A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
The
Garrison Family Papers
Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1833–1908
A UPA Collection
from
Cover photo: Garrison Family on Thanksgiving Day, 1886 or 1887, at the home of Francis J.
Garrison, Roxbury, Massachusetts. Left to right: George Garrison, Mrs. Frank J. Garrison,
Wendell P. Garrison, Fanny Garrison Villard, Ellen Wright Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison,
Jr., Mrs. J. Miller McKim, Francis J. Garrison. Photograph courtesy of the Sophia Smith
Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Research Collections in American Politics
General Editor: William Leuchtenburg
in association with
Research Collections in Women’s Studies
General Editor: Anne Firor Scott
Garrison Family Papers
Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1833–1908
Guide by
Earl Shimabukuro
A UPA Collection from
7500 Old Georgetown Road ● Bethesda, MD 20814-6126
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Garrison family papers [microform] / processed by Susan Boone ; project coordinators, Stephen
Want and Daniel Lewis.
microfilm reels ; 35 mm. –– (Research collections in American politics) (Research collections in
women’s studies)
“Microfilmed from the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.”
Summary: Reproduces letters and other documents of William Lloyd Garrison and his descendants
relating to the family’s involvement in a wide range of reform movements including anti-imperialism,
conservation, free trade, immigration reform, pacifism, and temperance, as well as their interest in
business, art, literature, religion, and education.
Accompanied by a printed reel guide, entitled: A guide to the microfilm edition of Garrison family
papers.
Guides to series 1 compiled by Jeffrey T. Coster; series 2 compiled by Kristen M. Taynor; series 3
compiled by Eric H. Doss, Ariel W. Simmons, Kristen M. Taynor, and Rosemary Orthmann; series 4
compiled by Kristen M. Taynor; series 5–6 compiled by Mark A. Zimmerman; series 7 compiled by
Earl Shimabukuro; series 8 compiled by Norma Wark; and series 9 compiled by Earl Shimabukuro.
ISBN 978-0-88692-895-7 (ser. 1) –– ISBN 978-0-88692-896-4 (ser. 2) –– ISBN 978-0-88692-897-1
(ser. 3A) –– ISBN 978-1-60205-014-3 (ser. 3B) –– ISBN 978-1-60205-015-0 (ser. 3C) –– ISBN 9781-60205-016-7 (ser. 3D) –– ISBN 978-0-88692-898-8 (ser. 4) –– ISBN 978-0-88692-904-6 (ser. 5) ––
ISBN 978-0-88692-905-3 (ser. 6) –– 978-1-60205-017-4 (ser. 7) –– ISBN 978-1-60205-018-1 (ser. 8)
–– ISBN 978-1-60205-019-8 (ser. 9)
1. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805–1879. 2. Antislavery movements––United States––History––
19th century. 3. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805–1879––Family. 4. Garrison family. 5. Social
reformers––United States. I. Want, Stephen. II. Lewis, Daniel, 1972– III. Coster, Jeffrey T., 1970–
IV. Taynor, Kristen M., 1978– V. Zimmerman, Mark A., 1979– VI. Title: Guide to the microfilm
edition of Garrison family papers. VII. Series. VIII. Series: Research collections in women’s studies
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Family History ...........................................................................................................................................
Scope and Content Note ........................................................................................................................
Source Note ................................................................................................................................................
Editorial Note ............................................................................................................................................
Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................................................
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Reel Index
Garrison Family Papers, Series 9: Scrapbooks (Boxes 278–29)
Reel 1
Garrison, Agnes, ca. 1870–1901 ........................................................................................................
Garrison, George T., 1840s–1901 .....................................................................................................
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1
Reel 2
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), 1856–1862 ...................................................................................
2
Reel 3
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838) [Business Ventures, 1883–1897] ...............................................
3
Reel 4
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Fraternities to Athletics, 1891–1907 .......................................
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Anti-imperialism, 1899–1901 ...................................................
4
4
Reel 5
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838) [Blacks and Suffrage, 1874–1902] .............................................
5
Reel 6
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), ca. 1903 ........................................................................................
5
Reel 7
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), 1903–1906 ...................................................................................
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Addendum to Garrison Family Papers, Series 2: Diaries (Box 34)
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), 1859–1864 ...................................................................................
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Subject Index .............................................................................................................................................
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FAMILY HISTORY
The Garrison Family Papers cover five generations of the Garrison family, four
generations of the Wright family, and five generations of the Stephenson family. Detailed
biographical sketches exist in standard reference works as well as biographies of members of
the Garrison and Wright families. These include Dictionary of American Biography (DAB);
Notable American Women (NAW); William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told
by His Children; All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer;
Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children by Harriet Alonso; and James and
Lucretia Mott: Life and Letters by Anna Davis Hallowell.
The Garrison Family
Generation 1: Abijah Garrison and Frances (“Fanny”) Lloyd Garrison
The Garrison Family Papers begin with Abijah Garrison (1773–?) and Frances (“Fanny”)
Lloyd Garrison (1776–1823). Abijah was born in an isolated farming community in New
Brunswick, Canada. By the 1790s he had become a seaman based in St. John. He married
Frances Lloyd in 1798, and they settled on the Jemseg River in New Brunswick. They moved
to St. John in 1801. They had two daughters (Mary Ann and Caroline Eliza) and a son
(James Holley). Mary Ann died in infancy, and in 1805 the family moved to Newburyport,
Massachusetts. In December of that year a fourth child, William Lloyd, was born, followed
by Elizabeth Knowlton in 1808. A man of intemperate habits, Abijah abandoned his wife
and family shortly after Elizabeth’s birth. He was never heard from again.
Generation 2: William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Benson Garrison
Frances Lloyd Garrison, abandoned with small children to care for, placed her son
William Lloyd (1805–1879) (see DAB) in the care of Deacon Ezekiel Bartlett. William Lloyd
received little schooling, and was apprenticed in 1818 to Ephraim Allen of the Newburyport
Herald. In 1826 he became editor of the Free Press. When the press failed he became a
journeyman printer, and in 1828 he joined with Nathaniel White in editing the temperance
newspaper National Philanthropist. Influenced by Benjamin Lundy, a Quaker, William Lloyd
became interested in the abolition movement, a cause he championed for the next thirty
years. He founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, in 1831, which he published
until 1865. In 1834 he married Helen Benson, daughter of a retired merchant and member
of an abolitionist family. They had seven children: George Thompson (1836–1904), William
Lloyd (1838–1909), Wendell Phillips (1840–1907), Charles Follen (1842–1849), Helen
Frances (“Fanny”) (1844–1928), Elizabeth Pease (1846–1848), and Francis Jackson (1848–
1916). Although there are papers generated by all of the surviving children, those of William
Lloyd are best represented.
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Generation 3: Children of William Lloyd Garrison and Helen Benson Garrison
There are seven descendents in Generation 3 of the Garrison family. All of the children
of William Lloyd and Helen Benson Garrison, with the exception of George, followed in
their father’s reform footsteps. Wendell, via his editorship at The Nation, was involved in
abolition, freedman’s relief, and racial and sexual equality. Fanny, following the death of her
husband, Henry Villard, became involved in the suffrage movement and pacifism. Francis, in
addition to his position as editor at Houghton Mifflin, championed racial and sexual equality.
A detailed description of all of the children in Generation 3 can be found in Harriet Alonso’s
Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children. The primary persons in this
generation represented in the papers are William Lloyd Garrison and Ellen Wright Garrison.
William Lloyd Garrison left school at the age of eighteen to begin a business career. In
1855 he became associated with abolitionist James Buffum and lived with the Buffum family
for seven years, where he became involved in various reform movements. He held clerical
and banking positions, and in 1864 he went into the wool business. William Lloyd
established one of the earliest electric light stations in Brockton, Massachusetts, and also
dealt in bonds, retiring from business in 1902. He was, however, a reformer at heart, and up
until his death in 1909 was involved in abolition, women’s rights and suffrage, immigration
reform, Armenian and Russian relief, Irish home rule, anti-imperialism, pacifism,
temperance, and free trade. He was also an avid single taxer and president of the
Massachusetts Single Tax league. In 1864 he married Ellen Wright, daughter of Martha
Coffin and David Wright (see Wright Family).
