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Creator:

National Portrait Gallery  Search this

Type:

Conversations and talks

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2022-08-31T16:11:54.000Z

YouTube Category:

Entertainment  Search this

Topic:

Portraits  Search this

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NatlPortraitGallery

Data Source:

National Portrait Gallery

YouTube Channel:

NatlPortraitGallery

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_amTowEpEX_c

Creator:

National Museum of American History  Search this

Type:

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2020-08-18T15:54:48.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

American History  Search this

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SmithsonianAmHistory

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianAmHistory

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_VL-EH2Ipj_M

Author:

Freedman, Estelle B. 1947-  Search this

Physical description:

1 online resource (387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations

Type:

Electronic resources

Ebook

History

Place:

United States

États-Unis

Date:

2013

Topic:

Rape--History  Search this

Women's rights--History  Search this

Civil rights--History  Search this

Droits de l'homme--Histoire  Search this

SOCIAL SCIENCE--Criminology  Search this

SOCIAL SCIENCE--Violence in Society  Search this

Crime  Search this

Civil rights  Search this

Rape  Search this

Women's rights  Search this

Våldtäkt--historia  Search this

Kvinnors rättigheter--historia  Search this

Medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter--historia  Search this

Call number:

HV6561 .F74 2013 (Internet)

Restrictions & Rights:

1-user

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1161045

Associated institution:

Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association  Search this

Physical Description:

metal (overall material)

orange (overall color)

blue (overall color)

white (overall color)

Measurements:

overall: 12 in x 4 in; 30.48 cm x 10.16 cm

Object Name:

signboard

sign, tin

sign

Place made:

United States: New York, New York City

Made at:

United States: New York, New York City

Associated place:

United States: Massachusetts

Date made:

1915

Associated date:

November 2, 1915

Subject:

Women's Suffrage  Search this

Credit Line:

Library of Congress

ID Number:

PL.242991.260

Catalog number:

242991.260

Accession number:

242991

See more items in:

Political and Military History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection

Government, Politics, and Reform

American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith

Woman Suffrage

Exhibition:

American Democracy

Exhibition Location:

National Museum of American History

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-b67a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_508085

Author:

Santangelo, Lauren C  Search this

Physical description:

1 online resource (273 pages) illustrations

Type:

Electronic resources

Electronic books

History

Place:

New York (State)

New York

New York (État)

Date:

2019

1865-1950

Topic:

Women--Suffrage--History  Search this

Feminism--History  Search this

Women--Political activity--History  Search this

Suffragists--History  Search this

Femmes--Suffrage--Histoire  Search this

Féminisme--Histoire  Search this

Femmes--Activité politique--Histoire  Search this

Suffragettes--Histoire  Search this

POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--Elections  Search this

POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Process--General  Search this

Suffragists  Search this

Feminism  Search this

Politics and government  Search this

Women--Political activity  Search this

Women--Suffrage  Search this

Politique et gouvernement  Search this

Call number:

JK1896 .S268 2019 (Internet)

JK1911.N7 S26 2019 (Internet)

Restrictions & Rights:

1-user

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1144997

Creator:

MacDowell, Helen Sandford, 1889-  Search this

Pease, L.F.  Search this

Prince, Georgiana K., 1861-1915  Search this

Sandford Greeting Card Company  Search this

Gilman, Georgiana Sandford, 1887-1982  Search this

Sandford, Frank S., 1853-1924  Search this

Sandford, Mary Elizabeth, 1852-1936  Search this

Sandford, Ruth, 1879-1972  Search this

Names:

American Red Cross  Search this

Women's Christian Temperance Union  Search this

Donor:

Gilman, R. Thompson  Search this

Extent:

8 Cubic feet (37 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Cartes-de-visite

Clippings

Travel diaries

Photograph albums

Programs

Advertising

Photographs

Letters (correspondence)

Dvds

Business cards

Trade catalogs

Genealogies

Diaries

Design drawings

Business records

Account books

Calling cards

Cabinet photographs

Daguerreotypes

Memoirs

Place:

Panama Canal (Panama)

Date:

1831-2004

Summary:

Collection documents the business activities of the Sandford Card Company and include the papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford, founder of the company, and her immediate family.

