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Sophia Smith Collection. Biography collection, 1771-1995 (bulk 1920s-70s).

Title: Biography collection, 1771-1995 (bulk 1920s-70s).

This collection consists of biographical material related to both well-known and unknown women and men whose lives spanned the years from 1771-1970s. For the most part, there is only a small amount of material on each individual. Files are organized alphabetically by name. Materials typically include published and unpublished biographical sketches, books, correspondence, diaries, genealogies, newspaper clippings, photographs, and published and unpublished writings. Angela Davis' file also contains legal documents, memoranda, postcards, political buttons, leaflets, petitions, newsletters, trial bulletins, press releases, and political cartoons. Other notable individuals represented include Mary McLeod Bethune, Bernard Baruch, Lizzie Borden, Grace Coolidge, Mary Daly, Hannah Dustin, Dorothy Gish, Julia Ward Howe, Anne Hutchinson, Mother Jones, Helen Keller, Florynce Kennedy, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Rosa Luxemburg, Marie Antoinette, Margaret Mead, Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Victoria Woodhull. Some lesser-known individuals include interesting and significant material as well, such as Ferdinanda Wesselhoeft's personal letters detailing daily life in Germany during the period 1842-1884; the letters and journals of Anna Green Winslow and Mary Hutchinson Parmele dating from the 1770s and 1780s; and correspondence to Ethel Clyde from such famous individuals as Pearl Buck, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, Pauli Murray, Norman Thomas, Mary van Kleeck, Margaret Sanger, and A.J. Muste. Files on Eleanor Roosevelt include published articles and pamphlets by and about her, and correspondence to Gertrude Foster Brown, Eva Hansl, Carrie Chapman Catt, Dorothy Ainsworth, and others. Finally the collection contains a small number of collected biographies including those that document the lives of women associated with Princeton University, White House brides, "women who wanted to be men," and living daughters of presidents.

ArchivalResource: 6.25 linear ft. (17 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49516938 View

Papers, [ca. 1887-1980]

Title: Papers, [ca. 1887-1980]

Papers consist largely of correspondence to and from Helen Keller, as well as some correspondence between others about Keller. Correspondents include her companions Anne Sullivan Macy (and Anne's husband, John Albert Macy) and Polly Thomson (Mary Agnes Thomson); Alexander Graham Bell, Katharine Cornell, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Twain, family members, and many others. These concern foreign travel, work, personal and other matters. Many letters from admirers, 1893-1966, requesting photographs of Keller and offering admiration of her books and work, etc. are included with copies of responses, mostly from Keller's secretaries, particularly from Evelyn Davidson Seide. Also included are clippings about Keller, 1933-1980, manuscripts of many of her books and other writings, books inscribed to her, and inscribed by her to others, some of Polly Thomson's books, and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: ca. 69 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155472893 View

Sullivan, Annie, 1866-1936. Letters, 1887-1902.

Title: Letters, 1887-1902.

The letters in this collection were written by Miss Sullivan to Anagnos between 1887 and 1902 and provide much information relative to Helen Keller's progress in reading, writing, and speaking during her early life in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Included are details of methods used to educate her, the gradual development of her disposition, imagination, and literary abilities, the publication of her first stories (including several letters detailing the plagiarism furor over the "Frost King"), and many remarks on Helen's troubled homelife, e.g. her mother's inadequacies and her father's financial difficulties. Also included is Miss Sullivan's instruction schedule, quotations from passages written by her student, details of their trips to Washington, D.C. and Boston, Massachusetts, and references to the financial affairs of the Perkins Institute. Several letters refer to Miss Sullivan's use of telegraphy as a means of communication with the handicapped, her feelings concerning her contributions as a woman to special education, and her opinions on the education of the deaf.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (38 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/218559021 View

Gibson, William, 1914-2008. The miracle worker / [by William Gibson,] 2010.

Title: The miracle worker / [by William Gibson,] 2010.

Typescript, undated .

ArchivalResource: 73 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680333688 View

Keller, Helen, 1880-1968. Papers, 1900-1971 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1900-1971 (inclusive).

Correspondence, clippings, photos, programs and biographical material. Included are fundraising letters for the American Foundation for the Blind written by Keller; other correspondence by her; letters by Ella J. Spooner and others that discuss Keller's experiences and difficulties at Radcliffe; a 1910 poem by Keller; and an itinerary from a 1947 trip she took to the Far East.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006679 View

Keller, Helen, 1880-1968. Papers, 1903.

