Title: Harriet Hammond McCormick Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1904-1925

Creator:

• McCormick, Harriet Hammond, d. 1921

Call Number: McCormick Mss 11C

Quantity: 6.8 c.f. (17 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Harriet Hammond McCormick, wife of Chicago industrialist Cyrus McCormick, Jr.; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, and financial records documenting her personal interests and civic activities. These concern chiefly household matters; the preparation of her book, Landscape Art Past and Present; her community and social work with philanthropies; clippings and messages of condolence concerning the death of her daughter Elizabeth at the age of twelve; charities relating to memorials to her daughter, including reports and correspondence regarding the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund, concerned chiefly with child welfare in Chicago; and material on the Chicago YWCA building given in 1926 as a memorial to Mrs. McCormick after her own death in 1921. Included among the financial records are records of personal expenses, stock holdings, and bills.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mcc0011c

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Box   1 Folder   1-2	A
Box   1 Folder   3	Al
Box   1 Folder   4	Am-Ar
Box   1 Folder   5	Art institute
Box   1 Folder   6	As-Ay
Box   1 Folder   7-9	B
Box   1 Folder   10	Balkan war relief
Box   1 Folder   11	Bo
Box   1 Folder   12	Bo-Bq
Box   1 Folder   13	Bra
Box   1 Folder   14	Bra-Bri
Box   1 Folder   15	Bro-Bry
Box   1 Folder   16	Bu-By
Box   1 Folder   17	Ca
Box   1 Folder   18	Ch
Box   1 Folder   19	Ci
Box   1 Folder   20	Co
Box   2 Folder   1-2	Co
Box   2 Folder   3	Colony Club
Box   2 Folder   4	Condolences Scope and Content Note: Index to people who sent condolences upon the death of Harriet Hammond McCormick.
Box   2 Folder   5	Council of National Defense
Box   2 Folder   6	Co
Box   2 Folder   7	Cr
Box   2 Folder   8	Cu
Box   2 Folder   9	Da-De
Box   2 Folder   10	Death of Harriet Hammond McCormick's daughter Elizabeth
Box   2 Folder   11	Death of Harriet Hammond McCormick
Box   2 Folder   12	Di-Do
Box   2 Folder   13	Dr-Dy
Box   2 Folder   14	Ea-En
Box   3 Folder   1-5	Elizabeth McCormick Memorial File
Box   4 Folder   1-3	Elizabeth McCormick Memorial File, continued
Box   4 Folder   4-5	Estate office
Box   4 Folder   6	Estate office personal
Box   4 Folder   7	Estimate file
Box   4 Folder   8-9	F
Box   4 Folder   10	Foreign accounts
Box   4 Folder   11	Fortnightly Club
Box   5 Folder   1-2	Fourth Church
Box   5 Folder   3	Father Francis
Box   5 Folder   4-5	Friday Club
Box   5 Folder   6	Funeral service of Harriet Hammond McCormick
Box   5 Folder   7	Fur receipts
Box   5 Folder   8	Gordon Hopkin, Lake Placid School
Box   5 Folder   9	H
Box   5 Folder   10-11	Hammond, Elizabeth Stickney
Box   5 Folder   12	Hammond, Mrs. James Y.
Box   5 Folder   13	Hoover, Herbert
Box   5 Folder   14	Household-payroll, 1916-1919
Box   5 Folder   15	Housekeeper file
Box   5 Folder   16	J
Box   5 Folder   17	Juvenile Protective Association & Juvenile Court
Box   6 Folder   1	L
Box   6 Folder   2	Landscape Art
Box   6 Folder   3	Correspondence with Scribners & Son, New York
Box   6 Folder   4	Landscape Art Past and Present
Box   6 Folder   5	List of recipients
Box   6 Folder   6	Reviews of her book
Box   6 Folder   7	Warren Manning (designer)
Box   6 Folder   8	Working file
Box   6 Folder   9	Landscape gardening
Box   6 Folder   10	Le
Box   6 Folder   11	Li-Ly
Box   6 Folder   12	Ma