Scope and Contents:

The collection documents the business activities of the Sandford Card Company primarily in the early part of the century. It includes product designs and samples; advertising and marketing materials, as well as, correspondence and financial papers. In addition, there are the papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford, founder of the company, and her immediate family. These materials consist primarily of diaries, photographs, correspondence, family histories and genealogies. The collection is arranged into four series. Series one documents the business activities of the Sandford Card Company. Series two contains the personal papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford, her husband Frank Sherman Sandford and their children. Series three is the personal papers of Mary Elizabeth Sandford's parents and siblings. Series four is the personal papers of extended family members mostly by marriage.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into four series.

Series 1: Sandford Card Company Records, 1880-1967; undated

Subseries 1.1: Correspondence, 1909-1936; undated

Subseries 1.2: Financial Records, 1880-1926; undated

Subseries 1.3: Product Designs and Samples, 1911-1941; undated

Subseries 1.4: Advertising and Marketing Materials, 1924-1967; undated

Series 2: Sandford Family Papers, 1831-2003; undated

Subseries 2.1: Frank Sherman Sandford, 1870-1925; undated

Subseries 2.2: Mary Elizabeth Kennedy Sandford, 1868-2003; undated

Subseries 2.3: Ruth Louise Sandford, 1900-1972; undated

Subseries 2.4: John Joseph Sanford, 1900-1987; undated

Subseries 2.5: Georgiana Kennedy Sandford Gilman, 1870-1973; undated

Subseries 2.6: Helen Louise Sandford McDowell, 1899-2000; undated

Subseries 2.7: Family Papers, 1831-1992; undated

Subseries 2.8: Frances Rohe, 1913, 1920; undated

Series 3: Kennedy Family Papers, 1861-2003; undated

Subseries 3.1: James Frank Kennedy, 1861-1920s; undated

Subseries 3.2: Mary Jane Durkee Kennedy, 1867-1882

Subseries 3.3: Lillian Frances Kennedy Pease, 1875-2003

Subseries 3.4: Emma Jane Kennedy, 1877-1883; undated

Subseries 3.5: Georgiana Kennedy Prince, 1878-1915; undated

Subseries 3.6: Family Papers, 1934-1992; undated

Series 4: Other Family Papers, 1840s-2004; undated

Subseries 4.1: Durkee Family, 1864-2004; undated

Subseries 4.2: Gilman Family, 1840s-1902

Subseries 4.3: Gilman Family, 1916-2004; undated

Subseries 4.4: McDowell Family, 1920; undated

Subseries 4.5: Pease Family, 1953-1984; undated

Biographical / Historical:

Mary Elizabeth Kennedy Sandford founded the Sandford Card Company in Dansville, New York in 1907. The Sandford Card Company was intended to provide consumers a means to send messages to family and friends. Such products contained more thought out verses and images than the typical postcards that were available during this time period. Initially, Mary Elizabeth created four verses with images and had five thousand of each printed by the F. A. Owen Publishing Company. The four samples were sent to two hundred bookstores and drugstores. Sales were later made with distributors and agents in various cities throughout the country. In addition, the company also sold cards to fraternal organizations using their symbols or mottos in the design. Eventually, fraternal organizations became a big part of the company's customer base expanding to more than fifty groups. The company grew as a mail order business. All card shipments were made directly from Dansville, New York to forty-eight states and countries including Canada, Alaska, Cuba, Japan, Guam, Philippines, Hawaii, Panama, and Netherlands, West Indies, England and Scotland. Although the Sandford Card Company started as a greeting card business it eventually offered place cards, calling cards, calendars, program folders, napkins, banquet supplies, gifts and souvenirs to its product line. All printing work was contracted out to lithographic businesses in New York, Boston and Cincinnati. With the death of Mary Elizabeth Sandford and her husband Frank Sherman Sandford the company continued to be operated under the guidance of their daughter Ruth Louise Sandford. In 1948, Ruth Sandford hired John G. Holden as business manager. In 1965, the company moved from Dansville to Baldwinsville, New York under the management of the third generation of the founding family. It continued to operate as a family business until it was sold to John G. Holden. The company was later purchased by Rodney Pease the grandson of Mary Elizabeth Sandford's sister Lillian Frances Pease. Pease eventually changed the name and direction of the company.

Related Materials:

Materials in the Archives Center

Lillian Pease Card Company Records (AC1251)

Provenance:

Donated to the Archives Center in 2011 by R. Thompson Gilman, Executor for the estate of Elizabeth G. Essley.

