Records, 1844-2001.

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Records, 1844-2001.

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The bulk of the records date from the early 20th century and consist of case records of poor women from Brattleboro, VT, and some from Rhinebeck, NY. These contain correspondence from clients and agents' case notes which provide a rich source of poor and working women's history in Brattleboro. A significant portion includes correspondence and papers of Richards M. Bradley, the trustee who oversaw the trust from 1901 to 1943. There are also records of the Brattleboro Mutual Aid Association and the Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, including extensive material documenting the development of health insurance in the 1920s.

51.5 linear ft. (105 boxes; oversized items)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7626227

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Thomas Thompson Trust

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Richards M. Bradley was a businessman and philanthropist, of Brattleboro, Vt., who served as trustee of the Thomas Thompson Trust from 1901-1943, a charitable trust which limited its distribution of funds to organizations located in Windham County, Vt., and Dutchess County, N.Y., making grants to groups particularly involved in health care and social services. From the description of Thompson Trust collection, 1899-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 758366630 ...

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

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Brattleboro Mutual Aid Association

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Wells, Florence H. (Florence Hemenway), 1878-1967

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Florence Wells was born in 1878 and served as the local agent for the Thomas Thompson Trust in Brattleboro, Vermont from 1921 to the early 1960s. The Trust was founded in 1907 to provide assistance for poor and working class women. TTT sought to prevent illness among working women and their families through public health programs, and dispensed small amounts of money to the women in the form of loans. Wells was also very active in the Congregational Church in Brattleboro. She died in 1967. ...

Bradley, Richard M., 1861-1943.

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Thompson, Elizabeth, 1821-1899

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Thompson, Thomas, 1797-1869

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