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17 October 1901
Miller, Clara M.
to Edwin B. Sherzer
With clipping from St. Louis Daily Globe Dispatch 10/17/1901 (wedding of Sherman W. Boner to Edith L. Holbert.) Date inferred from clipping.
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28 October 1901
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4 November 1901
Accompanied by Mount Auburn Methodist Church Bulletin for 11/3/1901.
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11 November 1901
Mail service getting worse.
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28 November 1901
Dated Thanksgiving Morning.
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9 January 1902
New man's visit with Alaska picture.
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2 February 1902
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17 February 1902
Waiting for letters; surprised by his present of desert spoons.
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9 March 1902
Sorry for delay in writing; grandmother died; her sorrow. Commiserates with Edwin for bad luck.
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15 March 1902
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7 April 1902
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10 May 1902
Accompanied by Graduation Recital Program. Her first game of tennis has made her arm sore.
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18 May 1902
Accompanied by small care with her name imprinted and (birthday wishes) "Congratulations and best wishes."
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30 May 1902
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9 June 1902
Date inferred from postmark. The last three sheets are written on the stationary of Dr. John J. Miller.
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26 June 1902
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30 June 1902
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4 July 1902
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14 July 1902
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21 July 1902
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28 July 1902
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31 July 1902
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5 August 1902
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18 August 1902
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22 August 1902
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18 September 1902
Accompanied by an article on Dr. W.B. Palmore
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23 September 1902
Accompanied by visiting notice for George L. Wageley for Collection of Revenue and clipping on Mt. Vernon Anniversary mentioning Dr. John J. Miller [illegible].
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1918
Renesch, E. G. (fl. 1917-1918)
Colored man is no slacker
Depicts an African American World War I infantryman parting with a woman in a blue dress. In the background, African American soldiers march; one soldier carries a United States flag. The couple stands on a walkway surrounded by flowers.
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January 1924
National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People
14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate...
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January 1929
19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy...
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January 1930
20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...
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circa 1926
For the Good of America
NAACP poster listing statistics regarding the 3,436 lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1922. States "Do you know that the United States is the Only Land on Earth where people are burned at the stake?" Reports that 83 women have been lynched...
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1919
Goldman, Emma (1869-1940)
Deportation, its meaning and menace; last message to the people of America.
Written by Berkman and Emma Goldman. After the author statement, the title continues: "Ellis Island, New York, U.S.A., December 1919." Colophon reads: "Ten cents a copy. Order from M. E. Fitzgerald, 857 Broadway, New York City."
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1924
Levine, Louis (fl. 1924)
The Women's garment workers: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
First edition with half-tone photographs and appendices. Published by B. W. Huebsch.
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1911
Rumshinsky, Joseph (1881-1956)
"Mamenu" or The Triangle Victims (in Yiddish).
Song lamenting the deaths caused in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory fire in 1911. Sung by H.J. Ginsburg
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1914
Sanger, Margaret (1879-1966)
Family Limitation
An illustrated leaflet on birth control. No publisher indicated. The instructions and illustrations (diagrams) describe various birth control methods and abortion.
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25 November 1900
Willett, Grace
to Sylvia Willett
Discusses women suffrage in Wyoming in the election of 1900. Comments that turnout among women was high, but "their voting does not help purify politics." Willett supported the candidacy of Williams Jennings Bryan. Also comments on bad weather...
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1932/07/17
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
to Anne Hinkley
Typed on stationery of the Executive Mansion, Albany, to Hinkley, the leader of a "wet" organization. "I have never joined the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, because as you know I am a dry." Roosevelt notes that the...
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circa 1920
Callaway, James (fl. 1920)
[Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].
A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his...
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1 January 1918 - 29 April 1919
Osborn, Ella Jane (fl. 1918-1919)
[Diary of World War I army nurse Ella Jane Osborn] [word processed inventory available]
Ella Jane Osborn, originally from Wainscott, Long Island, New York, departed as an Army Nurse in January of 1918 and spent the majority of her assignment stationed near Toul and Nancy, in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, near the German...
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Osborn, Ella Jane, (1881-1966)
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Circa 6 November 1917
N. Y. State Woman Suffrage Party
How to vote for woman suffrage amendment, election day, November 6th, 1917
Instructs voters which box to check on the ballot in order to vote in favor ammending the New York State Constitution to allow women the right to vote.
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Circa 1910
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Plain Facts for the Working Man
Encouraging working men to vote for women's suffrage. Argues that letting their wives vote will improve their own situation. States that the wife, who has so many responsibilities, can better take care of the home and the family, if she has the...
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circa 1915
Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason
List of arguments for why women should be allowed to vote, including "Because women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men. Because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote...
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Circa 1915
Women in the home
Argues that a woman's place may be in the home, but that she can perform these domestic duties much better if allowed the vote, since she will have greater control outside events that influence her housekeeping, such as public health and clean food....
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1902/02/04
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)
Poem to Miss Jenkins, "What's the Social Tree"
A poem: "What's the social tree...and the tree like an Irish nurse".
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27 January 1919
Barton, Frank L. (fl. 1919)
to Mrs. Barton
Writes to his mother that he received her letter of 11 January and remarks at the speedy delivery. Discusses the good price of corn and hopes his parents treat themselves to new furniture, a gesture he and his siblings should have extended before...
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6 November 1918
Belknap, Helen (fl. 1918)
to Mrs. Stowe
Writes to the mother of a patron of the YMCA and reports that he is happy and healthy. Discusses the mission of her organization. Includes the importance of letters and mail from home. Adds a note that she is also from Wisconsin and is proud of...
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9 December 1918
Capelle, Rosalie (fl. 1918)
to Kenneth S. Anderson [in French]
Capelle writes on behalf of Miss Flora in response to a postcard from Anderson. She reminisces about the fun the girls had at the soldier's mass and wonders where all the good soldiers have gone. Hopes that they will visit the house again before...
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1 March 1919
Cartagua, G. Battista (fl. 1919)
to the Captain of Company H, 309th, Infantry, 78th Division
Requests leave for her son, Antonio Cartagua, so she may see him for the first time in eight years. Offers to search for him herself.
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