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Maine -- Description and travel -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Catharine Kerlin Wilder papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00709
Abstract Peace activist; teacher. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, childhood memorabilia, drafts of memoirs, and essays written by Wilder. Especially well documented are her years in Geneva (1929-1934) when she worked at the League of Nations as well as papers of Wilder's friend Hope Sewell French during her years (1930s) working for the League of Nations in Geneva, including correspondence, photographs, scrapbook, and articles, written by French and others. Also of...
Dates of Materials: 1813-2000
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Catharine Kerlin Wilder papers

Edith Mae Shaw Racine papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00731
Abstract

The collection contains personal papers of Edith May Shaw Racine, a homemaker and mother in Maine, that include letters from Racine to her daughter, Doris Racine McLelland, family genealogy and photographs. The frequent letters Edith wrote to her daughter Doris over almost four decades provide a glimpse into family life during the first half of the twentieth century, mother/daughter relationships, and the impact of the Great Depression on ordinary people.

Dates of Materials: 1911 - 2013
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Edith Mae Shaw Racine papers

Southworth-Dickinson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00212
Abstract This collection includes letters, diaries, autobiographical writings, and financial papers of the Southworth and Dickinson families of Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as the related Shepard, Boltwood, Thurston, Caffee, Deane, and Browne families. The papers document several generations of middle- and upper-class families residing in Massachusetts, Ohio, North Carolina, Maine, New York, and California. The nineteenth century papers discuss such pivotal events in American history as the...
Dates of Materials: 1792-2005
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Southworth-Dickinson family papers
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