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COLLECTION Identifier: A/M8239

Notebook of Rosalie Robitaille Moore, 1904-1969

Overview

Notebook of Rosalie Robitaille Moore, containing history and physiology notes, recipes, and financial records.

Dates

  • Creation: 1904-1969

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials in English.

Access Restrictions:

Access. Originals closed; fragile. Use digital images.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Rosalie Robitaille Moore as well as 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

1 folder

The notebook of Rosalie Robitaille Moore includes class notes on history and physiology; birth, marriage, and death dates for family members; recipes, housekeeping hints, and health remedies; prayers (with comments on who will benefit from them); and financial records, including rents received, expenditures, and taxes.

BIOGRAPHY

Rosalie Robitaille Moore was born in 1882 in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec, the daughter of Francis and Julia Robitaille. She had five sisters: Lucy, Clara, Mary, Selina, and Victoria. She married Daniel Thomas Moore in 1910; they lived in Franklin, Massachusetts, and evidently rented rooms to individuals. She died in 1977.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession number: 2001-M214

The notebook of Rosalie Robitaille Moore were found among Schlesinger Library book sale volumes in 2001.

Processing Information

Processed: December 2001

By: Anne Engelhart

Updated and additional description added: October 2020

By: Susan Earle

The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.  Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.

Author
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Language of description
eng
Sponsor
Processing of this collection was made possible by the Radcliffe Class of 1955 Manuscript Processing Fund..
EAD ID
sch01780

Repository Details

Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository

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