Scope and Contents note From the Series: The Gale family were based in New Hampshire; Emma Susan Gale Harris's grandfather Israel Gale was a descendant of Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. John Greeley Gale, father of Emma Susan Gale Harris, was a physician who sold medicines for all kinds of ailments, particularly "women's illnesses." The collection includes some pamphlets and broadsides advertising these medicines. Emma's sister, Edith Irwina, ironically died in the Highland Spring Sanatorium...