WOMEN'S REFORMERS. 28 items: 1. ADDAMS, JANE. Autograph Letter Signed ("Jane Addams") to Miss [Grace] Dodge, recommending Louise Dekoven Bowen ("Mrs. Joseph Tilton Bowen" to the Board of Managers of the Camp for Girls, 2 pp, 198 x 146 mm, on Baymeath letterhead, Bar Harbor, Maine, August 23rd, fold; WITH: Typed Letter Signed ("Jane Addams") to Bayard Dodge, Hull House letterhead, June 24, 1912. Addams was the founder of Hull House, the first settlement house in the U.S., and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. 2. SCHUYLER, LOUISA LEE. 4 Autograph Letters Signed ("Louisa Lee Schuyler") to Mrs W.E. Dodge, Jr, and Cleveland H. Dodge, regarding a medical essay by Schuyler and Grace Dodge among other topics, 17 pp total, January 13, 1900 to January 8, 1915. Schuyler was a noted philanthropist, and founded the first nursing school in the U.S. 3. Printed Broadside, "Woman's Central Association of Relief/ United States Sanitary Commission," presented to W.E. Dodge, Jr, and signed by Louisa Lee Schuyler, Julia K. Fish, and Mary A. Roosevelt, among others, 457 x 350 mm, minor soiling, folded; with ALs enclosing a Sanitary Commission pin (present) from Howard Potter. 4. WOOLLEY, MARY EMMA. Typed Letter Signed ("Mary Emma Woolley") to Elizabeth W. Dodge, 1 p, 172 x 134 mm, on Mount Holyoke College Letterhead, October 3, 1912. Woolley was the first woman to attend Brown University an went on to become president of Mount Holyoke University. 5. Additional autograph material, one each, from labor leader Margaret Dreier Robins; Lila Acheson Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest; author Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphrey Ward); Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, author and founder of Greenwich House in New York; author and reformer Maude E. Miner; Janet McComb Whitman of the Y.W.C.A.; director of the Russell Sage Foundation, Luther Gulick; and Salvation Army leaders, Maud Ballington Booth, Ballington Booth, Catherine Booth, Evangeline Booth, and William Booth
WOMEN'S REFORMERS. 28 items: 1. ADDAMS, JANE. Autograph Letter Signed ("Jane Addams") to Miss [Grace] Dodge, recommending Louise Dekoven Bowen ("Mrs. Joseph Tilton Bowen" to the Board of Managers of the Camp for Girls, 2 pp, 198 x 146 mm, on Baymeath letterhead, Bar Harbor, Maine, August 23rd, fold; WITH: Typed Letter Signed ("Jane Addams") to Bayard Dodge, Hull House letterhead, June 24, 1912. Addams was the founder of Hull House, the first settlement house in the U.S., and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. 2. SCHUYLER, LOUISA LEE. 4 Autograph Letters Signed ("Louisa Lee Schuyler") to Mrs W.E. Dodge, Jr, and Cleveland H. Dodge, regarding a medical essay by Schuyler and Grace Dodge among other topics, 17 pp total, January 13, 1900 to January 8, 1915. Schuyler was a noted philanthropist, and founded the first nursing school in the U.S. 3. Printed Broadside, "Woman's Central Association of Relief/ United States Sanitary Commission," presented to W.E. Dodge, Jr, and signed by Louisa Lee Schuyler, Julia K. Fish, and Mary A. Roosevelt, among others, 457 x 350 mm, minor soiling, folded; with ALs enclosing a Sanitary Commission pin (present) from Howard Potter. 4. WOOLLEY, MARY EMMA. Typed Letter Signed ("Mary Emma Woolley") to Elizabeth W. Dodge, 1 p, 172 x 134 mm, on Mount Holyoke College Letterhead, October 3, 1912. Woolley was the first woman to attend Brown University an went on to become president of Mount Holyoke University. 5. Additional autograph material, one each, from labor leader Margaret Dreier Robins; Lila Acheson Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest; author Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs Humphrey Ward); Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, author and founder of Greenwich House in New York; author and reformer Maude E. Miner; Janet McComb Whitman of the Y.W.C.A.; director of the Russell Sage Foundation, Luther Gulick; and Salvation Army leaders, Maud Ballington Booth, Ballington Booth, Catherine Booth, Evangeline Booth, and William Booth
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