Title: Papers, 1903.

Inscription by Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Mansfield Sullivan photocopied from Keller's autobiography which was presented to Charles T. Copeland; also letter from John Macy to Copeland which was slipped into the volume.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122357520 View

Sullivan, Annie, 1866-1936. Letter, 1902.

Title: Letter, 1902.

Autograph letter to Mr. Alexander re: Keller's writings.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007368 View

Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943. Correspondence, ca.1856-1943 (inclusive), 1920-1943 (bulk).

Title: Correspondence, ca.1856-1943 (inclusive), 1920-1943 (bulk).

Primarily letters to Alexander Woollcott c oncerning life in the film industry and theater in the New York and London, from authors and actors, including Irving Berlin, Willa Cather, Charles Chaplin, Noel Coward, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Moss Hart, Jerome Kern, Margaret Mitchell, Edward R. Murrow, Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, and Thornton Wilder, among many others. Also includes letters from his radio broadcasts listeners, correspondence concerning his alumnus activities at Hamilton College, and correspondence with Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan and his associations with the Seeing Eye and Talking Books for the Blind. Collection also contains clippings, photographs, expense accounts, and copies of court documents.

ArchivalResource: 27 boxes and 11 v. (22.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82211106 View

The Notable Women of Boston, 1980

Title: The Notable Women of Boston

Portfolio of published drawings of notable women of Boston by Ellen Lanyon; also original sketch of Lucy Stone. The Notable Women of Boston was a publication issued by Workingmens Co-operative Bank in commemoration of their 100th and Boston's 350th anniversary.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990015004500203941/catalog View

Helen Keller photograph collection, [ca. 1881-1967]

Title: Helen Keller photograph collection, [ca. 1881-1967]

Photographs consist largely of views of Helen Keller from childhood to old age engaged in many activities including reading braille, touching things, dancing, receiving awards, on foreign trips, and with pets. Also included are photographs of Keller's companions Polly Thomson and Anne Sullivan Macy; Macy's husband John Albert Macy; members of the Keller family including Helen Keller's parents Arthur Keller and Kate Keller; and Helen Keller with various friends and celebrities including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, Jo Davidson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Katharine Cornell, and others. Also included are photographs of Keller's houses in Tuscumbia, Ala. where whe spent her childhood, Westport, Conn., Wrentham, Mass., and other locations; sculptures of Keller, and her funeral.

ArchivalResource: ca. 8 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155472865 View

Biography Collection MS 393., 1771-1995, 1920-1970

Title: Biography Collection 1771-1995 1920-1970

This collection consists of biographical material on both famous and lesser-known women and men. For the most part, there is only a small amount of material on each individual. Materials typically include published and unpublished biographical sketches, books, correspondence, diaries, genealogies, photographs, and published and unpublished writings.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes; 10 volumes; (6.25 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss82.html View

Nancy Hamilton Papers MS 189., 1862-1992, 1952-1959

Title: Nancy Hamilton Papers 1862-1992 1952-1959

Playwright, Lyricist, Actress, Producer. Collection includes correspondence; promotional material; scripts (some in braille); photographs; original film footage and soundtrack chiefly relating to filming, production and distribution of the Oscar winning documentary film (1955). Included are research files, biographical information, correspondence and other papers relating to Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan, actress Katharine Cornell, Keller's companion Polly Thomson, and her friend Adele Levy. Of particular interest is original film footage from the production, including trims and out-takes, stills, sound recordings, and footage from other sources. Almost half of the footage has been reformatted to DVD and CD for preservation and research use. Helen Keller in Her Story

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes; (27 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss476.html View

Keller, Helen, 1880-1968. TLS, 1936 November 24, Forest Hills, New York, to Miss Henrietta W. Slicer, Baltimore, Maryland.

Title: TLS, 1936 November 24, Forest Hills, New York, to Miss Henrietta W. Slicer, Baltimore, Maryland.

Written to a longtime supporter following the death, that year, of Anne Sullivan her friend and teacher of nearly 50 years "...Out of the darkness in which she died and I still am living I thank you, O friend, for the joy of lending a helping hand to those whose eyes seek light in vain..."

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 26.5 x 18.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27389602 View