Olive Helms Mulholland Correspondence mssMulholland
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence 1881-1911
A - B
C - E
F - H
Helms
I - L
Mulholland
M - N
O - S
T - Z and miscellaneous
Ephemera 1880s-approximately 1910
Brooke M. Black
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Title: Olive Helms Mulholland correspondence
Creator:
Mulholland, Olive Helms
Identifier/Call Number: mssMulholland
Physical Description:
18 Linear Feet
(12 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1881-1911
Abstract: Letters of Olive Helms Mulholland, American teacher of Illinois and California.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Olive Helms Mulholland correspondence, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gift of Elizabeth Sprague, 1982.
Olive Helms Mulholland was the oldest daughter of Belle and R.E. Helms, a Midwestern family who settled in San Diego in the
early 1900s. Olive attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1896 and 1897. In 1900, Olive Helms married Elgin McCormick
Mulholland (1875-1904), a native of Pittsburgh. Their daughter Rachel Isabel Mulholland was born in 1902. The Mulhollands
lived in Montana, Colorado, and Washington. When Elgin Mulholland died of tuberculosis, Olive taught at a school in Alabama
and later worked as a housekeeper for a minister in Massachusetts, before moving to California to join her family shortly
after 1910. Olive Helms Mulholland lived in San Diego, Riverside, and Los Angeles and worked as a teacher. She was a member
of the YWCA and various church groups. Her daughter Rachel Isabel Mulholland followed in her mother's footsteps. She graduated
from Knox College and then attended Mills College in California.
The correspondence of Olive Helms Mulholland chiefly contains letters by her to her husband and daughter, as well as letters
to her from her parents, in-laws, sisters, college friends, and colleagues in YWCA and church groups. The correspondence describes
various aspects of women's lives in the Midwest and Southern California including professional activities, charity and church
work, etc. The letters from her father, R. E. Helms, contain accounts of his various business pursuits. The letters from her
daughter Rachel Isabel Mulholland Cramer describe her studies at Knox College and Mills College.
Processed by Huntington Library staff. In 2022, Brooke M. Black created a finding aid.
Organized in the following series: 1. Correspondence, 2. Ephemera.
Former call number: mssMulholland correspondence.
Businessmen -- Middle West
Married women -- United States
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Correspondence
Widows -- United States -- Correspondence
Women -- California, Southern -- Correspondence
Women -- Middle West -- Correspondence
Women teachers -- United States
Young Women's Christian associations -- California, Southern
Young Women's Christian associations -- Middle West
California, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Sources
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- Sources
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 19th century
Letters (correspondence) -- United States -- 20th century
Cramer, Rachel Isabel Mulholland
Helms, R. E.
Mulholland, Elgin McCormick, 1875-1904
Knox College (Galesburg, Ill.)
Mills College
Box 1
Box 2
Box 3
Box 4, Box 5
Box 6
Box 7
Box 8
Box 9
Box 10
Box 11, Box 12