Papers, (inclusive), (bulk) 1914-1998 1937-1978

Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard Cross, 1874-1961

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Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt was born in Rochester, New York, on December 17, 1874, and died in Wilberforce, Ohio, on April 4, 1961. Kitchelt's activities included work as a social worker, settlement house worker, and suffragette organizer in New York, and as a peace activist in Connecticut. From the description of Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers, 1909-1947 (inclusive), 1924-1941 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165663 Social worker, suffragist, and social...

Whitehurst, Sara A. (Sara Anderson), -1971

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Sara Anderson Whitehurst (Mrs. John L. Whitehurst) was born in Pennsylvania. She attended Hahnemann and Women's Medical Colleges in Philadelphia and studied psychology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She served as state president of the Maryland Federation of Women's Clubs, 1930-1932. In 1933, she was the first woman appointed to the Board of Regents of the University of Maryland. Before becoming GFWC President in 1942, she served in various Federation departments, incl...

May Department Stores Company

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The May Department Stores Company was an American department store holding company, formerly headquartered in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. It was founded in Leadville, Colorado, by David May in 1877, moving to St. Louis in 1905. After many changes in the retail industry, the company merged with Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) in 2005. This company was only a holding company that bought, sold, and merged regional department stores, such as Foley's and L.S. Ayres. During most of...

Mayflower Club (Boston, Mass.)

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The Mayflower Club of Boston, Mass. was a private women's club founded in 1893 to provide a place in a central location in Boston where members could find comfortable rooms, a place for reading and writing, and a restaurant for lunch. Corresponding officers of the club included Jennie L. Motley, Lucy Lowell, Katharine P. Loring, and Elizabeth Cabot....

Frenkil, Margaret

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National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (U.S.)

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Pollitzer, Anita, 1894-1975

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Anita Lily Pollitzer (October 31, 1894 – July 3, 1975) was an American photographer and suffragist. Anita Lily Pollitzer was born October 31, 1894, in Charleston, South Carolina. Her parents were Clara Guinzburg Pollitzer, the daughter of an immigrant rabbi from Prague, and Gustave Pollitzer, who ran a cotton company at Charleston, South Carolina. She had two sisters, Carrie (born 1881) and Mabel (born 1885) and a brother, Richard. Anita was raised Jewish and, as a young woman, taught Sabb...

Rogers, Edith Nourse, 1881-1960

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Edith Nourse Rogers (March 19, 1881 – September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who served in the United States Congress. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts. Born in Saco, Maine, her parents' affluence allowed Edith Nourse to be privately tutored until she was fourteen. She then attended and graduated from Rogers Hall School, a private boarding school for girls in Lowell, Massachusetts, and Madame Julien's School, a finishing schoo...

Baltimore. Bureau of Sanitation (Md.)

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Ambrose, Alma Harrison

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Berrien, Laura M. (Laura Maria), 1877-1962

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Laura Maria Berrien (sometimes Barrien or Berrin), born in Waynesboro, Georgia on 1 November 1877, worked as an attorney in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter Moore and Elizabeth (Palmer) Berrien. She had one brother, John Berrien. Laura’s grandfather, John Berrien, fought in the Battle of the Jerseys during the American Revolution, becoming an original member of the Cincinnati of Georgia. Now known as the Society of the Cincinnati, this organization is the nation’s oldest voluntary societ...

Norris, Katharine A. (Katharine Augusta), 1878-1949

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Katharine (Kittie) A. Norris, daughter of Myron Augustine and Mary E. (Howdan) Norris, was born August 12, 1878, in Kent, Ohio. After graduating from Vassar College in 1901, Norris returned to Ohio where she became a teacher. She was a convenor of the Women's Joint Legislative Committee for Equal Rights and a member of the National Woman's Party. Norris died in 1949....

Granger, Dorothy Shipley, 1899-1998

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Dorothy Shipley Granger was born in Sykesville, Maryland, on January 19, 1899. The daughter of Rosalie Digges and Samuel David Shipley, she was educated at St. Joseph's Academy (McSherrystown, Penn.), Cornell University, the University of Miami at Coral Gables, and the New York School of Interior Decoration. She married Henry Raynor Granger (d. April 14, 1977), a mechanical engineer, on June 1, 1920; they had no children. She was an interior decorator and buyer for May Co. departme...

Marks, Jeannette Augustus, 1875-1964

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Jeannette Augustus Marks (August 16, 1875 – March 15, 1964) was an American professor at Mount Holyoke College. Born on August 16, 1875 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, her parents were Jeannette Holmes (née Colwell) and William Dennis Marks, who was the president of the Philadelphia Edison Company, after working at University of Pennsylvania, where he taught engineering. As her parents were estranged, Marks grew up mainly in the company of her mother and younger sister, Mabel, alternating homes be...

