Records, 1951-1959 (inclusive).

O'Reilly, Leonora, 1870-1927

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Leonora O'Reilly was a labor leader, social reformer, a suffragist and peace activist. She was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on February 16, 1870; the youngest of two children born to John O'Reilly, a printer, and Winifred (Rooney) O'Reilly, a garment worker. Her parents were Irish immigrants who used their earnings to open a grocery store, which did not succeed. Shortly thereafter their son died, followed by the death of John O'Reilly in 1871, leaving Leonora O'Reilly and her mother ...

American Association of University Women

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According to the The American Association of University Women's website, the AAUW is a nationwide network for the advancement of equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research. From the guide to the The American Association of University Women, 1937-1994, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) Based in Washington, D.C. From the description of American Association of University Women records, 1935-1955. (Unkno...

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activ...

Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973

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Alma Lutz (1890–1973) was an American feminist and activist for equal rights and woman suffrage. She was also the biographer of key women in the women's rights movement. Alma Lutz was born in Jamestown, North Dakota to Mathilde (Bauer) and George Lutz in 1890. She attended the Emma Willard School (class 1908) and then went to Vassar College. At Vassar she was active in the feminist movement and after graduation in 1912 she went back to North Dakota where she continued campaigning for women's ...

Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923

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Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented Native American culture. She credited Frederic Ward Putnam for stimulating her interest in Native American culture. From 1881, Fletcher was involved with the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, an Indian boarding school with a primary objective of assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture. In 1881, Fletcher traveled to live with and ...

Radcliffe College Seminar on Women.

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The Seminar on Women, also known as the Workshop on Women, began as a joint project of the Radcliffe Seminars and the Women's Archives (now the Schlesinger Library) in 1951. It was a group of women scholars who met bi-monthly to present and discuss papers on topics in women's history. The group disbanded in 1960. From the description of Records, 1951-1959 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006814 ...

Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)

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The Association of Collegiate Alumnae was founded in Boston (1882) to unite alumnae of various colleges for educational work. From the description of Records, 1919-1921 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007754 In 1882 Marion Talbot, Alice Freeman (Palmer), Alice Hayes, Ellen Swallow Richards, and thirteen other women met in Boston to establish the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, uniting college graduates for "practical educational work...

Treat, Priscilla Gough, 1898-1975.

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Public relations expert. Graduated from Radcliffe College in 1919. First director of Publicity Office, 1925-1937; active volunteer at Radcliffe as chairman of class reunions, College Marshall, President of Radcliffe Club of Boston, Editor Re-News and Associate Editor of the Radcliffe Quarterly. Treat was Director of Public Relations for Bachrach, Inc., Newton, MA, 1938-1961. From the description of Papers of Priscilla Gough Treat, 1841-1974 (inclusive), 1911-1974 (bulk). (Harvard Uni...

Ullian, Frieda Silbert, 1900-

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Blackmer, Josephine B.

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Nutting, Betty, 1772-1830.

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Dexter, Elizabeth Anthony, 1887-

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Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872

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Author; Journalist; Columnist; Children's author; Humorist. Sara Payson Willis (Fanny Fern) born Portland, Maine, 1811; educated in Boston and at Catharine Beecher's seminary in Hartford, Connecticut. Married Charles Eldredge, 1837 (died 1846); had three daughters; married Samuel P. Farrington (divorced three years later); married James Parton, 1856. In 1851 she began writing for several small Boston magazines under the name Fanny Fern, and her pieces were soon picked up...

Whitman, Alfred Freeman, 1882-1951.

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Borden, Elizabeth B. McGinley, 1913-

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Husnander, Barbara.

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Howard, Mary Ellen, 1905-1974.

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Woman's Education Association (Boston, Mass.)

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The Woman's Education Association, founded in Boston, Mass, in 1872, and disbanded in 1927, was the catalyst for many educational innovations for women. It instituted the Harvard Examinations for Women (1872), arranged with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer summer chemistry courses for women (1873), encouraged Harvard to offer botany courses (1879), raised money for Radcliffe College (1894), and helped found the summer laboratory (later the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's...

Anthony, Harriet Angell.

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Fairbank, Wilma Denio Cannon.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Merk, Lois Bannister.

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Lois Bannister Merk received her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1956, with a dissertation on the woman's suffrage movement in Massachusetts. From the description of Papers, 1821-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007600 ...

Hosmer, Gladys Eleanor Holden, 1886-

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Volkmann, Mary Lyon.

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Maguire, Mary Hume, 1897-

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Greene, Dorothy Thayer.

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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...