Autographs -- Collections
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Caroline Maria Seymour Severance papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00145
Abstract
Caroline Maria Seymour Severance was a New England Woman's Club leader, women's rights activist, and abolitionist. The Severance papers include a small amount of biographical material, two photographs of Jesse Benton Fremont, a book about the women's club movement, Caroline Severance's guest book, and a scrapbook kept by Caroline Severance's daughter, Julia Long Severance (Burrage). The guest book and scrapbook include autographs, quotations, notes, correspondence, drawings, photographs, and...
Dates of Materials:
1860 - 1945
Elizabeth Yates papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SSC-MS-00179
Abstract
Author. The Elizabeth Yates papers consist primarily of material related to her writing career such as drafts, manuscripts, galley proofs, and publicity for books. Also included is a scrapbook which belonged to Effie Douglass Putnam, a well-known harpist and aspiring author who lived in Paris. The scrapbook contains notes, letters, autographs, drawings, and photographs from various notable individuals including August Rodin, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others.
Dates of Materials:
1829-1964
Gladys Wood scrapbooks
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 310183630351970]
Identifier: SSC-MS-00174
Abstract
Private secretary. Three scrapbooks assembled by Wood during the 1930s containing photographs, autographs, and notes from actors, musicians, politicians, and other public figures.
Dates of Materials:
1930s-
New England Hospital for Women and Children records
Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00339
Abstract
Women's hospital. This hospital was, for more than a century, a teaching hospital for women doctors and a place where women could receive treatment from them. It was the first hospital in Boston to offer obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics all in one facility. Material includes memoranda, written histories, photographs and scrapbooks. Also documented are such topics as a 1915 controversy over abortion, using chloroform as an anesthetic, and African American interns. The collection...
Dates of Materials:
1792 - 1994