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Ladd-Franklin, Christine, 1847-1930.

Title: Diaries, 1860-1873.
Physical Details: 2 v.
Notes: Christine Ladd (Vassar College Class of 1869) was a psychologist and mathematician who did research on vision. She married Fabian Franklin while in her 30s.
Summary: These diaries, begun at the age of twelve, record her school experiences, life and studies at Vassar College, her relationships with women, efforts at self-improvement, familial duties and concerns, her irritation with contemporary attitudes toward women, and intellectual and moral discussions with herself.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Vassar College--Students.
Women college students--New York
(State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women--Education.
Women--Social conditions.
Women--History.
Feminism.
Women--Diaries.
Women psychologists.
Women mathematicians.
Ladd, Christine, 1847-1930.
Genre Or Form:
Diaries.

Lockwood, Helen Drusilla, 1891-1971.

Title: Papers, 1883-1971, 1908-1971 (bulk)
Physical Details: 25 cubic ft.
Notes: Lockwood was educated at Vassar and Columbia. She taught at Wellesley College, 1925-1927, and at Vassar College, 1927-1956, and was active in workers' education.
Summary: Correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, publications, curriculum materials, minutes, memoranda, scrapbooks, and photographs pertaining primarily to her professional career as an English professor and her interests in euthenics, labor, and workers' education. Includes correspondence with her parents William and Mary Lamson Lockwood and her sister Cordelia Lockwood, 1908-1937; letters written by Mary Lamson while a Vassar student, 1886-1888; personal and professional correspondence relating to teaching, workers' education, Vassar College affairs, the HUMANIST, and her writing and publishing activities with Emily Clark Brown, Eleanor Clark, Hallie Flanagan Davis, Eloise Ellery, Pauli Murray, Elizabeth Page, Priscilla Smith Robertson, Elizabeth Sewell, Hilda Worthington (Jane) Smith, Caroline Farrar Ware, Gladys Meyer Wolfe, and others, 1912-1971; notes, manuscripts, lectures, and published articles and reviews on education, euthenics, Vassar College, women, and workers' education, ca. 1914-1967; course syllabi, reading lists, exams, and other curriculum materials from her classes in English literature, film, and American culture; and minutes, memoranda, and other items from her faculty duties at Wellesley and Vassar, 1925-1956.
Brochures, newsletters, reports, speeches, school publications, and Lockwood's notes and outlines relating to her association with the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, the Vineyard Shore Workers' School, the Hudson Shore Labor School, and other workers' education projects, 1922-1952; diaries for 1903 to ca. 1911 concerning school, her family summer activities, trips, and student life at Vassar; Vassar alumnae questionnaires she used for an article on the part-time paid employment of women, 1948; letters from former students at the time of her retirement, 1956; and miscellaneous family items including her parents' student notebooks, scrapbooks, and photographs.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Lockwood, William.
Lockwood, Mary Lamson.
Lockwood, Cordelia.
Brown, Emily Clark, 1895-1980.
Clark, Eleanor, 1913-
Flanagan, Hallie, 1890-1969.
Ellery, Eloise, 1874-1958.
Murray, Pauli, 1910-
Harris, Elizabeth Merwin Page, 1889-1969.
Robertson, Priscilla Smith.
Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, 1815-1906.
Smith, Hilda Worthington, 1888-
Ware, Caroline Farrar, 1899-
Wolfe, Gladys Meyer.
Vassar College--Students.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Alumnae.
Wellesley College--Faculty.
Bryn Mawr College. Summer School for Women Workers in Industry.
Vineyard Shore Workers' School (West Park, N.Y.)
Hudson Shore Labor School (West Park, N.Y.)
English language--Study and teaching.
English literature.
Literature--Study and teaching.
Family--New York (State)
Labor and laboring classes--Education.
Publishers and publishing.
Literature publishing.
Euthenics.
Education.
Women--Education.
Women--Social conditions.
Women--Diaries.
Women--Employment.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Women college teachers.
Lamson, Mary.
Davis, Hallie Flanagan, 1890-1969.
Page, Elizabeth, 1889-1969.
Lockwood family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Scrapbooks.
Diaries.

Lowe, Jeanne R., 1924-1972.

Title: Papers, 1959-1973.
Physical Details: 34.5 cubic ft.
Notes: Journalist. Vassar College Class of 1945-4.
Summary: Correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, and other materials pertaining to urban renewal, urban housing, role of women in the sciences, race, public housing, the National Urban Coalition, community planning, and academic classes and seminars she led at Goucher College, the New School for Social Research, and New York University; specific cities covered include New York, New Haven, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Miami, Sunnyvale (Calif.), Chicago, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.; manuscript of her book CITIES IN A RACE WITH TIME (1967) and scrapbooks of reviews and references to the book and her other work in urban affairs; her diary for 1968; and miscellaneous materials relating to Vassar College and her participation in its 100th anniversary.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
National Urban Coalition (U.S.)
Goucher College.
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)--Faculty.
Vassar College--Anniversaries, etc.
New York University.
Women--Diaries.
Women in science.
Racism.
Public housing.
Urban renewal.
Housing.
City planning.
New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions.
New Haven (Conn.)--Social conditions.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.
Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Social conditions.
Miami (Fla.)--Social conditions.
Sunnyvale (Calif.)--Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
Cleveland (Ohio)--Social conditions.
Washington (D.C.)--Social conditions.
Women journalists.
Women college teachers.
Women authors, American.
Genre Or Form:
Scrapbooks.
Diaries.

