Summary Information

Title: Frederick A. Blossom Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1885-1974

Creator:

• Blossom, F. A. (Frederick Augustus), b. 1878

Call Number: Mss 322

Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 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:

Incomplete papers of Frederick A. Blossom, a social activist, translator, and librarian active in a variety of areas. Included is correspondence, mainly with his mother Sarah, two of his three wives, and his daughter Sidney; his mother's diaries; brief financial papers; notebooks; a scrapbook; and a subject file documenting his many-faceted career and interests. Also present are files on his translations of works by Marcel Proust and Maxence van der Meersch, and concerning his work at the Library of Congress and his support of Margaret Sanger's birth control campaign, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Southern Conference Educational Fund. Also represented are Blossom's connections with Scott Nearing and suffrage leader Elizabeth Stuyvesant.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00322

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