Restrictions:

Collection open for research on site by appointment. Unprotected photographs must be handled with gloves.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

Women-owned business enterprises  Search this

Women -- Political activity  Search this

Women -- Organizations  Search this

Postcards -- 20th century  Search this

Greeting cards -- 20th century  Search this

Greeting card industry  Search this

Family-owned business enterprises  Search this

Women's suffrage -- United States  Search this

Temperance  Search this

Health resorts  Search this

Genre/Form:

Cartes-de-visite

Clippings -- 20th century

Travel diaries -- 20th century

Photograph albums -- 20th century

Programs -- 20th century

Advertising -- 20th century

Photographs -- 20th century

Letters (correspondence) -- 19th century

DVDs

Business cards

Trade catalogs -- 20th century

Genealogies

Photographs -- 19th century

Diaries -- 20th century

Design drawings -- 20th century

Business records -- 20th century

Account books -- 20th century

Letters (correspondence) -- 20th century.

Calling cards

Cabinet photographs

Diaries -- 19th century

Daguerreotypes

Memoirs

Citation:

Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers, circa 1839-2000; undated, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.1252

See more items in:

Sandford Greeting Card Company and Family Papers

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep81b1ccf0d-eb81-4700-87bc-1b731a16572a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-1252

Creator:

Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969  Search this

Names:

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924  Search this

Extent:

3.66 Cubic feet (consisting of 5.5 boxes, 1 folder, 9 oversize folders.)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Lectures

Fliers (printed matter)

Booklets

Advertisements

Broadsides

Fans

Realia

Poems

Clippings

Printed ephemera

Songs

Pamphlets

Correspondence

Ephemera

Newsclippings

Poetry

Programs

Posters

Newspaper clippings

Date:

1811-1937

Summary:

A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Accounting and Bookkeeping forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana

Scope and Contents:

Temperance contains material documenting perspectives on alcohol use and regulation as well as the impact of various temperance movements on society and the government. The collection covers the issues related to these movements through multiple eras and social lenses, and addresses both pro and anti-temperance perspectives though there is significantly more material that supports the temperance and prohibition movements.

Materials represent a sampling of newsclippings, realia (ribbons, fans, and pendants), artwork in various mediums, and educational resources. No extensive records of any particular group or region exist, and no particular depth is present for any singular subtopic. The subject of temperance often overlaps with news and developments about the women's suffrage movement, elections, and wars.

While newsclippings are divided into specific subject categories, there may be significant overlap between regional issues and files pertaining to legislation and elections due to newsclippings frequently addressing multiple issues.

Arrangement:

Temperance is arranged in four subseries.

Perspectives

Organizations

Regional Issues

Political Parties

Individuals

Genre

Cigarette and Tobacco Documentation

Event Documentation

Images, Writings, and Music

Realia

Serial Publications

Subject

Medicinal Uses

Temperance and Government

Temperance and Religion

Temperance and Society

Temperance and War

Oversize

Miscellaneous

Related Materials:

Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.

Missing Title

Series 1: Business Ephemera

Series 2: Other Collection Divisions

Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers

Series 4: Photographic Reference Material

Provenance:

Temperance is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.

Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

War  Search this

Women's suffrage -- United States  Search this

Clergy  Search this

Suffragists  Search this

Women -- Suffrage  Search this

Government and politics  Search this

Presidential campaigns  Search this

Presidents -- United States  Search this

Elections  Search this

Political literature  Search this

Political cartoons  Search this

Political activists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Political activists  Search this

Cigarette industry -- 20th century  Search this

Temperance  Search this

Political clubs  Search this

Tobacco  Search this

Alcohol  Search this

Alcoholism  Search this

Fraternal organizations  Search this

Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Law and legislation  Search this

Politics -- New York (N.Y.)  Search this

Legal History, U.S.  Search this

Tobacco -- 20th century  Search this

Cigarettes -- 20th century  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lectures

Fliers (printed matter)

Booklets

Advertisements

Broadsides

Fans

Realia

Poems

Clippings

Printed ephemera

Songs

Pamphlets

Correspondence

Ephemera

Newsclippings

Poetry

Programs

Posters

Newspaper clippings

Citation:

Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Temperance, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).

