Robbins Gilman and family papers. 1699-2009.

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Robbins Gilman and family papers., 1699-2009.

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Robbins Gilman and family papers. 1699-2009.

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Correspondence, diaries, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, printed materials, genealogical information, and some early family papers of Robbins Gilman and his wife Catheryne Cooke Gilman of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also includes papers documenting the activities of their son Logan Drinker and his wife Rhoda Raasch Gilman and their daughters Betsy (Elizabeth) and Carolyn, and papers of Leonard O. and Rhoda (Kimbro) Raasch, Rhoda Gilman's parents. Papers from other family members and related families are also present.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6647115

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American friends service committee

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Civilian Public Service

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Gilman, Joseph

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Missouri Railway Construction Company.

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Gilman, Son and Company (New York, N.Y.).

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Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company

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Mason, Lewis and Company (Philadelphia, Pa.).

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National Motion Picture League.

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Noyes, Daniel Rogers, 1836-1908

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Businessman, civic leader, and philanthropist, of Saint Paul, Minn.; originally of Lyme, Conn.; partner in wholesale drug firm Noyes Brothers & Cutler (with brother Charles P. Noyes and Edward Cutler); married Helen Abia Gilman. From the description of Daniel Rogers Noyes collection, 1869-1908. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70954258 ...

White House Conference on Child Health and Protection

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Gilman, John Taylor, 1753-1828

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Minnesota State Conference of Social Work.

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American Association of Social Workers

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Roush family.

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Carroll, Nira Cooke.

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Citizen's League of Maryland for Better Motion Pictures (Baltimore, Md.).

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Mason, Martha Sprague.

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Waite, Edward F. (Edward Foote), 1860-1958.

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Raasch, Rhoda.

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Williams College

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Bureau of Social Hygiene (New York, N.Y.)

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Malin, Grace.

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North Platte Irrigation and Water Company (Hershey, Neb.).

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Gilman, Robbins, 1878-1955.

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The Gilman family collection includes the papers of several generations. Major family members represented in the collection include: Nicholas Gilman (1672-1741). Judge, farmer and merchant in Exeter, New Hampshire. Nicholas Gilman II (1707-1748), son of Nicholas Gilman. Graduate of Harvard (1724); ordained into ministry at Durham, New Hampshire, in 1742 and died there. Joseph Gilman (1738-1806), son of Nicholas Gilman [II]. Born in Exeter, New Ham...

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Gilman, Rhoda.

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Gilman, Arthur, 1837-1909

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Arthur Gilman was an author, editor, and founder of Radcliffe College. For biographical information, see Who Was Who in America. From the description of Scrapbook, 1876-1914 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009465 Arthur Gilman, banker, educator, and historian, was instrumental in founding Radcliffe College; he served as Secretary (1879-1894) and Regent (1894-1896). He was also founder (1886) of the Gilman School for Girls (later names: the Cambridge...

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Iguano Land and Mining Company (W. Va.).

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Gilman, Nicholas, 1707-1748.

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University Settlement Society of New York

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Dale, Edgar, 1900-....

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Davis, George

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National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (U.S.)

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Chase, William Sheafe, 1858-

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Gilman, William H.

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Federal Motion Picture Council in America.

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Raasch-Gilman, Betsy

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Gilman, Winthrop Sargent, 1808-1884

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Phi Sigma Debating Society (N.Y.).

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Drummond Hall (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Noyes Brothers & Cutler

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Drinker family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6015m1z (family)

Gilman family.

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Women's Co-operative Alliance (Minneapolis, Minn.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x97bx6 (corporateBody)

Halsted and Gilman (New York, N.Y.).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x43fc1 (corporateBody)

Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922

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James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, was a British writer, historian and statesman. Born in Belfast, he was educated at Glasgow University and later Oxford, he practiced law briefly, but returned to Oxford as a professor of civil law. He served in Parliament for many years, and held several government positions, including Ambassador to the United States. A renowned historian, he was also a productive writer of travel books, law tracts, and political theory. Universally admired and liked, an obituary...

International Council of Women.

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International Council of Women (ICW) founded in Washington, D.C., in 1888, as an international federation of national women's organizations. Later affiliated with the United Nations with headquarters in Paris. From the description of International Council of Women records, 1931-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981886 The International Council of Women, founded in 1888, is one of the pioneer women's international organizations. From the outset its aim was to form a Nati...

Edwards, Ninian Wirt

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Woman's christian temperance union

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Temperance organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. Campaigning against the use of alcohol and in favor of labor laws and prison reform, the W.C.T.U. became one of the largest and most influential women's organizations of the 19th century. It became global when the World W.C.T.U. was founded in 1883. The organization continued to exist through the 20th century, although membership declined after the passage of the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) in 1919. From the description of ...

Chase, Fern.

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National Committee for the Study of Social Values in Motion Pictures.

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Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6965f0z (corporateBody)

Raasch, Rhoda Kimbro.

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Scanlon, Charles, 1869-1927

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North East Neighborhood House (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Adams, James Truslow, 1878-1949

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Mormon missionary. From the description of Diary, 1900-1902. [photocopy]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122604696 James Truslow Adams was successful businessman who became a celebrated historian, writing chiefly about the history of early New England. In 1912, having worked for twelve years as a businessman in a New York brokerage house, Adams moved to Bridgehampton, L.I., and began writing. His first books--"Memorials of Old Bridgehampton" (1916) a...

Batopilas Mining Company

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Dartmouth College

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The celebration of the 150th anniversary of the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dartmouth College Case was held on April 9, 1969, in the Court of Claims, Washington, D.C.; the celebration also commemorated the career of Daniel Webster, the advocate who defended the case before the Supreme Court. During the ceremony Justice Earl Warren, Senator Thomas J. MacIntyre, and Dartmouth College President John Sloan Dickey spoke before an audience of legislators, jurists, historians, and alumni....

Cox, William F., d. 1939.

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Raasch family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z47hmt (family)

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d83477 (corporateBody)

WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...

Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1766-1833.

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Hayward, John S.

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National Indorsers of Photoplays (Indianapolis, Ind.).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6899pht (corporateBody)

Bennett, Anne

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Epithet: widow of J J Bennett British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x0000e5 ...

Gilman, Logan D. (Logan Drinker), 1918-1978.

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Baker, W. Elwood.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1831-1878

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Family members represented include Theodore Roosevelt (merchant); his wife, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt; his father, Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt; his mother, Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt; his uncles, John Redman Barnhill and Nicholas Roosevelt; his brothers, James Alfred Roosevelt and Robert Barnwell Roosevelt; and his children, Anna Roosevelt Cowles and President Theodore Roosevelt. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt family papers, 1810-1919 (bulk 1849-1877). (Unknown). Worl...

Payne Fund, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t47js7 (corporateBody)

Charitable fund which grew out of the National Committee for the Study of Juvenile Reading (founded in 1925 by Frances Payne Bolton). The fund initially supported studies and experiments on the needs of youth, focusing especially on children's literature and the effects of movies and radio on the values of children, and the development of radio as an educational tool. In addition to its support of various programs involving youth, the fund expanded its interests to include support for medical ed...

Rockefeller Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation was established in May 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, by act of the New York State Legislature, "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world". From its earliest years, several separate organizations and divisions have carried on the Foundation's work in carefully selected fields. In 1913, the International Health Board (originally the International Health Commission) was formed in order to extend the work of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradi...

Robbins Gilman and family papers. 1699-2009.

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