Summary Information

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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