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Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith papers
- Title
- Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith papers, ca. 1834-1893, bulk (1849-1891).
- Author
- Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | r. 2 | Moving image | Permit needed | *ZL-279 r. 2 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | r. 1 | Moving image | Permit needed | *ZL-279 r. 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- 1.7 linear foot (3 boxes, 2 v.)
- 2 microfilm reels.
- Subjects
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
- New England > Social life and customs
- Authors
- Slaves > Emancipation > United States
- Scrapbooks
- Public welfare > United States
- Smith family
- Spiritualism
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
- Lecturers
- Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893
- Women > Legal status, laws, etc > United States
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- Suffrage
- Lyceums
- American literature > 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
- Drawings
- Diaries
- Psychometry (Parapsychology)
- Collective settlements > Massachusetts
- Washington, George, 1732-1799
- Photographs
- Social reformers
- Occultism
- Dime novels
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Drawings.
- Photographs.
- Scrapbooks.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Additional Formats (note)
- Entire collection (except for 1993 accession of one letter) available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Oaksmith, Geraldine; James Lowe Autographs
- Biography (note)
- Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (1806-1893) was an author, lyceum lecturer and early activist on behalf of women's rights.
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- MssCol 2780
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A778
- Author
- Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893.
- Title
- Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith papers, ca. 1834-1893, bulk (1849-1891).
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Summary
- Collection consists of Smith's writings, correspondence, drawings, and printed matter providing information on her literary career and her activities as a lyceum lecturer and early women's rights advocate. Writings include manuscripts of Smith's autobiography; manuscripts and clippings of her articles, lectures, poems, stories, plays, dime novels, and other writings. Among her writings are reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson and several chapters of an unfinished biography of George Washington. Also, a small quantity of correspondence of Smith and her children, materials concerning spiritualism and psychometry, and several drawings and a photograph.
- Additional Formats
- Entire collection (except for 1993 accession of one letter) available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-279
- Biography
- Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (1806-1893) was an author, lyceum lecturer and early activist on behalf of women's rights. Her writings included novels, poetry, children's books, plays, essays, stories, and articles for newspapers and magazines. She was active in the women's rights movement and in 1848 attended the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. She was one of the first female lecturers on the lyceum circuit. Her husband, Seba Smith, was a newspaper editor and writer.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Authors.Lecturers.Social reformers.
- Added Author
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880.Oaksmith, Alvin.Oaksmith, Appleton.Oaksmith, Sidney.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 2780