Identifier:

NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Temperance

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Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Temperance

Archival Repository:

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8a5453985-1d66-4fe8-9049-a58dbd598ecb

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0060-s01-01-temperance

Author:

Kaminski, Theresa 1958-  Search this

Physical description:

xiv, 312 pages illustrations 24 cm

Type:

Books

Biographies

Biography

History

Place:

United States

États-Unis

Date:

2020

Civil War, 1861-1865

Topic:

Women physicians--History  Search this

Women physicians  Search this

Physicians, Women  Search this

Femmes médecins--Histoire  Search this

Femmes médecins  Search this

physicians  Search this

Medical care  Search this

Women  Search this

History  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1158279

Creator:

Spencer, Lilly Martin, 1822-1902  Search this

Names:

Campus Martius Museum  Search this

Ohio Historical Society  Search this

Trumbull Phalanx (Braceville, Ohio)  Search this

Bagley, Sarah G.  Search this

Eastman, Maria M.  Search this

Emerson, Mary Moody  Search this

Gage, Frances Dana Barker, 1808-1884  Search this

Hebert, William  Search this

Martin, Angelique, b. 1792  Search this

Martin, Giles  Search this

Parsons, Anna Q. T.  Search this

Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914  Search this

Swift, Adeline T.  Search this

Extent:

1 Microfilm reel

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Microfilm reels

Date:

1825-1971

Scope and Contents:

Family papers include letters to Giles Martin from William Hebert and others concerning the Martin's plans to emigrate from England to America, and ca. 50 letters, 1828-1860, to Giles and Angelique Martin in Marietta and at Trumbull Phalanx by reformers active in Ohio and Massachusetts temperance, antislavery, labor and/or Association movements, among them Sarah G. Bagley, Maria M. Eastman, Mary Moody Emerson, Frances D.B. Gage, Anna Q.T. Parsons, Caroline M. S. Severance, Adeline T. Swift, and others less known but very active. Also included are 3 letters from Spencer, 1842 Mar. 31 and June 10, and 1847 July 10 to her parents.

The Campus Martius Museum records consist of correspondence with owners of Spencer's prints, paintings and and papers; clippings, articles, and reproductions of Spencer's work.

Biographical / Historical:

Spencer was a portrait and genre painter; New York, N.Y. and Ohio. She was born Angelique Marie Martin November 26, 1822, in England to French parents, Giles and Angelique Martin, followers of the French social critic, Charles Fourier. Upon emigrating to the U.S. in 1830, and moving to Marietta, Ohio in 1833, the Martins, along with others active in the cooperative movement organized a communal association, Trumbull Phalanx, near Braceville, Ohio in 1845, and became active in women's rights and other reform movements. Spencer chose to concentrate on painting, first in Cincinatti and then in New York in 1848 with her husband Benjamin Rush Spencer, a cloth merchant. She maintained a successful painting career while raising seven children and moving several times, to Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, Newark, N.J., and Highlands and Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Spencer died May 22, 1902.

Provenance:

Lent for filming 1971 by Campus Martius Museum, Ohio Historical Society.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Painters -- New York (State)  Search this

Topic:

Painting, Modern -- 19th century -- United States  Search this

Women's rights -- United States  Search this

Women's suffrage -- United States  Search this

Collective settlements -- Ohio  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.spenlilm

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90243f4d1-360f-4108-aab7-1ff07a8de871

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-spenlilm

Creator:

Teichert, Minerva Kohlhepp, 1888-1976  Search this

Names:

Art Students League (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Henri, Robert, 1865-1929  Search this

Extent:

13 Items ((on a partial microfilm reel))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1915-1926

Scope and Contents:

Ten letters (1915) from Teichert to her parents describe her life as a student at the Art Students League in New York. She discusses her finances, clothing, classes and instructors. She also mentions her employment as a painter of animals, the exhibition of her work at Newport and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's gallery, and lectures on women's suffrage by orators including "Katherine" [Carrie] Chapman Catt. Three letters (1916-1926) from Robert Henri describe his work in Santa Fe, discuss the mixing of paint, advise Teichert on the sale of her Murillo paintings, and critique her work.

Provenance:

The lenders, Laurie Eastwood and Robert Henri Teichert, are the children of Minerva Kohlhepp Teichert.

Restrictions:

The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.

