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Personal Papers

All personal papers in the Women Working digital collection, listed by type, then by chronology.

Diaries

Greene, H. Diary, 1886-1887. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Fleming, Williamina Paton Stevens. Journal of Williamina Paton Fleming, 1900 Mar. 1-Apr. 18 : curator of astronomical photographs, Harvard College Observatory.. Harvard University Archives. Chest of 1900, Diaries. HUA 900.11

Kingsley, Delia. Diary, 1906-1910. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Bosworth, Louise M. Expense account book, September 1907 - June 1908. Louise M. Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Anonymous. Expense account book, 1908-1909. Louise M. Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Schoedler, Lillian. Diary, 1914. Lillian Schoedler Papers, 1891-1963. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Hull, Josephine Sherwood. Diary, 1920-1924. Josephine Hull Papers, 1877-1957. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Letters

Gilder, Jeanette Leonard. Letters; 1867-1868, 1889-1890. Jeannette Leonard Gilder Papers, 1865-1917. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

• Correspondence between Jeannette Leonard Gilder and Senator Alexander G. Cattell, 1867-1868. (5 letters).
• Correspondence from Annie Braeml to Jeanette Leonard Gilder, Dec. 1889-March 1890. (8 letters).

Myrick, Hannah Glidden. Letters, 1896-1905. Hannah Glidden Myrick Papers, 1892-1971. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Bosworth, Louise M. Letters, 1907-1910. Louise M. Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

• Letters from Louise M. Bosworth to Eleanora W. Bosworth
  • Folder #27. Family Correspondence- LMB to EWB, September-December 1907. (10 letters).
  • Folder #28. Family Correspondence- LMB to EWB, January-June 1908. (17 letters).
  • Folder #29. Family Correspondence- LMB to EWB, July-September 1908. (6 letters).
  • Folder #30. Family Correspondence- LMB to EWB, December 1909-June 1910. (2 letters).
• Letters from Eleanora W. Bosworth to Louise M. Bosworth
  • Folders #51-58. Family correspondence- EWB to LMB, 1907-1910. (70 letters).

Scrapbooks

Belsan, Bessie. Scrapbook: "Vocations," 1919. Monroe C. Gutman Library, Harvard Graduate School of Education. A scrapbook combining newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and annotations on various occupations. Assembled by Bessie Belsan.

Chadwick, James Read. Medical education and society membership of women: correspondence and clippings, 1879-1884. Countway Library of Medicine, an Alliance of Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School. Scrapbook of letters, newspaper clippings, manuscript notes outlining the debate over whether to admit women to membership in the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Free Hospital for Women. Scrapbook. Free Hospital for Women Records. Francis A. Countway LIbrary of Medicine. Scrapbook about the hospital, containing clippings from newspapers, publications, and other printed material; photographs of the hospital and its employees (including longtime superintendent Hannah Jane Ewin); broadsides; forms; ration cards; tickets; correspondence (both typescript and ms.);certificates; posters; memoranda; programs; and playbills.

Gay, E. Jane. Choup-nit-ki, with the Nez Perce, 1909. Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A two-volume collection of hand-colored photographs, illustrations, and letters providing a first-hand account of the implementation of the federal government's allotment policy toward the American Indians, as well as commentary on missionary work, westward expansion, racial conflict, and women's issues.

Historical Incidents: New England Female Medical College, 1847-1865. Countway Library of Medicine, an Alliance of Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School. Scrapbook of newspaper articles about New England Female Medical College, established as the Female Medical Education Society.

Other

Campbell, Jane Maude. From Jane Maud Campbell Papers, 1860-1994. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. Jane Maud Campbell was born in Liverpool, England; raised in the US; and received her college education in Great Britain. Campbell returned to the United States and worked in libraries, eventually becoming head of public libraries in Passaic, New Jersey. Campbell became increasingly concerned with the plight of newly arrived immigrants, and became active in providing library and educational services to immigrants.

• Folders #3, 3A, 4, 5f, 6, 7v, 8, and 9-20: (1492 page images). Includes:
• Correspondence, documenting some of her career changes
• Speeches, mostly concerned with the use of library resources in new and creative ways to meet the needs of immigrants, with libraries and librarians in an intermediary and interpretive role.
• Photographs of Campbell and of several libraries with which she was affiliated.
• Clippings about Campbell's work, libraries, and immigrants

Bosworth, Louise M. Expense account book, September 1907 - June 1908. Louise M. Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Anonymous. Expense account book, 1908-1909. Louise M. Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Bosworth, Louise M. Living Wage Survey, Questionnaires, 1907-1909. Louise M. Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

Bosworth, Louise M. Investigative Reports for LMB Living Wage Survey. Louise M. Bosworth Papers, 1890-1946. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

McCulloch, Catherine Waugh. From Series VI of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1869-1945. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.

• Folder #59: Papers, ca. 1887-1889. (12 pages).
  • Manuscript, "Women as Law Clerks," c1887.
  • Typewritten copy of a letter titled "A young girl's experience in a law school" published in The woman's tribune.
  • Advertisement for McCulloch's book, Woman's wages (published in 1888).
  • Several reviews of Woman's wages from various newspapers.
  • Typewritten copy of a poem written by McCulloch.
  • Article from The farmer's voice on McCulloch's views on women's rights.

Institutional Papers

All digitized institutional papers in Women Working, listed alphabetically by organization name.

Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, NY).

