Correspondence, diaries, photos, and other papers of three generations of the Buffum and Howe families, residents of Keene, N.H., including Reginald F. Howe (1896-1981), photographer and founder of Wireless Association of Keene, his wife, Helen Clark Howe (1901-1980), and father, also a photographer, Fred E. Howe. Includes information relating to Reginald Keene's photographic business, Granite State Studios; and photos (ca. 1940s) of the family, city of Keene, Silver Lake, and Harrisville, N.H.

Correspondence, journals, compositions and other papers of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, and materials relating to other Howe family members.

Correspondence, journals, compositions and other papers of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe and materials relating to other Howe family members.

First part of the collection consists of letters written to Maud Howe Elliott by various correspondents, discussing daily life, literature discussions, and the literary works of the Howe family. Several letters from William Henry Hurlbut written while he was in Europe discuss the details of his life there and the welfare of mutual acquaintances. The second part of the collection consists of an 1863 diary of Julia Ward Howe, recording her expenditures and daily activities, a folder of contemporary translations of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and a composition by Julia Ward Howe about the Massachusetts governor.

At her death she was hailed as the conscience of Rhode Island: Elizabeth Buffum Chace's life (1806-1899) of public activism spanned sixty years. Having fought to abolish slavery in the years before the Civil War, Chace spearheaded the drive for women's suffrage in Rhode Island in the last decades of the 19th century. She was an associate of radical activists William Lloyd Garrison and Lucy Stone and she advocated for the rights of women and children toiling in her husband's factories. Her daughter--one of ten children--Lillie Chace Wyman (1847-1929), was an activist-writer and published short stories on social issues in Atlantic Monthly and other periodicals. An outspoken advocate of racial equality, Wyman kept the legacy of the radical antislavery movement of her mother's generation alive into the twentieth century. Since neither Chace nor Wyman left behind a collection of personal papers, this mother-daughter biography is the product of Stevens' extensive research into public and private archives to locate documents that illuminate the lives of these two remarkable women. By looking at 19th century American women's history through the lens of this activist pair, Stevens reveals some of the connections between the public and private lives of activists and examines a relationship that was at once nurturing, confining, stifling and enriching.

Chiefly sheet music (1850s-1920s) collected by members of the Howe and Piper families of Nacogdoches, Tex.; together with wedding invitations, calling cards, invitations to military functions, newspaper clippings, and stamping patterns with designs from the 1880s.

The Howe Family papers and photographs document Walter and Bertha Howe and their relatives, and contain correspondence with family and friends, financial, tax and insurance documents, photographs, photograph albums, and 35 slides. The photographs depict friends and family, including late 19th and early 20th century images of life in Cambria County containing Wilkinson and Cothery family members.