Bessie Boies Cotton Papers, 1881-1983.

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Bessie Boies Cotton Papers, 1881-1983.

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Papers include biographical and family materials, diaries (1910-57), correspondence, YWCA reports, and photographs. The bulk of the collection focuses on Cotton's work for the YWCA in Russia (1917-19), and her courtship with Thomas Cotton. Official reports provide details of the YWCA's work in Russia and in the Middle East (1935). Included are hundreds of photographs primarily documenting Russian life and culture. There is also a thesis by her granddaughter, Elizabeth Leighton entitled A Woman's Mission to Revolutionary Russia: Bessie Boies Cotton & the YWCA (1983). Some materials are in Russian.

1.5 linear ft. (5 boxes; oversize materials)

rus,

eng,

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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