Papers of Ethel Bret Harte, 1862-1960
Harte, Ethel Bret, 1875-1964
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.21 linear feet (1/2 file box)
Collection includes a photograph album (containing 31 prints) entitled Liberty Bell Tour documenting the campaign; other photographs of the tour; photographs of Bret Harte and family, 1862-1900, n.d.; one photograph of the Angel of Chinatown, "Rosie Winslow" or Rose Livingston, 1915; correspondence (mostly postcards) of Harte and Hall, including typed letters from John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, 1952, 1960; and unidentified tintypes
Ethel Bret Harte was the daughter of author Bret Harte and the partner of suffragist and Vassar graduate Louise Hall. In the summer of 1915, she, Hall, Hall's classmate Elizabeth McShane Hillis, and Katharine Wentworh Ruschenberger were part of a campaign for women's suffrage, traveling throughout Pennsylvania with a replica of the Liberty Bell mounted on a truck. The tour was photographed by Louise Hall's brother Ollie
Collection is open for research
Ethel Bret Harte Papers, 1862-1960. MC 952. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Materials in English
Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch01606
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