Operation overview collection [Mount Vernon Ladies' Association]

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Operation overview collection [Mount Vernon Ladies' Association]

1953-1983

https://archives.mountvernon.org/repositories/2/resources/26

This is a collection of records created by the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association documenting the Operation Overview movement. A large portion of the collection is correspondence, including letters to and from Vice Regent Frances Bolton and other members of Congress. Other types of records represented are organizational reports, bulletins, statements, Congressional transcripts and bills, news clippings, financial papers, and several drawings and photographs. The bulk of the records range from the 1960s to early 1970s.

3 cubic feet

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George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

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George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

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Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977

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Frances Payne Bingham Bolton (March 29, 1885 – March 9, 1977) was a Republican politician from Ohio. She served in the United States House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Ohio. In the late 1930s Bolton took an isolationist position on foreign policy, opposing the Selective Service Act (the draft) in 1940, and opposing Lend-Lease in 1941. During the war she called for desegregation of the military nursing units, which were all-white and all-female. In 1947 she...

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

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The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union was founded in 1853 by Ann Pamela Cunningham. The purpose of the Association was to purchase Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, in order to restore the property and open the grounds to visitors and admirers who desired to see Washington's house and tomb. Ann Pamela Cunningham became interested in the preservation of Mount Vernon when her mother, traveling down the Potomac River in 1853, saw the house in its neglected and dilapidated sta...