Manuscripts
World"s Columbian Exposition (1893: Chicago, Ill). World"s Congress Auxiliary
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World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, Ill., U.S.A
Visual Materials
Image of an aerial view of the plans for the World's Columbian Exposition buildings along the lakeshore in Chicago, Illinois; names of several buildings and exhibits planned are labeled, including "naval exhibit" and "fine arts" near each location; steamships and sailboats visible on the lake; bust portraits of Christopher Columbus and George Washington in oval frames at top right and left.
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Women's Clubs: Los Angeles Woman's Club - World's Columbian Exposition
Manuscripts
There are 631 manuscripts, 525 of which are by Caroline Severance. These include speeches, poetry, essays, articles, notebooks, commonplace books, miscellaneous notes, and a 347-page unpublished autobiography by Caroline Severance entitled "Own Story." The majority of the 10,634 pieces of correspondence is made up of family letters; only 232 letters are written by Caroline Severance. The rest of the correspondence is made up of letters written to Caroline Severance by over 1,700 different authors. The collection contains 9,007 pieces of ephemera, which is made up of address books, appointment books, brochures, business papers, greeting cards, legal documents, newspaper clippings, postcards, fliers, brochures, programs, notebooks, photographs, and financial papers of the family. The manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera cover the following subjects: African American women suffrage and clubs, Susan B. Anthony, Jessie Benton Frémont, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe, child labor reform, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Fröbel and the Kindergarten movement, Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Helen Modjeska, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, dress reform, suffrage, temperance, Unitarianism, women's rights, women's clubs, and the history, politics and social life of 19th and 20th century Los Angeles, California.
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California Midwinter International Exposition (1894: San Francisco, Calif.)
Manuscripts
4 items.
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The Columbian exposition album ... World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Rare Books
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Sawyer, Elizabeth E. Turner, 1822-1900. "A Pleasant Memory of Lucy Stone During the Women"s Congress of the World"s Fair:" [poem]
Manuscripts
Typed copy.
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