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Title: Alice Park Papers
Dates: 1798-1953
Bulk dates: 1902-1920
Collection Call Number: mssPK 1-338
Creator:
Park, Alice, 1861-1961
Extent:
8 boxes
Repository: The Huntington Library,
Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Manuscripts
Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The collection chiefly contains
correspondence and papers related to the reform interests of California feminist and pacifistic Alice Park (1861-1961),
particularly women's rights,
as well as some materials concerning Park family matters.
Language of Material: The records are in English.
Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information, contact Reader
Services.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities.
The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with
the researcher.
[Identification of item]. Alice Park Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Gifts of Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California, 1945-1956.
Alice Locke Park (1861-1961), feminist, reformer, and pacifist, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1861, but
lived most of her life in California. She was active in both national and
international organizations for the improvement of prison conditions, labor laws,
human education, wild life conservation, and the preservation of natural resources.
Her primary interest, however, was in women's rights, and she was assistant director
of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California. She wrote and promoted the
California law, adopted in 1913, granting women equal rights of guardianship over
their children. Park died in 1961.
The collection contains primarily correspondence about Alice Park's reforming
interests, centering on the cause of women's rights and including papers related to
the passage of the constitutional amendment granting suffrage to women. The
collection also includes her autobiography [PK 7] and a biographical sketch of
Katherine Marie ("Kitty") Marion [PK 128].
Significant items found in the collection include: Letters to and from
horticulturalist Luther Burbank (1849-1926), establishing March 7, Burbank's
birthday, as Bird and Arbor Day; a 1925 letter from the office of architect Myron
Hunt (1868-1952); correspondence from author Mary Austin (1868-1934), explaining her
background and offering the use of her name towards women suffrage activities;
letters from American novelist and socialist Upton Sinclair (1878-1968); and a 1925
letter from Park to birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). The
collection also contains various pieces of printed material (1798-1807).
Arrangement
Boxes 1-7 contain correspondence arranged chronologically. Box 8 contains
oversize items.
Park, Alice, 1861-1961
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Feminists--United
States--Archives
Suffragists--United
States--Archives
Women--Suffrage--United
States--History--19th century--Sources
Women--Suffrage--United
States--History--20th century--Sources
Women's rights--United
States--History--Sources
Austin, Mary, 1868-1934
Baker, Frederick, active
1928-1937
Blackwell, Alice Stone,
1857-1950
Blackwell, Henry Browne,
1825-1909
Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926
Catt, Carrie Chapman,
1859-1947
Foltz, Clara
Harper, Ida Husted,
1851-1931
Keith, Mary McHenry,
1855-1947
Loebinger, Sofia M
Marion, Kitty
Munds, Frances
Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia),
1882-1960
Ryan, Agnes E., 1878-1954
Salt, Henry S., 1851-1939
Sargent, Ellen Clark
Severance, Caroline M. Seymour
(Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968
Watson, Elizabeth Lowe
Letters (correspondence)--United
States