Posts Tagged ‘women’s history’
Boston Women’s Community Radio, 1972-1993
Amelia Zurcher, Summer 2019 Programs Intern While the 1971 takeover of an underutilized Harvard University building and the establishment of the Cambridge Women’s Center is well-known, fewer people know the history of how Cambridge-based women claimed space on the radio waves. Boston Women’s Community Radio (BWCR), based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), aired…
Read MoreThe History of Garden Street
By Lois Lilley Howe Read April 25, 1949 This article originally appeared in the Cambridge Historical Society Proceedings, Volume 33, pages 37-57 WE CANNOT think of Old Garden Street without thinking of the Common which forms one side of it. Yet our thought of the Common is just of a big open space with trees and a…
Read MoreHarvard Square in the ‘Seventies and ‘Eighties
By Lois Lilley Howe Read January 25, 1944 This article originally appeared in the Cambridge Historical Society Proceedings, Volume 30, pages 11-27 Reminiscences, which should really have been called Harvard Square and its Environs in the ‘Seventies and ‘Eighties, have been in the back of my mind long enough for me to have verified details by…
Read MoreElba Santiago
Elba Santiago was born in Puerto Rico and moved to Cambridge when she was 17 and a half years old. Elba has worked at a number of jobs in Cambridge, including factory work, child care, and as a teacher’s aid in the Cambridge school system. Elba currently lives in a house she owns with her…
Read MoreMaria Baldwin, 1856-1922: “An Honor and a Glory”
By Daphne Abeel, 2006 Cantabrigian Maria Baldwin, a gifted and imposing African-American educator of the early 20th century, has never lacked recognition. During her lifetime and after her death, she was praised and then remembered. She was exceptional for her era and perhaps for all eras, attracting the attention of the entire community with her…
Read MoreBetsy Siggins Papers, 1714-2008
NOTE: Series II of this collection was transferred to the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center at UMass Amherst. Review their finding aid. Administrative Information Biographical Sketch Arrangement Scope and Content Note Series Description and Folder Listing 5 ½ file boxes, 1 oversized box 3.96 linear feet Processor: Katrina Morse…
Read MoreMercy Scollay Papers, 1775-1824
Administrative Information Biographical Sketch Sources Related Collections Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Description and Folder Listing View transcriptions here 1 box .42 linear feet Processor: Joey Grant Date: July 2008 Acquisition: Letters donated April 1929 by Elizabeth Harris. Although the letters do not directly reflect the history of Cambridge they…
Read MoreParmenter-Hunt Family Diaries, 1849-1931
Administrative Information Biographical Sketch Related Collections Sources Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Description and Folder Listing Administrative Information 7 ½ document boxes 4.63 linear fee Processor: Giordana Mecagni Date: May 2004 Inventoried by: Amy E. Gray, December 1993 Acquisition: Mary F. Parmenter, grandniece of Mary Parmenter, donated the bulk of…
Read MoreThe Story of the Bee
Read the full The Story of the Bee by Mary Towle Palmer (1924) as a PDF here Read the finding aid for The Bee Records, 1861–1934 here Cambridge Proceedings, Volume 17, 1924 EXTRACTS FROM “THE STORY OF THE BEE” BY MARY TOWLE PALMER Since there is no record of the exact pages which Mrs. Palmer…
Read MorePast History Café & Walking Tour – When Crafty Women Move Domestic Arts to the Public Realm
Thursday, 04/27/2017, 5:30pm–8:00pm Walking Tour, 5:30-6:20 PM Stroll past “Bee” members’ homes, and hear their stories; all in the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House vicinity. Tour led by Steve Pinkerton. Meet in front of the Longfellow House National Historical Site, 105 Brattle Street. Tour starts promptly at 5:30pm, please arrive a few minutes early. History Cafe, 6:30-8 PM A parlor…
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