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{"value"=>"MssCol NYGB 18134", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"18134", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1810-1962", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1810/1962"}
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1810
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1962
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1810
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{"value"=>"Elsie Powell Ingraham family papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. <span class=\"subarea\">Manuscripts and Archives Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"The Elsie Powell Ingraham family papers chronicle multiple generations of the Ingraham, Powell, Brown, Hopper, and allied families -- prominent Quakers residing primarily in New York City, Old Chatham, N.Y. and Cambridge, Mass. Although these papers document dozens of individuals, it is Elsie Powell Ingraham, her husband Edward Ingraham, and her sister Rachel Hopper Powell who are significantly represented in the collection. The collection consists of correspondence, family documents and photographs collected by Elsie Powell Ingraham dating from the 19th and 20th centuries."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Elsie Powell Ingraham Family Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Ingraham, Elsie Powell", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Elsie Powell Ingraham family papers chronicle multiple generations of the Ingraham, Powell, Brown, Hopper, and allied families -- prominent Quakers residing primarily in New York City, Old Chatham, NY and Cambridge Mass. Although these papers document dozens of individuals, it is Elsie Powell Ingraham, her husband Edward Ingraham, and her sister Rachel Hopper Powell who are significantly represented in the collection.</p> <p>Elsie Powell Ingraham (1875-1962), the fifth child of Wilson Marcy and Sarah Hopper Powell Marcy, was educated at Barnard College and married Edward (Ned) Ingraham in 1912. Because business with a Boston-based cotton brokerage firm frequently took Edward from New York, the couple maintained residences in both New York City and Cambridge, Mass. In the course of their marriage, Elsie's interest in historic homes prompted the purchase and restoration of several properties. Although childless, the couple became benefactors to many girls and young woman through their philanthropic work with the Vidyodaya School for Girls in Madras, India.</p> <p>Edward (Ned) Ingraham (1879-1949) was born in New Bedford, Mass., attended Friends Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1900. Ingraham made a career as a cotton goods broker with operations in New York and Boston and, among other affiliations, was a member of Company K of the 7th Regiment, a National Guard unit and an enclave for New York's social elite. During WWI, he served in the Cotton Goods Branch of the Supply and Equipment Section of the Office of the Quartermaster General in Washington. Following his retirement he and Elsie made Cambridge their primary residence, and he joined the board of Lesley College, became secretary of Cambridge Hospital and president of the Home for Aged People.</p> <p>Rachel Hopper Powell (1865-1953), known throughout the collection as \"Chellie,\" was educated in private schools and by tutors. From 1892 to 1896 she served as a trustee to the New York and Brooklyn Schools of Society of Friends; was a member and secretary of the Board of School Inspectors for the 21st District of New York from 1899 to 1902; and in 1914, assumed the position of treasurer of the Women's Prison Association and the Isaac T. Hopper Home. By the following year, Powell became director of the Association, retiring from this post in 1944. In addition to this work, she was treasurer of the Joint Committee on Negro Child Study in 1926, and was active with the National Prisoners Aid Association, the Welfare Council of New York, and the Women's City Club of New York, where she was director from 1931 to 1935, serving as chair for the club's committee on prevention and correction. Following her retirement, she moved to Cambridge to live with her sister and brother-in-law.</p> <p>Elsie and Rachel were the great-granddaughters of the abolitionist Isaac Tatem Hopper (1771-1852). Born in Philadelphia, Hopper moved to New York City and joined the Quaker community in their work for equality. He was a leading figure in the prison reform movement and founded the Prison Association of New York. With his daughter, Abigail Hopper Gibbons, he established the Women's Prison Association, which sought the improved treatment of women prisoners and assisted them with the transition between incarceration and working life.</p>"}