Barney, Nora Stanton, 1883-1971

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Nora Stanton Blatch Barney (September 30, 1883 – January 18, 1971) was an English-born US civil engineer, architect, and suffragist. Barney was among the first women to graduate with an engineering degree in United States. Given an ultimatum to either stay a wife or practice engineering she chose engineering. She was the granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was born Nora Stanton Blatch in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England in 1883 to William Blatch and Harriot Eaton Stanton, daughter of ...

Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963

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Doris Stevens was born Dora Caroline Stevens on October 26, 1888, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Henry Henderbourck Stevens (1859-1930) and Caroline D. Koopman Stevens (1863-1932). Doris had an older sister, Alice Stevens Burns (1885-1954), and two younger brothers, Harry E. Stevens (ca.1892-1943) and Ralph G. Stevens (1895-1968). In December 1921, she married lawyer Dudley Field Malone (1882-1950), keeping her name. She filed for divorce in 1927; it was granted in 1929. In 1935, Stevens married journal...

American Women in Radio and Television Inc.

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The organization American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) was formed in 1951 as a response to the National Association of Broadcasters's (NAB) decision to dissolve its women's division, the Association of Women Broadcasters. Edythe Meserand would serve as AWRT's first president. With a stated mission to "advance the impact of women in the electronic media and allied fields by educating, advocating, and acting as a resource to our members and the industry," AWRT, a...

Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973

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Alma Lutz (1890–1973) was an American feminist and activist for equal rights and woman suffrage. She was also the biographer of key women in the women's rights movement. Alma Lutz was born in Jamestown, North Dakota to Mathilde (Bauer) and George Lutz in 1890. She attended the Emma Willard School (class 1908) and then went to Vassar College. At Vassar she was active in the feminist movement and after graduation in 1912 she went back to North Dakota where she continued campaigning for women's ...

National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Crocker, Gertrude

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Girl Scouts of the United States of America

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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...

Simpson, Vivian V.

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Industrial Women's League for Equality.

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Pierce, Marie

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Wolfe, Gloria Shipley

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Abeles, Theodore D.

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National Woman's Party. Maryland Branch.

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Tawes, J. Millard, 1894-1979

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Graff, Elsie

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Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882-

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Caroline Lexow Babcock (b. Feb. 5, 1882, Nyack, NY–d. March 8, 1980, Nyack, NY). The daughter of legislator Clarence Lexow, she graduated Barnard College in 1904. She became executive secretary to Harriot Stanton Blatch at the Women's Political Union. Babcock also served as president of the College Equal Suffrage League of New York, executive secretary of the National College Equal Suffrage League, served on the executive committee and board of directors of the Birth Control Federation of Americ...

Friendship Association.

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Farquhar, Roy

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Baltimore League of Women Voters

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D'Alesandro, Thomas

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Shipley, Samuel D.

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Tullis, Helen

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Bazer, Gaeta Wold

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Arlt, Mirta

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Maryland Women's Council.

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Davis, Audrey B.

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Murphy, Sally

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Jurgens, Annette

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Harrelson, Polly

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Church Women United of Baltimore

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Cowell, Sophie

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Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations of Maryland

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Founded in 1916 by Mrs. Hortense Moses as a forum for communication between the many Jewish women's organizations in Maryland; federation today boasts at least 73 constituent organizations from Baltimore and Annapolis. From the description of Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations of Maryland records, 1916-1984. (Jewish Historical Society of Maryland Library). WorldCat record id: 70961802 ...

Ledesma, Ramon L.

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Citizens Planning and Housing Association of Baltimore

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International Federation of Catholic Alumnae

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Founded in 1914, the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae (IFCA) promoted the educational activities of teacher-Sisters. The IFCA hoped to be an example of integrity, culture, and charity to help rid the country of bigotry. They established several departments to accomplish their goals: the Motion Picture, Social Welfare, and Education Departments among others. Established in 1927, the Motion Picture Department rated films, denoting which were suitable for schools and general audiences a...

Baltimore Civic Opera Company

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The Fashion Group, Inc.

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Gibson, Stuart

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Women's Association.

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Kennar, Florence Elizabeth

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Lockwood, Marie T.

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Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company

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Egbert, Don and Ruth

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Kachadourian, Alice M.

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Women's Advertising Club of Baltimore.

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Fisher, Cleo

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United Democratic Women's Clubs

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Nordeholz, Sophie K.

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St. Joan's International Alliance. United States Section

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Lane, Preston

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