Correspondence, 1905-1938.

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Correspondence, 1905-1938.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46719294

This collection comprises 152 manuscript letters from Elsa Hasbrouck to her mother, Esther, regarding her work, social life, and current events. Hasbrouck was an engaged, outgoing, and educated artist and art teacher who was heavily involved with her family's financial affairs. Her correspondence reveals both the minutia of day-to-day living in the early decades of the 20th century as well as the personal impact of large-scale events, including the women's suffrage movement and World War I. Topics addressed in the coorespondence include transportation by train and automobile; banking, taxes, insurance, and other financial matters; family relations; suffrage, and specifically the 1915 Suffrage Parade in New York City, in which Hasbrouck marched; Vassar College and Vassar Alumnae House; teaching art to children at The Children's Community School and Winbrook School in White Plains, N.Y.; physical fitness and exercise; gardening; weather; and working for the Red Cross during World War I. Acquired as part of the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture. (00-0344).

450 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7569223

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Vassar College.

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Hasbrouck, Elsa.

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Artist and teacher in New York City and White Plains, N.Y., during the early twentieth century. She was a graduate of Vassar College, and remained unmarried through the 1930's. From the description of Correspondence, 1905-1938. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 46719294 ...

Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture

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