Ellen Wright was born in 1842 and grew up in a Quaker abolitionist community. She was
educated at abolitionist Theodore Weld’s Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey,
Sharon Female Seminary in Darby, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Sedgwick’s Young Ladies School
in Lenox, Massachusetts. Influenced by her mother’s activism, a life-long friendship with
Susan B. Anthony, and the reform movements of her husband, Ellen was an active life
member in the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Generation 4: Children of William Lloyd Garrison and Ellen Wright Garrison
There are eighteen descendents in Generation 4 of the Garrison family. William Lloyd
and Ellen had five children: Agnes (1866–1950), Charles (1868–1951), Frank Wright (1871–
1961), William Lloyd (1874–1964), and Eleanor (1880–1974). Although there is material on
all of the children as well as other family members, William, Eleanor, and Agnes are the
most well represented in these papers.
William graduated from Harvard in 1897 and attended Harvard Law School. He became
an investment banker and in 1908 became a partner in the firm of Perry, Coffin & Burr.
When that partnership was dissolved, he became president of the new firm of Coffin &
Burr. According to family members, in hard times he was known to have reimbursed clients
from his own pocket if they lost money from his investments. He retired in 1933. A
reformer at heart his causes included anti-vaccination, anti-imperialism, free trade, pacifism,
and racial and sexual equality. In 1901 he married Edith Alice Stephenson (see also
Stephenson Family).
Edith was born in 1878, the third of seven children of Benjamin Turner and Luda Grant
Stephenson. She was trained as a concert pianist. In addition to raising six children, she was
active in the suffrage movement and was president of the Newton Equal Suffrage League.
Eleanor graduated from Smith College in 1904 and received a Master of Arts degree
from Radcliffe in 1906. When she graduated, the suffrage movement was at its peak, and she
worked avidly for the vote until 1919. In 1912 she became an organizer for Carrie Chapman
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Catt who headed the New York State campaign for women’s suffrage headquartered in New
York City. When the campaign ended she became interested in photography, which
occupied her for ten years. In the 1940s she moved to California to care for her sister Agnes,
remaining there with her brother Frank after Agnes’s death.
Generation 5: The children of William Lloyd Garrison and Edith Stephenson Garrison
There are twenty-nine descendents in Generation 5 of the Garrison family. The papers
primarily concern the children of William Lloyd and Edith Stephenson: William Lloyd
(1902–1988) Claire (“Tita”) (1903–1985), David Lloyd (1906–2001), John Bright (1909–
1988), Faith (1910–1981), and Edith Lloyd (“Yoy”) (1913–1993). The largest portion of the
papers concerns David.
David Lloyd Garrison graduated from Harvard in 1928 with a degree in fine arts. He
taught for several years and then joined J. H. Emerson Co., manufacturers of breathing
equipment. He was an avid birder, and just prior to World War II he was curator of birds at
New England Museum of Natural History and the editor of the Bulletin of New England Bird
Life. He published a number of papers on birds. He relinquished his conscientious objector
status and served as a non-combatant medical technician during World War II. He married
Alice (“Pat”) O’Reilly (his superior officer) in 1945. After the war he resumed his work for
the J. H. Emerson Company. He was also an amateur artist and was active in peace activism,
land conservation, and civic and church affairs.
The papers do not go beyond Generation 5 of the Garrison family, but there are sixty
Garrison descendents in Generation 6.
The Wright family
There are four generations of the Wright family represented in the Garrison family
papers. Material in these papers primarily represent Martha Coffin Wright, Lucretia Coffin
Mott, Marianna Pelham Mott, and Eliza Wright Osborne.
Martha Coffin Wright (see NAW) was the eighth child of Thomas Coffin and Anna
Folger Coffin. She was born in 1806, and in 1824, after three years of boarding school, she
married army captain Peter Pelham. They had a daughter Marianna. Pelham died in 1826. In
1829 Martha married lawyer David Wright with whom she had six children: Eliza (1830),
Matthew Tallman (1832), Ellen (1840), William Pelham (1842), Frank (1844), and Charles
(1848). In 1848 she joined with her sister Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane
Hunt, and Mary Ann McClintock in planning the first woman’s rights convention at Seneca
Falls, New York. She continued to be active throughout her life in the cause for women’s
rights and suffrage. She was elected to the presidency of the National Woman Suffrage
Association in 1874.
Lucretia Coffin Mott (see NAW) was the second child of Thomas Coffin and Anna
Folger Coffin. Born in 1793 on Nantucket, Massachusetts, in a Quaker household, she was
educated in a Friends boarding school near Poughkeepsie, New York, where she later taught.
In 1811 she married James Mott, a fellow teacher, who shared her causes and feminist
leanings. She was an avid abolitionist and pacifist, and along with her sister Martha Coffin
Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Hunt, and Mary Ann McClintock, planned the first
woman’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. She was president of the American
Equal Rights Association from 1866 until the organization split into the National American
Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. The
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Motts had five children: Anna, Maria, Thomas, Elizabeth, and Martha. Thomas Mott
married Marianna Pelham, the eldest daughter of Martha Coffin Wright.
Marianna Pelham was the daughter of Martha Coffin Wright by her first husband, Peter
Pelham. In 1845 she married her cousin, Thomas Mott, son of Lucretia Coffin Mott and
James Mott. They had three children: Isabel (1846), Emily (1848) and Maria (1853).
Eliza was the eldest of six children of Martha Coffin and David Wright. In 1851 she
married David Munson Osborne. They had four children: Florence (1856), Emily (1853),
Thomas Mott (1859), and Helen (1884).
Stephenson Family
There are five generations of the Stephenson family represented in the Garrison Family
Papers. The first generation includes Bryant Parrot (1784–1841) and Abigail Gilbert Balkam
(1784–1857) Stephenson. There is further documentation of the subsequent generations up
to the nieces and nephews of Edith Stephenson Garrison. Edith’s papers are included with
the Garrison Family, and the Stephensons are primarily represented by Benjamin Turner and
Lucinda (Luda) Grant Stephenson, the parents of Edith Alice Stephenson.
The Collection
The Garrison Family Papers consist of 117.75 linear feet of material and contain
thousands of primary sources that document three families’ involvement in most of the
major reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The collection
spans the years 1694 to 2005, but the bulk of the material dates from 1830 to 1950. Types of
material include correspondence, diaries, writings, speeches, legal documents, photographs,
journal and newspaper articles, memorabilia, and a wide variety of printed sources.
Included are the papers of two families who married into the Garrisons: the Wrights
(Ellen Wright married William Lloyd Garrison (1838–1909)) and the Stephensons (Edith
Stephenson married William Lloyd Garrison (1874–1964)). The Wright family includes the
Coffins (Ellen’s mother was Martha Coffin Wright) and the Mott family (Ellen’s aunt,
Martha’s elder sister, was Lucretia Coffin Mott) and their descendents. These papers trace
the activities of the Garrison, Wright, and Stephenson families and their friends and
associates in England, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York, among other places.
Although there is unique correspondence, biographical material, printed material, and
memorabilia related to William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879), the largest part of the collection
relates to his son William Lloyd Garrison (1838–1909) and son’s wife, Ellen Wright
Garrison, and their descendents. The influence of patriarch William Lloyd Garrison (1805)
can be seen as each generation took its place in the reform movements of the time. These
include abolition, anti-imperialism, anti-vaccination, conservation, free trade and tariff
reform, immigration reform, pacifism, race, single tax, and temperance. The papers are an
especially important source for the suffrage and women’s rights movements because they
include the correspondence of Martha Coffin Wright and Lucretia Coffin Mott with other
leaders of the movement; as well as correspondence, printed material and ephemera of
Eleanor Garrison, who was an organizer for the Empire State suffrage campaign under
Carrie Chapman Catt. Major correspondents addressing the subjects of abolition, women’s
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rights, and other reforms include Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, Henry B.
Blackwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Conant, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Henry George, Lucretia
Coffin Mott, Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, Parker
Pillsbury, Louis Prang, Caroline Severance, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Lucy Stone, Booker T. Washington, Theodore Dwight Weld, Frances E. Willard, and Marie
Zakrzewska, among many others.
Because the Garrisons were a close-knit family, in addition to a wide view of reform, the
papers offer a look at two centuries of intimate family life, inter-generational dynamics, and
social history. There is extensive correspondence between parents and children, siblings,
husbands and wives, cousins, aunts, and uncles. They also had a wide circle of friends and
associates and an extensive social network, especially in and around Boston.
For the purposes of this project, Garrison family members have been defined as original
Garrisons and their direct descendants and anyone who married into the family. In order to
differentiate between the various William Lloyd Garrisons, they have been identified by
initials and birth dates: i.e., WLG 1805, WLG 1838, WLG 1874, and WLG 1902. It is not
always clear which WLG some of the material relates to. The same holds true for the three
generations that contain a Benjamin Turner Stephenson in the Stephenson family.
Susan Boone
Reference Archivist
Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College
Northampton, Massachusetts
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The UPA microfilm collection Garrison Family Papers, Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1833–1908, contains
scrapbooks belonging to Agnes Garrison (1866–1950), George Thompson Garrison (1836–1904),
and William Lloyd Garrison (1838–1909), hereafter referred to as WLG (1838). Agnes is the daughter
of WLG (1838). George and William are sons of the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
(1805–1879). The elder William Lloyd’s legacy is evident in the many articles and references to
antislavery and suffrage found in these scrapbooks, which contain clippings, memorabilia,
correspondence, and miscellaneous printed material on a variety of subjects.
Reel 1 contains Agnes Garrison’s scrapbooks, which reflect her interest in the arts, especially
music and theater, and her trip to Europe. Of particular interest is a map of Paris circa 1880 (Reel 1,
Frame 0085) and a listing of course offerings at the University of Paris (Sorbonne).
George Garrison’s scrapbooks, also on Reel 1, cover a number of topics pertaining to his
father. Beginning with the obituary (Reel 1, Frame 0358), George also includes his father’s biography
as retold by the children (Reel 1, Frame 0439) and the dedication of a statue in his father’s likeness in
Newburyport, Massachusetts (Reel 1, Frame 0442). George, who served as an officer of the FiftyFifth Infantry (Reel 1, Frame 0780), attaches a souvenir book of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth
Regiment and Fifty-Fifth Infantry, with a roster of enlisted men (Reel 1, Frame 0788) and their
service records.
Reels 2 through 7 include scrapbooks of WLG (1838), which cover not only his abhorrence
to slavery, and racial and sexual discrimination, but also taxation and tariffs. Harvard College is not
exempted from WLG (1838)’s wrath as he protests the initiation ritual of a fraternity as “savage” in
an open letter to the president and faculty (Reel 4, Frame 0004). Intercollegiate sports, football in
particular, are also the subject of violence, and yet there are multiple clippings of Harvard’s intense
rivalry with Yale University.
Reel 2 news clippings include obituaries, proceedings in the Massachusetts state legislature
(Frame 0008), abolishment of slavery in the British West Indies (Frame 0010), antislavery addresses
to the American Missionary Association (Frame 0012) and the Anti-Slavery Society in New York
(Frame 0023), and an honorary dinner with Paul Morphy, a chess champion, sponsored by the
Boston Chess Club (Frame 0020). Also included are biographies of writers, poems, excerpts from
books, travel correspondence, a speech in support of public education, and a narrative on slave
insurrection in South Carolina. News from the pre–Civil War period includes Abraham Lincoln’s
inauguration and the capture of Harper’s Ferry by John Brown.
Reel 3 includes documents on WLG (1838) and his business ventures, the war in the
Philippines, antiwar activities, anti-imperialism, taxation, and tariff issues. Also included are photos
of his student days.
Reel 4 continues with antiwar rhetoric and the war in the Philippines and support for selfgovernment. Also included are WLG (1838) and his denunciation of Delta Kappa Epsilon and
general opinions on fraternities, and education issues, including intercollegiate athletics.
Of interest in Reel 5 is the story of the lynching of a Black postmaster in South Carolina and
subsequent “anti-lynching lecture tour” by his surviving family. Lillian Jewett, a woman from the
north, secretly traveled by train to convince the postmaster’s widow and children to return with her
to Boston (Reel 5, Frame 0138). Other topics covered on this reel include the formation of a
national Black business league (Frame 0222), a visit by Irish nationalists to further the cause of the
United Irish League (Frame 0255), Chinese immigration issues (Frame 0259), WLG (1838)’s address
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on war (Frame 0312), and the single tax issue (Frame 0430). There is even a small item about a
robbery of WLG (1838) (Frame 0216).
Reel 6 subjects include addresses on democracy (Frame 0006) and labor (Frame 0015) by
WLG (1838), the centennial celebration of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Frame 0024), gubernatorial
election in Ohio (Frame 0028), Armenian massacre (Frame 0134) and honoring Booker T.
Washington of the Tuskegee Institute (Frame 0134).
Reel 7 contains his “non-resistance” speech followed by letters from admirers (Frame 0010);
an obituary of Wendell Phillips Garrison, brother of WLG (1838); a meeting to support the
international peace movement (Frame 0043); a protest of Jim Crow laws (Frame 0058); an open letter
by WLG (1838) to the governor of New York on tariff (Frame 0113); “Democracy and Imperialism”;
an address by Thomas M. Osborne at the Anti-Imperialist League of Boston (Frame 0120); and a
memoriam to WLG (1805) (Frame 0129).
Included on Reel 7 is an addendum to the UPA collection Garrison Family Papers, Series 2:
Diaries, 1854–1995. These scrapbooks owned by WLG (1838) consist of his diary and news
clippings. Some notable subjects include the arrest, interviews (while jailed), and execution of John
Brown. Of particular interest is his last will and testament (Frame 0141) and an extract of John
Brown’s sayings such as, “It is nothing to die in a good cause, but an eternal disgrace to sit still in the
presence of the barbarities of American slavery” (Frame 0148). A rather touching article covers the
visit of Brown’s wife prior to his execution (Frame 0151).
The year 1859 appears to have left a deep impression on the twenty-two-year-old WLG
(1838). In his diary entry of December 31, he writes: “What an eventful year the past has been—
memorable not only for the great persons who have died, but for historical events that will [be
remembered for] centuries to come.” The entry includes the names of those who passed away and
noteworthy news items of the year (Frame 0193).
Another notable entry in the diary of WLG (1938) is that of May 28, 1863. The Garrison
family gathered to watch the departure of the all-Black Massachusetts 54th Regiment. In spite of the
warm day in which two of the soldiers were overcome by the heat, the diary notes that “The review
was excellent.” The entry adds: “It was a memorable day for Boston & suggested the broad contrast
between this week & anniversary week of nine years ago when Anthony Burns was marched down
State St. to slavery” (Frame 0419). The following day’s entry (May 29) includes WLG (1838)
attending a speech the previous evening by Frederick Douglass honoring the 54th Regiment.
References to the Civil War abound in the diary for 1863. The entry for June 17, for
example, includes “the rebels have crossed the Rappahannock & are invading Pennsylvania” (Frame
422). The entry from June 17 reads “The air is full of rumors of Lee’s invading army” (Frame 0423),
and for July 7, the entry reads, “Hurrah! Vicksburg unconditionally surrendered on July 4th” (Frame
0427).
Researchers will, without a doubt, find the lives of this abolitionist family absorbing. This
collection includes not only passionate speeches and news clippings against slavery, women’s
suffrage, and the expansionist policy of the country, but also obscure, yet fascinating, news of the
day. There are articles on disasters (natural or otherwise) such as a building collapse, major fires,
train wrecks, and labor strikes at a shoe factory. Obituary columns include the historically famous as
well as individuals whose names were forgotten by history but nonetheless led lives worthy of
mention in the headlines before and after the Civil War. As with every generation, tax and tariff
issues are of concern to all citizens, including the Garrison family, and its merits and demerits are
debated in town hall meetings and news columns. What might have been a “business as usual”
fraternity initiation has, for WLG (1838), become a platform to condemn the “dissipation and
immorality surrounding the undergraduate” (Reel 4, Frame 0004).
