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- catalog abstract "Collection consists of correspondence of Curtis family and friends. There is information about the courtship of the parents, family life, travel in U.S. and abroad, golf and other sports, and the lives and careers of the sons and daughters. Upper-class Boston social life is well documented in the correspondence of the five daughters. Letters and clippings provide information about the civic activism of Frances Greely Curtis, and Harriot and Isabella's support for Afro-American education. Margaret's career as a social worker in the American Red Cross and other organizations is documented in her correspondence and professional papers.".
- catalog contributor b2683888.
- catalog coverage "Boston (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Manchester (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog date "1797".
- catalog description "Collection consists of correspondence of Curtis family and friends. There is information about the courtship of the parents, family life, travel in U.S. and abroad, golf and other sports, and the lives and careers of the sons and daughters. Upper-class Boston social life is well documented in the correspondence of the five daughters. Letters and clippings provide information about the civic activism of Frances Greely Curtis, and Harriot and Isabella's support for Afro-American education. Margaret's career as a social worker in the American Red Cross and other organizations is documented in her correspondence and professional papers.".
- catalog description "Curtis Family Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00133".
- catalog description "Preliminary finding aid; most Schlesinger Library finding aids are also available in the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (Chadwyck-Healey, 1984- ).".
- catalog description "The Curtis family of Boston, Mass., is represented in this collection by Greely Stevenson Curtis, civil war veteran, his wife Harriot Appleton Curtis and their five sons and five daughters. The papers of their daughters Frances, Isabella, Harriot, and Margaret are of particular interest. Frances Greely Curtis (1867-1957) was active in civic and international affairs, served on the board of Associated Charities of Boston, as secretary of the Boston Cooperative Building Company, on the State Board of Charities, and from 1912 to 1924 as a member of the Boston School Committee. In 1925 she was the first woman to run (unsuccessfully) for mayor of Boston. She was also interested in adult education and was a supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Foreign Policy Association, and the United Nations Association. Isabella Curtis (1873-1966) and Harriot Sumner Curtis (1881-1974) raised funds for African-American schools in the South and Harriot served as dean of women at Hampton Institute (1927-1931). Margaret Curtis (1883-1965) worked for the Family Welfare Association and organized relief for French refugees in France (1916-1919). She remained active in relief work with the American Red Cross in Eastern Europe and Greece, served on the International Migration Service, and ran the Boston office of the War Production Office during World War II.".
- catalog description "There is related material at the Institute of American Art.".
- catalog description "There is related material at the Massachusetts Historical Society.".
- catalog extent "12.5 linear ft.".
- catalog issued "1797".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Boston (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Manchester (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915.".
- catalog subject "Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Education.".
- catalog subject "Aircraft industry.".
- catalog subject "American Friends Service Committee.".
- catalog subject "American Red Cross.".
- catalog subject "Appleton family.".
- catalog subject "Appleton, William Sumner, 1874-1947.".
- catalog subject "Boston (Mass.). School Committee.".
- catalog subject "Briggs, Isobel.".
- catalog subject "Cabot, Ella Lyman.".
- catalog subject "Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939.".
- catalog subject "Childbirth.".
- catalog subject "Clark, Hilda, -1955.".
- catalog subject "Cornell University Alumni and alumnae.".
- catalog subject "Courtship.".
- catalog subject "Curtis family.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Frances Greely, 1867-1957.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Frazier, 1877-1940.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Greely Stevenson, 1830-1897.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Greely Stevenson, 1871-1947.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Harriot Appleton, 1841-1923.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Harriot Sumner, 1881-1974.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Harry Appleton, 1875-1943.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Isabella, 1873-1966.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, James Freeman.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, Margaret, 1883-1965.".
- catalog subject "Curtis, William, 1865-1899.".
- catalog subject "Dewson, Molly, 1874-1962.".
- catalog subject "Family Welfare Society.".
- catalog subject "Golf.".
- catalog subject "Hampton Institute.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University Alumni and alumnae.".
- catalog subject "Homans, Helen.".
- catalog subject "Hopkinson, Charles, 1869-1962.".
- catalog subject "Hopkinson, Elinor Curtis, 1869-1947.".
- catalog subject "Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.".
- catalog subject "International Immigration Service. American branch.".
- catalog subject "Irwin, Agnes.".
- catalog subject "James, William, 1842-1910.".
- catalog subject "Keller, Helen, 1880-1968.".
- catalog subject "Lee, Joseph, 1862-".
- catalog subject "Lesbians United States.".
- catalog subject "Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary), 1850-1928.".
- catalog subject "Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925.".
- catalog subject "Masefield, John, 1878-1967.".
- catalog subject "Maynor, Dorothy.".
- catalog subject "Penn School (Saint Helena Island, S.C.)".
- catalog subject "Radciffe College Alumni and alumnae.".
- catalog subject "Shurtleff, Helen.".
- catalog subject "Social workers United States.".
- catalog subject "Society of Friends.".
- catalog subject "Stevenson, Hannah.".
- catalog subject "Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893.".
- catalog subject "Student Atelier Association.".
- catalog subject "Sturgis, Mabel.".
- catalog subject "United States Committee for the Care of European Children. Boston branch.".
- catalog subject "United States. War Production Board.".
- catalog subject "Washington, Booker T. (Booker Taliaferro), 1856-1915.".
- catalog subject "Whitman, Sarah Wyman, 1842-1904.".
- catalog subject "Women golfers.".
- catalog subject "Women in aeronautics.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives, American.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1797-1991 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Photographic prints. aat".
- catalog type "Posters. aat".
- catalog type "Recipes. aat".
- catalog type "Tintypes. aat".
- catalog type "collection".