mnsss143 Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers, 1900-1959 Finding Aid Finding aid prepared by Amanda Izzo. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Northampton, MA
2003

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 Collection Overview Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961 Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers1900-1959 MS 86 2 boxes (.75 linear ft.) Sophia Smith Collection
Smith College Northampton, MA
Settlement house worker and social worker. Kitchelt's journals describe settlement work in New York and New Haven, CT. Correspondence includes descriptive letters to her parents; letters from settlement friends; letters from Sadie Rubin, an inmate at the New York State Reformatory for Women; and from members of the Laureate Literary Society, which Kitchelt founded and directed. Other materials include autobiographical pieces, articles, verses, and notes. English. Biographical Note

Journal kept at The College Settlement, 95 Rivington St., New York City, 1900

Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt was born in Rochester, New York, on 17 December 1874. She graduated from Wells College in 1897. For two years after college, she worked at the George Junior Republic, a self-governing community for troubled youth. From 1900-04, she worked at the New York College Settlement at 95 Rivington Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side and its summer location in Mt. Ivy, New York. In 1904, she returned to reform work as a volunteer probation officer for women with New York City's Essex Market Court. From 1904 to 1905, she worked at the Lowell House settlement in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the head worker in the Little Italy House in Brooklyn (1903) and another Italian American settlement, the "Housekeeping Center," in Rochester (1907-10). She married Richard Kitchelt in 1911. After her marriage, she was active in several civic and political causes. She volunteered and wrote articles for suffrage, trade union, socialist, and pacifist organizations in New York and Connecticut. She died in Wilberforce, Ohio on 4 April 1961.

 Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers consist of .75 linear feet of diaries, writings, printed material, correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs. Most material is from 1900 to 1904 and covers Kitchelt's years at the College Settlement and Lowell House.

 Organization of the Collection

This collection is organized into three series:

I. Writings II. Correspondence III. Subjects Information on Use Terms of Access and Use

The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.

The copyright owner of this collection is unknown. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

Florence Cross Kitchelt Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

 History of the Collection

Florence Kitchelt donated her papers concerning settlement house work to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1959. After her death in 1961, her sister, Dorothy Cross Zeiger, donated some biographical items and articles.

Reprocessed by Amanda Izzo, 2002.

 Search Terms Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961 Literature--Societies, etc.--New York (State)--New York--History--Sources Social settlements--New York (State)--New York--History--Sources Social settlements--Connecticut--New Haven--History--Sources Social work with immigrants--United States--History--Sources Women social reformers--United States--History--Sources Additional Information Related Material

Additional papers of Florence Kitchelt are at Yale University; the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University; and the Kroch Library, Cornell University.

SERIES I. WRITINGS 1 1 Autobiographical typescripts, n.d. College settlement journals 1 2 95 Rivington St., New York, Jun-Jul 1900 1 3 Summer House, Mount Ivy, NY, Aug-Sep 1900 1 4-6 95 Rivington St., Sep 1900-Aug 1904 1 7 Lowell House, New Haven CT, Oct 1904-Feb 1905 1 8 Notes on the journals, 1959 1 9 Address to the "King's Daughters," 1902 [1904?] 1 10 "A Chapter in the History of Human Rights," Journal of Human Relations, [re: Susan B. Anthony], Winter 1956 1 11 Verses, n.d. 1 12 "Who" and "They Have Contributed": typescripts re: "Negroes" and segregation, 1959 SERIES II. CORRESPONDENCE 1 13 Outgoing to mother and sister, 1901, 1904 Incoming 2 1 Bonime, Ellis, 1902-03 2 2 Braun, Jacob, 1902-03 2 3 Bromberg, Abraham, 1901, 1903 2 4 Burstein, Sam, 1903 2 5 Cohen, Nathan 1902-05 2 6 Halperin, Jacob, 1902, 1904 2 7 Markham, Edwin, 1903 2 8 Rubin, Sadie, 1902-03 2 9 Wolf, Irving, 1902-03 SERIES III. SUBJECTS 2 10 College settlements: photographs of settlement houses (including 95 Rivington Street) and residents, clippings, and memorabilia, 1902-06, n.d. 2 11 Laureate Literary Society: memorabilia, 1901, 1903