Blackwell family
Description
The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, photographs, writings, and other papers of four generations of the U.S. branch of the Blackwell family assembled by George Washington Blackwell and his descendants. They record family activities, travel, professional work, and civic and reform involvements of a physically farflung but emotionally close-knit family. Of particular interest are the descriptions of medical education and practice in the letters of Elizabeth and Emily; the accounts of Anna's freelance newspaper work; and the records pertaining to George and Howard's real estate businesses. There are also accounts of school-teaching in the letters of Elizabeth, Emily, Emma Lawrence Blackwell, and her mother Sarah Stone Lawrence. Lucy Stone's activism against slavery and for woman's suffrage, and her Oberlin College experience are mentioned. Phoebe Stone Beeman describes life as a member of the first class of women at Wesleyan University (1876). The bulk of the collection centers on George and Emma Lawrence Blackwell and their children: Howard Lane, who married Helen Thomas, and Anna, who married Charles Belden. These papers illustrate family relationships, household management, club and reform activity, and social life in Orange, N.J., and Cambridge, Mass.Blackwell Family Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.Samuel, sugar refiner, and Hannah (Lane) Blackwell emigrated from England in 1832 and settled with their nine children in Cincinnati, Ohio. After Samuel's death in 1838, the family opened a school. Later the sons went into business. Samuel, a bookkeeper and business agent, married Antoinette Brown Blackwell, first woman to be ordained as a...
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Audiotapes.Account Books.Daguerreotypes.Diaries.Invoices.Leases.Menus.Photoprints.Tintypes.
Blackwell, Emily, 1826-1910Beeman, Phoebe StoneBlackwell, Emma Stone Lawrence, 1851-1920Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910
Held in the collections of Harvard University.
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Harvard LibraryKeywords
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820 1906
- Antislavery Movements
- Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800 1878
- Beeman, Phoebe Stone
- Belden, Anna Blackwell, 1883 1978
- Blackwell Family
- Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857 1950
- Blackwell, Anna, Active 1875 1876
- Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825 1921
- Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821 1910
- Blackwell, Emily, 1826 1910
- Blackwell, Emma Stone Lawrence, 1851 1920
- Blackwell, George Washington, 1832 1912
- Blackwell, Hannah Lane, 1792 1870
- Blackwell, Helen Electa Thomas, 1880 1972
- Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825 1909
- Blackwell, Howard Lane, 1877 1972
- Blackwell, John Howard, 1831 1866
- Blackwell, Kitty Barry, 1848 1936
- Blackwell, Marian, 1818 1897
- Blackwell, Samuel Charles, 1823 1901
- Blackwell, Samuel, 1790 1838
- Blackwell, Sarah Ellen, 1828 1901
- Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, 1827 1891
- Carroll, Anna Ella, 1815 1894
- Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859 1947
- Cooking
- Davies, Emily, 1830 1921
- Flammarion, Camille, 1842 1925
- Greeley, Horace, 1811 1872
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809 1894
- Home Economics
- Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842 1906
- Jex Blake, Sophia, 1849 1912
- Jones, Agnes Blackwell
- Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton), 1820 1905
- Mayhew, Florence Blackwell
- Napoleon Iii, Emperor Of The French, 1808 1873
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820 1910
- Oberlin College
- Orlov, P. N. (Petr Nikolaevich)
- Real Estate Business
- Slaver
- Social Life And Customs
- Societies And Clubs
- Stone, Lucy, 1818 1893
- Students
- Suffrage
- Vassar, Matthew, 1792 1868
- Vivisection
- Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)
- Women
- Women In Medicine
- Women In Science
- Women Physicians