The Garrison Family Papers, Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1833–1908, will be of interest to those who are
looking at how issues as major as civil rights or as personal as whether or not to attend college
affected the individual lives and integrity of a family who lived in the mid-1800s to the early 1900s.
Related UPA collections include the other series in the Garrison Family Papers, namely,
Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1830–2003; Series 2: Diaries, 1854–1995; Series 3: Correspondence, Part A:
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Family Letters—Generations One, Two, and Three, 1798–1930; Series 3: Correspondence, Part B: Family
Letters—Generation Four, 1874–1974; Series 3: Correspondence, Part C: Family Letters—Generations Five and
Six, 1906–1996; and Series 3: Correspondence, Part D: Letters to the Garrisons and Other Correspondence,
1744–1985; Series 4: Writings and Speeches, 1829–1999; Series 5: Financial Materials, 1812–1993; Series 6:
Subject Files, 1831–1978; Series 7: Memorabilia, 1894–1987; and Series 8: Wright and Stephenson Families—
Biographical Material, Correspondence, and Writings, 1806–1973.
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SOURCE NOTE
Garrison Family Papers, Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1833–1908, has been microfilmed from the Garrison
Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.
EDITORIAL NOTE
The Scrapbooks microfilmed in Series 9 are housed in boxes 278–290 of the Garrison Family
Papers collection. The two diaries filmed on Reel 7, as an addendum to Series 2: Diaries, 1854–1995,
are housed in Box 34 of the Garrison Family Papers collection. These two diaries were not filmed
originally with the other materials in Series 2 because of concerns about the condition of the diaries.
At the completion of filming the other parts of the collection, LexisNexis staff and Smith archivists
reassessed the condition of these two diaries and determined that filming them would allow for the
long-term preservation of the diaries. LexisNexis is pleased that these two very valuable diaries have
been included in the microfilm edition of the Garrison Family Papers.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LexisNexis staff would like to thank Sherrill Redmon, director of the Sophia Smith Collection,
and Susan Boone, reference archivist, for their help in completing this microfilm project. Special
thanks also to Cathy Ferguson and Edgar O’Bannon who put in many long hours in order to make
sure that this collection was completed on time.
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REEL INDEX
The following index is a listing of the folders that compose Garrison Family Papers, Series 9. The
four-digit number on the far left is the frame number at which a particular file folder begins. This is
followed by the file title. Substantive issues are highlighted under the appropriate category. Within
each category, substantive issues are listed in the order in which they appear on the film, and each
one is listed only once per folder.
Reel 1
0001
0058
0222
0413
Garrison Family Papers, Series 9: Scrapbooks (Boxes 278–290)
Garrison, Agnes, circa 1870–1885
Descriptive Title: Magazine clippings, music and theater programs.
Subject Terms: Periodicals; Theater; Music
Dates: 1883–1885
Garrison, Agnes, “The Travels of A. G.,” 1900–1901
Descriptive Title: Travel-related memorabilia, including correspondence, music and theater
programs, receipts, and time tables
Subject Terms: Travel; Letter writing; Music; Theater; Expense accounts; Steamboats,
Transportation
Geographic Place Names: Stratford-on-Avon, England
Content Notes.: Contains map of Paris circa 1889 (Frame 0085); Listing of public courses
offered at Sorbonne, first semester 1900–1901 (Frame 0214)
Dates: 1889–1903
Scrap Books compiled by George T. Garrison, contributed by Fanny Garrison, 1840s–
1901
Descriptive title: News clippings compiled by George T. Garrison including obituaries, poetry
set to music, Kansas elections with slavery as a major issue, state and national elections,
weather phenomena, concert programs and playbills, concise history of Boston, first aid
and household tips
Subject terms: Periodicals; Elections; Abolitionist movement; Presidential elections; Poetry;
Music; Death and dying; Women’s suffrage; Weather; History; Medicine
Geographic place names: Boston, Massachusetts; Kansas
Persons as subjects: Abraham Lincoln; James Garfield
Content notes: Obituary of George Thompson Garrison, January 27, 1904 (Frame 0223);
Alphabetical index of scrap book (Frame 0225); President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
Address (Frame 0279); Obituary of William Lloyd Garrison (1805) (Frame 0358);
Concise facts regarding Historic Boston (Frame 0370)
Dates: 1854–1904
Scrap Book of George T. Garrison, February 11, 1901
Descriptive Title: Life of William Lloyd Garrison (1805) as described in news clippings through
his children, Newburyport honoring of Garrison (1805) with a statue, anti-slavery leaflets,
cruise articles, music lyrics and poems, dedication of a new town hall in Hopedale,
obituaries of other prominent individuals and of honoring African American veterans of
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Frame No.
0666
0820
the Fifty-Fourth and Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Infantry and Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry
Regiment
Subject Terms: Riots and disorders; Abolitionist movement; Monuments and memorials;
Exploration; Portraits; Music; Poetry; Black Americans; Veterans; Civil War
Geographic Place Names: Boston, Massachusetts; Newburyport, Massachusetts; Hopedale,
Massachusetts
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1805); Wendell Phillips; Frederick Douglass;
Robert G. Shaw; Philip Sheridan
Organization Names: American Anti-Slavery Society
Content Notes: Alphabetical index of scrap book (Frame 0414); William Lloyd Garrison, 18051879, The Story of His Life, Told by His Children (Frame 0439); unveiling of the
Garrison (1805) statue (Frame 0442); Declaration of Sentiments of the American AntiSlavery Society (Frame 0459); Obituary of Lloyd McKim Garrison (Frame 0573);
Obituary of Frederick Douglass (Frame 0563)
Dates: 1870–1901
Scrap Book of George T. Garrison, Boston, August 31, 1868
Descriptive Title: Souvenir books of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment and Fifty-Fifth
Infantry including roster and service records and death notices of some of the veterans of
the All-Black Regiments.
Subject Terms: Civil War; Infantry; Black Americans; Veterans; Speeches; Parades; Naval
expeditions and surveys; Military campaigns and battles
Geographic Place Names: Boston, Massachusetts; Honey Hill (Broad River), South Carolina
Persons as Subjects: James M. Trotter; Charles L. Mitchell
Organization Names: Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth (Black) Regiment
Content Notes: Obituary of J. M. Trotter (Frame 0682) and Capt. Charles L. Mitchell (Frame
0695); Description of the Battle at Honey Hill (Frame 0718); Sketches of Deceased
Officers (Frame 0767); Statistics of Enlisted Men (Frame 0785); Roster of Enlisted Men
including occupations (Frame 0788)
Dates: 1861–1898
Scrap Book of George T. Garrison, 107 Chestnut St. West Newton, Mass, May 27,
1901
Descriptive Title: News clippings on the life of Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln as a
wartime president and course lectures by Civil War participants, the story of the Monitor
and the Merrimac, obituaries of a journalist.
Subject Terms: Surrender; Civil War; Curricula; Cavalry; Military campaigns and battles
Persons as Subjects: Ulysses S. Grant; Abraham Lincoln; John Mosby; T. L. Livermore; Henry
Stone; John Swinton
Content Notes: Original Unconditional Surrender document (Frame 0821); Maps of troop
positions at Franklin and Nashville, Tennessee (Frame 0845–0846);
Dates: 1885–1901
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0001
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book: October 1856–7 September 1859
Descriptive Title: News clippings including obituaries, proceedings of the Massachusetts Senate
and House, anniversary celebration of abolition of slavery in British West Indies, an
address to the American Missionary Association against the sin of slavery, dinner
honoring a chess champion with speeches by prominent men of the day, an address to
the Anti-Slavery Society in New York, Fraternity lectures, a speech supporting law
preventing recapture of fugitive slaves, remembering a prominent historian
Subject Terms: State legislatures; Emancipation; Abolitionist movement; Democracy; Speeches
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0052
0206
Geographic Place Names: Boston, Massachusetts; Abington, Massachusetts; British West Indies
Persons as Subjects: George Cheever; Paul Morphy; Theodore Parker; Wendell Phillips; William
Prescott
Organization Names: American Missionary Association; American Anti-Slavery Society
Content Notes: Table of Contents (Frame 0003); Petition to remove a judge (Frame 0010);
Fraternity lectures (Frame 0027); Course lecture by Henry Ward Beecher (Frame 0033)
Dates: 1854–1859
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), 1860 Vol. 2
Descriptive Title: News clippings including biographies of writers, poems, excerpts from recent
books, fraternity lectures, travel correspondence, speech in support of public education
in House chamber, lecture on politics, narrative of slave insurrection in South Carolina
(1822). Miscellaneous calculations.
