Dodge, Jane Gay, 1881-1963.

E. Jane Gay, 1830-1919, the aunt of Jane Gay Dodge, is the central figure in this collection. Gay ran schools, worked (1861-1865) with Dorothea L. Dix (1802-1887), crusader for the mentally ill and superintendent of army nurses during the Civil War, and accompanied Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), who as special agent for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, apportioned tribal lands among the Winnebagos of Nebraska and the Nez Percés of Idaho. Gay was the official photographer for the expedition (1889-1893). Fletcher and Dix are both included in Notable American Women (1971).

From the description of Papers, 1861-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006576