Amelia Bloomer papers, 1820-1972.

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Amelia Bloomer papers, 1820-1972.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155401917

Manuscripts (with typescripts) about women's questions, suffrage, employment, temperance, and female education; letters to Bloomer from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others; phrenological charts for Dexter C. Bloomer and Amelia Bloomer; materials relating to the Bloomer's 50th anniversary in 1890; manuscripts and correspondence of Dexter C. Bloomer; various papers on Amelia Bloomer; clippings; autograph album, 1839; correspondence concerning loans of Bloomer material to the Seneca Falls Historical Society from Bloomer family members, 1940-1951; and miscellaneous papers.

1.2 cubic ft.

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Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 1818-1894

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Amelia Jenks Bloomer was an early suffragist, editor, and social activist. Bloomer was also a fashion advocate who worked to change women’s clothing styles. Bloomer was born in Homer, New York. With only a few years of formal education, she started working as a teacher, educating students in her community. In 1840, she married David Bloomer and moved to Seneca Falls, New York. Bloomer quickly became active in the Seneca Falls political and social community. She joined a church and volunteered...