Records, 1939-1992

Bunting, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998

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Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of th...

Saltonstall, Leverett, 1892-1979

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Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892 – June 17, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts. He served three two-year terms as the 55th Governor of Massachusetts, and for more than twenty years as a United States Senator (1945–1967). Saltonstall was internationalist in foreign policy and moderate on domestic policy, serving as a well-liked mediating force in the Republican Party. He was the only member of the Republican Senate leadership to vote for the censure of Joseph...

Window Shop (Cambridge, Mass.)

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The Window Shop (1939-1972) was a store located in Cambridge, Massachusetts created by a small group of women wanting to help immigrants fleeing Europe. It was originally located in a room on the second floor of 37 Church Street and was named for the room's large window. One of these women was Elsa Brändström Ulich, a Swedish-immigrant nurse and philanthropist. In 1939, four women opened the Window Shop at 37 Church Street with a combined sum of 65 dollars to aid immigrants fleeing German-occ...

Smith, Margaret Earhart, 1902-1960

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Margaret Earhart was born in Evanston, Illinois, on February 3, 1902, the daughter of Harry Boyd and Carrie (Beal) Earhart. After graduation from Vassar College in 1923 ME was involved with a number of journalistic pursuits in Ann Arbor, including research for a book on Emily Bronte, which included travel abroad. Teaching and psychiatric counselling were also part of ME's early work experience. In February 1926 she married Dr. Clement Andrew Smith (b. 1901), a pediatrician. They ha...

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary taste...

Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey, 1888-1981

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Dorothy Browning Kirchwey was born in Albany, New York, on September 3, 1888, to Dora Child Wendell and George Washington Kirchwey. She was one of four children: Mary Fredericka "Freda" (1893-1976), Karl (1885?-1943) and George Washington (1897?-1905). The elder George Washington Kirchwey (1855-1942) was a noted criminologist, law professor, and dean at Albany Law School and Columbia Law School, as well as a New York State commissioner on prison reform and warden at the Sing Sing state prison in...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

O'Neill, Tip, 1912-1994

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Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr., in full Thomas Phillip O’Neill, Jr., byname Tip O’Neill, (born December 19, 1912, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.—died January 5, 1994, Boston, Massachusetts), American politician who served as a Democratic representative from Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives (1953–87) and as speaker of the House (1977–86). He was a tireless advocate for social causes, and he frequently expressed his belief that it is the responsibility of the government to contribute to ...

Aub, Elizabeth Cope

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Fremont-Smith, Frances

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Lyons, Louis Martin, 1897-1982

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Lyons (1897-1982) served as Curator of Nieman Fellowships at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Louis M. Lyons, 1957-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973105 ...

Harken, Anne

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Brändström, Elsa, 1888-1948

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Elsa Brändström, a relief worker born in Russia, was of Swedish descent and worked with the Swedish Red Cross in Russia on behalf of prisoners of war (1914-1920). She married Robert Ulich in 1929; they emigrated to the United States in 1934, when he joined the Harvard School of Education. Elsa Brändström was second president of the Window Shop (Cambridge, Mass.), an organization for refugees, and founder of Good Will House, Groton, Mass., a refugee hostel. She received honorary doctorates fr...

Rabb, Irving W. 1913-2011

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Emerson, William, 1873-1957

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Cannon, Bernice

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Macomber, George

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Bever, Marion

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Bieringer, Walter

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Dahl, Dorothy

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Brooks, Susan

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Wolfinsohn, Sally

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Broch, Alice Perutz

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Cabot, Thomas D. (Thomas Dudley), 1897-1995

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Smith, Clement A. (Clement Andrew), 1901-1988

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Clement Andrew Smith (1901-1998) was a pediatrician at Boston Lying-In Hospital, later known as Boston Hospital for Women and then Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Mass. Smith's research focused on newborn infants including fetal and neonatal physiology, perinatalogy, including maternal malnutrition; and the effect of humidity on water balance and respiration. Smith's research contributed to the founding of the specialty of neonatalogy in the 1960s. From the description of Pa...

Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft

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Historian and civic worker (Ohio State University, Columbus, B.A., 1910) Schlesinger was chairman of the Committee on Education of the Cambridge (Mass.) League of Women Voters, on the board of the American Association of University Women of Boston, the Cambridge Public Library, and the Radcliffe Women's Archives (which became the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America), and wrote articles and gave talks on women's history. She married historian Arthur Meier S...

Cambridge Center for Adult Education

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Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965

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Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Director of the FBI. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Arthur William Brown, 1941 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555861 John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force. He promoted scientific investigation of crime, the collection and analysis of fingerprints and the hiring and ...

Taft, Arthur N?

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Friendship House (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Vorenberg, Frank

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Fainsod, Elizabeth

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Kepes, György (1906-2001).

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Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001) was a painter and educator from Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Oral history interview with Gyorgy Kepes, 1972 Mar. 7-1973 Jan. 11 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596647 From the description of Oral history interview with Gyorgy Kepes, 1968 Aug. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 779477499 Gyorgy Kepes; artist and aesthetic theorist; born 1906 in Selyp, Hungary; taught at New Bauhaus in Chicago and at Massachuse...

New England Christian Committee for Refugees.

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MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-

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MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitizer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard. From the guide to the Plays, 1957-1968., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor of Rhetoric...

Cope, Alice DeNormandie

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Sanborn, Agnes Goldman, 1887-1984.

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Agnes Goldman Sanborn was born in New York City on August 30, 1887, the youngest daughter of Julius and Sarah Adler Goldman. Active in civic and humanitarian causes, Sanborn (Bryn Mawr, B.A., 1909; Columbia University, M.A., 1913; New York University, Ph.D. in bacteriology, 1923) joined the Red Cross in WWI, was a bacteriologist in Palestine (1918-1919), and worked at the New York Board of Health and the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. She was active in the United Jewish Appeal in the...

Singer, Gertrude

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Mongan, Agnes

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Agnes Mongan, art historian, curator and director at Fogg Art Museum. From the description of Oral history interview with Agnes Mongan, 1979 June 19-Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 657039442 From the description of Agnes Mongan interviews, 1979 June 19-Aug. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646397418 b. 1905, Somerville, Mass.; d. Sept. 15, 1996, Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum o...

Jones, Bessie Zaban

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Bessie Zaban was born in 1898 in Atlanta, Ga., the daughter of Austrian immigrants. She married Howard Mumford Jones; they had eight children. During World War II she worked with the Window Shop, an organization that assisted Jewish refugees from Europe; later she worked for Harvard University Press and wrote three books. She died in 1997. From the description of Papers, 1984-1997 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122561831 ...

Kroto, H J

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Wyzanski, Gisela Warburg

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Mohrer, Mary

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