Guide to the Autograph Files, 1783-1983

Guide to the Autograph Files,
1783-1983

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Collection Summary

Repository: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Title: Autograph Files
Dates: 1783-1983
Quantity: 9 cubic ft.
Abstract: 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.
Forms of Materials: Correspondence, autographs

Scope and Content Note

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.

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Access and Use

Access

This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.

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Related Material

  • Several items were separated from larger collections.

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Subject Headings

Names:

  • James Family
  • Livingston Family

Organizations:

  • Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)
  • Bryn Mawr College
  • Spellman College
  • Vassar College -- Employees
  • Vassar College -- Faculty
  • Vassar College -- History
  • Vassar College -- Students
  • Vassar College. History Dept
  • Vassar College. Library
  • Vassar College. Observatory
  • Yale University

Subjects:

  • Abolitionists -- New York (State) -- Rochester
  • Afro-Americans -- Social work with
  • Apprentices -- Massachusetts -- Woburn
  • Authors, American
  • Authors, English
  • Chastity
  • Christianity
  • Dogs
  • Educational fund raising
  • Equal rights amendments
  • Feminism
  • Feminists
  • Fires -- Massachusetts -- Salem
  • Fugitive Slaves -- Kentucky
  • Fugitive slaves -- New York (State) -- Rochester
  • Law students
  • Missions -- India
  • Music -- Study and teaching
  • Nonviolence -- Religious aspects
  • Ovariotomy
  • Patriotism
  • Peace treaties
  • Peasantry -- Russia
  • Poetry
  • Presidents -- United States -- Election
  • Publishers and publishing
  • Revolutions -- Europe
  • Screenwriters -- California -- Hollywood
  • Shakers
  • Shoemakers -- Massachusetts -- Woburn
  • Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements
  • Strikes and lockouts -- Marble industry and trade -- Vermont
  • Syphilis
  • Theater -- Spain
  • Wages and women
  • Women -- Education
  • Women -- Employment
  • Women -- Social conditions
  • Women artists
  • Women authors, American
  • Women in politics
  • Women missionaries -- India
  • Women social reformers
  • Women's colleges -- Pennsylvania -- Bryn Mawr
  • Women's colleges -- New York (State) -- Poughkeepsie
  • Women's health services
  • Women's rights
  • World War, 1914-1918 -- France
  • World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Red Cross

Places:

  • Boston (Mass.) -- Religious life and customs
  • Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
  • Europe -- History -- 1848-1849
  • Europe -- Politics and government
  • France -- Foreign relations -- United States
  • Ghana -- Description and travel
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
  • New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
  • Scotland -- Social conditions
  • United States -- Foreign relations -- France
  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States -- Politics and government
  • United States -- Social life and customs
  • Woburn (Mass.) -- Economic conditions

Document Types:

  • Autographs.
  • Poems.

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Encoding Information

Encoded by Laura Finkel, April 2008.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Autograph Files, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.

Processing Information

Partially processed by Louise Loeb, 2005.

Completed and updated by Jared Berenholz, 2008.

Acquisition Information

An artificial collection, collected over several decades by Vassar College Library staff. Some materials removed from larger collections.

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Series List

A B C D E F G H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Folder List

A

Abbott, Francis Matilda
Abbott, Lyman
Abbott, Mary M.
Aberdeen & Temair, Ishbel Maria (Marjoribanks) Gordon
Acheson, Dean
Adam, Adolph Charles
Adamic, Louis
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, Elizabeth K.
Adams, George Burton
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy — including material on Paris peace treaty and national politics, 1783
Adams, Leonie
Adams, R.F.D.
Adams, Randolph G.
Adams, Ruth
Adams, Rev. William
Addams, Jane
Aeolian Co.
Agassiz, Elizabeth C.
Agnell, Gertrude
Agnell, James B.
Alcott, Amos Bronson
Aldrich, Alexander
Aldrich, Richard
Allen, Agnes Rodgers
Allen, Florence E.
Allen, Fredrick Lewis
Allen, Hewey
Allen, Low
Anderson, Hans Christian [Missing as of April 2008]
Anderson, Florence (Bennett)
Anderson, Marian
Anderson, Martin B.
Anderson, Sherwood
Apthorp, William F.
Armstrong, S.C.
Armstrong, Sarah F. (Sheppard)
Arne, Sigrid
Arnim, Elizabeth
Arnold, Matthew
Arthur, Jean
Ashley, Fredrick William
Assatouroff, Jenny ber
Astor, John Jacob
Austen, John
Avery, Alida Cornelia
Avery, Mary L.
Avery, Myrz H.
Axon, William E.A.

