Printed Ephemera, c.1904-1941

File — Box: 2, Folder: 4-9

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Collection consists of Janet Richards’ notes for articles and lectures on various topics, as well as for interviews with Nicholas Horthy and Benito Mussolini. Letters are from notables such as Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, William E. Borah, Pascual Cervera, Salmon P. Chase, Ernest Dimnet, Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Grew, Charles Evans Hughes, Cordell Hull, Jean Jules Jusserand, Frank B. Kellogg, Elihu Root, Evelyn McLean, Henry Stimson, and Helen Taft.

Abundant photographs are included of actors and scenes of the Oberammergau Passion Play attended by Richards from 1890 to 1910. Other photographs are of Janet Richards, Benes, Cervera, Mussolini, and women’s suffragists Susan B. Anthony and Anna Shaw.

Family accounts, school exercises, and miscellaneous notebooks (dated 1869-1898) belonging to Richards, her sister Mary Ann and father William are also extant.

Dates

c.1904-1941

Conditions Governing Access

Most manuscripts collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.

Extent

From the Collection: 6.17 Linear Feet (12 Hollinger boxes (10 Document Cases, 2 Record Storage Cartons))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Notices, pamphlets, invitations and news clippings relating to miscellaneous events including: 2:4. Dedication of Belleau Wood (Bois de Belleau)(1923).

2:5. International Congress of Women (Rome, 1914), with blue ribbon and medal presented by Queen Margherita of Savoy (b.1851-1926).

2:6-2:6.2. Women's suffrage. Miscellaneous items include postcards; photographs/postcards re suffrage march in Washington, D.C. (1913); reprint of "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's Reply to Mrs. Humphrey Ward (1908); Congress of Women's Suffrage (Amsterdam, 1908).

2:7. International Exhibition (1876); North Street Presbyterian Church silver anniversary programs (1885); Philadelphia 225th anniversary program (1908); Red Star Line / Antwerp to New York and Philadelphia, passenger list (1905).

2:8-2:9. News clippings re Janet Richards (c. 1904-1941).

2:11. 9 miniature portrait engravings by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (1770-1852). Also, 7 paper silhouette portraits.

2:12. Miscellaneous: printed book boards with ribbon ties; small watercolor on paper, "Amalfi" by Janet Richards (?).