Co-founded by Eunice Hale (Waite) Cobb, the mother of Darius and Cyrus Cobb, noted Boston artists, the Ladies Physiological Institute, was the first women's club in America and promoted health and fitness.
History
The historical correspondence created by the Ladies Physiological Institute were donated to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliff College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts in November, 1976.
This collection, which includes documentation from 1848-1966, was processed under a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library has written this introduction to the collection:
References
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