Overview
Papers of the Hamilton family of Indiana includes correspondence, financial records and photographs.
Dates
- Creation: 1879-1947
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by the Hamilton family is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. Copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.83 linear feet ((2 file boxes) plus 2 folio folders)This collection contains correspondence, financial papers, photographs, miscellaneous notes, and sketches. The bulk of the correspondence dates from the 1920s and 1930s; it is arranged by writer, although most folders also contain some letters to the writer. Fragile letters have been photocopied; the originals are closed to research. Some letters are fragments only. Photographs are for the most part unidentified, and a substantial portion of the notes is nearly indecipherable.
HISTORY
The branch of the Hamiltons represented in this collection is the family of Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude (Pond) Hamilton and their five children, Edith, Alice, Margaret, Norah, and Arthur. For their relationship to other Hamiltons, see the inventory for the Hamilton family papers, MC 278. For biographical information about Alice and Edith, see Notable American Women, the Modern Period (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980); see also Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters, by Barbara Sicherman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 84-M210
These papers of the Hamilton family were given to the Schlesinger Library in December 1984 by Lorraine Broom and Harry Broom, the present owners of the Hamilton house in Hadlyme, Connecticut.
Related Material:
There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see Hamilton Family papers, 1818-1970, 1974 (MC 278; M-24) and Hamilton Family papers, 1850-1976 (83-M175).
GLOSSARY OF INITIALS
- AH = Alice Hamilton
- MNH = Mary (Neal) Hamilton
- CL = Clara Landsberg
- MRS = Mary Rozet Smith
- EH = Edith Hamilton
- ML = Max Landsberg
- GPH = Gertrude (Pond) Hamilton
- NH = Norah Hamilton
- JA = Jane Addams
CONTAINER LIST
- Box 1: Folders 1-11, 16-17
- Box 2: Folders 18-30
Processing Information
Preliminary inventory: February 1985
By: Anne Engelhart
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
Subject
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 (Person)
- Hamilton, Alice , 1869-1970 (Person)
- Title
- Hamilton family. Papers of the Hamilton Family, 1879-1947: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00110
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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