Abstract: 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.