Manuscript Descriptions
"A" Manuscript Summaries
"A" Manuscript Summaries
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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
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Title: Papers, 1854-1905.
Physical Details: ca. 100 items.
Summary: Letters and statements pertaining to the anti-slavery movement, woman suffrage, equal rights for women, and organized suffrage activities. Major correspondents are Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel May, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Eliza R. Whiting.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879.
May, Samuel, 1810-1899.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.
Whiting, Eliza Rose Gray.
National American Woman Suffrage Association.
National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
Slavery--Anti-slavery movements.
Women's rights.
Women--Suffrage.
Women--Social conditions.
United States--Social conditions.
United States--Politics and government.
Women social reformers.
Abolitionists.
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Atkinson, Ruth Lamb, 1896-1978.
- Title: Papers, 1781-1970, 1928-1947 (bulk)
Physical Details: 10 linear ft.
Notes: Atkinson (Vassar College Class of 1918) was chief education officer with the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, 1933-1942; lobbyist for the National Congress of Parents and Teachers; director of Food for Freedom, Inc.; and author of AMERICAN CHAMBER OF HORRORS (1936) and THE DEVIL'S CANDLE (1937).
Summary: Correspondence, clippings, reports, speeches, articles, pamphlets, and government documents pertaining to food and drug legislation, the drug "krebiozen," the seafood industry, ergot, consumer groups, Food for Freedom, Ralph Nader, and drug industry propaganda, 1928-1970. Major correspondents are Rachel Lynn Palmer and William Allen White. Notes, articles, pamphlets, and clippings used in writing her books; drafts and galley proofs; correspondence with her publisher Farrar & Rinehart; and reviews and letters received about AMERICAN CHAMBER OF HORRORS, 1934-1937. Other items include clippings and government reports concerning India's independence, 1945-1947; scrapbook of the drug and cosmetic advertisements she wrote in the 1920's; and miscellaneous Americana she collected including 1781 military communication of Gen. William Heath, 1830 sheet music, and Lossing prints of the Hudson River.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891.
Subjects:
Nader, Ralph.
Palmer, Rachel Lynn.
White, William Allen, 1868-1944.
Heath, William, 1737-1814.
United States. Food and Drug Administration.
Farrar & Rinehart (Firm)
Food for Freedom, inc.
National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Women in politics.
Consumers--Societies, etc.
Consumer education.
Advertising--Drugs.
Advertising--Cosmetics.
Drugs--Law and legislation.
Food law and legislation.
Seafood.
Fishery processing.
Ergot.
Krebiozen.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)--Description and travel--Views.
United States--Politics and government.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
India--History--1947-
Genre Or Form:
Advertisements.
Sheet music.
Scrapbooks.
Prints.
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Atlas and map collection, 1549-1938.
- Physical Details: ca. 10 cubic ft.
Summary: Maps of London, England, ca. 1560, 1899, and 1923; maps of the North American colonies, the city of New York, New York State, the West Indies, South America, and Europe, 1549-1938; and atlases of the world, the European continent, and the American continent, 1572-1815.
Notes: English, French, German, Latin, and Dutch.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
North America--History--Colonial period, ca.
1600-1775.
North America--Maps.
London (England)--Maps.
New York (N.Y.)--Maps.
West Indies--Maps.
New York (State)--Maps.
South America--Maps.
Europe--Maps.
Genre Or Form:
Maps.
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Autograph file: A-I, 1783-1983.
- Physical Details: 4 cubic ft.
Notes: Alphabetical.
