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Caroline M. Severance, pioneer
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Caroline M. Severance Pioneer by Mary S. Gibson
Manuscripts
The Friday Morning Club records consists of materials created by the Club and its members, dating from the year the club started in 1891 to is closure in 2012. These records document the activities of the club such as: philanthropy and charity work; finances; fundraising; the various work of the club's committees on science, art, and other topics; the construction of their clubhouses in Los Angeles; and the meeting minutes of both regular meetings and the board. The collection is comprised of subject files, financial and business records, membership applications and cards, manuscripts and essays, and clippings (1770-2012); publications printed by the Friday Morning Club, including their monthly newsletter, and publications printed by other clubs (1850-1993); photograph albums, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes (1891-2012); photographs, certificates, awards, and some objects that belonged to the club, including the bronze plaque that hung at the clubhouse (1890-2000). The collection contains material by and about several prominent members and suffragettes, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Bixby Smith, Jessie Benton Frémont, Margaret Collier Graham, Olive Percival, Idah Strobridge, Louise Watkins, Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, and the club's founder Caroline Severance. The collection also contains material about other clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs and California Women of the Golden West.
mssFMC
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Caroline M. Severance: Feminist and Reformer, 1820-1914: [thesis]
Manuscripts
The thesis covers the entire life of Caroline M. Severance, from her birth in Canandaigua, New York in 1820, to her death in Los Angeles, California in 1914 at the age of ninety-four. Stanley includes details regarding Severance's activities in several reform movements including temperance, the Unitarian Church, women's clubs, and women's suffrage. The thesis also includes a bibliography
mssHM 63882
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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the papers of Elizabeth Boynton Harbert. Chiefly correspondence, the collection also contains manuscripts (including diaries, address books of woman suffrage workers, poetry and music), printed matter and ephemera, large scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, some photographs, and an extensive collection of pamphlets and broadsides on the topic of woman suffrage.
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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914
Manuscripts
2 letters to Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950.
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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914
Manuscripts
2 letters to Caroline Severance Burrage.
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