Subject Terms: Literature; Writers and writing; Poetry; Abolitionist movement; Books and
bookselling, Travel; Letter writing; Public schools; Political science; Slaves and slavery
Geographic Place Names: London, England; Boston, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina
Persons as Subjects: Thomas Macaulay; Washington Irving; Charles Sumner; Wendell Phillips;
Denmark Vesey
Content Notes: Address by Susan B. Anthony (Frame 0078); Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s last
poem (Frame 0086); French news clipping (Frame 0203)
Dates: 1859–1862
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book, December 1860–September 1862
Descriptive Title: News clippings of the debates on secession, lectures on free speech, southern
states threatening disunion, churches addressing issue of national crisis, northern states
preparing to defend the capital, movements of the president-elect, peace conference in
Washington DC; President Abraham Lincoln inauguration, preparation for war, attack on
Fort Sumpter, Massachusetts troops, capture of Harper’s Ferry, miscellaneous figures and
calculations, civil war in America
Subject Terms: Speeches and addresses; Presidential proclamations; Congress; Secession;
Congressional committees; Freedom of speech; Insurgency; Confederate States of
America; Inaugural addresses; Slaves and slavery; Infantry; Civil War
Geographic Place Names: Washington, D.C.; Boston, Massachusetts; Fort Sumter, South
Carolina; Baltimore, Maryland; Virginia; Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia
Persons as Subjects: John A. Andrew; James Buchannan; Abraham Lincoln; Jefferson Davis;
Wendell Phillips
Content Notes: Massachusetts governor’s proclamation for public fasting, humiliation and
prayer (Frames 0207, 0317); Consequences of war–Massachusetts shoemakers driven out
of Virginia (Frame 0342); Arming the Blacks (Frame 0412); Map and plan of battle at
Port Royal, South Carolina (Frame 456)
Dates: 1856, 1859–1862
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0001
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book [“Business Ventures,” 1883–97]
Descriptive Title: News clippings of the Emigrant Aid Journal, William Lloyd Garrison (1838)
as wool merchant and other trades, public document on train collision, handbook of
abolitionists, train travel news out west, honoring a life-long feminist, articles and
speeches by William Lloyd Garrison (1838), menu and program from Shakesperean
banquet, yearly meeting of Progressive Friends in Pennsylvania; tax and tariff issues;
written final will and testament, Geary Registration Bill, unveiling of William Lloyd
Garrison (1805) statue, Abolitionist movement and education of free men, death of a
Black leader, expansionism, war in the Philippines, anti-war activities
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Subject Terms: Newspapers; Wool and wool trade; Railroad accidents and safety; Women’s
suffrage; Finance; Tariff; Monuments and memorials; Poetry; Immigration; Education;
Free Blacks, 1700–1865; Colonialism and colonial affairs
Geographic Place Names: Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland, Ohio; Chester County,
Pennsylvania; Newburyport, Massachusetts; The Philippines
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1838); Harriet Martineau; John S. Wise; John
Greenleaf Whittier; Frederick Douglass
Organization Names: Anti-slavery society; Progressive Friends; Women’s Franchise League;
Massachusetts Single Tax League
Content Notes: Gift to John D. Philbrick from William Lloyd Garrison (1838) age 14 students
at Dudley School (Frame 0004); William Lloyd Garrison (1838) wool commission
merchant (Frame 0037); Dudley School closing exercises (Frame 0097); Handwritten
letter of William Lloyd Garrison (1805). from 1829 (Frame 0103); Photo of Wendell
Phillips (Frame 0111); Vacation camp photos (Frame 0249); Photo of lunch meeting at
the office of Women’s Journal (Frame 0306); Cartoon of anti-imperialists at Boston
(Frame 0479)
Dates: 1859, 1880–1899
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0001
0177
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book 1891–1907, Fraternities to Athletics
Descriptive Title: News clippings of William Lloyd Garrison (1838) denouncing actions by
Harvard’s popular sophomore society, opinions on fraternities, intercollegiate athletics
particularly football, closer relations between trustees and faculty, and other education
issues.
Subject Terms: Colleges and universities; Private clubs and societies; Sports and athletics;
Football; Violence; School administration; Education
Geographic Place Names: Boston, Massachusetts; Ithaca, New York
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1838); Charles W. Eliot; Harold Bolce
Organization Names: Delta Kappa Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa; Students Lecture Association
Content Notes: Cartoon of Dickey (D. K. E.) Boys (Frame 0007); D. K. E. initiation rites
(Frame 0011); The case of the Six Savage Scars (Frame 0017); The Graduate (Frame
0019); Harvard vs. Yale (Frame 0045); “Our Gentlemanly Failures” (Frame 0064);
Princeton and Yale captains and Harvard quarterback (Frame 0073); The Atlantic
Monthly on Intercollegiate Athletics (Frame 0085); Harvard football cartoon (Frame
0094); Closer relation between trustees and faculty (Science journal) (Frame 0100); Is
Football Rough? (Frame 0114); Education articles by Harold Bolce (Frame 0152);
University of Michigan lecture series (Frame 0169)
Dates: 1891–1907
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book 1899–1901, Anti-imperialism
Descriptive Title: News clippings of anti-war rhetoric, the war in the Philippines, the Battle of
Spion Kop, war and religion, right to self-government, houses of prostitution licensed
and inspected by US Army officers, Congressional Record–speech on Philippines policy,
story of a patriot of Transvaal.
Subject Terms: Colonialism and colonial affairs; Spanish-American War; War casualties;
Sovereignty; Republican Party; Boxer Rebellion; Ethics
Geographic Place Names: The Philippines; South Africa; Massachusetts; China
Persons as Subjects: Emilio Aguinaldo; William McKinley; George F. Hoar; Abraham Lincoln;
Sixto Lopez; Ritter Van Breda
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Content Notes: Leo Tolstoi on China (Frame 206); Licensed house of prostitution (Frame
0224)
Dates: 1899–1901
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0001
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book [Blacks, suffrage]
Descriptive Title: Personal letters and news clippings on the subject of suffrage, immigration,
single tax, experience with a spirit medium, pamphlets on women’s suffrage, and medical
bills, opinions on war and imperialism, obituary of long time abolitionist, Christian
obligations and single tax; sonnets by William Lloyd Garrison (1838)
Subject Terms: Voting rights; Immigration; Women’s suffrage; Medicine; Cost of war;
Colonialism and colonial affairs; Abolitionist movement; Ethics; Property tax; Poetry;
Lynching; Democracy; Civil rights; Trials; Tariffs; Periodicals
Geographic Place Names: Massachusetts; South Carolina
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1838); Parker Pillsbury; Henry George;
Postmaster Frazier Baker and Family; Lillian C. Jewett; Samuel May; Susan B. Anthony;
William McKinley; William Jennings Bryan; George F. Hoar; Thomas G. Sherman
Organization Names: United Irish League; National Negro Business League; The American
Peace Society; New England Free Trade League
Content Notes: Typed letter to Rev. Samuel Way (Frame 0002); Dedication of Union Hall,
Osterville, Massachusetts (Frame 0048); Photo of Sen. George F. Hoar (Frame 0060);
Family of Postmaster Baker (Frame 0135); Anti-lynching tour of Baker Family (Frames
138, 142); Obituary of Samuel May (Frame 0157); German pamphlet (Frame 0193);
Honoring Susan B. Anthony (Frame 0197); George Hoar support of William McKinley
(Frame 0219); Passenger list of Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (Frame 0243); Irish
nationalists visiting US (Frame 0255); Chinese immigration issues (Frame 0259); William
Lloyd Garrison (1838)’s pamphlet on war (Frame 0312); Engagement of Henry Villard to
Mariquita Serrano (Frame 0357); Brief pamphlet on Baker lynching trial (Frame 0364);
Program of First Session of National Negro Business League (Frame 0408); Gelert’s
Grave, a ballad (Frame 0416); National Single Taxer (Frame 0430)
Dates: 1874–1902
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0001
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book [ca. 1903]
Descriptive Title: News clippings compiled by William Lloyd Garrison (1838) including
democracy, train accidents, labor, recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson, gubernatorial
election in Ohio, Abraham Lincoln’s legacy, recantation of Gov. Chamberlain, the
Armenian massacre, meeting of the Anti-Imperialist League, hearings on tariff, obituaries,
celebration of Tuskegee Institute, women’s suffrage in the U. K.
