Manuscripts
E. Jane Gay, Choup-nit-ki, With the Nez Perce, vol. 1. Excerpts of letters from E. Jane Gay and Alice C. Fletcher, originally written 1889–1893, copied with illustrations, decorations, and photographs by E. Jane Gay. Hand bound (leather) by Emma Jane Gay in London, 1909.
With contributions of more than 110 selections from the Countway Library of Medicine, the Monroe C. Gutman Library, the Harvard University Archives, and, notably, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Women Working includes nearly 3,000 digitized pages of personal papers.
The manuscripts and archives selected for Women Working can be used for research, for the creation of class projects, or to provide a deeper context for exploring topics documented in published works.
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Correspondence
- Louise Marion Bosworth, WEIU researcher (correspondence, 1907)
- Dr. James R. Chadwick, physician (correspondence and clippings, [n.p., n.d.])
- E. Jane Gay, author and photographer (correspondence from 1861–1877)
- Jeannette Leonard Gilder, journalist (correspondence from 1887–1868, and 1889–1890)
- Hannah Glidden Myrick, physician (correspondence, 1896–1905)
Diaries and journal
- H. Greene, farmer (diary from 1886–1887)
- Josephine Sherwood Hull, actress (diary from 1920–1924)
- Delia Kingsley, schoolteacher (diary from 1996–1910)
- Lillian Schoedler, secretary (diary from 1913)
- Journal of Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming, March 1–April 18, 1900 (Harvard College Observatory)
Album, manuscript, scrapbooks
- Bessie Belsan, Vocations, ca. 1919, scrapbook combining newspaper articles on a range of vocations, and photographs pasted in with ms. text and annotation.
- E. Jane Gay, Choup-nit-ki, With the Nez Perce, 2 vols., hand-bound album, illustrated
- Catherine Waugh McCulloch, "Women as Law Clerks" manuscript, reviews, papers, and clippings
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