Writings
Subject
Subject Source: Local Inmagic Collection
Found in 250 Collections and/or Records:
Eastman-Goodale-Dayton family papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00053
Overview
Author; Teacher; Social reformer; Poets; Farmer. Principal family members represented in the papers are Henry S. Goodale (farmer and writer in Southern Berkshires near Pittsfield, MA); his wife, Deborah Hill Read Goodale (writer); three sisters: Dora Read Goodale, Elaine Goodale [Eastman] (writer, teacher, poet), and Rose Sterling Goodale [Dayton] (writer, poet, and director of Uplands Sanitarium) and their families. The bulk of the papers are those of Elaine Goodale Eastman and her husband Dr....
Dates of Materials:
1861-2013
Edith M. Lerrigo papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00608
Overview
YWCA executive, YWCA worker, Social welfare worker. The Edith M. Lerrigo Papers are primarily related to her professional and public life, dating from 1922 to 1989. Types of materials include correspondence, sermons, prayers, meditations and worship services, photographs, reports, subject files, and writings. The bulk of the papers date from 1930s to 1981 and consist primarily of notes, outlines, and texts for Lerrigo's many speeches and presentations, the bulk of which were given at YWCA...
Dates of Materials:
1922-1989; Majority of material found within 1930-1981
Edith Roelker Curtis papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00039
Overview
Author, Poet, Biographer, Diarist. Papers include correspondence, photographs, line-a-day diaries; scrapbooks, financial records, and material relating to her literary career, including published and unpublished manuscripts, poetry, stories, articles, publicity, reviews, fan mail, research material, and forty-two volumes of diaries. Curtis' introspections give a perspective on a life's journey that included a troubled marriage and complex family life; a struggle to make a career as a writer;...
Dates of Materials:
1916-1989
Elaine Pinderhughes papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00549
Overview
Elaine Pinderhughes was a professor of social work and highly sought after consultant, as well as a leader and featured speaker at conferences, workshops, and symposia. This collection includes published and unpublished articles and essays, including notes and drafts, as well as research materials for her book, Understanding Race, Ethnicity and Power: The Key to Efficacy in Clinical Practice (1989).
Dates of Materials:
1943 - 2012
Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00622
Overview
YWCA worker, Labor reform advocate. The papers are primarily related to her professional and public life and focus on her work for the YWCA of the U.S.A. Types of materials include correspondence; writings; photographs; press releases; reports; journal and newspaper articles; transcripts of interviews; and memorabilia. Included is a copy of her 1933 Columbia masters thesis on working women in San Francisco. The correspondence is revealing of Anderson's intensely religious family background. Of...
Dates of Materials:
1901-1993; Majority of material found within 1922-55
Eleanor Gwinnell Coit papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00035
Overview
YWCA official. Papers include correspondence, photographs, and memorabilia; teaching material; writings; records from her work with the American Labor Education Service, Committee of Correspondence, Adult Education Association, New York Education Council, the YWCA, and Church of All Nations.
Dates of Materials:
1913-1974
Eleanor Harriet Bernert Sheldon papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00255
Overview
Eleanor Harriet Bernert Sheldon was a sociologist and professor. She worked for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1943-45, and took part in the Chicago Community Inventory as a sociologist. She taught sociology at the University of Chicago, 1947-50. She worked for the Social Science Research Council, 1950-55 and again in 1972-79 and for the Russell Sage Foundation, 1961-72. The bulk of the collection is subject files relating to Shelden's wide range of interests. There are also two boxes of...
Dates of Materials:
1957-1986
Eleanor Sanger papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00286
Overview
Journalist and television producer. Included are writings, correspondence, memos, and notes related to Sangers' production of television sports coverage for ABC.
Dates of Materials:
1950-1992
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00780
Overview
The collection contains personal and professional papers reflecting Elizabeth Kennedy's role as one of the pioneers in the field of Women's Studies and LGBTQ Studies as well as her activism, both in Buffalo, NY and in Arizona. Especially well documented is the emergence of Women's Studies as a viable academic field, as well as the opening up of American Studies and cultural anthropology.
Dates of Materials:
1951-2017
Elizabeth McGinnis Tetlow collection of research materials on Olive Schreiner
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SSC-MS-00299
Overview
Born on the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Olive Schreiner was a writer in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection consists primarily of research materials on Schreiner gathered by Elizabeth McGinnis Tetlow for a proposed biography.
