Contents
Collection Overview
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
SERIES I. WRITINGS
SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE
SERIES III. SUBJECTS
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Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers, 1900-1959
Finding AidFinding aid prepared by Amanda Izzo.Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.2003
| | | | | Creator: | Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961 | | Title: | Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers | | Dates: | 1900-1959 | | Abstract: | Settlement house worker and social worker. Kitchelt's journals describe settlement work in New York and New Haven, CT. Correspondence includes descriptive letters to her parents; letters from settlement friends; letters from Sadie Rubin, an inmate at the New York State Reformatory for Women; and from members of the Laureate Literary Society, which Kitchelt founded and directed. Other materials include autobiographical pieces, articles, verses, and notes. | | Extent: | 2 boxes(.75 linear ft.) | | Language: | English. | | Identification: | MS 86 |
Journal kept at The College Settlement, 95 Rivington St., New York City, 1900Florence 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. Return to the Table of Contents
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. Return to the Table of Contents
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This collection is organized into three series: Return to the Table of Contents
SERIES I. WRITINGS
Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 1 | Autobiographical typescripts,
n.d. |
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| College settlement journals |
| 2 | 95 Rivington St., New York,
Jun-Jul 1900 |
| 3 | Summer House, Mount Ivy, NY,
Aug-Sep 1900 |
| 4-6 | 95 Rivington St.,
Sep 1900-Aug 1904 |
| 7 | Lowell House, New Haven CT,
Oct 1904-Feb 1905 |
| 8 | Notes on the journals,
1959 |
| 9 | Address to the "King's Daughters,"
1902 [1904?] |
| 10 | "A Chapter in the History of Human Rights,"
Journal of Human Relations, [re: Susan B. Anthony],
Winter 1956 |
| 12 | "Who" and "They Have Contributed":
typescripts re: "Negroes" and segregation,
1959 |
SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE
Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 13 | Outgoing to mother and sister,
1901, 1904 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 2 | 1 | Bonime, Ellis,
1902-03 |
| 3 | Bromberg, Abraham,
1901, 1903 |
| 6 | Halperin, Jacob,
1902, 1904 |
SERIES III. SUBJECTS
Box |
Folder |
| | 2 | 10 | College settlements: photographs of
settlement houses (including 95 Rivington Street) and
residents, clippings, and memorabilia,
1902-06, n.d. |
| 11 | Laureate Literary Society: memorabilia,
1901, 1903 |
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