Occupation:

Art students -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Painters -- United States  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.teicmine

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b8348b6f-6a29-477c-aed2-3c11fd206945

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-teicmine

Creator:

New Negro Alliance (Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Names:

Hastie, William, 1904-1976  Search this

Container:

Box 1

Type:

Archival materials

Text

Advertisements

Place:

Washington (D.C.)

Date:

March 3, 1934

Collection Restrictions:

Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist at ACMarchives@si.edu

Collection Rights:

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Topic:

African American newspapers  Search this

Activism  Search this

Discrimination in employment  Search this

Business enterprises  Search this

Genre/Form:

Advertisements -- 20th century

Collection Citation:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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New Negro Opinion newspaper

New Negro Opinion newspaper / Series 1: December 1933- December 1934

Archival Repository:

Anacostia Community Museum Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7844b9aca-5d9f-44c1-94aa-2daa8adb6daf

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-acma-10-012-3-ref13

Creator:

Dreier, Dorothea A., 1870-1923  Search this

Names:

Cooperative Mural Workshop  Search this

Women's Trade Union League of America  Search this

Bartlett, Agnes Willard  Search this

Bartlett, Mary F.  Search this

Bartlett, Maud W.  Search this

Davis, Charles H. (Charles Harold), 1856-1938  Search this

Dreier, Ethyl Eyre Valentine  Search this

Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952  Search this

Dreier, Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth), 1875-1963  Search this

Forbes, Rebecca  Search this

Gogh, Elisabeth du Quesne van, 1859-1936  Search this

Kuhn, Walt, 1877-1949  Search this

Mahan, Ellen Kuhn  Search this

Robins, Margaret Dreier  Search this

Robins, Raymond, 1873-1954  Search this

Schetter, Charlotte  Search this

Shirlaw, Walter, 1838-1909  Search this

Extent:

2.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pamphlets

Sketchbooks

Photographs

Broadsides

Date:

1881-1941

bulk 1887-1923

Summary:

The papers of artist and art patron Dorothea A. Dreier measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1881-1941, with the bulk of the material dating from 1887-1923. The papers document the life and work of Dorothea Dreier and also contain the papers of and about members of her immediate family, particularly her sisters, Mary and Katherine Dreier, and Margaret Dreier Robins. Found are correspondence, printed materials, legal and financial records, photographs, and one sketchbook by Dreier.

Scope and Content Note:

The papers of the painter Dorothea A. Dreier measure 2.6 linear feet and date from 1881 to 1941, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1887-1923. These papers document not only her life and work as an artist, but also the activities of her distinguished family in the realms of social reform, women's suffrage, and politics, through correspondence, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, broadsides, exhibition catalogs, publications, photographs, ephemera, a sketchbook, and legal and financial records.

Biographical materials include official documents, childhood writings, notes, ephemera, membership cards, invitations, programs, notes, lists, and legal and financial records.

Measuring 1.2 linear feet, correspondence is the largest and most extensive series and consists of letters from family and close friends as well as business correspondence. Although the letters in this series span from 1881-1925, a large number stem from Dorothea's 1913-1916 stay at Saranac Lake for treatment of her tuberculosis.

Family correspondents consist of members of Dorothea's immediate family as well as more distant relations, including those who resided in her parent's native Germany. Letters from her sisters Mary E. Dreier, and Margaret (Gretchen) Dreier Robins, her sister-in-law Ethyl Eyre Valentine Dreier and brother-in-law Raymond Robins provide some insight into the varied social reform and political movements, such as women's suffrage and the Bull Moose Party, with which they were allied. Additionally both Mary and Margaret were active in the Women's Trade Union League, Margaret having served as the League's president from 1907-1922. Therefore their correspondence is a rich resource for scholars interested in women's history and the history of the Progressive Era in the United States.

Due to their shared interest in the arts, her sister Katherine S. Dreier's letters provide information about her own work as an artist, particularly when she was studying abroad, exhibitions in which she participated or visited, and the Cooperative Mural Workshop, a combination art school and workshop that she ran from 1914-1917 with Walt Kuhn, with substantial financial help from Dorothea.

Additionally through her Brooklyn neighborhood, art classes, and support of numerous social causes, Dorothea had a large circle of friends. Frequent correspondents include the Bartlett sisters, Agnes, Mary, and Maud, Rebecca Forbes, Ellen Kuhn Mahan, and Charlotte Schetter. Notable art world correspondents include Vincent van Gogh's sister Elisabeth du Quesne van Gogh, the American Tonalist landscape painter Charles Harold Davis and Dreier's painting instructor and close friend, the painter Walter Shirlaw.

