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Women -- New York (State) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

 Subject
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100 years ago in the Finger Lakes region

 Collection — Manuscript box 43 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065249447]
Identifier: 1951m
Scope and content

Typescript copy of Mary Hinman Abel's story, "A Country Schoolmistress of 1834," as published in the Sunday Telegram, December 28, 1930, preceded by a biographical sketch on the author. The story is fiction but gives a detailed account of what life in the Finger Lakes region would have been like for white settlers in the 1830s.

Dates: 1930.