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Cornwall authors collection, 1848-1987, 1955-1987 (bulk)

Title: Cornwall authors collection, 1848-1987, 1955-1987 (bulk)

Collection concerns the lives and careers of local authors and consists primarily of clippings, research notes and correspondence, booklets, autobiographies, biographies, and bibliographies. Authors include Lyman Abbott, Djuna Barnes, Lewis Beach, Ameila Barr, Harriet Brent Jacobs, Edward Payson Roe, Henry H. Tryon, N. P. Willis, and David Sands. Collection also includes manuscript pages by Edward Payson Roe and a manuscript memoir by his sister on the Roe family in Cornwall, with photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155520827 View

New England Hospital for Women and Children. Records, 1792-1994

Title: New England Hospital for Women and Children Records 1792 - 1994

Women's hospital. This hospital was, for more than a century, a teaching hospital for women doctors and a place where women could receive treatment from them. It was the first hospital in Boston to offer obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics all in one facility. Material includes memoranda, written histories, photographs and scrapbooks. Also documented are such topics as a 1915 controversy over abortion, using chloroform as an anesthetic, and African American interns. The collection includes several hundred letters collected for their autograph value for fund-raising fairs. The letters do not relate to the Hospital; content includes woman suffrage, abolition, freedmen's education, literature, and Civil War relief. Notable correspondents include: Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lydia Maria Child, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

ArchivalResource: 27 boxes; (9.5 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss55.html View

Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers 1851-1868 Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers

Title: Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers 1851-1868 Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers

The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers consist of documents generated by the society as well as correspondence to and from various members of the society about slavery, the conditions of freemen, and other progressive issues.

ArchivalResource: 100 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2084roc?rgn=main;view=text View

Thurmond, Connie R. A Dixie dichotomy : Civil War voices of black and white women / by Connie R. Thurmond.

Title: A Dixie dichotomy : Civil War voices of black and white women / by Connie R. Thurmond. 2001.

ArchivalResource: vii, 87 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428737126 View

Wilbur, Julia, 1815-1895. Papers, 1843-1908.

Title: Papers, 1843-1908.

Papers consist primarily of diaries which begin in 1844, when Wilbur began teaching. The diaries also reflect her involvement in the abolitionist and later suffrage and women's rights movements. They speak as well of her work in the U.S. Patent Office. In particular, they inform concerning the pattern of her family life, and close working relationship with Harriet Jacobs, a former slave, in aid to contrabands and acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. In addition, there are some diaries by Wilbur's sister, Mary L. Van Buskirk and 2 photos of Julia Wilbur.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27385929 View

Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers, 1851-1868.

Title: Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers, 1851-1868.

The Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society papers consist of documents generated by the society as well as correspondence to and from various members of the society about slavery, the conditions of freemen, and other progressive issues.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/681499445 View

New England Hospital for Women and Children. Records, 1792-1994

Title: New England Hospital for Women and Children Records 1792 - 1994

Women's hospital. This hospital was, for more than a century, a teaching hospital for women doctors and a place where women could receive treatment from them. It was the first hospital in Boston to offer obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics all in one facility. Material includes memoranda, written histories, photographs and scrapbooks. Also documented are such topics as a 1915 controversy over abortion, using chloroform as an anesthetic, and African American interns. The collection includes several hundred letters collected for their autograph value for fund-raising fairs. The letters do not relate to the Hospital; content includes woman suffrage, abolition, freedmen's education, literature, and Civil War relief. Notable correspondents include: Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lydia Maria Child, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier.

ArchivalResource: 27 boxes; (9.5 linear ft.)

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