Dates of Materials:
1874 - 1981
Ella Reeve Bloor papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00019
Overview
Labor organizer, radical, Socialist, and Communist. Papers illuminate Bloor's experiences as labor organizer, her work for the Socialist and Communist parties, her support for the Daily Worker, women's rights, and other causes. Materials include pamphlets, speeches, writings, photographs, and clippings. Correspondents include Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bill Haywood, and other notable radicals.
Dates of Materials:
1890-1979; Majority of material found within 1910-1940
Ellen Gates Starr papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00151
Overview
Labor organizer; religious writer; settlement house worker; and founder, Hull House, Chicago. Papers represent 4 generations of the Starr family, primarily Ellen Gates Starr. Of particular interest is correspondence with Jane Addams pertaining to the founding of Hull House, as well as photographs and biographical information about Jane Addams. There is also extensive family correspondence and her writings on book binding and religion. Family material includes writings and letters of her aunt...
Dates of Materials:
1659 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1850-1970
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00130
Overview
Ellen Richards was a chemist and professor. She taught analysis of water, sewage, and air, and devised the first water purity tests. Involved in home economics movement, Richards introduced ideas of nutritious lunches in schools and systematic domestic science instruction. Materials include photographs, correspondence, notes and writings.
Dates of Materials:
1882 - 1974
Elmina Rose Lucke papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00192
Overview
Professor of social work and social studies, founder and director of the Dehli School of Social Work, consultant for social work education, and YWCA official. The Elmina Lucke papers focus on her work abroad as educator, administrator, and consultant for social work. Materials include correspondence with former students and associates in Egypt, India, and Pakistan; photographs of her travels; speeches; writings, including an unpublished memoir; and a transcript and tapes of an oral history.
Dates of Materials:
1897-1987
Emma Elizabeth Walker papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00169
Overview
Physician; Children's author; Anti-suffragist; Birth control advocate; and Public health advocate. Papers consist primarily of Walker's writings and lectures, but also contain small amounts of biographical material and correspondence; plus information on women's health, the social and moral hygiene movements, turn-of-the-century childrearing practices, birth control and sexuality.
Dates of Materials:
1887 - 1954
Emma France Ward papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00170
Overview
Public health specialist and personnel manager. The strength of this collection is its documentation of Ward's career as a woman government bureaucrat during a period in which governmental influence in the regulation of industry increased dramatically. It is also a rich source of information about women workers, especially those in the shipbuilding industry during the World War II period. Materials include correspondence; articles written by Ward about the health and safety of women workers;...
Dates of Materials:
1922-66
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey collection regarding Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00374
Overview
Biographical collection of Lillian Moller Gilbreth, industrial engineer, assembled by her daughter Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. In addition to industrial engineering, Gilbreth and her husband published and lectured extensively on the subject of motion saving techniques and worker efficiency with respect to both physical ability and psychological variables. Family material reflects the unique Gilbreth method of child-rearing. The bulk of the family correspondence is with Gilbreth's third daughter,...
Dates of Materials:
1860 - 2000
Ethel Eyre Valentine Dreier papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00050
Overview
Ethel Eyre Valentine Dreier was a settlement house president, suffragist, woman's club leader, and civic leader. The bulk of professional papers relate to Dreier's suffrage work and civic activities. Also documented is Dreier's advocacy of public housing; her work in politics; and her settlement house work. Materials include correspondence, speeches, writings, photographs, notebooks, and travel diaries. The personal correspondence consists primarily of letters to her husband. Other...
Dates of Materials:
1875 - 1966
Evelyn C. White papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00666
Overview
Evelyn Corliss White is a writer of books relating to women of African descent. Her papers include research files for her biography of Alice Walker, articles and book reviews by White, research files for The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking For Ourselves, correspondence, photographs, and a small amount of biographical material.
Dates of Materials:
1959 - 2010
Fanny Fern and Ethel Parton papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00117
Overview
Author, journalist, columnist, children's author, and humorist. Sara Payson Willis wrote for several small Boston magazines under the name Fanny Fern; numerous newspapers soon published her pieces. She had a regular weekly column in the New York Ledger and was one of the first woman columnists. Ethel Parton, granddaughter of Sara Willis and James Parton, worked as a writer and literary assistant, and at age 70 began writing children's books. Materials include extensive writings, correspondence,...
