Elisabeth AchelisPhilanthropist, 1880-1973
Elisabeth Achelis started a movement promoting adoption of The World Calendar after attending a lecture in 1929 by Melvyl Dewey on the necessity of simplifying life. She became the President of the World Calendar Association at its inception in 1930, and continued to be the lead spokesperson for the adoption of that plan of calendar reform for the rest of her life. The Association was funded by her personal fortune and donations.
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Journalist and historian, 1876-1945
Ethel Marie Armes was a journalist and author who wrote for the Chicago Chronicle, Washington Post, and the Birmingham Post-Herald. She also wrote several books, including The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama and Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees. In 1925 she adopted Catherine Claiborne, a ten year old girl for whom she'd been a foster parent. The Martha Berry correspondence includes a December 1928 letter from Catherine, as well as a January 1929 letter from Ethel Armes imploring Berry to take Catherine as a student (Berry declined).
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The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (1884-1972) was an American artist, most well-known as a portrait painter. Browne's portraits of Martha Berry and Martha Freeman were included in exhibits of her work at the Ainslie Galleries in New York, Dec. 1-16, 1926, and in October 1929 at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
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Louise Brigham ChisholmDesigner and teacher, 1875-1956
Among Chisholm's gifts to the Berry Schools was Box Cottage (now Hope Cottage). Built in in 1926, Box Cottage was so named because Chisholm furnished it with her well-known box furniture, made using the system she invented for building furniture out of packing crates. Chisholm sent Martha Berry a copy of her book Box Furniture: How to Make a Hundred Useful Articles for the Home in 1925.
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Box furniture; how to make a hundred useful articles for the home by 
Louise Brigham and the Early History of Sustainable Furniture Design by 
Margaret French CressonMargaret French Cresson (1889–1973) was an American sculptor. She studied under her father Daniel Chester French’, as well as Abastenia St. Leger Eberle and George Demetrios. She was a student at the New York School of Applied Design for Women and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery, Whitney Museum, and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
For several months in 1929-1930, correspondence and negotiations flew between Cresson, Martha Berry, and Boston architect Harry J. Carlson in relation to a "portrait bust" of Berry that Cresson was to create. In the end, Berry decided that funds and time were too short and discontinued the project. On May 9, 1930, she wrote to Cresson "So many things have happened since our correspondence in regard to the portrait bust that I have been obliged to let the matter drop." On the same day she told Carlson that she was sure Cresson would understand, and "I have not had the work done by anyone else."
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Georgia-born journalist Willie Snow Ethridge (1900-1983) wrote about Martha Berry, including an article published in Psychology Magazine. In 1930 she reminded Berry of her promise to take her along on a trip through the mountains of North Georgia and Tennessee when Berry was "casting about for unusual pupils." During this same period Etheridge was actively involved in the anti-lynching movement. Working primarily within the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, Ethridge both wrote and spoke about lynching and its implications for African Americans and poor whites. (Civil Rights Digital Library)
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Elisabeth MarburyTheatrical and literary agent and producer, 1856-1933
Correspondence from 1930 between Marbury and Berry focuses on Marbury's attempts to obtain product endorsements for Berry, in particular "Palm Olive Beads." Berry recalls her first meeting with Marbury, describing her, along with Ann Morgan, as among of the earliest friends she made in New York.
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Ladies and Not So Gentle Women: Elisabeth Marbury, Anne Morgan, Elsie de Wolfe, Anne Vanderbilt, and Their Time by 
Emily Vanderbilt Hammond1873 - 1960
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The Producer: John Hammond and the soul of American music by 
Kate Macy Ladd(1863-1945)
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Alice Nielsen (June 7, 1872 - March 8, 1943) a Broadway performer and operatic soprano who had her own opera company and starred in several Victor Herbert operettas.
Helen Miller Gould Shepard (June 20, 1868 – December 21, 1938) an American philanthropist.
Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker (1861–1938) clubwoman, woman suffrage advocate, author, and lecturer.
Ida Tarbell
Ida M. Tarbell to Martha Berry, January 20, 1920, Dickinson College Archive
