Papers of Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, 1877-1988 (inclusive), 1915-1970 (bulk)

Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933

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Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist. In 1909, she founded the Political Equality League to get votes for suffrage-supporting New York State politicians, wrote articles for newspapers, and joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). She later formed her own Political Equality League to seek broad support for suffrage in neighborhoods throughout New York City, and, as its president, led its division of...

United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

National Council of Women

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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...

New York (City). Department of Education

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Lucy Stone League

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Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

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...

Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

University of California

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Administrative History The White Mountain Research Station (WMRS), a multi-disciplinary and Multicampus Research Unit (MRU) within the University of California, is located in the vicinity of Bishop, California. WMRS was established in 1950 to provide high-altitude laboratory facilities to scientific researchers in the areas of astronomy, ecology, and physiology who needed a high-altitude site and to serve as a teaching facility for field cour...

Cook, Gardner

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Manilal Gandhi

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Dharmadasa, Sudharma

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Elizabeth Erwin High School

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Columbia University. Press

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The Columbia University Press, one of the oldest and largest of American university presses, was founded in 1893. The Press has published dissertations and other works by academic authors from Columbia University and elsewhere, series of books and other publications for departments of the University, periodicals, and other works. From the description of Columbia University Press records, 1893-[ca. 1960], 1923-[1960] (bulk). (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat reco...

Swarthmore Chautauqua Association

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Virginia Mining Company.

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Pam, Hugo

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Bement, Grace

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Joseph Edward George Waddington

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The Equal Franchise Society

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New York University

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The Class Collection documents selected student and alumni activities of New York University graduating classes from 1843-1966. Formal and informal gatherings were common, and were documented in detail by the participants. From the description of Class collection, 1843-1966. 1880-1900 (bulk). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477254465 New York University (formerly, University of the City of New York), is an academic institution and, as such, its faculty produces ar...

Cameroons

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Reyher, Ferdinand

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Author of fiction, newspaper correspondent, screenwriter, and playwright. From the description of Ferdinand Reyher papers, 1868-1996, (bulk circa 1917-1960). (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23828242 Ferdinand Reyher (1889?-1967) was a novelist, newspaper correspondent, and playwright. Newhall (1908-1993) was an art historian, writer and photographer and curator, 1948-1958, then director, 1958-1971, of the International Museum of Photography at the Geo...

George Kimble's

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Olive Schreiner

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Mahatma Gandhi

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League for Mutual Aid

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National Organization for Women

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The National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed in Washington D.C. in 1966, and incorporated in 1967. The organization was formed to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of society, assuming all privileges and responsibilities in fully equal partnership with men. Local chapters were formed throughout the country and task forces were set up to deal with problems of women in areas such as employment, education, religion, poverty, law, politics, and image in the media....

George Hourwich

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Sears and Roebuck

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Vernon, Mabel

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Mabel Vernon was an active suffragist who participated in the Nevada suffrage campaign in 1914 and 1916 as Anne Martin's assistant, and served as her campaign manager in the 1918 and 1920 senatorial races. Afterward she returned to her work at the National Woman's Party, and became associated with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the People's Mandate to End Wars. From the description of Mabel Vernon papers, 1914-1920. (University of California, Berkeley). Wo...

S. A. Joffe

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McIntosh, Mavis

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Westfield Adult School

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Gandhi, Manilal, 1892-1956

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Internal Revenue Service

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H. C. Trowel

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Sister Marie-Andre du Sacre Coeur.

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Bartlett, George A. (George Arthur), 1869-1951

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Nevada lawyer; District Attorney of Eureka County, 1898-1900; District Court judge of Reno, 1918 and 1921-1930; U.S. Representative from Nevada, 1906-1910; and author of the book Men, women and conflict, 1931, which was revised and reissued in 1947 as Is marriage necessary? Bartlett's obituaries claimed he granted more than 20,000 divorces, earning him the sobriquet of "the Divorce Judge." He was very involved in state politics and was one of Nevada's most prominent citizens. He played a signifi...

Iskander Sasha Hourwich

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Marie-Andre du Sacre Coeur, Sister

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Foreign Policy Association.

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Mariannhill Monastery

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New American Library.

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NAL, based in New York and beginning in 1948, produced affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works, as well as popular, pulp, and "hard-boiled" fiction. Non-fiction, original, and hardcopy issues were also produced. Victor Weybright and Kurt Enoch founded the New American Library of World Literature, Inc. (NAL), in 1948. NAL was established as an autonomous American publishing house after branching off from its British-based parent company, Penguin Book...

Laughlin, Gail

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Westbrook College

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British Broadcasting Company

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The two part documentary ‘No Plan, No Peace: The inside story of Iraq’s descent into chaos’ was produced by BBC Current Affairs and broadcast on the 28th and 29th October 2007. From the guide to the BBC Documentary: ‘No Plan, No Peace’ Collection, 2007, (Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony's College, Oxford) In December 1981, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of 13 controversial programmes by its Religious Affairs Correspondent, Gerald Priestland, under the title Priestland's...

Joseph McKee

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Victor Gollancz, Ltd

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Paton, Dorrie

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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

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WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace; the name WILPF was not chosen until 1919. The first WILPF president, Jane Addams, had previously founded the Woman's Peace Party in the United States, in January 1915, this group later became the US section of WILPF. Along with Jane Addams, Marian Cripps and Margaret E. Dungan were also foundi...

Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association

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In 1870, within a year of forming the American Woman Suffrage Association, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and others founded the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. MWSA was affiliated with AWSA and shared both its goals and activities. The merger, in 1890, of AWSA with the National Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), prompted Alice Stone Blackwell and Ellen Batelle Dietrick to write a new constitution in April 1892. T...