Subject Terms: Democracy; Labor; Elections; Labor unions; Common markets and free trade
areas; Civil rights; Genocide; Poverty; Tariffs; Women’s suffrage
Geographic Place Names: Boston, Massachusetts; Chester County, Pennsylvania; Ohio; The
Philippines; Armenia; Alabama; Paris, France; London, England
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1838); Ralph Waldo Emerson; Tom L. Johnson;
Clemencia Lopez; Sen. Marcus Hanna; John Turner; Abraham Lincoln; Richard Cobden;
D. H. (Daniel Henry) Chamberlain; Booker T. Washington; Rev. John White Chadwick;
Henry George; George Sewall Boutwell; Henry B. Blackwell; Mary A. Livermore; Susan
B. Anthony
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Organization Names: Progressive Friends; American Free Trade League; Anti-imperialist
League
Content Notes: One Hundred National Celebrities (Frame 0002); WLG (1838)’s address on
democracy (Frame 0006); “The Real Enemy of Labor” (Frame 0015); Copy of letter
written by Leo Tolstoy (Frame 0015); Ralph W. Emerson Centennial (Frame 0024);
Gubernatorial campaign in Ohio (Frame 0028); Democratic Party platform for Ohio
(Frame 0031); Raid on Chinatown (Frame 0043); Farewell dinner for Clemencia Lopez
(Frame 0044); William Lloyd Garrison (1838) spotlighted in German language paper
(Frame 0068); WLG(1838) censures Senate Chaplain (Frame 0074); WLG (1838) on
Abraham Lincoln’s legacy (Frame 0076); D.H. Chamberlain on Black Issues (Frame
0104); Dedication of St. Monica’s Home (Frame 0127); Armenia (Frame 0134); Honoring
Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute (Frame 0134); Report of the AntiImperialist League (Frame 0161); John White Chadwick (Frame 0180); Celebrating
Henry George’s “Progress and Poverty” (Frame 0185); Congressional Hearings on
Tariffs (Frame 0195); Death of George Boutwell (Frame 0203); Death of Susan B.
Anthony (Frame 0277); Tuskegee Institute 25th celebration(Frame 0286); Women’s
movement in London (Frame 0302)
Dates: 1903–1906
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0001
0139
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838), Scrap Book (1903–1906)
Descriptive Title: Pamphlets, news clippings, correspondence compiled by William Lloyd
Garrison (1838), covering letters, obituaries, protest meetings, celebrations.
Subject Terms: Common markets and free trade areas; Tariffs; Taxation; Smoking; Peace
movements; Jim Crow Laws
Geographic Place Names: Longwood, Pennsylvania; Boston, Massachusetts
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1838); Wendell Phillips Garrison; Elijah P.
Lovejoy; John G. Whittier; Booker T. Washington; Alice Stone Blackwell
Organization Names: American Free Trade League; Anti-imperialist League
Content Notes: Garrison (1838)’s “non-resistance” speech (Frame 0010); Obituary of Wendell
P. Garrison (Frame 0024); Peace Meeting (Frame 0043); Anti-Jim Crow Protest (Frame
0058); 100th anniversary of John G. Whittier (Frame 0071); “Reflections of a
Septuagenarian”(Frame 0098); Open letter to Charles E Hughes, Governor of New York
(Frame 0113); Democracy and Imperialism (Frame 0120); Memoriam to Wm. Lloyd
Garrison (1805), The Great Anti-slavery Agitator (Frame 0129–0130)
Dates: 1907–1909
Addendum to Garrison Family Papers, Series 2: Diaries, 1854–1995 (Box 34)
Private Diary–Scrap Book 1859–1864
Descriptive Title: News clippings and diary of William Lloyd Garrison (1838) including arrest,
interviews and execution of John Brown, obituaries, tributes to Washington Irving,
calamities in New York and Massachusetts, opera programs and news, an anti-slavery
convention, shoemakers labor dispute, an attempted arrest of F.B.Sanborn , review of the
troops of the 54th Massachusetts regiment
Subject Terms: Abolitionist movement; Civil rights; Arts and the humanities; Fires and fire
prevention; Disasters; Strikes and lockouts; Habeas corpus; Infantry; Black Americans;
Bank and banking; Forgery
Geographic Place Names: Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia; Charlestown, Virginia; Lawrence,
Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; Concord, Massachusetts
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0496
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1838); John Brown; Washington Irving; F. B.
Sanborn
Content Notes: The Last Will and Testament of John Brown (Frame 0141); Execution of John
Brown’s co-conspirators (Frame 0172); Washington Irving tribute (Frame 0172); Great
Fire in New York (Frame 0191); Collapse of Pemberton Mills (Frame 0199);
Massachusetts Anti-slavery Convention (Frame 0215); Large Fire in Merchants’ Row
(Frame 0238); Shoemakers Strike (Frame 0241); Attempt to arrest F.B. Sanborn (Frame
0300); Lincoln nominated (Frame 0330); Departure of the 54th and 55th Regiments
(Frames 0419, 0431); Closing of Mattapan Bank (Frame 0438); Check forgery (Frames
0488–0494)
Dates: 1859–1864
WLG (1838) July–Nov. 1859
Descriptive Title: Diary of William Lloyd Garrison (1838) and news clippings, announcing the
death of a respected educator, critical letter on intoxication; trip through the state of New
York, obituaries, performance notices, the trial of John Brown, the passing of
Washington Irving
Subject Terms: Banks and banking; Death and dying; Education; School boards; Alcohol abuse
and treatment; Travel; Monuments and memorials; Arts and the humanities; Insurgency;
Trials
Geographic Place Names: Boston, Massachusetts; Catskills, New York; Niagara Falls; Harper’s
Ferry, West Virginia; Charlestown, Virginia
Persons as Subjects: William Lloyd Garrison (1838); Horace Mann; Wendell Phillips; Daniel
Webster; John Franklin; John Brown; Washington Irving
Content Notes: Obituary of Horace Mann (Frame 0505); Wendell Phillips letter to chief justice
of Massachusetts and the president of Harvard University (Frame 0514); Petition to
remove the statue of Daniel Webster (Frame 0546); Search expedition to the Arctic
(Frame 0581); Attack on Harper’s Ferry (Frame 0590); John Brown’s Trial at the Circuit
Court of Jefferson County, Virginia (Frame 0601); Henry David Thoreau replaces
Frederick Douglass as lecturer (Frame 0607); Frederick Douglass’s letter from Canada
(Frame 0608); The cause of John Brown’s “insanity” (Frame 0626); Death notice of
Washington Irving (Frame 0634)
Dates: 1859
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SUBJECT INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major topics in this microform publication. The first number after
each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers to the frame number at
which the file containing information on the subject begins. Hence, 2: 0001 directs researchers to Frame 0001
of Reel 2. By referring to the Reel Index, which constitutes the initial segment of this guide, the researcher
will find topics listed in the order in which they appear on the film.
