of Susan Delattre, 1947-1985

Collection Identifier: MC 474
Overview:

Correspondence, diaries, etc., of Susan Delattre as a student and young mother.

Papers of Jane M. Rabb, 1947-2019 (inclusive), 1947-1993 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 979: Phon-76
Overview:

Oral history transcripts and research material documenting American missionaries in China and Pearl S. Buck complied by writer and teacher Jane M. Rabb; scrapbook, autograph album, phonograph record, and photographs related to Rabb's years attending Tripp Lake Camp.

Records of Camp Kehonka, 1906-2012 (inclusive), 1930-1980 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 764: DVD-36: CD-77
Overview:

Correspondence, uniforms, program planning materials, financial records, and memorabilia of Camp Kehonka, one of the first camps for girls in the United States.

Records of the Camp Fire for Eastern Massachusetts Council, 1902-2001 (inclusive), 1920-1973 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 593: Phon-50
Overview:

Records of Camp Fire for Eastern Massachusetts Council, founded as Greater Boston Council of Camp Fire Girls in 1919 to provide girls with club activities and camping opportunities.

Records of the Saturday Evening Girls, 1915-1991 (inclusive), 1915-1959 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 1081
Overview:

Clippings, histories, correspondence, and photographs of the Saturday Evening Girls, a social group for working class young women in early-mid 20th century Boston, Massachusetts.

Letters from Gladys Sen to Corinne Serpe, 1937-1939

Collection Identifier: A/S474
Overview:

Letters from Gladys Sen to her pen pal, Corinne Serpe, who lived in Illinois, describing teenage life in Hawaii.