Summary: Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance. Letters of note include W.I. Cutter on her missionary work in India, 1852-1854; John Quincy Adams on Paris peace treaty and national politics, 1783; Elizabeth Blackwell on excessive practice of ovariotomy and dangers to women from syphilitic husbands, 1896; Thomas Boyd on work as screen writer in Hollywood (1931), being a father, World War I experiences, and other issues, 1918-1934; Pearl S. Buck's correspondence with Alma Lutz on equal rights amendment and Buck's writing and speaking work, 1938-1967; Ruth Crippen on Red Cross work in France, 1918; Bette Davis on using women's rights pioneers as film material, 1944; Anna E. Dickenson on her speaking engagements and personal news, 1863-1888; Frederick Douglass on John H. Raymond's activities on behalf of fugitive slaves in Rochester, 1880; William Lloyd Garrison on women's rights, 1877; and Emily Griggs on life and people at Vassar College, 1866-1867. Other signers include Jane Addams, Hans Christian Anderson, Matthew Arnold, Catharine E. Beecher, Hector Berlioz, George Bizet, Marie Curie, Charlotte Cushman, Charles Dickens, John Dos Passos, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910
Cutter, W. I
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973
Boyd, Thomas, 1898-1935
Crippen, Ruth
Davis, Bette, 1908-
Dickenson, Anna Elizabeth, 1842-1932
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895
Raymond, John H. (John Howard), 1814-1878
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Griggs, Emily
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Anderson, H. C. (Hans Christian), 1805-1875
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888
Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
Bizet, George, 1838-1875
Curie, Marie, 1867-1934
Lutz, Alma
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958
Cushman, Charlotte, 1816-1876
Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965
Vassar College -- History
Vassar College -- Students
Vassar College -- Faculty
Vassar College -- Employees
Women -- Education
Women missionaries -- India
Missions -- India
Syphilis
Women's health services
Women -- Social conditions
Women's rights
Ovariotomy
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Red Cross
World War, 1914-1918 -- France
Peace treaties
Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements
Feminism
Fugitive slaves -- New York (State) -- Rochester
Screenwriters -- California -- Hollywood
Women's colleges -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie
Equal rights amendments
United States -- Foreign relations -- France
France -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
Poems.
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Autograph file: J-R, 1816-1983.
- Physical Details: 4 cubic ft.
Notes: Alphabetical.
Summary: Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance. Letters of note include Henry James to Katherine Loring on having a case of the shingles, living arrangements in England, family affairs, American presidential politics, fire in Salem, Mass., European politics, literary events, Sarah Jewett, and Boston news, 1901-1914; Mrs. Maturin Livingston to her daughter Gitty Lowndes on family and social news, 1838-1842; Lucretia Mott on writing requests, Rochester abolitionist activities, Frederick Douglass, work of Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown, women workers and pay inequities, work among blacks, 1853-1871, and a letter received from Geo. Combe about reform activities in Scotland and European revolutions, 1848; and Pauli Murray on her commencement address at Spelman College, her writing, experiences in Ghana (1961-1962), the antics of her dog, work at Yale, and fund raising to assist African law students, 1955-1971.
Also, Georgia O'Keeffe to Eleanor Roosevelt urging her to support the equal rights amendment, 1944; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody on prayer and preaching, spiritual and religious ideas, Church affairs in Boston, and Theodore Parker, 1840-1851; and Charles A. Raymond on Vassar College and women's education, 1864. Other signers include Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Helen Keller, Denise Levertov, Sinclair Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Alice M. Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ernestine L. Rose, Muriel Rukeyser, Herbert Lehman, John Manly, Henry Morgenthau, Michael Pupin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Constance Rourke, and George Lyman Kitteredge.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Loring, Katherine
Livingston, Margaret Lewis, 1780-1860
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913-
Lowndes, Gertrude Laura Livingston, b. 1805
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921
Levertov, Denise, 1923-
Combe, George, 1788-1858
Murray, Pauli, 1910-
O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
Raymond, Charles A
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary), 1850-1928
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Rose, Ernestine L. (Ernestine Louise), 1810-1892
Lehman, Herbert H., 1878-1963
Manley, John M
Pupin, Michael Idvorsky 1858-1935
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Roosevelt, Franklin D., (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Rourke, Constance, 1885-1941
Kittredge, George Lyman, 1860-1941
James family
Livingston family
Spelman College
Yale University
Vassar College -- Employees
Vassar College -- Faculty
Vassar College -- Students
Revolutions -- Europe
Authors, English
Law students
Authors, American
Women's colleges -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie
Women -- Education
Women -- Employment
Women's rights
Women authors, American
Women artists
Wages and women
Women in politics
Women social reformers
Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- Rochester
Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements
Afro-Americans -- Social work with
Fires -- Massachusetts -- Salem
Educational fund raising
Dogs
Equal rights amendments
Presidents -- United States -- Election
Feminism
Feminists
Ghana -- Description and travel
United States -- Politics and government
Scotland -- Social conditions
Europe -- Politics and government
United States -- Social life and customs
Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Boston (Mass.) -- Religious life and customs
Europe -- History -- 1848-1849
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
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Autograph file: S-Z, [ca. 1800]-1983.
