Correspondence of Olive Helms Mulholland, 1881-1911.

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Correspondence of Olive Helms Mulholland, 1881-1911.

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Correspondence of Olive Helms Mulholland: her letters to her husband and daughter and letters to her from her parents, in-laws, sisters, college friends, and colleagues in YWCA and church groups. The correspondence describe various aspects of women's lives in the Midwest and Southern California: professional activities, charity and church work, etc. The letters from her father, R. E. Helms, contain accounts of his various business pursuits. The letters from her daughter Rachel Isabel Mulholland Cramer describe her studies at Knox College and Mills College in California.

1,295 pieces, also ephemera.12 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Cramer, Rachel Isabel Mulholland

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Mulholland, Elgin McCormick, 1875-1904

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Mills College

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Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.)

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Helms, R. E.

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Mulholland, Olive Helms

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Olive Helms Mulholland was the oldest daughter of Belle and R.E. Helms, a Midwestern family who settled in San Diego in the early 1900s. Olive attended Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. in 1896 and 1897. In 1900, Olilve Helms married Elgin McCormick Mulhulland (1875-1904), a native of Pittsburgh. Their daughter Rachel Isabel was born in 1902.The Mulhollands lived in Montana, Colorado, and Washington. When Mulholland died of tuberculosis, his widow taught a black school in Alabama and later worked ...