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Social reformers.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3725
Abstract

Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines.

Dates: 1887 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1887 - 1926
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers

Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall

 Collection
Identifier: 3782
Abstract

Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall; lecture notes, notebooks, diaries and travel journals; an inventory for the records room at Dartington Hall and a diary describing World War I by an unknown author. Also, microfilmed correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and Dorothy Whitney Straight; her diaries, clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses.

Dates: 1890-1976,-1920-1958 (bulk)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst papers from Dartington Hall

Emily Howland papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Emily Howland papers

Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper papers

 Collection
Identifier: 6543
Abstract

Personal material and material relating to Sarah B. Cooper's work in Bible Schools, Kindergartens, and Women's Organizations.

Dates: 1813-1921.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper papers

William R. George family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 800
Abstract

Collection contains extensive correspondence and other materials concerning William R. George and the founding of the George Junior Republic, the evolution of the Republic and its part in educational reform in the early twentieth century; and the establishment of other Junior Republics in the United States

Dates: 1750-1989.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William R. George family papers

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