Mary Ann Bickerdyke papers, 1847-1905

Collection Summary

Title	Mary Ann Bickerdyke papers, 1847-1905
Inclusive Dates	1847-1905
ID No.	MSS19224
Creator	Bickerdyke, Mary Ann, 1817-1901
Extent	1,800 items
Extent	5 containers
Extent	2 linear feet
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010292
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm73019224
Summary	Nurse, agent for the United States Sanitary Commission, and pension attorney. Correspondence, lists, draft memoirs, printed matter, and other papers relating to Bickerdyke's family, her work as a Civil War nurse and agent for the United States Sanitary Commission, and her activities on behalf of Civil War veterans in the years following the war.
Online Content	The papers of Mary Ann Bickerdyke are available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000057. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available. A transcription dataset from "'Such Eventful Times': Women and the American Civil War" that includes transcripts from the Mary Ann Bickerdyke Papers is available online at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2023527887.