Lucy Maynard Salmon papers, 1818-1976, 1887-1927 (bulk).
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Lucy Maynard Salmon papers, 1818-1976, 1887-1927 (bulk).
Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, publications, clippings, reminiscences, genealogy, and photographs concerning the Vassar College History Dept., teaching history, woman's suffrage movement, the University of Michigan, Falley Seminary, Fulton, N.Y., domestic science, historical research methods, and other personal and profession issues. Correspondents include Caroline E. Page Salmon, Pomeroy Lyman Salmon, George Salmon, Lucy Ella Maynard Sloss, and other family members, 1859-1926; Henry Noble MacCracken, James Monroe Taylor, Louise Fargo Brown, Eloise Ellery, C. Mildred Thompson, and other Vassar associates, 1887-1927; Edith Rickert, Amelia MacDonald Cutler, Helena Grow Rottschaefer, and other Vassar students, 1890-1927; James Burrell Angell, Katharine Lee Bates, George Lincoln Burr, Alice Freeman Palmer, M. Carey Thomas, Lelia Y. Burt, H.V. Clulow, Rachel Larrabee, Gertrude H. Mason, and other educational and political contemporaries, 1870-1927; Adelaide Underhill, Vassar College Librarian with whom Salmon shared a house, 1894-1927, and condolence letters to Underhill on Salmon's death, 1927-1931; and round-robin letters from student social groups at the University of Michigan, "Q. Ceekers," and at Bryn Mawr, "The Learned Six," 1874-1893. There are also minutes, reports, notes, pamphlets, clippings, curriculum materials, and some correspondence relating to her Vassar College duties, teaching history, professional organizations such as the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, American Association of University Women, and the American Historical Association, home economics and domestic science, and women's rights and suffrage, 1863-1926. Papers of her mother, Maria Clara Maynard Salmon, include class notes, ca. 1834, diaries and account books, 1840-1863, and correspondence with Miranda Smith Belden, George Salmon, James B. Maynard, Frederick W. Lyman, and Lucy Piper Maynard, 1831-1861.
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