Printed materials reflect the varied interests and activities of Dorothea Dreier and select members of her immediate family through exhibition announcements, catalogs, including a numbered copy of the The Dorothea A. Dreier Exhibition from the memorial exhibition of her work at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1925, newspaper clippings relating to her career, the activities of other members of the Dreier family, art and politics; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, brochures and blank postcards.

Photographs include both studio portraits and informal snapshots of Dorothea and Katherine Dreier; group photographs including Dorothea; travel photographs, many of which appear to have been taken in the Netherlands; and photographs of Teddy Roosevelt giving a speech at a railway station. Artworks include a sketchbook by Dreier, five sketchbooks by friend and teacher, Walter Shirlaw, and an unidentified artist, a pencil drawing by Shirlaw, an engraving by Huquier and an etching by Ernest D. Roth.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into 5 series:

Missing Title

Series 1: Biographical Material, 1884-1923 (Box 1; 0.75 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1881-1925 (Boxes 1-2; 1.2 linear feet)

Series 3: Printed Material, 1883-1916 (Boxes 2-3; 0.5 linear feet)

Series 4: Photographs, circa 1900-1923 (Box 3; 7 folders)

Series 5: Artwork, circa 1885-1941 (Boxes 3-4; 9 folders)

Biographical Note:

Dorothea A. Dreier was born on December 8, 1870, in Brooklyn, New York to German immigrant parents. The second of five children in a close knit, socially progressive family, her siblings include the social reformers and suffragettes Mary E. Dreier and Margaret Dreier Robins. However she was closest to her youngest sister, Katherine S. Dreier, fellow artist, patron of modern art and cofounder of the Société Anonyme, an organization dedicated to the promotion of modern art in the United States. Her sole brother, H. Edward Dreier, followed his father into business and managed the family investments.

Of all the Dreier sisters, Dorothea is the least well-known and there is scant information about her artistic career. It appears that she began her formal art training with John Twachtman and William Merritt Chase, although accounts disagree as to whether it took place at the Art Students League or the National Academy of Design. In 1904 Dorothea and her sister Katherine began studying with the painter Walter Shirlaw, with whom they developed a close friendship. Both sisters also traveled abroad frequently as the family maintained close ties with their German relatives and they combined these visits with trips to museums and galleries throughout Europe where they studied the works of the Old Masters as well as more contemporary artists. As evidenced by her series of oil paintings of Dutch weavers of 1908, Dorothea was greatly influenced by Van Gogh's early paintings of rural Dutch peasant life and she spent long periods abroad living and painting in Laren, The Netherlands. Her later paintings depicted landscapes, both in The Netherlands and the Adirondacks, as well as a series of New York street scenes.

Unfortunately, during a 1913 sojourn in Laren, Dorothea contracted tuberculosis. She remained at Saranac Lake, a renowned treatment center in the Adirondacks from late December 1913 to sometime in 1916. During her convalescence, Dorothea remained actively involved in the arts as she continued to paint and draw and supported her sister Katherine's work at the Cooperative Mural Workshop, a short-lived combination art school and workshop that focused on the decorative arts.

In 1920, Dorothea supported Katherine's decision to champion modern art and made generous financial contributions toward the establishment of the Société Anonyme, where Dorothea's first solo exhibition took place in 1921. This was her only solo exhibition prior to her untimely death in 1923. In the spring of 1925, Christian Brinton of the Brooklyn Museum of Art organized a memorial exhibition for which Katherine Dreier privately published a limited edition catalogue.

Related Material:

The papers of Katherine S. Dreier related to the Société Anonyme Archives are located at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University holds the papers of Mary E. Dreier

Provenance:

The bulk of the collection was donated to the Archives of American Art in 1959 by Mrs. Peter Voorhees, Dorothea A. Dreier's neice. Additional materials were donated in 2007 by Theodore and Barbara Dreier, Dreier's great-nephew and great-neice.

