Blackwell familyThe most prominent members of the Blackwell family were Elizabeth (1821-1910) and Emily (1826-1910), who were among the earliest women doctors and founders of the New York Infirmary and College for Women; their brother Henry Browne Blackwell (1825-1909), his wife Lucy Stone (1818-1893), and their daughter Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), who were known for their leading roles in the abolition, woman suffrage, and prohibition movements; and their sister-in-law Antoinette Louisa (Brown) Blackwell (1825-1921), the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States and an active speaker on behalf of abolition, women's rights and prohibition. This collection includes approximately 120,000 pages documenting the Blackwells’ involvement in United States women’s suffrage, abolition, prohibition, health care, and education reform movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. Five generations of family diaries, correspondence, sermons, lectures, orations and political speeches are included, as well as issues of the Woman’s Journal, an influential journal covering a wide spectrum of issues important to women, which was published by members of the Blackwell family from 1870 to 1917.