Laura Wainwright papers, 1893-1942.

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Wainwright, Laura Wallace Buchanan, b. 1866. Laura Wainwright papers, 1893-1942.

Laura Wainwright papers, 1893-1942.

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Papers, 1893-1942, consisting of two volumes of household accounts, and one scrapbook, dated 1918, with notes dealing with Wainwright's war work running a soldiers' canteen in Spartanburg, S.C. The account books list expenses at home in Rye, with periods in Albany, where her husband was a state assemblyman and later state senator, as well as notes on the expenses of their vacations in Vermont. Expenses listed include wages, usually giving the names of their servants. There are occasional notes on the numbers of guests present. The scrapbook lists the women who organized a soldiers' canteen at Rye in 1916, and subsequently went to Spartanburg, where they built and managed a canteen for the soldiers at Camp Wadsworth. The scrapbook includes photographs of the building and of Wainwright and her colleagues, as well as clippings about the canteen from contemporary magazines. There is also a photograph, inscribed to Wainwright, of three soldiers from Camp Wadsworth in women's costume.

3 v.

New-York Historical Society