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Miriam Y. Holden Collection, 1789-1978 (bulk 1930-1969): Finding Aid
C0071
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Holden, Miriam Y. (Miriam Young), 1893-1977.
- Title and dates:
- Miriam Y. Holden Collection, 1789-1978 (bulk 1930-1969)
- Abstract:
- The Miriam Holden Collection consists of books, periodicals, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, cartoons, letters, and other materials about women and their achievements collected by Holden.
- Size:
- 29.85 cubic feet (85 boxes)
- Call number:
- C0071
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Manuscripts Division.
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA - Language(s) of material:
- English.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at Firestone Library.
Biography of Miriam Y. Holden
Miriam Holden was born Miriam Young in Boston in 1893. She graduated from Miss Mary's School and attended Simmons College. After marrying Arthur Holden, she moved to New York, where she and her husband had three children. She was active in such diverse organizations as the Junior League, the Urban League, family-planning groups, and settlement-house work. She was on the advisory boards of the Women's Archives at Radcliffe College and the friends of the Columbia University Libraries, and co-authored The American Woman in Colonial and Revolutionary Times, 1565-1800. She died in 1977.
Description
Contains personal papers of Holden, including lectures, speeches, articles and correspondence, reflecting the views of American feminists during the post-19th Amendment, pre- Feminine Mystique era, especially the early efforts to pass an equal rights Amendment. However, a large portion of the collection consists of Holden's subject files about women, and the collection contains records of the National Woman's Party, with bound volumes of correspondence, pamphlets, Equal Rights, and a detailed record of the 1947 schism within the party. There are also records of the World Center for Women's Archives, including an extensive correspondence (1936-1963) with Mary Beard.
Holden's collection of original 19th-century correspondence by women, such as Susan B. Anthony, Mary Baker Eddy, Belva Lockwood, Mercy Warren, and Victoria Woodhull, is included as are two slave documents, a scrapbook, and a commonplace book. In addition, the collection contains papers of other persons, such as an unpublished manuscript by Eugenie Andruss Leonard, the notes and papers of Elsa Butler Grove, and 34 radio scripts (copies) for the 1939-40 series "The Gallant American Woman," written by Jane Asham.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series:
- Series 1: Personal Papers
- Series 2: Women's Organizations
- Series 3: Original 19th Century Women's Correspondence and Material
- Series 4: Papers of Other Persons
- Series 5: Additional Papers
- Series 6: Addenda
Access and Use
Access
Collection is open for research use.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
Related Materials
Related Archival Material
The Princeton University Library also possesses Mrs. Holden's collection of books relating to women and women's studies.
Processing and Other Information
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks, Cristela García-Spitz, and Amy E. Armstrong on May 18, 2007. Created from MARC record via MarcEdit and XSL stylesheets in 2007.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Box and Folder Number; Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- National Woman's Party.
- World Center for Women's Archives.
- Autographs -- Collections.
- Book collectors -- United States -- 20th century.
- Feminists -- United States.
- Social reformers -- United States -- 20th century.
- Suffrage -- United States.
- Suffragettes -- United States -- 19th century.
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
- Women's rights -- United States.
- Women's studies.
- Slave records -- United States -- 19th century.
- Commonplace books -- 19th century.
- Correspondence -- 19th century.
- Radio scripts -- United States.
- Asham, Jane.
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Contents List
Series 1: Personal Papers
A. Writings - articles, lectures, speeches, etc.
Box 1 B. Notebooks and notes on women
Box 2-4 C. Correspondence
Box 5-16 D. Appointment books, 1969-1970
Box 17 E. Photographs
Box 17 F. Subject files
Box 18-50 Series 2: Women's Organizations
A. National Women's Party: correspondence on the Equal Rights Amendment, 1936-1944, 1945-1949, 1950-1972
Includes bulletins, pamphlets, copies of Equal Rights, the official publication of the National Women's party, and other printed material; the schism of 1947
Box 51-53 B. World Center for Women's Archives - correspondence with Mary Beard and others; minutes of meetings, 1936-1940
Box 54-55 C. Miscellaneous: First Political Economy Club, Oswego, N.Y., minutes, 1895-1907; International Campaign for Women's Rights
Box 56 Series 3: Original 19th Century Correspondence and Material
A. Women and suffrage associations
Box 57 B. Original works
Includes correspondence by Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Bonheur, Lydia Maria Child, Dorothea Dix, Mary Baker Eddy, Belva Lockwood, etc.
Box 57 C. Student's workbook, scrapbook, 2 slave documents
Box 57 Series 4: Papers of Other Persons
A. Eugenie Andruss Leonard
Box 58-60 B. Elsa Butler Grove
Box 61-63 C. Miscellaneous
Box 64 D. Correspondence
Box 64 Series 5: Additional Papers
Series Description
Extracted from Arthur Cort Holden's papers, 1999
A. General Correspondence, A-Z
Box 90 B. Family, Personal & Unidentified Correspondence
Box 91 C. Organizations:
General & D-M
Box 92 M-N
Box 93 N-S
Box 94 S-Y
Box 95 D. Documents
Box 95-96 E. Financial Papers
Box 96-98 F. Miscellaneous Papers
Box 98-99 Series 6: Addenda
Series 1. Personal Papers
A. Writings
Box 65 B. Correspondence: A-M
Box 65 C. Correspondence: N-Z
Box 66 F. Subject files: A
Box 66 F. Subject files: Women, B-P
Box 67-73 F. Subject files: Women, S-Z
Box 74 Series 3A. Original 19th Century Correspondence and Material
Series 4A. Papers of Other Persons
Series 1B. Personal Papers
A. Writings
Box 75 C. Correspondence
Box 75 D. Subject files: A-N
Box 75 F. Subject files: P-W
Box 76 Series 3B. Original 19th Century Correspondence and Material
Box 77 Series 4B. Papers of Other Persons
A. Jane Ashman and Eva von B. Hansl - “Gallant American Women,” 1939-1940 (radio series)
Box 77-78 B. Eugenie Audruss Leonard - “Outline for Women of Note”
Box 78 C. Correspondence
Box 78 Series 1C. Personal Papers
C. Correspondence: A-K
Box 79 C. Correspondence: L-W
Box 80 F. Subject files: A-H
Box 80 F. Subject files: I-S
Box 81 F. Subject files: T-W
Box 82 Series 3C. Original 19th Century Correspondence and Material
Box 82 Series 4C. Papers of Other Persons
A. Sophie H. Drinker
Box 83 B. Eugenie Andruss Leonard
Box 83 Series 1D. Personal Papers
A. Scrapbook, (1936)
Box 83 B. Appointment books ( 1962, 1966, 1971-1975)
Box 83-84 Series 1E. Women's Organization
A. Scrapbook of clippings & pamphlets about the Urban League & Advisory Office in Harlem, N.Y.C., 1921-1925, etc.
Box 85 Series 1F. Personal Papers
A. Writings
Box 86 C. Correspondence: A-K
Box 86 C. Correspondence: L-Z & unidentified
Box 87 D. Financial Papers
Box 87 E. Photographs
Box 87 F. Printed matter - Misc.
Box 88 Series 4F. Papers of Other Persons
A. Eva von B. Hensl
Box 89 B. Arthur Holden
Box 89 C. Edwin A. Holden
Box 89 D. Jeffrey S. Holden
Box 89 E. Luisa Holden
Box 89 F. Mary Cort Holden
Box 89 G. Richmond Y. Holden
Box 89 H. Richmond Y. Holden, Jr.
Box 89 I. Eugenie Andruss Leonard
Box 89
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