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Title: Miriam A. De Ford Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1893-1954
Collection number: MS 3526
Creator:
De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975
Extent: 5 boxes
Repository:
California Historical Society, North Baker Library
San Francisco, California 94105-4014
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) Identification Number:
NUCMC 82-364
Language:
English.
Gift of the Estate of Miriam Allen De Ford through Ernest Besig, 1975.
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[Identification of item], Miriam A. De Ford Papers. MS 3526, California Historical
Society, North Baker Research Library.
Clemmons, Ella May
Collier, William Armistead
Gould, Mrs. Howard
Kendrick, John, 1925-1933
Mooney, Tom
Shipley, Maynard
Yue, Wong Sun
Chinese in California
Science League of America
Socialist Party (U.S.)
Woman--Suffrage
Women as authors
Women in California
De Ford was a suffragist, feminist, and writer. Collection includes correspondence, between
De Ford and her second husband Maynard Shipley, 1872-1934, a writer and lecturer whom she
married in 1921, and Shipley's correspondence; De Ford's 1905 diary and diary entries from
1939 to 1941; her autobiography; manuscripts of her plays, stories, and articles, including
Feminism -- Cause or Effect?, written in 1933; birth certificates, marriage licenses, and
divorce papers; academic records; portion of De Ford's will; photos; wills of Shipley and
William Armistead Collier, her first husband; membership cards; clippings; 1906 Philadelphia
High School for Girls yearbook; and material on Ella May Clemmons and Mrs Howard Gould. De
Ford attended Wellesley in 1908, and was the youngest member of the Single Tax Society.
Among her works were
They Were San Franciscans and a
biography of Shipley.