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[Identification of item], Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane Balch Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane Balch Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 1987.
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Encoded by Tanya Lee, Paula Jeannet Mangiafico, and Carrie Mills, May 2011
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Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane Balch (1868-1921) was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, the daughter of James and Mary (Overton) Macfarlane. She studied art at various institutions including Vassar College and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and travelled to Europe for further study. She married Edwin Swift Balch in 1904 and continued to paint and exhibit, notably at the Paris Exposition of 1900. She and her husband published
Biography taken from online inventory, University of Virginia and Historical Socety of Pennsylvania.
Clippings, notebooks, photographs, paper ephemera, and correspondence, chiefly 1885-1895, with family or friends (mostly women) concerning in part the role of women in Victorian society and Eugenia Balch's early career as an artist and travels in Europe. Balch lived in Paris for some time, and was fluent in French. Also includes a history of the Clymer family (1949) and several small, original sketches. Includes a photograph album. A letter from Alice Fauchon to her close friend, Eugenia Balch, dated May 30, 1892, recounts in detail her attempts to procure an abortion, which were unsuccessful (she gave birth to a son in October).
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