B

[unidentified person with initials L.J.B.]
Bab
Bacheller, Ann
Bacheller, Irving
Backus, Truman J.
Bacon, Dr. Leonard W.
Baird, Prof. Spencer
Baker, Ray Stannard
Baker, S. Josephine
Balabanoff, Angelica
Baldridge, Letitia
Baldwin, Simon
Bales, Robert H.
Ball, George W.
Ballou, Esther
Bancroft, George
Banfield, Edith C.
Bangs, John Kendrick
Banks, Isabella
Banning, Margaret Culkin
Bannister, Zilpah Polly
Barbour, Clarence A.
Barker, Granville
Barlow, George S.
Barlow, Howard
Barlow, Jane
Barnard, F.C.
Barnard, Fredrick Augustus Porter
Barnard, George
Barnes, Albert
Barney, Mary (Case)
Barnum, Charlotte C.
Barrie, James M.
Barry, Carola E.
Barton, Clara
Baruch, Bernard
Barus, Annie (Howes)
Bascom, Prof. John
Baskin, Leonard
Bates, Katherine Lee
Bates, Sarah Glazier
Baur, Harold
Baxter, James
Baxter, John B.M.
Baxter, Percival
Bayh, Birch
Baylinson, A.S.
Bazzini, Antonio
Beach, Lillian T.
Beard, D.C.
Beecher, Catherine E.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Belbenoit, Rene
Bell, Francis L.
Bellerman, Dr. Heinrich
Bellows, Henry
Belmont, Eleanor R.
Benes, Eduard
Benét, William Rose
Benjamin, Walter R.
Bennett, Arnold
Bennett, Paul A.
Benson, Arthur C.
Benson, E.F.
Benton, Joel
Benton, William
Berle, Adolph A., Jr.
Berlioz, Hector
Bernard, Mary Lawrence
Berry, Kate
Berry, Martha
Berton, Henri-Montan
Besant, Walter
Beukema, Herman
Bianchi, John
Biddle, George
Bigelow, Poultney
Billings, Henry
Bingham, Hiram
Bingham, Millicent Todd
Bishop, Harrie He (Warner)
Bishop, Helen
Bishop, Mabel
Bizet, Georges
Black, Ebenezer Charlton
Black, Hugh
Blackwell, Alice Stone
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown [Missing as of April 2008]
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blackwell, Dr. Emily — including material on excessive practice of ovariotomy and dangers to women from syphilitic husbands, 1896
Blaikie, William
Blake, Dr. Mary J. Stafford
Blake, Sillie Devereaux
Blashfield, Edwin Howland
Blatch, Harriet Stanton
Bliss, Rev. George R.
Bliss, H.S.
Bliven, Bruce
Bloomer, Amelia
Blunt, Katherine
Boieldieu, Francois Adrien
Bois, Jules
Boissevain, Eugen
Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Bond, Elizabeth Powell
Bondeau
Booth, George
Booth, Lydia
Booth, Mary L.
Booth, William
Borchard, Edwin M.
Borden, Fanny
Borg, Selma
Borowy, W.
Bosanquest, Ester Cleveland
Boscom, John
Bossi, M. Enrico
Boulanger, Nadia
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Bowen, Elizabeth
Bowen, Francis
Bowles, Chester
Bowman, E.M.
Boyd, James
Boyd, Ruth
Boyd, Thomas — including material on work as screen writer in Hollywood (1931), being a father, World War I experiences, and other issues, 1918-1934
Boyd-Carpenter, William
Boynton, Marjorie M.
Bragan, Denis
Brahms, Johannes
Braislin, Priscilla H.
Brant, Henry
Breckenridge, Henry
Brent, Charles Henry
Bretz, J.P.
Brewster, Benjamin H.
Bridges, Robert
Bright, Jacob
Bright, John
Brinnin, John Malcolm
Brinton, Crane
Brittain, Vera
Brittan, Mary Burta
Brogan, Denis
Bromfield, Alfred J.
Brooks, John S.
Brooks, Noah
Brooks, Phillips
Browgham, H.B.
Brown, E. Melville
Brown, Ford
Brown, Helen D.
Brown, Henry
Brown, Zenith
Browne, F. Maurice
Brownell, Lucy E.
Brownlow, W.G.
Bruce, Edward
Bruce, James M.
Bruch Max
Bruhl, L. Levy
Bryan, E.B.
Bryant, William Cullen
Bryce, James
Buchan, Anna O. Douglas
Buchanan, James
Buchwald, Art
Buck, Gertrude
Buck, Pearl S. — including correspondence with Alma Lutz on equal rights amendment and Buck's writing and speaking work, 1938-1967
Buckingham, Steven
Buckmaster, Henrietta
Bunche Ralphe J.
Bundy, McGeorge
Burne-Jones, Edward
Burns, John
Burns, Robert
Burnside, Helen W.
Burton, W.L.
Butler, Josephine E.
Butler, Nicholas Murry
Butler, R.A.
Bynner, Witter
Byron, George Gordon Noel