- custodhist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Elsie Powell Ingraham Family Papers were presented to the New-York Historical Society by Sarah Huntington following the death of her aunt, Elsie Powell Ingraham. Soon after (in October 1962) and with Huntington's consent, the NYHS donated the collection to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of correspondence, family documents and photographs collected by Elsie Powell Ingraham dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. The personal correspondence, which makes up the largest portion of the collection, includes not only letters sent and received by Elsie Powell Ingraham, her husband Edward, and her sister Rachel Hopper Powell (who are best represented), but correspondence to and from Elsie's parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and various other members of the extended family and their many friends. These letters are chiefly quotidian in their content, documenting family events and day-to-day activities. Notable are letters home from abroad that capture family members' travels to Western Europe, Egypt, the Canadian wilderness, California and Mexico. Although Rachel Hopper Powell's letters to her sister provide little evidence of her extensive social welfare activities, a slim file of correspondence dedicated to the Women's Prison Association does provide some insights into the workings of this organization. Among Lucy Gibbons Morse's correspondence can be found a transcription of an interview Morse conducted with Sarah Hopper Powell (1840-1905), in which she recalls the violence of the 1863 draft riots and the burning of the Orphan Asylum for Colored Children.</p> <p>The family documents in the collection include genealogies, legal documents, original poetry and other writings, and ephemera. Of note is a diary kept by Elsie's grandmother Rachel Hopper Brown (1798-1887), which offers an account of her spiritual struggles during an extended illness. Also of interest is a scrapbook pertaining to the purchase of the Shapely house and its relocation from Thompson, Connecticut to Gloucester, Massachusetts.</p> <p>The photographs range in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and consist primarily of portraits of family members, though snapshots of friends and other unidentified individuals are represented.</p> <p>Users should note that there are four individuals with the name Wilson Marcy Powell in the collection; they are differentiated by notes within the box list. Wilson Marcy Powell I (1834-1915) and his son Wilson Marcy Powell II (1972-1935) were both New York City lawyers, and were Elsie Powell Ingraham father and brother respectively. Wilson Marcy Powell, Jr. (1904-1974) was Elsie's nephew and a scientist. Wilson (Woody) M. Powell, Jr. (b. 1932), was Elsie's grandnephew and a peace activist.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Elsie Powell Ingraham family papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18134#c39421'>Series I: Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1810-1962</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>All correspondence is organized by sender unless otherwise noted. Notable are letters home from abroad that chronicle family members' travels to Western Europe, Egypt, the Canadian wilderness, California and Mexico. These letters were composed primarily by Elsie Powell Ingraham and Rachel Hopper Powell, with some written by Wilson Marcy Powell I (father to Elsie and Rachel). The correspondence also includes courtship letters from Edward Ingraham to his fiance, Elsie, as well as letters from Sister Mary Veronica, Elsie's friend who was sent to a convent when they were both young women.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18134#c39671'>Series II: Family Documents</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1857-1947, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series consists of genealogies, scrapbooks, calling cards, wedding invitations, clippings, obituaries, financial records, and wills for various family members. Within the ephemera here are also recipes, writings, and a bicentennial bookmark made of silk.</p> <p>Of note is a diary kept by Rachel Hopper Brown (1798-1887) capturing her spiritual struggles during an extended illness. Annual reports and general information on the Vidyodaya School for Girls document the Ingraham's role as benefactors to the school.</p> <p>The Ingrahams purchased many historic homes, and information about these properties is contained within these series. Along with a scrapbook pertaining to the purchase and relocation of Shapely House from Thompson, Connecticut to Gloucester, Massachusetts is a narrative and pictorial history of the house and its 97-mile journey.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/18134#c39719'>Series III: Photographs</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>circa 1850-1930, n.d.</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series contains photographs of the family and their close friends. Ranging from formal portraits to snapshots, the bulk of these photographs are of the immediate family of Elsie Powell Ingraham. There is also a scrapbook documenting one of Elsie Powell Ingraham's trips to Europe, as well as many photographs taken of historical houses that the Ingrahams were interested in preserving or renovating.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Elsie Powell Ingraham Family Papers are organized in the following series:</p> <ul> <li>Series I: Correspondence, 1810-1962</li> <li>Series II: Family Documents, 1857-1947, n.d.</li> <li>Series III: Photographs, circa 1850-1930, n.d.</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Leslie Reyman and Lea Jordan.</p>"}
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9 linear feet (21 boxes)
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1810
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1962