Creator:
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919.
Inclusive Dates:
1799- 1919
Abstract:
Papers of the physician, social reformer, native of Oswego, N.Y. Advocate of dress reform and women's suffrage. Collection includes correspondence (1833-1913), mainly from Dr. Walker's lecture tour of Britain in 1866-67 and from her Civil War service, 1862-65; legal and financial documents, including deeds, wills, and material concerning her divorce and employment at the Federal Pension Office; photographs; and writings, including material on the trial of Frank C. Almay in 1891, lectures, pamphlets, and reminiscences.
Type of Material:
Subject:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
Civil War (U.S.)
Military history
New York State
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Clothing and dress.
Divorce suits.
Lecturers.
Lectures and lecturing.
Military pensions -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Suffragists -- United States.
Women -- Health and hygiene.
Women authors, American.
Women physicians -- United States.
Women social reformers -- United States.
Women's rights -- United States.
Creator:
Miller, Betty Albertus, 1933-2019.
Inclusive Dates:
1829- 2020
Abstract:
Files, correspondence, photographs, printed material, posters, and artifacts (hair combs)
relating to Betty Miller, the Miller Hair Comb Museum, and the Antique Comb Collectors Club International (AC3I)
Type of Material:
Combs (hair ornaments)
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Magazines (periodicals)
Newsletters.
Photographs.
Celluloid (cellulosic)
Ivory (material)
Jet (coal)
Tortoise-shell.
Administrative records.
Minutes (administrative records)
CD-ROMs.
Museum records.
Research notes.
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Massachusetts -- Leominster.
Plastics
Ornamental combs -- History.
Ornamental combs -- Specimens.
Hair ornaments -- Collectors and collecting.
Celluloid.
Tortoiseshell.
Ivory.
Jet (Precious stone)
Clothing and dress.
Material culture.
Ornamental combs -- Societies and clubs.
Small museums -- Alaska.