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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907
Variant namesElizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was president of the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (1882-1894), first president of Radcliffe 1894-1900, and then honorary president, 1900-1903. ECA guided the college through its early years. She negotiated the permanent institutional tie with Harvard and the incorporation of Radcliffe College in 1894 as a degree-granting agency. Her addresses at "parlor meetings" elicited substantial support for the college and made possible the purchase of properties bordering on Brattle, Mason, Garden, Streets and Appian Way which eventually formed the Radcliffe Yard, and the Phillips and Bemis estate on Concord Avenue which was laid out by her nephew Guy Lowell as the dormitory quadrangle. The funds for Agassiz House were raised largely by the Agassiz family as an eightieth birthday tribute in 1902, and became the student center and third permanent building in the Yard. From the guide to the Papers, 1879-1978, (Radcliffe College Archives, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)
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| referencedIn | Sarah Orne Jewett correspondence, 1861-1930. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Higginson, Henry Lee, 1834-1919. Papers, 1906-1909 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887) | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1856-1859 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Parkman family papers, 1793-1896 | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Forbes, Edith Emerson, 1841-1930. Papers, n.d. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz letter, undated | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| referencedIn | Mary Tappan Wright letters, 1822-1916. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Crosby family. Papers, 1828-1877. | Massachusetts Historical Society | |
| creatorOf | Childs, George William, 1829-1894. George William Childs papers [manuscript], 1882-1892. | University of Virginia. Library | |
| referencedIn | Felton, Emma W. Aunt Lizzie, 1907. | Boston Athenaeum | |
| referencedIn | Lamb, Rosamond. Papers, 1840-1911 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, (inclusive), (bulk), 1887-1980, 1917-1945 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Adelaide Davis Album of Remembrance 1859-1864 1859-1861 Davis, Adelaide Album of Remembrance | William L. Clements Library | |
| referencedIn | Horace Elisha Scudder correspondence | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Houghton family correspondence concerning Henry Oscar Houghton biography, 1878-1931. | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Saraiva, José Antônio, 1823-1895. Papers of Thayer Expedition to Brazil, 1865-1866 (bulk). | Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| creatorOf | Joraleman, Mary E. Beaman,. [Scrap-book of clippings, mainly relating to Louis Agassiz and the Anderson School of Natural History at Penikese Island in 1873, compiled by Mrs. Eugene Joraleman (Mary E. Beaman) 1873-75]. | University of California, Bancroft Library, ARL | |
| referencedIn | Autograph File, A, 1518-2002. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Briggs, Elizabeth, 1863-1937. Papers of Elizabeth Briggs, 1883-1937 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858. Papers, 1809-1942 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, 1822-1807. Papers, 1884. | Boston Athenaeum | |
| referencedIn | Williamson, M. B. (Martha Burton). M. B. Williamson papers, 1887-1927. | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Records of Radcliffe College President Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, 1879-1978 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Office of the President. Records of the Office of the President, 1884-1999 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Stewart, Francis B., Mrs.,. Mrs. Francis B. Stewart collection [manuscript], 1745-1918. | University of Virginia. Library | |
| referencedIn | Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk) | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Harvard University Archives Photograph Collection: Portraits, ca. 1852-ca. 2004 | Harvard University Archives. | |
| referencedIn | Burt Green Wilder papers, 1841-1925 | Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. | |
| referencedIn | Letters to Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, 1863-1882. | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908. Papers, 1888-1903 | Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society | |
| referencedIn | Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858. Papers, 1809-1949 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | James Freeman Clarke additional papers, 1806-1936. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria, 1890-2019, bulk 1890-1955 | Harvard University, Gray Herbarium | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean. Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1977 (inclusive), | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Portrait file: Guide. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Holman, Anna Eveleth, 1892-1969. Papers, 1893-1967 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Letterbooks, 1789-1866 | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | John Tetlow papers, 1858-1912. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Cabot, Ella Lyman. Papers, 1855-1934 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Howe family papers, 1819-1910. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874 | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Records, 1859-1984 (inclusive), 1859-1946 (bulk). | Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| referencedIn | Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909. Scrapbook, 1876-1914 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Thomas Bailey Aldrich papers, 1837-1926. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Curtis, Caroline Gardiner Cary, 1827-1917. Memories of fifty years in the last century : written for her grandchildren, 1909. | Massachusetts Historical Society | |
| creatorOf | Papers and correspondence, 1884-1959 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Charles Eliot Norton papers | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Museum of Comparative Zoology collection of portraits, 1850-1950 (bulk). | Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| referencedIn | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Correspondence and other papers, 1821-1877 | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Wright, Chauncey, 1830-1875. Papers, 1850-1875 | American Philosophical Society | |
