Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Series List
- Container List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
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| Creator: | Robertson, Priscilla Smith |
| Title: | Priscilla Robertson Papers |
| Dates: | 1889-2000 |
| Quantity: | 33 boxes (14 cubic feet) |
| Abstract: | Personal and professional correspondence, photographs, publications, diaries, teaching materials, and research materials author, professor, historian and former chairwoman of the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union. |
Biographical Note
Born in Paris, Priscilla Smith Robertson (VC 1930) was a former chairwoman of the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union, professor and historian. Robertson served as editor of the Humanist magazine, taught history at the Old Ballard School, Indiana University, Harvard University, Kentucky Southern College and the Louisville School of Art in Anchorage.
Robertson's work includes The Revolutions of 1848: A Social History, published 1952, and An Experience of Women: Pattern and Change in 19th Century Europe, published in 1982. She did considerable work with the Southern poor in the 1930s, for which she was honored by the Southern Historical Institution in Lexington two weeks prior to her death. Robertson died 26 Nov 1989.
TopScope and Content Note
The Priscilla Robertson Papers contain correspondence, teaching and research materials, diaries and family biographical materials of the author, historian and former chairwoman of the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union.
TopAccess and Use
Access
This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Librarywithout any additional restrictions.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
Subject Headings
Names:
- Agee, James, 1909-1955
- Broadus, Eliza
- Guild, Aaron
- Kendall family
- Macneale family
- Macneale, Anna
- Macneale, Neil
- Plimpton family
- Plimpton, George
- Robertson, Ella Broadus, 1872-1945
- Smith family
- Smith, Winifred
Organizations:
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky
Subjects:
- Civil rights--Kentucky
- Sharecropping--Arkansas
- Women authors
- Women historians
- Women periodical editors
Places:
- Southern States--History--20th century
Document Types:
- Diaries
Titles:
- The Humanist
VCL Categories
- Education
- Family
- History and Historians
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Priscilla Robertson Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections Library staff.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
Series List
Series I. Humanist Materials | |
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| Includes mostly editorial correspondence |
Series II. KCLU (American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky) Materials |
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Series III.Personal Correspondence |
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Series IV.Diaries, 1890-1922 |
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Series V.Writings |
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Series VI.Teaching Materials |
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Series VII.Personal Materials |
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Series VIII.Miscellaneous Materials |
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Series IX.Biography |
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Container List
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Details
Personal and professional correspondence, photographs, publications, diaries, teaching materials, and research materials author, professor, historian and former chairwoman of the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union.
