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Summary Information
M. Eleanor Fitzgerald Papers 1915-1974
- Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor (Mary Eleanor), 1877-1955
UWM Manuscript Collection 13
3.8 cubic ft. (7 boxes)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
The collection mainly consists of the papers of M. Eleanor
Fitzgerald, a Wisconsin born Seventh Day Adventist sanatorium worker, literary agent,
theatrical manager, and associate editor of the anarchist magazines, The Blast and Mother Earth Bulletin.
Also
included in the collection are correspondence, passports, diaries, play programs,
memorabilia, and photographs documenting Fitzgerald's life and activity in the
anarchist/labor movement, and in the Provincetown Playhouse. Correspondence included
associates and friends such as; the anarchists Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, writers
or theatrical administrators, E.E. Cummings, Susan Glaspell, Paul Green, James Lights and
Eugene O'Neill, long-time friend Pauline Turkel, and Danish tenor Mischa
Lèon.
Photographs in this collection span the period of 1890 to the 1950s
and include images of, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Ben Reitman, Eugene O'Neill, and
Paul Robeson, also included are Fitzgerald and her family members, colleagues at the Seventh
Day Adventist sanatoria in Battle Creek and Chicago. The particular strengths of the
Fitzgerald collection are the Alexander Berkman material, and the materials on the
Provincetown Playhouse. English
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