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Jane Ruby Papers

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Identifier: MC-055
Scope and Content These papers document the life of Jane Eleanor Ruby, who was a history professor at Wheaton College from 1954 to 1978, including her education and employment before Wheaton and her activities after her retirement until she died in 1992. The materials of the collection are organized chronologically. There are many gaps within the collection due to the lack of material for each series. The strengths of the collection are found in her writing material and periodicals that provide a insight...
Dates: 1698-1990

Lucy Larcom Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC-005
Abstract The Lucy Larcom Papers include 2 diaries, Nov. 1859-Aug. 1862; commonplace books, 1859-1867; herbaria; class books and grade book, 1859-1861; rhetoric notes, 1855 and 1857; correspondence with mother, John Greenleaf Whittier and his sister, Mrs. A.D.T.Whitney, and others, 1840s-1890s; paintings; clothing; manuscript poems and the Semi-centennial Sketch of Wheaton Seminary; Kansas Prize Song printed on handkerchief (1855); photographs Larcom owned; articles, obituaries, memorials;...
Dates: 1859-1970s

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Jane Eleanor Ruby, d. 1992 (Wheaton Prof. of History) 1
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 (American poet & abolitionist) 1
Lucy Larcom, 1824-1893 (Wheaton English Lit. Tchr 1855-1867) 1
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