• Records of the Bureau of Vocational Information, 1914-1922. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
  • Folder #3: Introduction to the Intercollegiate Bureau of Vocations course on vocations for women at NYU: Women in industry, lecture no. 1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, speaker. 1915-1916.
  • Folder #34: Materials related to women in agricultural work. 1914-1922. 32 pages, including:
    • The farm woman's problem by Florence E. Ward.
    • Agricultural vocations open to women.
    • Vocations of women in horticulture and agriculture.
    • Help for the farmer.
    • The Illinois training farm for women by Tiffany Blake.
  • Folder #39: Questionnaires for women agricultural and horticultural workers.
  • Folders #141-144: Correspondence with women lawyers regarding opportunities for women in the legal profession. 1914-1920. Including:
    • Folder #141: January 1914-May 1918. (18 letters).
    • Folder #142: February 1920-April 1920. (66 letters).
    • Folder #143: April 1920-February 1921. (31 letters).
    • Folder #144: February 1918-April 1920. (30 letters and interviews).
  • Folder #265: Correspondence regarding opportunities in the chemical field for women. 1914-1921. (44 letters).
  • Folder #289: Questionnaires regarding chemistry as a vocation for women. 1920. (20 questionnaires).

Harvard University

• Records of the Harvard Corporation, Harvard University Archives.
• [Petition] To the honorable, the president and fellows of Harvard College, 1864-1866? [from] Matilda Freeman Dana, Mary Bates Merriam, Ellen Maria Sawyer. A letter from three female Harvard College Library catalogers petitioning for an increase in salary. The letter is dated July 29, 1864. Their petition is seconded in an amendment to the letter written by Ezra Abbott, assistant librarian and superintendent of the Cataloguing Dept. The last page of the letter contains explanatory notes written by "Mr. Hill" (possibly Thomas Hill, President of Harvard) on Sept. 12, [1866?].
• Committee on Admitting Women to the Medical School. Report, 1867 Mar. 23. A one page report, dated Mar. 23, 1867, from the Committee on Admitting Women to the Medical School. The Committee met in response to the petition of two women, Susan Dimock and Sophia Jex-Blake, seeking admittance to Harvard Medical School. The report is accompanied by a letter to Thomas Hill, president of Harvard College, from Edward H. Clarke, professor at the Medical School, dated Mar. 17, 1867, in which Clarke asks whether the Medical School should change its statutes to exclude women from admission explicitly.

National Women's Trade Union League of America

• Folders #24, 30, 58 and 63: Records, 1910-1934. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
  • Folder #24: Resolutions adopted in 1919 by the NWTULA regarding domestic service.
  • Folder #30: Letters describing working conditions in the textile mills and two essays.
  • Folder #58: Chicago Garment: The Strike 1910.
  • Folder #63: "Facts about cloakmakers" and other info regarding textile strikes.

School for Public Health Nursing

• Announcement of course in industrial nursing, under the joint management of Simmons College and the Instructive District Nursing Association, 1919.
  Includes letter from Anne H. Strong, director of the School for Public Health Nursing, to Dr. C.K. Drinker of the Harvard Graduate School of Medicine.

Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company

• Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company Records, 1776-1968 (inclusive), 1859-1968 (bulk). Series II, Advertising records, 1873-1968. From Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
• Pinkham pamphlets, 1921-1934. MC 181, from folders 2441, 2450-2453, 2455-2457, 2460-2462, 2464, 2466-2467, 2469-2471, 2473, 2475-2477, 2479-2480. [972 pages]
• Voice of Experience pamphlets, 1932-1934. From folders 2486-2488. [195 pages]

Vocational Adjustment Bureau

• Folder #15: Lundy, Elizabeth B. A Study of 400 'problem' girls placed by the Vocational Adjustment Bureau for Girls with special attention to the sex delinquents [sic]. 1925. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
• Folder #19: 4 separate articles from 1928 (?) - 1931. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
  • Burr, Emily T. A way out for misfits.
  • Sheltered workrooms for nervous girls.
  • Potter, Grace. Four block industrial survey. Vocational and Employment Section of Welfare Council.
  • Burr, Emily T. Girl victims of the machine age.

Women's Educational and Industrial Union

• Folders #46 - 64a: Research Department reports and studies, 1895-1930 (inclusive). Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
  • Folder #46: State Federation of Women's Clubs--Domestic Science exhibit.
  • Folder #47: Nationality of women in domestic service.
  • Folder #48: Immigrants--protection--service and W.E.I.U. studies, as source of supply in domestic work.
  • Folder #49: Immigrant women and girls in Boston.
  • Folder #50: Small loan business.
  • Folder #51: Student housing -- Boston.
  • Folder #52: Women's Industrial Council--Trade Union Leagues--1910-1911, Histories.
  • Folder #53: Massachusetts Committee for Old Age Security.
  • Folder #54: The food of working women.
  • Folder #55: Industrial experiences, trade school girls.
  • Folder #56: Machine operating on women's clothing--a trade for women.
  • Folder #57: Occupations for girls in Northampton.
  • Folder #58: Paper boxes -- opportunities for girls in manufacturing.
  • Folder #59: New Bedford -- opportunities for skilled labor among women.
  • Folder #60: Industrial opportunities for women -- Cambridge, Somerville.
  • Folder #61: Organization of the telephone industry.
  • Folder #62: Hawthorne Club -- Prospect of dance hall investigation.
  • Folder #63: Manchester, N.H. -- Group of working children.
  • Folder #64: Part-time work -- trained or college women. Six reports by A.B. Kennon.
  • Folder #64a: Letter about research re: children to Mass. Conference of Social Work.
• Folders #65-68: Appointment Bureau. History, 1909-1932 (inclusive). Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
  • Folder #65: Early material re: Appointment Bureau and A.C.A., 1909-1913.
  • Folder #66: History of the Bureau.
  • Folder #67: History of the Appointment Bureau, 1907-
  • Folder #68: News Notes, 1927-1930, 1932.
• Vocational Series pamphlets (1911, 1912, 1923). Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.