- Physical Details: 1 cubic ft.
Notes: Alphabetical.
Summary: Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance. Letters of note include Lucy Maynard Salmon on Vassar College History Dept., labor issues, and personal news, 1888-1925; Helen Seldes on anti-fascism, political and social life in New York City, country life in Vermont, and a strike by Vermont marble workers, 1934-1937; Fanny Small on teaching music and social events at Vassar College, 1864-1866; Bishop B.B. Smith of Kentucky on incident involving a runaway slave's confrontation with his white mistress (owner), 1864; M. Carey Thomas on Bryn Mawr positions for Vassar graduates, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and committee positions, 1889-1915; Leo Tolstoy on religion, writing, non-violence as part of Christianity, Shakers and chastity, evils of patriotism, and his health, 1896-1908; Sophie Tolstoy on Leo's work among the Russian peasants, 1892-1894 (in French); Paul Allen Towne on defense of slavery, and political, military, social, and business situations during the Civil War with one response from his brother-in-law Dr. David Ransom on issue of state's rights and secession, 1860-1865; and Adelaide Underhill on Vassar College Library affairs, salaries, and some personal issues, 1899-1927.
Carl Van Doren on T.S. Eliot's poetry, Tom Boyd's death, Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murray, publishing issues, and personal news, 1923-1936, largely to Ruth Fitch (Mason); Angelina Grimke Weld on her daughter attending Vassar, 1862; Mary W. Whitney on Vassar College Observatory, woman's equality and men's dislike of independent women, and family and personal news, 1886-1914; Thornton Wilder on lecturing at Vassar, Spanish Theater, women's education, his work and research, 1949-1950; and John H. Wood on shoemaker apprenticeship and wages and living costs in Woburn, Mass., 1842-1844. Other signers include Camille Saint-Saens, Carl Sandburg, and Sir Walter Scott Al Smith, William Taft, Martha Carey and Mary Emma Woolley.
Notes: French in part.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Small, Fanny
Seldes, Helen
Smith, B. B
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910
Tolstaia, S. A. ((Sofia Andreevna), 1844-1919
Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927
Ransom, David
Underhill, Adelaide, 1860-
Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Boyd, Tom
Mansfield, Katherine, 1888-1923
Murray, Middleton
Mason, Ruth Fitch, 1890-1974
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967
Whitney, Mary Watson, b. 1847
Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
Wood, John H
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832
Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944
Taft, William Howard, 1857-1930
Thomas, M. Carey, (Martha Carey), 1857-1935
Woolley, Mary Emma, 1863-1947
Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)
Vassar College -- Faculty
Vassar College -- Students
Vassar College -- Employees
Vassar College. History Dept
Vassar College. Library
Vassar College. Observatory
Vassar College -- History
Bryn Mawr College
Fugitive Slaves -- Kentucky
Theater -- Spain
Women's rights
Women's colleges -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie
Women's colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Bryn Mawr
Women -- Education
Strikes and lockouts -- Marble industry and trade -- Vermont
Shoemakers -- Massachusetts -- Woburn
Apprentices -- Massachusetts -- Woburn
Nonviolence -- Religious aspects
Shakers
Christianity
Chastity
Music -- Study and teaching
Peasantry -- Russia
Patriotism
Poetry
Publishers and publishing
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Woburn (Mass.) -- Economic conditions
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
Poems.