Restrictions:

The bulk of this collection has been digitized and is available online via the Archives of American Art's website.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Women -- Suffrage  Search this

Suffragists  Search this

Women artists  Search this

Women painters  Search this

Genre/Form:

Pamphlets

Sketchbooks

Photographs

Broadsides

Citation:

Dorothea A. Dreier papers, 1881-1941, bulk 1887-1923. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art

Identifier:

AAA.dreidoro

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Dorothea A. Dreier papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9b7ec1d96-1759-46ba-9599-cfd4f33379b6

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-dreidoro

Associated institution:

Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association  Search this

Associated person:

Anthony, Susan  Search this

Physical Description:

gold (overall color)

silk (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 6 in x 1 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 4.445 cm x .635 cm

Object Name:

badge

Place made:

United States: New York, Brooklyn

Associated place:

United States: New York, Brooklyn

Date made:

1869

Associated date:

1869

Subject:

Women's Suffrage  Search this

Women's History  Search this

Credit Line:

Library of Congress

ID Number:

PL.242991.295

Catalog number:

242991.295

Accession number:

242991

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Political and Military History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection

Government, Politics, and Reform

Woman Suffrage

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-1c87-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_508092

Measurements:

overall: 3/4 in x 3/4 in x 1/4 in; 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm x .635 cm

Object Name:

button

Associated place:

United States: Ohio

Subject:

Women's Suffrage  Search this

ID Number:

1981.3024.28

Nonaccession number:

1981.3024

Catalog number:

1981.3024.28

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Political and Military History: Political History, Womens History/Reform Movements Collection

Government, Politics, and Reform

Woman Suffrage

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-4f3e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_522882

Creator:

Gardener, Helen H. (Helen Hamilton), 1853-1925 (collector and possible photographer)  Search this

Extent:

300 Negatives (circa, nitrate)

1,160 Lantern slides (circa)

14 Prints (silver gelatin)

15 Copy negatives (glass)

Culture:

Italians  Search this

Filipinos  Search this

Japanese  Search this

French  Search this

Hawaiians  Search this

Germans  Search this

English  Search this

Egyptians  Search this

Chinese  Search this

Sri Lankans  Search this

Puerto Ricans  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives

Lantern slides

Prints

Copy negatives

Photographs

Place:

Germany -- description and travel

France -- description and travel

United States -- description and travel

Malaysia -- Description and Travel

Italy -- description and travel

Philippines -- Description and Travel

Puerto Rico -- description and travel

Sri Lanka -- Description and Travel

England -- description and travel

China -- Description and Travel

Egypt -- description and travel

Japan -- Description and Travel

Date:

circa 1900-1910

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs collected and made by Helen Hamilton Gardener, probably during a world cruise following her husband's retirement from active duty in Puerto Rico in July 1902. The photographs document people, activities, cities, and tourist sites in Japan, China, Egypt, France, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere. Gardener's lecture notes and a clipping from the Porto Rico Review, 1910, are available with the collection. Lantern slides in the collection were probably used in Gardener's later lectures in the United States.

Biographical/Historical note:

Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853-1925), born Alice Chenoweth in Virginia in 1853, was an author, feminist, and public official. Educated at the Cincinnati (Ohio) Normal School (graduated 1873), Chenoweth moved with her first husband, Charles S. Smart, to New York City in 1880. There, Chenoweth studied biology at Columbia University, lectured on sociology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and came into contact with the theories of freethinker Robert G. Ingersoll. Chenoweth published her own lectures on freethinking in "Men, Women, and Gods," and Other Lectures (1885), at which point she adopted the name Helen Hamilton Gardener. Gardener's feminism came to fruition in 1888, when she refuted the claim that the female brain was inferior to men's in her article "Sex in Brain," joining the struggle for equal rights for women. In 1902, Gardener married her second husband, Lieutenant Colonel Selden Allen Day, a Civil War veteran who organized the first battalion of the Puerto Rican regiment under US control. The couple embarked on a five-year worldwide tour in July 1902, finally settling in Washington, DC. Gardener served as the National American Women Suffrage Association's vice president (1917) and its chief liaison to the Wilson Administration during the passage of the nineteenth amendment. President Wilson then appointed her to the US Civil Service Commission, the highest federal position held by a woman at the time.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 98, USNM ACC 90351

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs collected by Gardener are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97.

Artifacts collected by Gardener are held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 90351 and 89779.

