To celebrate Women's History Month, Special Collections is highlighting a few of the women who shaped Boston Public Library. "We have a total of about [165,000] postcards ... They were donated by different collectors through the years." Jane Winton*, Curator of Prints, The Back Bay Sun, September 14, 2010. The extensive collection of artworks and…
Women Who Shaped the BPL: Helen Slosberg’s Scheme
To celebrate Women's History Month, Special Collections is highlighting a few of the women who shaped Boston Public Library. "I have a very good scheme..." Helen Slosberg to Sinclair Hitchings, December 20, 1977. Helen S. Slosberg Papers, Arts Department, Boston Public Library. Helen Sagoff Slosberg was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1900, lived in Boston…
Women Who Shaped BPL: Sally Inman Kast Shepard, First Female Donor
“. . . an act of liberality which will secure Mrs. Shepard a permanent place among the library's distinguished benefactors” Third Annual Report of the Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston, 1855 From the early days of the Boston Public Library (then called the Public Library), women were very active and…
Women Who Shaped BPL: Edith Guerrier, Librarian, Mentor and Visionary
To celebrate Women's History Month, Special Collections is highlighting a few of the women who shaped Boston Public Library. We will be holding an open house celebrating women's contributions to our library on March 26, 2024. The North End Branch of the Boston Public Library, a beloved neighborhood institution, was strongly shaped by the work…
Notable Women, Notable Manuscripts: Maria Weston Chapman
In celebration of Women’s History month, this is the fourth post in a series by blogger Kim Reynolds (Curator of Manuscripts) focusing on BPL's special collections featuring notable 19th-century American women. Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885) was a noted abolitionist, editor, writer, and activist. She was the oldest of eight children born in Weymouth, Massachusetts to…
“Help to make the world better”: Lucy Stone and the First Wave Suffragettes
On August 26, 1920 the 19th amendment was certified. To celebrate the 100th anniversary learn more about the history of the suffrage movement.
Brook Farm – “city of God, anew”
Founded in 1630, West Roxbury, Massachusetts is the home of the abolitionist and Unitarian minister Theodore Parker and the place where the Puritan missionary John Eliot is believed to have preached from “Pulpit Rock” to the Native Americans who had long populated the region. Most famously, it is the town where, in 1841, Unitarian minister…
Save Sacco and Vanzetti!
It's the 100th anniversary of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, created to defend Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Read about this controversial case.
The Long-simmering Feud Between Edgar Allan Poe and Rufus Griswold
To commemorate Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday on January 19, the BPL is featuring the Rufus W. Griswold Papers, which contains fifty-five letters by or to Edgar Allan Poe, including seven important ones to Griswold. The long-simmering tension between Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and Rufus W. Griswold (1815-1857) began when Griswold—literary critic, editor, and anthologist—published The…
Victoria Woodhull: Activist, Free-Thinker, Presidential Candidate
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927) was an ardent campaigner for women’s rights, an advocate for sexual freedom, and the first woman to run for president of the United States. Born Victoria Claflin in Homer, Ohio in 1838, she received very little formal education. At the age of fifteen, she married Dr. Canning Woodhull and had two children…
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