Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers, 1900-1959
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers
Creation of Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers
Time of Creation of Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers
Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961
Biographical History for: Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers
Biographical Note Journal kept at The College Settlement, 95 Rivington St., New York City, 1900 Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt was born in Rochester, New York, on 17 December 1874. She graduated from Wells College in 1897. For two years after college, she worked at the George Junior Republic, a self-governing community for troubled youth. From 1900-04, she worked at the New York College Settlement at 95 Rivington Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side and its summer location in Mt. Ivy, New York. In 1904, she returned to reform work as a volunteer probation officer for women with New York City's Essex Market Court. From 1904 to 1905, she worked at the Lowell House settlement in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the head worker in the Little Italy House in Brooklyn (1903) and another Italian American settlement, the "Housekeeping Center," in Rochester (1907-10). She married Richard Kitchelt in 1911. After her marriage, she was active in several civic and political causes. She volunteered and wrote articles for suffrage, trade union, socialist, and pacifist organizations in New York and Connecticut. She died in Wilberforce, Ohio on 4 April 1961.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers consist of .75 linear feet of diaries, writings, printed material, correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs. Most material is from 1900 to 1904 and covers Kitchelt's years at the College Settlement and Lowell House.
Literature--Societies, etc.--New York (State)--New York--History--Sources
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Social settlements--New York (State)--New York--History--Sources
Social settlements--Connecticut--New Haven--History--Sources
Social work with immigrants--United States--History--Sources
Women social reformers--United States--History--Sources
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series
SERIES I. WRITINGS
Autobiographical typescripts, n.d.
College settlement journals
95 Rivington St., New York, Jun-Jul 1900
Summer House, Mount Ivy, NY, Aug-Sep 1900
95 Rivington St., Sep 1900-Aug 1904
Lowell House, New Haven CT, Oct 1904-Feb 1905
Notes on the journals, 1959
Address to the "King's Daughters," 1902 [1904?]
"A Chapter in the History of Human Rights," Journal of Human Relations, [re: Susan B. Anthony], Winter 1956
Verses, n.d.
"Who" and "They Have Contributed": typescripts re: "Negroes" and segregation, 1959
SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE
Outgoing to mother and sister, 1901, 1904
Incoming
Bonime, Ellis, 1902-03
Braun, Jacob, 1902-03
Bromberg, Abraham, 1901, 1903
Burstein, Sam, 1903
Cohen, Nathan 1902-05
Halperin, Jacob, 1902, 1904
Markham, Edwin, 1903
Rubin, Sadie, 1902-03
Wolf, Irving, 1902-03
SERIES III. SUBJECTS
College settlements: photographs of settlement houses (including 95 Rivington Street) and residents, clippings, and memorabilia, 1902-06, n.d.
Laureate Literary Society: memorabilia, 1901, 1903