C

Cadman, Rev. S. Parks
Caine, Hall
Caldwell, Samuel L.
Caldwell, Samuel L., M.D
Calhoun, John C.
Calthorpe
Calverton, V.F.
Cameron, Edward M., Jr.
Campbell, George D.
Campbell, Helen
Canby, Henry Seidel
Carden, Mae
Carlyle, Thomas
Carnegie, Andrew
Carney, Albert J.
Carson, Gerald
Carter, Edna
Carter, John
Cary, Alice
Cary, Lillian
Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff Jr.
Cary, Phoebe
Case, Clifford P.
Castle, W.D.
Cather, Willa
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Cattell, James McKeen
Catternall, Ralph C.W.
Chadbourne, Paul Ansel
Chadwick, George Whitefield
Champney, Elizabeth (Williams)
Chapin, E.H.
Chapin, Mary Whitney
Chapman, John Jay
Chapman, R.W.
Charpentier, Gustave
Chatterton, Thomas
Childs, Mary Cole
Chittenden, Kate S.
Choate, Augusta
Choate, Joseph
Christie, Dorothy
Churchill, Winston
Ciechanowski, J
Clark, Charles Upson
Clark, E.M.
Clark, Eleanor
Clark, Kate (Upson)
Clark, Mary Vida
Clark, Samuel
Clark, Thomas March
Clarke, Edw. H.
Clarke, Sarah Freeman
Claudel, Paul
Clemens, Charles Edwin
Clemens, S.L.
Cleveland, Frances F.
Cloetta, M
Clough, Anne Jemima
Clough, Blanche Athena
Clulow, HV
Cobb, Dorothy Penrose
Coes, Mary
Coffin, A.H.
Coffin, Elizabeth R.
Coffin, Tristram
Colby, Emma M.
Cole, Rossetter Gleason
Cole, Timothy
Coleridge
Collyer, Robert
Colum, Padraic
Commons, John R.
Combe, Harvey
Comstock, Ada
Conrad, Joseph
Conreid, Heinrich
Conron, Georgianna
Conrow, Wilfred S.
Converse & Co. Publishers
Conway, Moncure D.
Cooke, A
Cooke, Rose Terry
Coolidge, Archibald Cary
Coonley, Queens (Ferry)
Cooper, Peter
Copeland, Aaron
Copland, Suzanne
Cornell, Antoinette
Cornell, Francis
Cornwall, Louise
Corr, Maureen
Cortissoz, Royal
Cotta, Alix von
Cousins, Norman
Cowles, Rev. A.W.
Cowley, Malcolm
Coykendall, Samuel D.
Cracraft, Tom Adrian
Crawford, Francis Marion
Cretin, Eunice M.
Crippen, Ruth — including material on Red Cross work in France, 1918
Crookshank, Emma (Comfort)
Crookshank, Harry
Crosby, Howard
Crowell, E.P.
Curie, Marie
Currier, Isabel
Curry, J.L.M.
Curtis, George Ticknor
Curtis, George William
Curtis, Mrs. George William
Cushing, Florence M.
Cushman, Charlotte
Custer, Elizabeth (Bacon)
Cutlor, Sen. Leslie B.
Cuyler, Theodore L.

D

Daggett, Susan E.
Dalzell, N.R.
Dame, Maria
Damer, Anne Seymour
Damrosch, Frank
Damrosch, Walter
Dana, Edward Salisbury
Dana, James D.
Danes, Jiro V.
Daniels, Anne Paine
Daniels, Josephus
Darr, M. M.
Darrah, William Culp
Darwin, Sir George Howard
Daves, Graham
Davis, Bette — including material on using women's rights pioneers as film material, 1944
Davis, Elmer
Davis, Gladys Rockmore
Davis, Katharine Bement
Davis, Kenneth
Davis, Norman H.
Davis, Rear Admiral Charles Henry
Dawson, Sir William
Day, Henry Noble
de la Mare, Walter
De La Roche, Mazo
De Morgan, William
Dean, Willard L.