Papers, ca.1930-ca.1970 (inclusive).

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Papers, ca.1930-ca.1970 (inclusive).

Collection consists primarily of over 100 loose-leaf notebooks containing published and unpublished articles, photos, clippings, and notes on women. Prehistoric woman as priestess, midwife, and originator of culture is featured in the collection, which contains an extensive section on native American women. Included is correspondence with Mary Milbank Brown, as well as Brown's notes, outlines, and unpublished writings, most concerning matriarchy and patriarchy; correspondence with Mary Ritter Beard and some of her writings; correspondence concerning the World Center for Women's Archives; and plans to correct the treatment of women in the Encyclopedia Britannica and Collier's Encyclopedia and to prepare an encylopedia for women, none of which materialized. Other correspondents include Herma Briffault; Dora Edinger; C. Esther Hodge, editor of the English periodical Women Speaking; Miriam Y. Holden; Inez (Haynes) Irwin; Blanche Christine Olschak; and Doris Stevens.

13.5 linear ft.

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World Center for Women's Archives (New York, N.Y.)

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World Center for Women's Archives was an organization established by Rosika Schwimmer and Mary Ritter Beard in the hopes of creating an educational collection which women could consult to learn about the history of women. The center was located in the Biltmore Hotel at 41 Park Avenue in New York City. It closed in 1940, but the efforts made to establish a center to collect records encouraged several colleges and universities to begin develop similar archives of women's history. It was one of the...

Irwin, Inez Haynes, 1873-1970

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Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963

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Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973

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Brown, Mary Milbank

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Olschak, Blanche Christine.

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White, Leslie A., 1900-1975

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Professor of anthropology at University of Michigan, chairman of the anthropology department, 1932-1957 and 1959, and student of the culture of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern United States, and of the career of early American anthropologist, Lewis H. Morgan. From the description of Leslie A. White papers, 1921-1974. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423619 Leslie White was an influential American anthropologist and anthropological theorist ...

Inter-American Commission of Women

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In 1928, the Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW) was established to study the civil and political status of women in the Americas. Don Stevens was appointed first chairman of the Commission of 21 members, one from each country in North, Central, and South America. From the guide to the Inter-American Commission of Women Records MS 312., 1928-1976, (Sophia Smith Collection) From the description of Records, 1928-1976. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 50118946 ...

Edinger, Dora

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Holden, Miriam Young.

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Miriam Holden was born Miriam Young in Boston in 1893. She graduated from Miss Mary's School and attended Simmons College. After marrying Arthur Holden, she moved to New York, where she and her husband had three children. She was active in such diverse organizations as the Junior League, the Urban League, family-planning groups, and settlement-house work. She was on the advisory boards of the Women's Archives at Radcliffe College and the friends of the Columbia University Libraries, and co-autho...

Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948

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Schwimmer was a Jewish pacifist and writer, born in Hungary. Her application for American citizenship was denied by the Supreme Court in 1929 on the grounds of her pacifist views. Justice Holmes wrote the dissenting opinion. (United States v. Schwimmer; 49 S. Ct. 448) From the description of Correspondence between Rosika Schwimmer and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1930-1935. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235152187 Public official. From the descr...

Hodge, C. Esther

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Yust, Walter, 1894-1960

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Askanasy, Anna H.

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Author. Anna H. Askanasy emigrated from Nazi Austria to Canada in 1938. She was involved in the women's movement and part of a circle of feminists which included Mary Beard and Rosika Schwimmer. She also appears to have been active in the movement for peace which emerged in response to the beginnings of the First World War. Askanasy's letters reveal that she was deeply passionate about women's history. She published a historical novel Empress of Byzantium (1952) under the pseudonym Helen A. Mahl...

Oetteking, Bruno, 1871-

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973

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Briffault, Herma

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American translator of French literature; and author; b. Herma Hoyt, 1989; d. 1981. From the description of Herma Briffault collection, [198-]. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70971773 ...

Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958

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Historian, feminist, and author. Married historian Charles Beard. From the description of Papers, 1935-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006703 From the description of Letters, 1937-1942 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008676 Beard was an American author and historian. From the description of Correspondence: [1938?]-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180912 Mary Ritter Bear...

White, Marjorie, 1894-1972.

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Grierson, Margaret.

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