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925.

Title: Correspondence, 1916-1925.
Physical Details: 59 items.
Notes: Poet, biographer, critic.
Summary: Fifty-one letters from Lowell to Elisabeth B. Cutting, 1916-1925, an editor at the NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, concerning articles for the magazine, her poetry, speaking engagements, other writers such as Richard Hunt, Mrs. Kizer, and Winifred Bryher, critics of her writing, the New Poetry, her friend Mrs. Ada Russell, her health, her memories of James Russell Lowell, her work with Chinese poetry, being on tour, and other aspects of her literary work; two letters to Thomas Boyd, 1923; and two letters to other editors of NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, 1916. There are also four letters to Cutting from Ada Russell and W.W. Kean, 1919-1925, about Amy Lowell.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Boyd, Thomas, 1898-1935.
Cutting, Elizabeth Brown, d. 1946.
Hunt, Richard.
Bryher, 1894-
Russell, Ada, 1879-
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891.
Kean, W. W.
American poetry.
Chinese poetry.
Literature publishing.
Women poets.
Critics.
Bryher, Winifred, 1894-

Lowrie, Rebecca Lawrence, 1891-1975.

Title: Papers, 1909-1977.
Physical Details: 4 cubic ft.
Notes: Lowrie (Vassar College Class of 1913) was book reviewer for Harper Brothers, 1913-1932, first reader for Book-of-the-Month Club, 1931-1943, and trustee and benefactor of Vassar College.
Summary: The bulk of the collection consists of her typescripts of published and unpublished book reviews, 1934-1952. Other items include correspondence with Mary Simpson, Helen Couch, Gertrude Garnsey, Vassar classmates, and others, 1913-1971, concerning Vassar alumnae activities, her work as a book reviewer, responses to her reviews, her health, comments on people and politics, popular culture, her dogs, and other personal issues; clippings of Lowrie's reviews and reviews of her book CAMBRIC TEA, 1924-1967; manuscripts and typescripts of her other unpublished work, 1916-1961; her will and estate inventory, 1960-1975; family bills, receipts, and photographs, 1909-1941; typescript article by Barbara Foote about Lowrie, 1977; and several letters concerning this collection of papers, 1976-1977. Also includes Lowrie's collection of twenty-two Christmas cards designed by Ralph Fletcher Seymour.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors:
Foote, Barbara.
Seymour, Ralph Fletcher, 1876-1966.
Subjects:
Simpson, Mary.
Couch, Helen.
Garnsey, Gertrude.
Book-of-the-Month Club.
Harper & Brothers.
Vassar College. Trustees.
Vassar College--Alumnae.
Family--New York (State)
Christmas cards.
Dogs.
Decedents' estates.
American literature.
Women in the book industries and trade.
Books--Reviews.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
Lowrie family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.

Lutz, Alma.

Title: Papers, 1912-1971.
Physical Details: ca. 40 linear ft.
Notes: Lutz (1890-1973) pursued a career as a feminist, political activist, biographer, and historian. She graduated from Vassar in 1912.
Summary: Correspondence, clippings, notes, speeches, interviews, photographs, manuscript and published versions of her writings, other publications, bibliographies, and copies of historic documents pertaining to materials on women's history at Radcliffe, Smith, and Vassar Colleges; women's history courses; the Lucy Stone League; the Margaret Brent Fellowship; the U.S. President's Commission on the Status of Women; the National Woman's Party; the equal rights amendment; Woman's Rights Conventions in Seneca Falls (1848) and Boston (1850 and 1859); woman suffrage; anti-slavery; Hannah Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Stanton Blatch, Abby Kelley Foster, Emma Hart Willard, and other prominent women in history; working women; women in World War II and the armed forces; women in other countries; and the Women's Liberation Movement. Major correspondents include Angelica Balabanoff, Pearl S. Buck, and Miriam Holden. There are also family letters and photographs, biographical materials, and miscellaneous items relating to Vassar College.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Adams, Hannah, 1755-1831.
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
Blatch, Harriet Stanton, 1856-1940.
Foster, Abigail Kelley, 1810-1887.
Willard, Emma, 1787-1870.
Balabanoff, Angelica, 1878-1965.
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
Holden, Miriam Young.
Vassar College.
Radcliffe College.
Smith College.
Lucy Stone League.
Margaret Brent Fellowship.
United States. President's Commission on the Status of Women.
National Woman's Party.
Woman's Rights Convention.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women's colleges--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
Women's colleges--Massachusetts--Northampton.
Women--Suffrage.
Women--History.
Women--History--Study and teaching.
Women's rights.
Women in politics.
Feminism.
Slavery--Anti-slavery movements.
Women--Employment.
World War, 1939-1945--War work.
War--Women's work.
Equal rights amendments.
Women--Social conditions.
United States--Armed Forces--Women.
Feminists.
Women historians.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.

Lutz, Alma, collector.

Title: English and American women authors, 1801-1863.
Physical Details: ca. 50 items.
Summary: Manuscript poetry, letters, autographs, engravings, and calling cards of Maria Edgeworth, Caroline L. Herschel, Hannah More, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, and others, including several anonymous authors, 1801-1863 and undated.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849.
Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, 1750-1848.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865.
Stuart-Wortley, Emmeline, Lady, 1806-1855.
Women authors, English.
Women authors, American.
Women poets.
Genre Or Form:
Engravings.
Autographs.
Poems.
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