Helen Ainslie Smith papers, 1744-1950, bulk 1880-1890.

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Helen Ainslie Smith papers, 1744-1950, bulk 1880-1890.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/656589654

The collection consists of letters between Helen Ainslie Smith and her advisor, Rev. F. A. Adams; rough drafts of some of her writings; incomplete pages of notes and several small notebooks; various childhood writings and drawings of Helen's daughter Paula Gerard; the last will and papers pertaining to the death of her father Walter E. Smith; and some genealogical papers and letters from around 1900.

1.2 linear feet (3 boxes and 1 oversize folder)

Newberry Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7946913

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Smith family.

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Smith, Helen Ainslie

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Author and translator. Helen Ainslie Smith was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1857 to Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Smith. In March of 1893 she married James H. Elliott of New York. After her marriage, Smith continued to use her maiden name in her literary work. Smith authored several well-known books, including The Great Cities of the Ancient World, under the pseudonym "Hazel Shepard" (1885); The Great Cities of the Modern World (1885); One Hundred Famous Americans (1886); Bir...

Gerard, Paula, 1907-1991

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Painter, printmaker, teacher; Chicago, Ill. Born in Italy to writer Helen Gerard, Italian representative to the American Federation of Art and contributor to the American Magazine of Art, International Studio and other art publications. Paula began her study of art in Italy and continued in the U.S. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Layton School of Art in Milwaukee and at the Midway Studios at th...

Adams, F. A.

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