Papers, 1928-1941

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Papers, 1928-1941

Correspondence, photos, clippings, etc., of Ruth Jarvis MacKay-Scott, civic reformer and women's club member.

1-1/2 file boxes, 2 oversize volumes, 1 folio+ folder

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League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944

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Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer, corporate executive and the 1940 Republican nominee for President. Willkie appealed to many convention delegates as the Republican field's only interventionist: although the U.S. remained neutral prior to Pearl Harbor, he favored greater U.S. involvement in World War II to support Britain and other Allies. His Democratic opponent, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, won the 1940...

American Social Hygiene Association.

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Woman's Club of Evanston

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Douglas, Paul, 1892-1976

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Senator. From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Howard Douglas : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309732848 From the description of Reminiscences of Paul Howard Douglas : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527416 U.S. Senator (Democrat, Illinois). From the description of Paul H. Douglas papers, 1932-1971. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat ...

Ruth Jarvis MacKay-Scott

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Ruth MacKay-Scott was the wife of Andrew MacKay-Scott, a wealthy stockbroker in Evanston, Illinois. In the late 1920's the family lived for several years in California, where many Jarvis relatives lived. (They also had a summer home on Cape Cod, where RMS was isolated during the 1938 hurricane.) This collection consists of correspondence, newsclippings, and other printed materials, the bulk of which was collected in 1936-1939 while RMS was an officer of the Woman's Club of Evanston....

Autori, Pàola, -1948

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Evanston Council of Social Agencies.

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Chicago. Venereal Disease Prevention Program

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