Madeline McDowell Breckinridge papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge papers
- Date
- 1867-1923, undated (inclusive)
- Extent
- 2.7 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Child labor -- Kentucky
- Pamphlets.
- Tuberculosis -- Hospitals.
- Women social reformers -- Kentucky
- Women -- Suffrage -- Kentucky.
- Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged alphabetically.
- Preferred Citation
- 52m3 : [identification of item], Madeline McDowell Breckinridge papers, 1867-1923, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, a granddaughter of Henry Clay, was born at Woodlake, Franklin County, Kentucky, on May 20, 1872. In 1889, she attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. From 1890-1894, she studied at State College which later 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.
- Scope and Content
- The Madeline McDowell Breckinridge papers (dated 1867-1923, undated; 2.7 cubic feet; 6 boxes) mainly consists of pamphlets, broadsides, leaflets, and printed materials which reflect Madeline McDowell Breckinridge's wide range of interest in social and political concerns, including women's suffrage, tuberculosis, and childhood education. 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.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Anti-suffrage, 1915-1918, undated
Birth control, 1916-1920, undated
Charities, 1904-1914
Child labor, 1896-1905
Child labor, 1906-1909
Child labor, 1910-1912
Child labor, 1913-1919
Child labor, undated
Child labor correspondence and miscellaneous materials, 1906-1915
Child labor newspaper clippings, 1906-1913, undated
Civic improvement, 1905-1921, undated
Community service, 1919
Education, 1904-1919, undated
Foreign materials, undated
Home rule, Denver, correspondence and articles, 1903-1904
Home rule, Denver, newspaper clippings, 1903-1904
Housing, 1910-1920
Insurance, 1913-1917, undated
Kentucky, 1905-1920, undated
Labor laws and working conditions - includes report of the Cherry Mine disaster, Cherry, IL, 1901-1914
Labor laws and working conditions, 1919-1920, undated
Lincoln School (Lexington, Ky.) model school, 1909-1913
Miscellaneous materials, 1903-1919, undated
Recreation, 1900-1919, undated
Social work, 1911-1923, undated
Southern problems, 1903-1916, undated
Temperance, circa 1915
Tuberculosis, 1902-1907
Tuberculosis, 1908
Tuberculosis, 1914-1920, undated
Tuberculosis - bulletins, 1918-1920
Voting, 1909-1920
Women - miscellaneous materials, 1905-1919, undated
Women's suffrage, 1867-1904
Women's suffrage, 1905-1906
Women's suffrage, 1907-1909
Women's suffrage, 1910
Women's suffrage, 1911-1912
Women's suffrage, 1913
Women's suffrage - "The Case for Woman Suffrage" by Margaret Ladd Franklin, 1913
Women's suffrage, 1914
Women's suffrage, 1915
Women's suffrage - includes "A Mother's Sphere" by Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, 1916-1917
Women's suffrage, 1918-1919 June
Women's suffrage, 1919 July-1921 April
Women's suffrage - broadsides, leaflets and miscellaneous pieces, A-W, undated
Women's suffrage - broadsides and leaflets National American Woman Suffrage Association, B-W, undated
Women's suffrage - broadsides and leaflets, political equality, undated
Women's suffrage - Kentucky-related materials, 1909-1917, undated
Women's suffrage - pamphlets, A-P, undated
Women's suffrage - pamphlets, S-W, undated
Women's suffrage - Woman Suffrage Calendar, 1910
World War I, circa 1914-1918
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