World's Columbian Exposition, Board of Lady Managers records, 1890-1904 (bulk 1890-1894).

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World's Columbian Exposition, Board of Lady Managers records, 1890-1904 (bulk 1890-1894).

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Incoming letters, most addressed to Bertha H. Palmer, president of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition, and a few outgoing letters (6 boxes, 1890-1904); letterpress copy books of outgoing letters (9 v., 1890-1895, with alphabetical indexes to addressees in each volume); and other volumes containing minutes, reports, lists, and other records of the Board of Lady Managers (BLM). Includes items relating to design of the Woman's Building and arrangements for exhibitions within the building; includes correspondence with committees and individual women representing states of the United States and foreign countries; includes lists of women receiving awards for creative work, such as needlework, crafts, inventions, and works of art. Most items arranged chronologically within volumes. Letterpress copies were compiled as each letter was written; stamped with a page number; and the addressee's name was added to an index under the appropriate letter of the alphabet. Later stacks of copies were bound into volumes. Therefore indexes are not in perfect alphabetical order; volumes are not in perfect chronological order; and some volumes contain 2 sets of page numbers (for example, page 121 may occur in two sections of one volume). Includes eleven letters by Daniel H. Burnham: 1891 Jan. 19, 24, Mar. 26, Jun. 15, Jul. 14, Dec. 26; 1892 Aug. 27, Oct. 5, 12, 18; 1893 Jun. 30. Includes many letters by Ellen Henrotin. See the indexes. Includes 2 letters by Harriet Monroe: 1891 Nov. 28, and n.d. Includes 5 letters by James W. Scott: 1891, Aug. 10, 29, 29, 31, and Dec. 12. Includes 3 letters by Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr.: 1892 Nov. 3, 8, and 1893 Jan. 13.

19 linear ft. (22 boxes, 20 v.)

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