Box   6 Folder   13	McC
Box   7 Folder   1	McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus (Cyrusie)
Box   7 Folder   2	McCormick estates office
Box   7 Folder   3-4	McCormick, Gordon, 1917-1920
Box   7 Folder   5	McCormick, Harriet Hammond, biography
Box   7 Folder   6	McE-McK
Box   7 Folder   7	McL-McZ
Box   7 Folder   8	Marshall Field and Company
Box   8 Folder   1	Marshall Field and Company, continued
	Memorial, Harriet Hammond McCormick
Box   8 Folder   2	Brochure recipients
Box   8 Folder   3	Dedication
Box   8 Folder   4-5	Suggestions
	Memorial fund, Harriet Hammond McCormick
Box   8 Folder   6	Clippings
Box   8 Folder   7	Expense account
Box   8 Folder   8	Fourth Church
Box   9 Folder   1	New YWCA
Box   9 Folder   2	Suggestions for uses
Box   9 Folder   3	Visiting Nurses Association
Box   9 Folder   4	Woman's City Club
	Memorial volume, Harriet Hammond McCormick
Box   9 Folder   5	Acknowledgements of receipt - Woodrow Wilson
Box   9 Folder   6-8	Drafts
Box   9 Folder   9	Miscellaneous
Box   10 Folder   1	Portrait
Box   10 Folder   2	Proofs
Box   10 Folder   3	Quotation
Box   10 Folder   4	Recipients
Box   10 Folder   5	Receipt books
Box   10 Folder   6	Me-Mi
Box   10 Folder   7-9	Miscellaneous Harriet Hammond correspondence
Box   10 Folder   10	Mo-Mu
Box   10 Folder   11	My
Box   11 Folder   1	N
Box   11 Folder   2	National Civic Federation - Women's Department
Box   11 Folder   3	National Organization for Nursing
Box   11 Folder   4	Na-Ni
Box   11 Folder   5	New house
Box   11 Folder   6	No-Ny
Box   11 Folder   7	O
Box   11 Folder   8	Pa-Pe
Box   11 Folder   9	Pi-Po
Box   11 Folder   10	Playground and Recreation Association of America
Box   11 Folder   11	Princeton
Box   11 Folder   12	Pr-Py
Box   11 Folder   13	Q
Box   11 Folder   14	Ra-Re
Box   12 Folder   1	Regulation of Nursing bill
Box   12 Folder   2	Rockford
Box   12 Folder   3	Ri-Rod
Box   12 Folder   4	Rog-Ruz
Box   12 Folder   5	Sa-Sca
Box   12 Folder   6	Sch-Scy
Box   12 Folder   7	Se
Box   12 Folder   8	Secretary file
Box   12 Folder   9	Servants applications and other letters regarding house positions
Box   12 Folder   10	Servants salaries
Box   12 Folder   11	Sm
Box   12 Folder   12	Speeches by Mrs. McCormick
Box   12 Folder   13	Social reform literature
Box   12 Folder   14	Sociology
Box   12 Folder   15	Stock exchange
Box   13 Folder   1-2	Stocks, investments and holdings
Box   13 Folder   3	Stratford-Upon-Avon players
Box   13 Folder   4-6	Suffrage
Box   13 Folder   7	Swathlying, Lady
Box   13 Folder   8	Ta-Ti
Box   14 Folder   1	Th
Box   14 Folder   2	To-Tu
Box   14 Folder   3-4	U
Box   14 Folder   5	United war work campaign, November 11-18, 1918
Box   14 Folder   6-7	V
Box   14 Folder   8	Visiting Nurse Association
Box   14 Folder   9	Correspondence
Box   14 Folder   10-14	Reports, 1923-1927
Box   14 Folder   15	Wa
Box   14 Folder   16	Wa-We
Box   15 Folder   1	Walden
Box   15 Folder   2-3	War file
Box   15 Folder   4	War relief (foreign)
Box   15 Folder   5-6	War work - Council of National Defense
Box   15 Folder   7-8	We
Box   16 Folder   1	Welfare work
Box   16 Folder   2-3	Wh
Box   16 Folder   4	Wia-Wil
Box   16 Folder   5	Wim-Wz
Box   16 Folder   6	Women's Committee, Council of National Defense
Box   16 Folder   7-8	Wo-Wy
Box   16 Folder   9-10	Y
Box   16 Folder   11	Young Men's Christian Association
Box   16 Folder   12	Y.W.C.A
Box   17 Volume   1	Trial balance, 1908-1921
Box   17 Volume   2	Ledger, 1912-1921
Box   17 Volume   3	Journal, 1919-1921
Box   17 Volume   4	Ledger (Philanthropic expenditures), 1905-1921