Women educators.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Emily Howland papers
Collection
Identifier: 2681
Abstract
Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates:
1797-1938.
Lena Lillian Hill Severence papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947553]
Identifier: 2790
Scope and content
Letters to Lena Hill Severence, plus two pamphlets and a mimeographed item. Letters concern her efforts to secure pension legislation for teachers in New York State. Correspondents include New York State Normal School officials Myron T. Scudder, William J. Milne, and Isaac B. Poucher; university presidents Andrew D. White, Jacob Gould Schurman, James B. Angell, David Starr Jordan, and Charles W. Eliot; lawyer and politician Elihu Root; New York State legislator Jesse S. Phillips; and New...
Dates:
1903-1916.
Linda Shaw Finlay journals
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093381204]
Identifier: 6697
Scope and content
Personal journals include discussions of family; love of adventure, philosophy, study and teaching, art and nature; religious feelings; opposition to war and struggles about non-violence; struggles of a late-20th century woman pioneering in the second wave of feminism.
Dates:
1961-2004.
Mabel A. Milhan, compiler, scrapbooks
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064924404]
Identifier: 2379
Scope and content
Indexed clipping scrapbooks and unmounted pamphlets and clippings used to illustrate talks Milhan gave during her 25 years in home demonstration work; subjects include the history of food, clothing, and various customs; persons active in home demonstration extension work; and the history of home economics.
Dates:
[ca. 1913-1963]
Sally Lucas Jean papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064943321]
Identifier: 3221
Scope and content
Collection consists of letters; thesis by Marguerite Vollmer about Sally Lucas Jean; and reprint of an article by Sally Lucas Jean.
Dates:
1948-1972.
Shelton family papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064923802]
Identifier: 808
Scope and content
Collection consists largely of letters between members of the interrelated Tappan, Brewster, Tomlinson, and Shelton families, and emphasizes religious, missionary, and educational experiences. Included are a letter (1821) from a female teacher at the Brainard Cherokee Mission School; letters (1827) from Anne Tappan at Catharine Beecher's School in Hartford, Connecticut; letters (1834) from Lucy Tappan, a teacher at a religious academy in Detroit, concerning local conditions, Miss Beecher,...
Dates:
1783-1934.