Author
Archives Staff
Title
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Papers
Date
1867, 1888-1923
Repository
University of Kentucky Libraries, Special Collections, Lexington, KY 40506-0039
Conditions Governing Access note
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky.
Preferred Citation Note
[Identification of item], Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Papers, 1867, 1888-1923, 52M3,Special Collections, University of Kentucky, Lexington
Extent
6 boxes
Biography/History
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, a granddaughter of Henry Clay, was born at Woodlake, Franklin Co., Ky., May 20, 1872. In 1889, she attended Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Ct. and then studied, 1890-1894, at State College which became the University of Kentucky. On November 17, 1898, she married Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington HERALD. Both Breckinridges were involved with the social and political issues of the day.
Despite her illness of tuberculosis of the bone and in keeping with her heritage as a granddaughter of Henry Clay, Madeline McDowell Breckinridge made significant contributions to the causes which she initiated or supported. Mrs. Breckinridge served as president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, 1912-1915 and again in 1919. She was second vice-president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, 1913-1914. In addition, she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fayette County Tuberculosis Fayette County Associated Charities, on the executive committee of the Lexington League and was vice-president of the Kentucky Child Labor Commission.
The collection consists almost entirely of pamphlets, broadsides, leaflets and printed materials which reflect Mrs. Breckinridge's wide range of interest in social and political concerns. There are very few letters in the collection. The majority of the papers are devoted to women's suffrage issues. The materials are arranged by subject. When the collection was originally organized in 1952, there were 1003 items. When the papers were reorganized for better access and an inventory was created in 1997, the pieces were not counted.
For additional information about Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, please see Preston Breckinridge's Madeline McDowell Breckenridge, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, c1921l; Dr. Melba Porter Hay's 1980 University of Kentucky dissertation, "Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: Kentucky Suffragist and Progressive Reformer" and Dr. James Klotter's The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981, University Press of Kentucky, c1986.
Collection Inventory
Anti-Suffrage - Civic Improvement
Anti-suffrage, undated materials, 1915-1918
[box: 1, folder: 1]
Birth control, undated materials, 1916-1920
[box: 1, folder: 2]
Charities, 1904-1914
[box: 1, folder: 3]
Child labor, 1896-1905
[box: 1, folder: 4]
Child labor, 1906-1909
[box: 1, folder: 5]
Child labor, 1910-1912
[box: 1, folder: 6]
Child labor, 1913-1919
[box: 1, folder: 7]
Child labor; undated materials
[box: 1, folder: 8]
Child labor correspondence and miscellaneous materials, 1906-1915
[box: 1, folder: 9]
Child labor newspaper clippings, 1906-1913; mostly undated
[box: 1, folder: 10]
Civic improvement, undated materials, 1905-1921
[box: 1, folder: 11]
Community Service - Labor Laws and Working Conditions, 1901?-1914
Community service, 1919
[box: 2, folder: 12]
Education, undated materials, 1904-1919
[box: 2, folder: 12.5]
Foreign materials, mostly undated
[box: 2, folder: 13]
Home rule, Denver, Correspondence and articles, 1903-1904
[box: 2, folder: 14]
Home rule, Denver, Newspaper clippings, 1903-1904
[box: 2, folder: 15]
Housing, 1910-1920
[box: 2, folder: 16]
Insurance, undated materials, 1913-1917
[box: 2, folder: 17]
Kentucky, undated materials, 1905-1920
[box: 2, folder: 18]
Labor laws and working conditions, Includes report of the Cherry Mine disaster, Cherry, IL, 1901?-1914
[box: 2, folder: 19]
Labor Laws and Working Conditions, Tuberculosis, 1919-1920 -
Labor laws and working conditions, undated materials, 1919-1920
[box: 3, folder: 20]
Lincoln School (Lexington, Ky.), Model school, 1909-1913
[box: 3, folder: 21]
Miscellaneous materials, undated materials, 1903-1919
[box: 3, folder: 22]
Recreation, undated materials, 1900-1919
[box: 3, folder: 23]
Social work, undated materials, 1911-1923
[box: 3, folder: 24]
Southern problems, undated material, 1903-1916
[box: 3, folder: 25]
Temperance, ca1915
[box: 3, folder: 26]
Tuberculosis, 1902-1907
[box: 3, folder: 27]
Tuberculosis, Women's Suffrage, 1908 -
Tuberculosis, 1908
[box: 4, folder: 28]
Tuberculosis, undated materials, 1914-1920
[box: 4, folder: 29]
Tuberculosis. Bulletins, 1918-1920
[box: 4, folder: 30]
Voting, 1909-1920
[box: 4, folder: 31]
Women. Miscellaneous materials, undated materials, 1905-1919
[box: 4, folder: 32]
Women's suffrage, 1867 (1888) - 1904
[box: 4, folder: 33]
Women's suffrage, 1905-1906
[box: 4, folder: 34]
Women's suffrage, 1907-1909
[box: 4, folder: 35]
Women's Suffrage, 1910 - 1917
Women's suffrage, 1910
[box: 5, folder: 36]
Women's suffrage, 1911-1912
[box: 5, folder: 37]
Women's suffrage, 1913
[box: 5, folder: 38]
Women's suffrage. The Case for Woman Suffrage by Margaret Ladd Franklin, 1913
[box: 5, folder: 39]
Women's suffrage, 1914
[box: 5, folder: 40]
Women's suffrage, 1915
[box: 5, folder: 41]
Women's suffrage, Includes "A Mother's Sphere" by M.M. Breckinridge, 1916-1917
[box: 5, folder: 42]
Women's Suffrage, World War I, 1918 - 1919 June -
Women's suffrage, 1918 - 1919 June
[box: 6, folder: 43]
Women's suffrage, 1919 July - 1921 April
[box: 6, folder: 44]
Women's suffrage. Broadsides, leaflets and miscellaneous pieces, undated pieces, A-W
[box: 6, folder: 45]
Women's suffrage. Broadsides and leaflets. National American Woman Suffrage Association, undated pieces, B-W
[box: 6, folder: 46]
Women's suffrage. Broadsides and leaflets. Political equality, undated
[box: 6, folder: 47]
Women's suffrage. Kentucky-related materials, undated materials, 1909-1917
[box: 6, folder: 48]
Women's suffrage. Pamphlets, A-P, undated
[box: 6, folder: 49]
Women's suffrage. Pamphlets, S-W, undated
[box: 6, folder: 50]
Women's suffrage. Woman Suffrage Calendar, 1910
[box: 6, folder: 51]
World War I
[box: 6, folder: 52]