Dillon, Mary Earhart, 1898-1992 - Social Networks and Archival Context (original) (raw)
Mary Earhart Dillon was born Ferburary 5, 1898. While an assistant professor of political science, Mary Earhart Dillon wrote Frances Willard: From Prayers to Politics (published under the name Mary Earhart by University of Chicago Press in 1944). Due to the difficulty of finding primary source material, Dillon contacted various women in the Midwest (especially the Chicago lawyer and suffragist, Catharine Waugh McCulloch) who had been active in temperance, woman's suffrage, and related movements and activities. These women gave her books and papers they had created or accumulated during their work for these causes. Dillon, as a member of the faculty of Northwestern University, arranged with the university library that she would deposit the materials there when she had completed her research.
When the time came, she was told that the library had no space for the collection, nor funds to process it and make it available to other researchers, and she was asked to remove it as soon as possible from the basement of the building in which her office had been. Dillon was unable to find a taker until, in June 1948, she wrote to the Women's Archives (later the Schlesinger Library) at Radcliffe College, and received a positive and enthusiastic response.
In September, 1948, joined the Department of Government at Queen's College in New York. She later published a biography of Wendell Willkie, and was for many years a National Consultant for the Schlesinger Library. She moved in Memphis, Tenn. upon her retirement and died there on February 5, 1992.
Archival Resources
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| creatorOf | Stewart, Ella Jane Seass, 1871-. Series XII of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1895-1939 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945. Papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1869-1945 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947. Series I of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1904-1946 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Dillon, Mary Earhart,. Series XIII (Suffrage Miscellany) of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1879-1920 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin. Papers, 1878-1989 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Johnson, Carrie Ashton, 1863-. Series V of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1889-1941 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Dillon, Mary Earhart. The influence of Frances Willard on the woman's movement of the nineteenth century, 1939. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Dillon, Mary Earhart,. Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1863-1955 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Reilly, Caroline I. Series VIII of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1907-1941 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Stantial, Edna Lamprey. Series XI of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1893-1944 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Suffrage Miscellany, 1879-1920 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Hefferan, Helen Maley, 1870-. Series IV of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1902-1941 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Robinson, Lelia Josephine, 1850-1891. Series IX of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1887-1892 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Seton-Thompson, Grace Gallatin, 1879-1959. Papers, 1860s-1993 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1863-1955 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Papers of Anna Howard Shaw in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1863-1961 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Harte, Grace H. Series III of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1890-1945 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Harbert, Elizabeth Boynton, b. 1845. Series II of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1870-1939 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Papers of Harriett Reid in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1920-1942 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America |
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