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Found in 9 Collections and/or records:

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Blackwell Family Papers

Identifier: MSS12880
Abstract

Family members include author and suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950); her parents, Henry Browne Blackwell (1825-1909) and Lucy Stone (1818-1893), abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; her aunt, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman to receive an academic medical degree; and Elizabeth Blackwell's adopted daughter, Kitty Barry Blackwell (1848-1936). Includes correspondence, diaries, articles, and speeches of these and other Blackwell family members.

Dates 1759-1960; Majority of material found within 1845-1890
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Charlotte Cushman Papers

Identifier: MSS17525
Abstract

Actress. Correspondence; biographical and genealogical material; annotated scripts and texts of plays, poetry, and readings; newspaper clippings; reviews; and souvenir programs relating chiefly to Cushman's career in the theater.

Dates 1823-1941; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1875)
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Henry L. Dawes Papers

Identifier: MSS17988
Abstract United States representative and senator from Massachusetts. Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, speeches, reports, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, photographs, citations, congressional commissions, scrapbooks, clippings, printed matter, and an incomplete biography of Dawes by his daughter, Anna Laurens Dawes. The collection documents mainly Dawes's career as a federal legislator and his work on issues relating to the American Indian, including his tenure as...
Dates 1833-1933; Majority of material found within 1833-1903
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William Dudley Foulke Papers

Identifier: MSS21170
Abstract Lawyer, public official, and author from Indiana. Correspondence, diaries, journals, copybook, speeches, writings, notes, legal papers, clippings, printed material, and other papers, including a late fifteenth century fragment of the Tristram Saga obtained by Arthur Middleton Reeves on a trip to Iceland. The bulk of the collection consists of Foulke's correspondence reflecting his literary career and public service, including letters from Theodore Roosevelt discussing civil service reform,...
Dates circa 1470-1952; Majority of material found within ( 1868-1935)
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Joshua R. Giddings and George Washington Julian Papers

Identifier: mm79022756
Abstract

United States representative from Ohio, abolitionist, and consul general to Canada (Joshua R. Giddings); United States representative from Indiana and biographer (George Washington Julian). Chiefly family letters of Giddings and Julian, together with some political correspondence. Topics include Ohio and Indiana politics and the abolition of slavery.

Dates 1839-1899
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Papers

Identifier: MSS26377
Abstract

Poet, essayist, physician, and educator. Correspondence and literary manuscripts in bound volumes.

Dates 1837-1931
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Louise Chandler Moulton Papers

Identifier: MSS33787
Abstract

Author. Chiefly letters received by Moulton from prominent literary figures in the United States, England, and Europe with some holograph poems. Also includes correspondence of the English poet John Marston and his son Philip Bourke Marston.

Dates 1852-1908
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National American Woman Suffrage Association Records

Identifier: MSS34132
Abstract

Founded in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Records comprising correspondence, a subject file relating chiefly to state and local suffrage organizations and leaders in the movement, scrapbooks prepared by Ida Porter Boyer documenting activities in the women's rights movement (1893-1912), and miscellaneous printed matter.

Dates 1839-1961; Majority of material found within 1890-1930
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers

Identifier: MSS41210
Abstract

Reformer, feminist, and suffragist. Correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Elizabeth Cady Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War, temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.

Dates 1814-1946; Majority of material found within 1840-1902