Finding aid to the Milicent Washburn Shinn papers, MS 1960
California Historical Society
2014
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San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014
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Title: Milicent Washburn Shinn papers
Date: 1880-1925
Collection Identifier: MS
1960
Creator:
Shinn, Milicent Washburn, 1858-1940.
Contributing Institution:
California Historical Society
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San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014
(415) 357-1848
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[Identification of item], Milicent Washburn Shinn papers, MS 1960, California
Historical Society.
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written.
Shinn was born in Niles, Calif. She was editor of the Overland Monthly (1883-1894),
and was the first woman to receive a PhD at the University of California, in child
development.
Mainly letters written to Shinn as editor of the Overland Monthly, concerning her
work, the magazine's poor financial condition, and articles and stories submitted by
writers; together with several letters to her dealing with Lick Observatory (about
which she wrote a piece of investigative journalism), the University of California
and its president, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, the death of Edward Rowland Sill, and her
involvement in the field of child development. Correspondents include Ina D.
Coolbrith, Martha Hallidie, Edward S. Holden, Helen Hunt Jackson, David Starr
Jordan, Ernest C. Peixotto, Josiah Royce, Katherine Royce, and Samuel H. Willey.
Also includes a small amount of personal papers of Shinn's cousin, Edmund Clark
Sanford, and his family.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog:
Shinn, Milicent Washburn,
1858-1940--Archives.
Lick Observatory.
Overland Monthly.
Sanford, Edmund Clark.
Women periodical editors--California--Correspondence.