Summary Information

Title: Harriet Alpert papers,
Creator: Alpert, Harriet.
Inclusive dates: 1976-1980.
0.2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, notes, books, lists, and a plastic Smedley's bag.
Abstract::

Five notebooks and files from the starting of Smedley's Bookshop in Ithaca, NY in 1976 and relating to the Bernadette Powell Defense Fund, 1979-80. Powell was tried and convicted in Ithaca for killing her abusive husband. Included are Alpert's files on organizing a fundraising auction for the Defense Fund in 1979.

Call number: 7715
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library