Crawford and Ella Peffer/Redpath Chautauqua collection, 1912-1997.

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Crawford and Ella Peffer/Redpath Chautauqua collection, 1912-1997.

Materials relating to Peffer and his wife, Ella Harding Peffer, a singer for the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, including articles, photographs, and correspondence (1912-1960) between Peffer and Redpath Chautauqua speakers (including Adm. Richard Byrd, William Jennings Bryan, Sybil Thorndike, Eva Le Gallienne, Ida Tarbell, and Carl Sandburg); materials relating to the Redpath Chautaqua, including tour schedules (1914-1916), town reports (1928-1931, many for Maine towns), broadsides, programs, and brochures; correspondence of Anne Matthews, Peffer's assistant (1940-1958) and J.R. Schultz (1932-1941) regarding Peffer Chautauqua papers at Alleghany College and donor Carol McCracken (including a TLS from Margaret Chase Smith); articles and information concerning the Chautauqua movement and its circuits; and materials about Katherine Ridgeway's camp for girls in Jefferson, Me., co-founded by Ella Harding Peffer.

.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8044634

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Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995

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Margaret Chase Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1897. Her entry into politics came through the career of Clyde Smith, the man she married in 1930. Clyde was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1936. Margaret served as his secretary. When Clyde died in 1940, she succeeded her husband. After four terms in the House, she won election to the United States Senate in 1948. In so doing, she became the first woman elected to both houses of Congress. Senator Smi...

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

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Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967

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Byrd, Richard Evelyn Jr., 1888-1957

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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer and explorer. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given by the United States, and was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau. Byrd claimed that his ex...

Redpath Lyceum

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Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944

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Ida M. Tarbell was an investigative journalist best known from her The History of the Standard Oil Company published in 1904. She wrote for American Magazine, which she also co-owned and co-edited, from 1906 to 1915. From the guide to the Ida M. Tarbell papers, 1916-1930, (Ohio University) Historian, journalist, lecturer, and muckraker, (Allegheny College, A.B., 1880). For further information, see Notable American Women (1971). From the description of The nationa...

McCracken, Caroline Ruth, 1983-

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Peffer, Crawford A., 1868-1961

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Founder of the Redpath Chautauqua of New York and New England (1913-1933), the northeast circuit of the Chautauqua movement and summer counterpart to the Redpath Lyceum; director of Redpath Lyceum Bureau; buried in Portland, Me. From the description of Crawford and Ella Peffer/Redpath Chautauqua collection, 1912-1997. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70923083 ...

Ridgeway, Katherine

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Matthews, Anne McLean

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Schultz, J. R.

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Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976

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English actress. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Chelsea and Duchess Theatre, to Denys Blakelock, 1947 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872363 Wife of Sir Lewis Casson Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x00026f ...

Allegheny College (Meadville, Pa.)

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Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991

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British-born actress, director, and producer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Westport, Conn., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1967 Feb. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864535 Eva Le Gallienne (1899-1991) was an actress, producer, director, translator, teacher and writer. From the description of Eva Le Gallienne, prop letters from Camille, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517244 From the guide to the Eva Le Gallienne, ...

Redpath Chautauqua of New York and New England

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Peffer, Ella Harding, 1887-1945

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Redpath lyceum bureau

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The Redpath Lyceum Bureau was founded by James C. Redpath in 1868 as a commercial lecture bureau. In 1901, Keith Vawter purchased a one-third interest in the bureau, and in 1904 launched the first Chautauqua circuit. The Redpath Lyceum Bureau had offices in a number of locations including Cedar Rapids, Iowa; White Plains,New York; Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois, and; Kansas City, Missouri. From the description of Records of the Redpath Chautauqua Collection, 1890-1944 (bulk 1904-1...