Florence Jaffray Hurst Harriman papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10000
Subjects: Women in the labor movement; Industrial relations; Manpower; American Red Cross. Women's Motor Corps; Peace; United States. National Defense Advisory Commission. Committee on Women in Industry; United States; Social problems; Societies and clubs; Correspondence; American Diplomatic and consular service; Woman's National Democratic Club (U.S.); Presidents; League of Nations; United States. Commission on Industrial Relations; American Red Cross; Election; Home rule; War work; World War, 1914-1918; Societies; Foreign relations; Women
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, reports, speeches, writings, biographical material, autograph album, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, scrapbook, printed material, memorabilia, photographs, and other papers relating to Harriman's service as a member of the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (1913-1916), chairman of the U.S. National Defense Advisory Commission's Committee on Women in Industry (1917-1919), and U.S. minister to Norway (1937-1940).  Documents her participation in Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential campaign, the American Red Cross Women's Motor Corps in France during World War I, peace organizations including the League of Nations, social reform movements, the Colony Club, New York, N.Y., and the Woman's National Democratic Club, Washington, D.C.  Also includes material pertaining to her work on behalf of home rule for the District of Columbia.  Autograph album includes a drawing by Louis Raemaekers.

Correspondents include Bernard M. Baruch, Irving Berlin, Albert Einstein, Duke Ellington, Helen Hayes, Cordell Hull, Harold L. Ickes, Estes Kefauver, Archibald MacLeish, George C. Marshall, William Gibbs McAdoo, Claude Pepper, John J. Pershing, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Oswald Garrison Villard, Wendell L. Willkie, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, and Woodrow Wilson.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition only available of scrapbook, 1912-1913, 1936, no. 21,870.

Microfilm produced from original in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1998.

Gift, Florence Harriman, 1957-1968.

Gift, Phyllis Darling, 1998.

Diplomat, political activist, and author.  Born Florence Jaffray Hurst; died 1967.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003034