Ball-Bartlett-Fitch family papers, 1889-1992.

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Bartlett, Eliot Fitch. Ball-Bartlett-Fitch family papers, 1889-1992.

Ball-Bartlett-Fitch family papers, 1889-1992.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692455

Papers compiled by Eliot Fitch Bartlett of various members of the Ball, Bartlett, and Fitch families of Milwaukee (Wis.) and Massachusetts spanning three generations and consisting of correspondence, news clippings, genealogical materials, and photographs. The papers reflect Eliot Fitch Bartlett's involvement in local politics, social activism, and veterans' affairs including his membership in the American Veterans Committee and the Concord (Mass.) Democratic Town Committee. The correspondence between family members comprises the bulk of the collection documenting life among a socially prominent, upper-middle class family from the 1920s until the 1970s and concerns school experiences, women's suffrage, vacations, family events, and daily life. Also included are numerous news clippings and other biographical materials about individual family members particularly Eliot Fitch Bartlett's mother, Ruth Fitch Mason (1890-1974), a Milwaukee native and respected poet, and her mother, Eliza Eliot Fitch. In addition, there is one box of photographs consisting of individual and group photographs of Eliot F. Bartlett, Ruth Mason, Grant Fitch, Walter Scott Bartlett, Jr., and the Fitch home in Milwaukee as well as other miscellaneous and unidentified photographs. Finally, there is a small amount of genealogical materials for the Allis, Cobb, Robbins, Laning, Mason, Moore, and Whetten families.

2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes) and81 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project