Bessie Boies Cotton Papers 1881-1983

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Bessie Boies Cotton Papers 1881-1983

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YWCA overseas official. The bulk of the Bessie Boies Cotton Papers focus on her work in the YWCA, particularly during her time in Russia, and the courtship between Cotton and her husband, Thomas. Cotton's papers provide valuable insight into the work of the YWCA in Russia from 1917 to 1919 as well as the conditions in Russia during the Revolution and World War I. Although Cotton worked with several women's rights organizations and groups devoted to promoting peace, there is little evidence of that work in this collection. Material includes correspondence, diaries, reports, writings, family histories, memorabilia, and photographs.

5 boxes; (1.5 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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Cotton, Bessie Boies, 1880-1959

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YWCA overseas official. Boies began work with the National YWCA in 1910. In 1917, Russian women invited the YWCA to help working women organize themselves for their new role in society. Boies helped set up the first association in Petrograd, then Moscow and other cities. Political upheavals of 1918 led to the evacuation of Americans from Bolshevik-controlled Russia and Boies made her way to northern Russia where she set up box-car canteens for U.S. troops. While in Russia she met Thomas Cotton a...

Cotton, Thomas Lucius, 1891-1964

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World Young Women's Christian Association

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