Dates of Materials:
1805-1982
Florence Bascom papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00012
Overview
Florence Bascom was a geologist and professor. The papers include biographical information, photographs, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, writings, memorabilia, financial records, and extensive personal and professional correspondence. Correspondents include Elaine Goodale Eastman, Annie Peck, Gifford Pinchot, Isabel Fothergill Smith, M. Carey Thomas, and Charles R. Van Hise. Correspondence from the Goldschmidt family is in German with English translation. Her writings include published and unpublished...
Dates of Materials:
1868 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1875-1940
Florence Guertin Tuttle papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00163
Overview
The bulk of this collection consists of writings and speeches, research material, and records from Tuttle's involvement in organizations such as the American Association for International Cooperation, the American Union Against Militarism, the Women's Peace Party, and the League of Nations, among others, circa 1910s-1940s. Major themes include peace, internationalism, birth control rights, suffrage, women's clubs, and women writers. Significant correspondents include Virginia Gildersleeve,...
Dates of Materials:
1917-1948
Florence Levin Lockshin papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00405
Overview
Composer and pianist. The papers focus mainly on Lockshin's musical compositions and include scores; recordings of performances; plus files of correspondence, publicity and memorabilia related to performances of her work. There are also a series of unpublished poems written by Lockshin in her later life. Materials include writings, speech notes, correspondence, musical scores, and audio recordings.
Dates of Materials:
1924-1995
Florence Rena Sabin papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00136
Overview
Physician; Professor; and Public health specialist. Papers consist of notes, awards, citations, photographs, printed material, photographs, and memorabilia and include both professional and personal material. Also correspondence with family and friends, especially colleagues in medicine, research, and education; and a voluminous file of letters with her sister.
Dates of Materials:
1872-1985
Fosdick family papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00305
Overview
The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Florence Whitney Fosdick, Elinor Fosdick Downs, and Dorothy Emerson Fosdick. There is a small amount of genealogical and biographical information concerning a number of other Fosdick family members, notably Harry E. Fosdick. The Elinor F. Downs materials contain materials about her medical and public health career; her 1961 study of Arab refugees; writings and illustrations for scientific and archaeological studies; and photograph...
Dates of Materials:
1890 - 2006
Fran Worden Henry papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00509
Overview
Fran Worden Henry became executive director of the first Massachusetts Governor's Commission on the Status of Women in 1973. Subsequently, she served as the director of the President's Citizens Advisory Committee for Women under Gerald Ford (1975-1976) and, later, the as Northeast conference coordinator for the President's International Women's Year Commission under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter (1976-1978). She has written extensively on women in business and other topics. This collection...
Dates of Materials:
1961 - 2017
Frances Bemis papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00016
Overview
Public relations specialist, radio producer, and fashion director. The Papers document Bemis's very active professional career, as well as the world of fashion in 1930s-50s New York City, giving a window into the celebrity and consumer culture of this time. Photographs make up a large portion, mainly of Bemis' fashion shows, special events, celebrities, and models. Correspondents include doll-maker Madame Alexander, Svetlana Allilueva (daughter of Josef Stalin), and many of the writers,...
Dates of Materials:
1921-1974
Frieda Savitz paintings and prints
Collection — Flat file folder 1: [Barcode: 310183630002706]
Identifier: SSC-MS-00298
Overview
Painter and painting instructor. This collection consists of several watercolor paintings and two oversized prints.
Dates of Materials:
1968-1981
Future is Female Project records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00463
Overview
A research project undertaken in the early 1980s by Annie Cheatham and Mary Clare Powell. They interviewed North American women about their efforts to create alternative structures for family life, arts, education, work, and politics. The results were published in the book, This Way Daybreak Comes: Women's Values and the Future (1986). Project records contain research material, writings, speeches, correspondence, slides, and photographs. Of particular interest...
Dates of Materials:
1979-1990
Geneviève Saint-Pierre papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00137
Overview
French travel writer and hunter. Papers include travel notes and photographs from Equador, Mexico, Western U.S., and Australia. Also correspondence, autobiographical note, and published writings. Most material is in French and Breton languages.
Dates of Materials:
1904-1962
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