| Inclusive Dates |
1759-1960 |
| Bulk Dates |
1845-1890 |
| ID No. |
MSS12880 |
| Creator |
Blackwell family |
| Extent |
29,200 items |
| Extent |
97 containers plus 1 oversize |
| Extent |
40.4 linear feet |
| Extent |
76 microfilm reels |
| Language |
Collection material in English |
| Location |
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink |
Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998003 |
| LCCN Permalink |
LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78012880 |
| Summary |
Family members include author and suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950); her parents, Henry Browne Blackwell (1825-1909) and Lucy Stone (1818-1893), abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; her aunt, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman to receive an academic medical degree; and Elizabeth Blackwell's adopted daughter, Kitty Barry Blackwell (1848-1936). Includes correspondence, diaries, articles, and speeches of these and other Blackwell family members. |
| Online Content |
The papers of the Blackwell family are available on the Library of Congress website at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000092. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are required to consult the online edition as available. A transcription dataset from the Blackwell Family Papers is available online at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcdatasets.2023527889. |