Abington, Massachusetts
2: 0001
Abolitionist movement
1: 0222, 0413; 2: 0001, 0052; 5: 0001; 7: 0139
Accidents
see Railroad accidents and safety
Aguinaldo, Emilio
4: 0177
Alabama
6: 0001
Alcohol abuse and treatment
7: 0496
American Anti-Slavery Society
2: 0001
American Free Trade League
6: 0001; 7: 0001
American Missionary Association
2: 0001
American Peace Society
5: 0001
Andrew, John A.
2: 0206
Anthony, Susan B.
5: 0001; 6: 0001
Anti-imperialist League
6: 0001; 7: 0001
Anti-slavery society
3: 0001
Armenia
6: 0001
Arts and the humanities
7: 0139, 0496
see also Music
see also Theater
see also Writings
Baker, Frazier
5: 0001
Baltimore, Maryland
2: 0206
Banks and banking
7: 0139, 0496
Black Americans
1: 0413, 0666; 7: 0139
Blackwell, Alice Stone
7: 0001
Blackwell, Henry B.
6: 0001
Bolce, Harold
4: 0001
Books and bookselling
2: 0052
see also Literature
Boston, Massachusetts
1: 0222, 0413, 0666; 2: 0001, 0052, 0206;
3: 0001; 4: 0001; 6: 0001; 7: 0001, 0139,
0496
Boutwell, George Sewall
6: 0001
Boxer Rebellion
4: 0177
Breda, Ritter Van
4: 0177
British West Indies
2: 0001
Brown, John
7: 0139, 0496
Bryan, William Jennings
5: 0001
Buchannan, James
2: 0206
Catskills, New York
7: 0496
Cavalry
1: 0820
9
Chadwick, John White
6: 0001
Chamberlain, D. H. (Daniel Henry)
6: 0001
Charleston, South Carolina
2: 0052
Charlestown, Virginia
7: 0139, 0496
Cheever, George
2: 0001
Chester County, Pennsylvania
3: 0001; 6: 0001
China
4: 0177
Civil rights
5: 0001; 6: 0001; 7: 0139
see also Abolitionist movement
see also Emancipation
see also Lynching
see also Slaves and slavery
Civil War
1: 0413, 0666, 0820; 2: 0206
see also Secession
Cleveland, Ohio
3: 0001
Cobden, Richard
6: 0001
Colleges and universities
4: 0001
Colonialism and colonial affairs
3: 0001; 4: 0177; 5: 0001
Common markets and free trade areas
6: 0001; 7: 0001
Concord, Massachusetts
7: 0139
Confederate States of America
2: 0206
Congress
2: 0206
Congressional committees
2: 0206
Cost of war
5: 0001
Curricula
1: 0820
Davis, Jefferson
2: 0206
Death and dying
1: 0222; 7: 0496
see also War casualties
Delta Kappa Epsilon
4: 0001
Democracy
2: 0001; 5: 0001; 6: 0001
Disasters
7: 0139
see also Fires and fire prevention
District of Columbia
2: 0206
Douglass, Frederick
1: 0413; 3: 0001
Education
3: 0001; 4: 0001; 7: 0496
see also Curricula
Elections
1: 0222; 6: 0001
see also Presidential elections
Eliot, Charles W.
4: 0001
Emancipation
2: 0001
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
6: 0001
England
London 2: 0052; 6: 0001
Stratford-on-Avon 1: 0058
Ethics
4: 0177; 5: 0001
Expense accounts
1: 0058
Exploration
1: 0413
see also Naval expeditions and surveys
Finance
3: 0001
Fires and fire prevention
7: 0139
Football
4: 0001
Forgery
7: 0139
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
2: 0206
France
Paris 6: 0001
Franklin, John
7: 0496
Free Blacks, 1700–1865
3: 0001
Freedom of speech
2: 0206
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Free trade
see Common markets and free trade areas
Garfield, James
1: 0222
Garrison, Wendell Phillips
7: 0001
Garrison, William Lloyd (1805)
1: 0413; 4: 0001
Garrison, William Lloyd (1838)
3: 0001; 5: 0001; 6: 0001; 7: 0001, 0139, 0496
Genocide
6: 0001
George, Henry
5: 0001; 6: 0001
Grant, Ulysses S.
1: 0820
Habeas corpus
7: 0139
Hanna, Marcus
6: 0001
Harper's Ferry, West Virginia
2: 0206; 7: 0139, 0496
History
1: 0222
see also Civil rights
see also Exploration
see also Military campaigns and battles
see also Monuments and memorials
Hoar, George F.
4: 0177; 5: 0001
Honey Hill (Broad River), South Carolina
1: 0666
Hopedale, Massachusetts
1: 0413
Humanities
see Arts and humanities
Immigration
3: 0001; 5: 0001
Inaugural addresses
2: 0206
Infantry
1: 0666; 2: 0206; 7: 0139
Insurgency
2: 0206; 7: 0496
Irving, Washington
2: 0052; 7: 0139; 7: 0496
Ithaca, New York
4: 0001
Jewett, Lillian C.
5: 0001
Jim Crow Laws
7: 0001
Johnson, Tom L.
6: 0001
Kansas
1: 0222
Labor
6: 0001
Labor unions
6: 0001
see also Strikes and lockouts
Lawrence, Massachusetts
7: 0139
Legislatures
see State legislatures
Letter writing
1: 0058; 2: 0052
Lincoln, Abraham
1: 0222, 0820; 2: 0206; 4: 0177; 6: 0001
Literature
2: 0052
Livermore, Mary A.
6: 0001
Livermore, T. L.
1: 0820
Lockouts
see Strikes and lockouts
London, England
2: 0052; 6: 0001
Longwood, Pennsylvania
7: 0001
Lopez, Clemencia
6: 0001
Lopez, Sixto
4: 0177
Lovejoy, Elijah P.
7: 0001
Lynching
5: 0001
Macaulay, Thomas
2: 0052
Mann, Horace
7: 0496
Martineau, Harriet
3: 0001
Maryland
Baltimore 2: 0206
Massachusetts
Abington 2: 0001
Boston 1: 0222, 0413, 0666; 2: 0001, 0052,
0206; 3: 0001; 4: 0001; 6: 0001; 7: 0001,
0139, 0496
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Massachusetts cont.
Concord 7: 0139
general 4: 0177; 5: 0001
Hopedale 1: 0413
Newberryport 1: 0413; 3: 0001
Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth (Black) Regiment
1: 0666
Massachustts
Lawrence 7: 0139
Massachusetts Single Tax League
3: 0001
May, Samuel
5: 0001
McKinley, William
4: 0177; 5: 0001
Medicine
1: 0222; 5: 0001
Membership organizations
American Anti-Slavery Society 2: 0001
American Free Trade League 6: 0001; 7: 0001
American Missionary Association 2: 0001
American Peace Society 5: 0001
Anti-Imperialist League 6: 0001
Anti-imperialist League 7: 0001
Anti-slavery society 3: 0001
Massachusetts Single Tax League 3: 0001
National Negro Business League 5: 0001
New England Free Trade League 5: 0001
Progressive Friends 3: 0001; 6: 0001
Students Lecture Association 4: 0001
United Irish League 5: 0001
Women's Franchise League 3: 0001
Memorials
see Monuments and memorials
Military campaigns and battles
1: 0666, 0820
Mitchell , Charles L.
