Blackwell
Blackwell names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Blackwell LUCY STONE, an American woman suffragist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LUCY STONE, an American woman suffragist, born in West Brookfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1818; was graduated at Oberlin College in 1847; became a lecturer on woman suffrage, and a contributor to the press. In 1855 she married Henry B. Blackwell, a merchant of Cincinnati. She died in Dorchester, Mass., Oct. 20, 1893. BLACKWELL'S ISLAND an island belonging to the city of New York, in the East river, containing about 120 acres. On it are the penitentiary, almshouse, lunatic asylum for females, workhouse, blind asylum, hospital for incurables, and a convalescent hospital. Nearly all of these buildings were erected from granite quarried on the island, and by convict labor. The island is bordered granite sea wall, also built by a heavy by the convicts.
Blackwell ELIZABETH, an American physician and and medical and ethical writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELIZABETH, an American physician and and medical and ethical writer, born at Bristol, England, 1821. She is the first woman who ever obtained the degree of M. D. in the United States (1849), beginning practice in New York (1851). With her sister, Emily, she opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children (1854), organizing in connection with it the Women's Medical College (1867). In 1868 she became professor in a woman's medical college that she had assisted in organizing in London. She has written "Laws of Life" (1852); "Counsel to Parents on the Moral Education of Their Children" (1879); "Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women," etc. She died in London, 1910.
Blackwell MRS. ANTOINETTE LOUISA (BROWN)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MRS. ANTOINETTE LOUISA (BROWN), an American woman suffragist and Unitarian minister, born at Henrietta, N. Y., May 20, 1825. A graduate of Oberlin (1847), she "preached on her own orders," at first in Congregational churches, becoming at length a champion of women's rights. She married Samuel C., a brother of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1856). She has written "Shadows of Our Social System" (1855); "The Island Neighbors" (1871), novel of American Life; "Sexes a Throughout Nature" (1875); "Sea Drift" (1903); "The Making of the Universe" (1914); "The Social Side of Mind and Action" (1915).
Blackwell a city of Oklahoma
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Oklahoma, in Kay co. It is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and the Frisco Line railroads, and the Shicaska river. There are parks, and several handsome public buildings. The town is the seat of the Oklahoma State College. The industries include clay, brick, glass works, and flour mills. Pop. (1910) 3,266; (1920) 7,174.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The biggest change is to Blackwell's Island: in the very year Collier's described its penitentiary, almshouse and "lunatic asylum for females" built by convict labor, New York renamed it Welfare Island, and in 1973 it became Roosevelt Island. The prison and asylums are gone (the ruined Smallpox Hospital and the octagon of the old asylum survive), and the 120-acre island now holds a planned residential community reached by an aerial tram opened in 1976 and a subway station since 1989. Collier's still wrote of Antoinette Brown Blackwell in the present tense, "She has written"; she had voted in the 1920 election, the first she was legally entitled to cast, and died in November 1921 at 96. Elizabeth Blackwell's 1849 M.D. was noted as a singular first; women have made up about half of United States medical students since the 2000s and a majority since 2019.
Written for this edition, 2026.