Person:Elisabeth Elkind (1)

Memorial

A blackgum tree was planted in Elisabeth's memory near the Concert Grove Pavilion in Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

Childhood Memories

From her "Working" class journal at Brown; entry for April 15, 1976: "Sometimes I am overly idealistic and exaggerate the changes in attitudes about and roles opened to women of my generation. But I remember when I used to go places with my younger brother & sister, if my father gave us money for food & the subway, he always gave it to my brother, and when I objected he he told me it was silly and didn't matter (a typical male reaction to symbolic causes which really matter as much as legal ones in their power over attitudes - & attitudes are what build & perpetuate the institutions & customs of society. And I also know that my father thinks it is more important that my brother go to an 'ivy league' school than that I do and that his biggest wish for me is to see me happily married. And I can and do reject my father's standards, ideals & goals. Yet they are still there inside me, doing something to my head. How do you purge yourself?"

College Years

From "Working" Journal, written for class at Brown: April 21, 1976: "Somehow it all came clear to me after the meeting at Dean Romer's - I'm leaving Brown second semester for probably a year. And not only do I know that I am leaving -- I know where I am going -- to San Francisco. This may sound sort of out of the blue, and in a way it is. Just a little while ago, I could not even imagine going to Boston alone, not knowing anyone. But now I am out of all the tangles of personal dependencies, though when they went, so did my way of getting to California this summer or sometime. But I quickly realised I can't and I won't be dependent on any man for what I want to do in my life, so I'm going myself... Even what I want to do is getting a little more focused -- a little. I want to work for some kind of socialist-feminist collective (though I don't want to isolate myself with just one kind of person so maybe not) -- probably political -- maybe even a small press (like everyone else)... I really think I am going to do this. At least some of the time I do. And when I do it gets really exciting & happy. My life which was so screwed up, so full of open-ended questions & uncertainties, so much hinged on what other people were doing that I didn't know what I wanted to do myself, is finally beginning to make a little sense to me." [Elisabeth did leave Brown the next spring, but for Boston, not San Francisco, and only for one semester.]

Addresses in Brooklyn:

 256 Henry Street, 1956
 195 Joralemon Street
 26 Willow Street, purchased by parents in 1963
 138 St. Johns Place, 1990-1993
 234 Garfield Place, 1993-2018

Addresses in Providence:

 62 Carrington Ave, women's cooperative house
 Benevolent Street, with Sharon

Addresses in Boston area:

 30 Ashford Street, Allston, Jan-Aug 1977, during semester off from Brown
 14 Wesley Street, Somerville, 1979
 1419 Commonwealth Avenue, Brighton, 1979-1980
 60 Brattle Street, Cambridge, #403 and then #605, 1980-1987

Addresses in New York:

 24 Fifth Avenue, #1629, 1987-1990

Papers

For Brown University:

History of American Women, spring 1976:

 "From Prosperity to Depression: on The Group by Mary McCarthy"
 "Reconstruction of the Home, 1945-60"
 "Women's Liberation"
 "How Are Sex Roles Socialized?" - final project

American and British Fiction Since World War II, with John Hawkes, fall 1976:

 "Chiquita Banana Seals, Etcetera" - fiction

History of American Women, with Mari Jo Buhle, fall 1976 - spring 1977:

 "On Women's History / For Women's History"
 "Women in 18th Century America"
 "The Cult of Domesticity"
 "Feminism in the 19th Century"
 "Rediscovering Lost Baggage; or, Yes, Women Did Exist During/despite the American Revolution"

Social Inequality, with ? Marsh, fall 1976:

 "The Class Consciousness of the Clerical Worker"
 Review of "Agricultural Enterprise and Rural Class Relations" by Arthur L. Stinchcombe

Psychology of Prejudice, with Ferdinand Jones, fall 1976:

 Untitled "racial autobiography"
 "A Look at the Research on the Development of Racial Awareness and Attitudes in Children"

History 51, with Richard Kazarian, fall 1977:

 "Nineteenth Century Insane Asylums: A Weapon Against Women"

Economic Development and Social Change, with Peter B. Evans, fall 1977:

 Untitled manuscript on education
 "On Multinationals"
 "On the Evolution of Dependency in Brazil"
 "The Campaign Against Illiteracy: An Example of Popular Mobilisation in Cuba"

History 52, with Kate Dunnigan, spring 1978:

 "The Haymarket Affair: Anarchism Clashes with the American Way"

Politics and Society in Post-Colonial Africa, with Anani Dzidzienyo, spring 1978:

 "A Straight Road to Desperation"
 "A Crackling Sound is not a Fire: the Impact of European Political and Cultural Penetration as Characterised by the Books of Sekyi and Mukasa"
 Take-home final exam essay

Sociology of Work and Industry, with Peter Evans, spring 1978:

 "On Freedom"
 "The History of Labor Organising in the Jewelry Industry of Rhode Island," with John Van Raalte
 "Labor Organising in the Jewelry Industry in Rhode Island - part 2 - the More Recent Outline," with John Van Raalte

English 143, St Armand, fall 1978:

 Untitled -- American Romanticism & William Cullen Bryant

Women's Work in the 20th Century, with Barbara Melosh, fall 1978:

 Untitled - account of her 2-month stint working at Woolworth's in Harvard Square.  She managed the pet department.  Her father Digby sent her the sheet music to "I Found a Million-Dollar Baby in the Five and Ten Cent Store" to commemorate this job.
 "The Coalition of Labor Union Women -- Reformist Tool for Women Workers"
 "Anna S., A Jewelry Worker" - oral history

Labor History, with Gary Kulik, fall 1978:

 "Out of Desperation and Revolt: a History of the Southern Tenant Farmers"
 "Middle Class Strands and Strains in Working Class Political Activity, 1830-80"

Papers written while at Simmons College:

 "Automobile Advertising in the New Yorker: Change or Continuum? 1925-1935" for History of Visual Communication, with Estelle Jussim

Papers written while at New York University:

 "A Search for the Man Behind the Veil: the Letters of Henry Adams to his Niece Mabel Hooper La Farge," 1/13/1988 for Colloquium in American Intellectual History: the World of Henry Adams.
 "Sister Carrie: a Reflection of the Culture of Consumption," 7/13/1988 for From the Gilded Age to the Tumultuous Twenties: American Arts and Culture from the 1880s to the 1920s.
 "A Selected Edition of the Correspondence of Margaret Sanger and J. Noah Slee," 12/12/1989 for Historical Editing, with Prof. Esther Katz.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Personal Papers.
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/239579077/elisabeth-hall-elkind, in Findagrave.
3. ↑ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/elisabeth-elkind-obituary?id=17141080.