Helen Wilmans Post scrapbook

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unitid

{"value"=>"MssCol 2462", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"2462", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Helen Wilmans Post scrapbook"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1900-1931", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1900/1931"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".4 linear foot (1 box)"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1900

date_inclusive_end

1931

origination

{"value"=>"Wilmans, Helen, 1831-1907", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Helen Wilmans Post (1831-1907) was an American journalist, publisher and proponent of the mental science movement which stressed control of mind over matter. She started her own paper, The Woman's World, and published a weekly magazine, Freedom.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>Scrapbook was compiled in 1931 as a memorial to Wilmans Post.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Scrapbook contains correspondence, biographical sketches, copies of court decisions, photographs, and printed matter. Correspondence includes letters, 1900-1906, written by Wilmans Post, members of her family, and persons in the mental science movement. Also, biographical information about Wilmans Post and others; copies of court decisions involving mental healing; photographs, 1900-1931, of Wilmans Post, her family, associates, and Florida views; and some mental science publications.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"MSS 85M46"}

{"date"=>"1931", "source"=>"Del Mar, Eugene", "method"=>"Gift (transfer from General Research Division, 1985)", "value"=>"Gift (transfer from General Research Division, 1985), Del Mar, Eugene, 1931"}

keydate

1900

prefercite

{"value"=>"Helen Wilmans Post scrapbook, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Helen Wilmans Post (1831-1907) was an American journalist, publisher and proponent of the mental science movement which stressed control of mind over matter. She started her own paper, The Woman's World, and published a weekly magazine, Freedom. Scrapbook contains correspondence, biographical sketches, copies of court decisions, photographs, and printed matter. Correspondence includes letters, 1900-1906, written by Wilmans Post, members of her family, and persons in the mental science movement. Also, biographical information about Wilmans Post and others; copies of court decisions involving mental healing; photographs, 1900-1931, of Wilmans Post, her family, associates, and Florida views; and some mental science publications.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

.4 linear feet (1 box)

date_start

1900

date_end

1931

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