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Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection, circa 1900-1910

Restrictions:

Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Genre/Form:

Lantern slides

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 98, Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.98

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Helen Hamilton Gardener photograph collection

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw36e14a4f0-6461-4f2c-827f-e3f1a54ab1b1

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-98

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

ink (overall material)

metal (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 3/4 in x 10 1/2 in; 1.905 cm x 26.67 cm

Object Name:

school report

Place made:

United States: Arizona, Poston

Associated Place:

United States: Washington, King

Japan: Nagasaki, Nagasaki

Date made:

April 20, 1944

Subject:

World War II  Search this

Women's Suffrage  Search this

Japanese Americans  Search this

Related event:

World War II  Search this

Japanese American Internment  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Roger Shimomura

ID Number:

2016.3086.290

Nonaccession number:

2016.3086

Catalog number:

2016.3086.290

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Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Japanese American

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-6402-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1812608

Collection Creator:

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology  Search this

Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology  Search this

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology  Search this

Container:

Box 85c

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1907-1908

Scope and Contents:

Includes notes on Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason; a letter, W. E. DeRiemer to Hough, 7/15/07, re Jamestown Ter-Centenniel Exposition; a subject list of photographs sold by C. C. Perce and Company; a photograph and drawing; and a copy of Minnie F. Reynolds, "Women as Inventors," Interurban Woman Suffrage Series No. 6, 1908.

Collection Restrictions:

Some materials are restricted.

Access to the Department of Anthropology records requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Collection Citation:

Department of Anthropology Records, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Department of Anthropology records

Department of Anthropology records / Series 17: Division of Ethnology / 17.1: Manuscript and Pamphlet File

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3fe0b3f9e-58c3-44dd-a383-bbd8e73667b2

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-xxxx-0311-ref15345

Depicted (sitter):

Milholland, Inez  Search this

Physical Description:

plastic (wrapper material)

paper (overall material)

homemade (overall production method/technique)

double-sided (overall pattern)

Measurements:

overall: 36 3/8 in x 12 in; 92.3925 cm x 30.48 cm

Object Name:

poster, political

Used:

United States: District of Columbia, Washington

Date made:

c. 2017-01-21

Used date:

c. 2017-01-21

Subject:

Women's History  Search this

Women's Rights  Search this

Protest and Civil Disobedience  Search this

Protest march  Search this

Women's Suffrage  Search this

Related event:

Women’s March  Search this

Presidential Inauguration of 2017  Search this

ID Number:

2017.0248.24

Accession number:

2017.0248

Catalog number:

2017.0248.24

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Political and Military History: Political History, Women's History Collection

Government, Politics, and Reform

Princeton Posters

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-4984-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1893609

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

cardboard (overall material)

plastic (wrapper material)

double-sided (overall pattern)

homemade (overall production method/technique)

Measurements:

overall: 30 1/2 in x 23 1/4 in x 5/8 in; 77.47 cm x 59.055 cm x 1.5875 cm

Object Name:

poster, political

Used:

United States: District of Columbia, Washington

Date made:

c. 2017-01-21

Used date:

c. 2017-01-21

Subject:

Women's Suffrage  Search this

Women's History  Search this

Women's Rights  Search this

Protest and Civil Disobedience  Search this

Protest march  Search this

Related event:

Women’s March  Search this

Presidential Inauguration of 2017  Search this

ID Number:

2017.0248.39

Accession number:

2017.0248

Catalog number:

2017.0248.39

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Political and Military History: Political History, Women's History Collection

Government, Politics, and Reform

Princeton Posters

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-4a50-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1893625

Quoted:

Baker, Ella  Search this

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

white (overall color)

double-sided (overall pattern)

homemade (overall production method/technique)

Measurements:

overall: 28 in x 22 in x 1/8 in; 71.12 cm x 55.88 cm x .3175 cm

Object Name:

poster, political

Used:

United States: District of Columbia, Washington

Date made:

c. 2017-01-21

Used date:

c. 2017-01-21

Subject:

African American  Search this

Women's Suffrage  Search this

Women's History  Search this

Women's Rights  Search this

Protest and Civil Disobedience  Search this

Protest march  Search this

Related event:

Women’s March  Search this

Presidential Inauguration of 2017  Search this

ID Number:

2017.0248.42

Accession number:

2017.0248

Catalog number:

2017.0248.42

See more items in:

Political and Military History: Political History, Women's History Collection

Government, Politics, and Reform

Princeton Posters

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-4b11-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1893628