| referencedIn | Wendell family papers | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College Archives biography files, 1855-2007 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | The Naval History Society Collection, 1721-1995 (bulk 1781-1936) | New-York Historical Society | |
| referencedIn | Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Letter announcing the opening of a school for young ladies, 1855. | Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1826-1880 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1889-1979 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Shaw family. Letters received, 1859-1940. | Boston Athenaeum | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College autograph collection, 1705-1946 (inclusive), 1881-1946 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Rogers Memorial Collection: Papers of James R. Osgood and A. V. S. Anthony, 1853-1912. | Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University | |
| referencedIn | Mark Anthony De Wolfe Howe additional papers | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Samuel Gray Ward and Anna Hazard Barker Ward papers, 1823-1934 (inclusive) 1837-1900 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Markham, Jeanette, 1862-1932. Scrapbook, 1885-1889 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Paine, Elsie Miriam. Additional papers, 1900-1948 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Letter [1849 November 29?], Cambridge [Mass.], to "Dear Sir" [i.e. G. Ticknor?, n.p.]. | Dartmouth College Library | |
| referencedIn | Barrows family papers, 1861-1931. | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910. [Typescript of annotations by Alexander Agassiz and Elizabeth Agassiz in the MCZ Library Special Collections copy of Jules Marcou's "Life, letters, and works of Louis Agassiz," 2 v. (1896)], ca. 1935? | Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| creatorOf | Cary family. Papers II, 1778-1933, bulk: 1811-1900. | Massachusetts Historical Society | |
| referencedIn | Records of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RG IX, Series 1-6), 1887-1990 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1960-1972 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1873-1934 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Houghton Mifflin Company contracts, 1831-1979 (inclusive) 1880-1940 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Letter, 1903 January 21, Cambridge, Mass. to Mr. Rugg. | Dartmouth College Library | |
| referencedIn | Howe, Julia Ward, family. Papers, 1787-1984 (bulk 1787-1944) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Papers, 1884-1959 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Daguerreotype, ca. 1842? | Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| referencedIn | Adams, Alice Norton. Papers, 1903-1989 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858. Ellis Gray Loring Family papers, 1828-1923 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Governing Board Records, 1878-1999 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Almy family. Papers, 1649-1984 (inclusive), 1832-1984 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Sebastian B. (Sebastian Benson) Schlesinger papers, 1787-1901 (inclusive), 1870-1897 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | John Chipman Gray correspondence | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | William James correspondence, 1856-1910. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1871-1957 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Papers, 1838-1907, 1918-1920 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College Archives art collection, 1842-2004 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. [Letter] [between 1861-1865] Oct. 28, [to] Henry [Lee]. | Boston Athenaeum | |
| referencedIn | Agassiz family. Papers of the Agassiz family, 1817-1910 (inclusive), 1847-1910 (bulk) [microform]. | Harvard University, Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Alumnae Association. Records of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association, 1887-2004 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1828-1919 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1855-1934. Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1903-1925 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Papers, 1838-1920 (inclusive), 1838-1908 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Paine, Elsie Miriam. Papers of Elsie Miriam Paine, 1904-1972 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIf, 1866-1886 | American Philosophical Society | |
| referencedIn | Elizabeth Gaskell Norton and Sara Norton papers, 1867-1948 (inclusive), 1880-1946 (bulk). | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Arnold Guyot Collection, 1857-1882 | American Philosophical Society | |
| creatorOf | Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914. Papers, 1854-1915 and undated. | Duke University, Medical Center Library & Archives | |
| referencedIn | May family. Papers of the May and Goddard families, 1766-1912 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Allen, Annie Ware Winsor, 1865-1955. Papers of Annie Ware Winsor Allen, 1884-1950 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Professor Agassiz's school [list of pupils], 1883. | Boston Athenaeum | |
| referencedIn | Twisleton-Dwight-Parkman-Vaughan family papers, ca. 1800-1900 | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | MacDuffie, Abbie Parsons, 1860-. Papers, 1902-1908 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Emerson family correspondence, ca. 1725-1900. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Records of the Office of the Dean, 1894-1965 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884. Correspondence, 1857-1882. | American Philosophical Society Library | |
| referencedIn | Joralemon, Mary E. Mary E. Joralemon papers, 1873. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College governing boards records, 1878-1999 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Class collections, 1890-1989 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1822-1985 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Letters to William James from various correspondents and photograph album, 1865-1929. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Additional papers, ca. 1870-1922. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Hardon, Cora Burr, ca.1885-1939. Papers, 1939-1951 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Isabella Stewart Gardner papers | Archives of American Art |
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