1: 0666
Monuments and memorials
1: 0413; 3: 0001; 7: 0496
Morphy, Paul
2: 0001
Mosby, John
1: 0820
Music
1: 0001, 0058, 0222, 0413
National Negro Business League
5: 0001
Naval expeditions and surveys
1: 0666
New England Free Trade League
5: 0001
New York
Catskills 7: 0496
Ithaca 4: 0001
Newburyport, Massachusetts
1: 0413; 3: 0001
Newspapers
3: 0001
Niagara Falls
7: 0496
Ohio
Cleveland 3: 0001
general 6: 0001
Parades
1: 0666
Paris, France
6: 0001
Parker, Theodore
2: 0001
Peace movements
7: 0001
Pennsylvania
Chester County 3: 0001; 6: 0001
Longwood 7: 0001
Periodicals
1: 0001, 0222; 5: 0001
Phi Beta Kappa
4: 0001
Philippines
3: 0001; 4: 0177; 6: 0001
Phillips, Wendell
1: 0413; 2: 0001, 0052, 0206; 7: 0496
Pillsbury, Parker
5: 0001
Poetry
1: 0222, 0413; 2: 0052; 3: 0001; 5: 0001
Political science
2: 0052
see also Democracy
Portraits
1: 0413
Poverty
6: 0001
Prescott, William
2: 0001
Presidential elections
1: 0222
Presidential proclamations
2: 0206
Private clubs and societies
Delta Kappa Epsilon 4: 0001
general 4: 0001
Phi Beta Kappa 4: 0001
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Progressive Friends
3: 0001; 6: 0001
Property tax
5: 0001
Public schools
2: 0052
Railroad accidents and safety
3: 0001
Republican Party
4: 0177
Riots and disorders
1: 0413
Sanborn, F. B.
7: 0139
School administration
4: 0001
School boards
7: 0496
Schools
see Public schools
Secession
2: 0206
Shaw, Robert G.
1: 0413
Sheridan, Philip
1: 0413
Sherman, Thomas G.
5: 0001
Slaves and slavery
2: 0052, 0206
Smoking
7: 0001
South Africa
4: 0177
South Carolina
Charleston 2: 0052
Fort Sumter 2: 0206
general 5: 0001
Honey Hill (Broad River) 1: 0666
Sovereignty
4: 0177
Spanish-American War
4: 0177
Speeches
1: 0666; 2: 0001
Speeches and addresses
2: 0206
see also Inaugural addresses
Sports and athletics
4: 0001
State legislatures
2: 0001
Steamboats
1: 0058
Stone, Henry
1: 0820
Stratford-on-Avon, England
1: 0058
Strikes and lockouts
7: 0139
Students Lecture Association
4: 0001
Sumner, Charles
2: 0052
Surveys
see Naval expeditions and surveys
Surrender
1: 0820
Swinton, John
1: 0820
Tariffs
3: 0001; 5: 0001; 6: 0001; 7: 0001
Taxation
7: 0001
see also Property tax
Theater
1: 0001, 0058
Transportation
1: 0058
Travel
1: 0058; 2: 0052; 7: 0496
see also Exploration
Trials
5: 0001; 7: 0496
Trotter, James M.
1: 0666
Turner, John
6: 0001
United Irish League
5: 0001
Universities
see Colleges and universities
Vesey, Denmark
2: 0052
Veterans
1: 0413, 0666
Violence
4: 0001
Virginia
Charlestown 7: 0139, 0496
general 2: 0206
Voting rights
5: 0001
13
War
Spanish-American War 4: 0177
see also Civil War
War casualties
4: 0177
Washington, Booker T.
6: 0001; 7: 0001
Weather
1: 0222
Webster, Daniel
7: 0496
West Virginia
Harper's Ferry 2: 0206; 7: 0139, 0496
Whittier, John Greenleaf
3: 0001; 7: 0001
Wise, John S.
3: 0001
Women's Franchise League
3: 0001
Women's suffrage
1: 0222; 3: 0001; 5: 0001; 6: 0001
Wool and wool trade
3: 0001
Writers and writing
2: 0052
Writings
poetry 1: 0222, 0413; 2: 0052; 3: 0001; 5: 0001
writers and writing 2: 0052
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Related UPA Collections
Clara Barton Papers, 1822–1912
Garrison Family Papers
Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1830–2003
Series 2: Diaries, 1854–1995
Series 3: Correspondence
Series 4: Writings and Speeches, 1829–1999
Series 5: Financial Materials, 1812–1993
Series 6: Subject Files, 1831–1978
Series 7: Memorabilia, 1694–1987
Series 8: Wright and Stephenson Families––Biographical Material,
Correspondence, and Writings, 1806–1973
Grassroots Women’s Organizations
National Woman’s Party Papers
New England Women and Their Families
In the 18th and 19th Centuries
Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the U.S.
Regarding the Slave Trade
The Margaret Sanger Papers
Papers of the American Slave Trade
Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from the
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
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his collection of Garrison Family Papers, Series 9: Scrapbooks, 1833–1908, contains scrapbooks
belonging to Agnes Garrison (1866–1950), George Thompson Garrison (1836–1904), and
William Lloyd Garrison (1838–1909), hereafter referred to as WLG (1838). Agnes is the
daughter of WLG (1838). George and William are sons of the famous abolitionist William
Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879). The elder William Lloyd’s legacy is evident in the many articles and
references to antislavery and suffrage found in these scrapbooks, which contain clippings,
memorabilia, correspondence, and miscellaneous printed material on a variety of subjects.
Reel 1 contains Agnes Garrison’s two scrapbooks, which reflect her interest in the arts,
especially music and theater, and her trip to Europe. Of particular interest is a map of Paris circa
1880 (Reel 1, Frame 0085) and a listing of course offerings at the University of Paris (Sorbonne).
George Garrison’s scrapbooks, also on Reel 1, cover a number of topics pertaining to his
father. Beginning with the obituary (Reel 1, Frame 0358), George also includes his father’s biography
as retold by the children (Reel 1, Frame 0439) and the dedication of a statue in his father’s likeness in
Newburyport, Massachusetts (Reel 1, Frame 0442). George, who served as an officer of the FiftyFifth Infantry (Reel 1, Frame 0780), also includes a souvenir book of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth
Regiment and Fifty-Fifth Infantry, with a roster of enlisted men (Reel 1, Frame 0788) and their
service records.
Reels 2 through 7 contain the scrapbooks of WLG (1838), which cover not only his
abhorrence to slavery, and racial and sexual discrimination, but also taxation and tariffs. Harvard
College is not exempted from WLG (1838)’s wrath as he protests the initiation ritual of a fraternity as
“savage” in an open letter to the president and faculty (Reel 4, Frame 0004). Intercollegiate sports,
football in particular, are also the subject of violence, and yet there are multiple clippings of
Harvard’s intense rivalry with Yale University.
Of particular interest on Reel 5 is the story of the lynching of a Black postmaster in South
Carolina and subsequent “anti-lynching lecture tour” by his surviving family. Lillian Jewett, a woman
from the north, secretly traveled by train to convince the postmaster’s widow and children to return
with her to Boston (Reel 5, Frame 0138). Other topics covered on this reel include the formation of
a national Black business league (Frame 0222), a visit by Irish nationalists to further the cause of the
United Irish League (Frame 0255), Chinese immigration issues (Frame 0259), WLG (1838)’s address
on war (Frame 0312), and the single tax issue (Frame 0430).
Included on Reel 7 is an addendum to the UPA collection Garrison Family Papers, Series 2:
Diaries, 1854–1995. Further scrapbooks owned by WLG (1838) consist of his diary and news
clippings. Some notable subjects include the arrest, interviews (while jailed), and execution of John
Brown. Of particular interest is his last will and testament (Frame 0141) and an extract of John
Brown’s sayings such as, “It is nothing to die in a good cause, but an eternal disgrace to sit still in the
presence of the barbarities of American slavery,” (Frame 0148). A rather touching article covers the
visit of Brown’s wife prior to his execution (Frame 0151).
References to the Civil War abound in the diary for 1863. The entry for June 17 reads: “the
rebels have crossed the Rappahannock & are invading Pennsylvania” (Frame 422). The entry from
June 17 reads: “The air is full of rumors of Lee’s invading army” (Frame 0423), and for July 7, the
entry reads: “Hurrah! Vicksburg unconditionally surrendered on July 4th” (Frame 0427).
The Garrison Family Papers, with detailed documentation on five generations of an
extraordinary American family, offer exciting research opportunities in American political history and
important social movements like women’s rights, abolition, tax reform, free trade and tariff reform,
immigration reform, and pacifism.
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