Papers, 1890-1986 (bulk 1942-1970).

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Papers, 1890-1986 (bulk 1942-1970).

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The Leslie Nelson Savage Mahoney Papers consist of correspondence, writings, diaries, and photographs. The papers are both personal and professional in nature and provide insight into the life a southern woman and a professional single mother. Her writings consists of typescripts and notes related to Nell Mahoney's interior decorating work; poetry; travel diaries; an unpublished biography of her father, opthamologist Dr. Giles Christopher Savage; and a series of newspaper articles on Nashville history, art and architecture, 1949-53. Correspondents include photographer, Frances Benjamin Johnston; and lawyer and House of Representatives member, Lucy Sommerville Howorth. There are also significant runs of letters from her mother and friends Virginia Polk (1951-72), operator with her husband of the largest Mississippi plantation system, and Elizabeth Rogers (1939-69), history professor at Wilson College. The collection includes over 100 photographs dating from 1880 to 1986, including images of Tom Thumb and his wife, singer Eleonora de Cisneros, and Frances Benjamin Johnston.

4 linear ft. (10 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883

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Charles Stratton (1838-1883), stage name General Tom Thumb, was an American showman noted for his small stature. He was the first major attraction promoted by the circus impresario P.T. Barnum. He was not quite five years old when Barnum hired him for his museum, but Barnum publicized him as General Tom Thumb, an 11-year-old dwarf from England. He quickly became a celebrated figure in the United States and abroad. In 1863 Stratton married Lavinia Warren (1841–1919)—another of Barnum’s performers...

Howorth, Lucy Somerville, 1895-1997

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Lucy Somerville Howorth (July 1, 1895 – August 24, 1997) was an American lawyer, feminist and politician. On August 18, 1917, in the State Capitol gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, she witnessed the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution being ratified, giving white women the right to vote. This inspired her lifelong fight for the civil rights of minorities and women. She is also known for her New Deal legislative efforts. Somerville was born on July 1, 1895 in Greenville, Miss...

Cisneros, Eleanora de, 1878-1934

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Mahoney, Leslie Nell Savage, 1890-1986

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Nell Savage Mahoney, May 1942 Leslie Nelson ("Nell") Savage was born in 1890 in Nashville, Tennessee, one of three daughters of Leslie Alice Jones and opthamologist Dr. Giles Christopher Savage. She graduated from Ward Seminary, a private girls' school in Nashville, in 1908 and began study at Vanderbilt University. After a year she transferred to Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. Her continued interest in architectural ...

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952

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Frances Benjamin Johnston (January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952) was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various photographic series featuring African Americans and Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century. In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national...

Mahoney, Margaret, 1924-

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Margaret Ellerbe Mahoney, born Nashville TN, was a foundation executive for Carnegie Corporation of New York; vice-president, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1973-1980); and president of the Commonwealth Fund (1980-94). In 1995, she established MEM Associates, a consulting firm specializing in health care delivery systems. She's served on the boards of numerous education and medical foundations, and was on the faculty of the Princeton University Program in Science and Human Affairs (1975-79). ...