North American Newspaper Alliance

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Dorcas Campbell

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Gandhi, Sita

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Nevada Bank San Francisco

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William Esty and Company

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Consolidated California

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Christina Sibiya's

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Christina Sibiya

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20th Century Fund

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Sibiya, Christina, 1900-1946

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Vera Hourwich Semmens

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Woman's Peace Parade Committee

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Ohio Woman Suffrage Association

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Feminist Alliance

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Edward Kennedy

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Huston, John

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Epithet: film producer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x0001b9 ...

Kravitz, Aaron

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Vivian Pierce

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New York School for Social Work

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Congressional Union

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Cape Town University

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Benton and Bowles

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Friendship house settlement

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Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage

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Jackson, Jeremy C.

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Powers, Agnes

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Solomon ka Dinuzulu

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University College, Nigeria

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New School for Social Research.

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Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985

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Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a lawyer, scholar, writer, educator, administrator, religious leader, civil rights and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the first black woman to be ordained as an Episcopal minister. She spent much of her life in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Proud shoes : the story of an American family : typescript, 1956 / by Pauli Murray. (New York Public Library)....

National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Formed in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. From the description of National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 bulk (1890-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979907 The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed in 1890 with the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA fought for complete political ...

Dr. Mary Woolley

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Yofe, Yehudah, 1873-1966

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Yiddish linguist, instructor of Talmud at Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Papers, 1883-1964, 1922-1962 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79306125 Lexicographer. Joffe edited THE GREAT DICTIONARY OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE, taught at the Walden School, and was a lecturer at Columbia University. From the description of Yehudah Yofe papers, 1912-1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat re...

Ibadan University

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American League to Abolish Capital Punishment

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National Council of Jewish Women

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Organized in 1893 as the Council of Jewish Women; name changed in 1923 to the National Council of Jewish Women. The two primary goals of the organization are social reform and the promotion of Judaism among women. From the description of Records of the National Council of Jewish Women, 1893-1989 (bulk 1940-1981). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456414 The National Council members, in their Credo, stated that they "believe in the ideal of Peace." In their philosophy, they st...

George Kennan Hourwich

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Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa

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People's Mandate to Governments to End War. Committee for the Western Hemisphere

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New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Sudharma Dharmadasa

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Louise Brannan

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Women for Congress Committee

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Buenos Aires Peace Treaties

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Iskander Hourwich

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Wellesley College

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South Africa Institute of Race Relations

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Bishop Lavis

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Stein, Nadine

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Inez Milholland Memorial Fund Committee

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Stanley Milburn

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Pierce, Vivian

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Woman Suffrage Party.

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Children's television workshop

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Hourwich, Sasha

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Hourwich, Philip

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Ruth Benedict's

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Ingersoll, Fern

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Joffe, Judah A.

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Ophir Silver Mining Company

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Federal Music Project

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Alice Movius

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Fon of Bikom

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Alan Paton)

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Andria Andy Hourwich

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Equal Rights Amendment

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Jackson, Daniel, 1963-

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Epithet: of Carlisle Cumb British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000837.0x00015e ...

Carter, Anne.

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Ruth Gannett

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Adolph Hourwich

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Dorothea Fairbridge

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Hourwich, Gladys

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Louise Elizabeth Hourwich

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W. Colston Leigh, Inc.

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Jackson, Thomas, 1812-1886

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Epithet: Secretary of Legation at Turin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000182 Epithet: Alderman? of Carlisle British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000170 Epithet: Solicitor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x000183 Epithet:...

Langston, Hughes

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(James) Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902-May 22, 1967), an African-American writer, poet, playwright and columnist made influential contributions in his life and work during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's. In 1925 Hughes won first prize in the poetry section of the 1925 Opportunity magazine literary contest, which launched his literary career. His first volume of poetry appeared in 1926. In 1942, he became a columnist for the African American newspaper, the Chicago Defender. Hughes used t...

Dorrie Paton

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South Dakota Universal Franchise League.

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Fern Ingersoll.

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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...

Daniel Jackson

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Hughes, Alice

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New York State Woman Suffrage Party

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The New York State Woman Suffrage Party was a branch of the National American Woman Suffrage Association which was formed in 1890 to reunite the suffrage movement and to coordinate the suffrage campaign. From the description of New York State Woman Suffrage Party records, 1915-1919, bulk (1917). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122466571 From the guide to the New York State Woman Suffrage Party records, 1915-1919, 1917, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts...

Louise Elizabeth Lisa Joffe Hourwich

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UNESCO

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Bryn Mawr

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Illinois Equal Suffrage Association

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Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich, 1897-1987

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Rebecca Hourwich Reyher was born on January 21, 1897, in New York City, the second child of Isaac Hourwich (1860-1924) and his second wife Louise Elizabeth "Lisa" (Joffe) Hourwich (1866-1947). Rebecca enrolled at Columbia University's extension school in 1915 and took classes at the University of Chicago in the early 1920s; she received her bachelor's degree in 1954, after taking summer school classes at the University of Chicago. While living in Washington, D.C., Rebecca became interested in th...

Younger, Maud, 1870-1936

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Maud Younger was born Jan. 10, 1870 to a wealthy family in San Francisco, CA. She began her activism work after visiting New York College Settlement House. While in New York City, she joined the New York Waitresses' Union. Younger later worked as a waitress in San Francisco and organized the city's first Waitresses' Union, serving as first president. In 1908 she helped found the San Francisco Wage Earners' Suffrage League. She is well known for giving the memorial keynote at the funeral of Inez ...

New York School of Social Work

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Dominican Republic Settlement Association, Inc.

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Organization affiliated with American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee formed to promote settlement in the Dominican Republic of refugees from the Nazis. From the description of Records, 1938-1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155467823 ...

International Institute of Women's Studies

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J. Walter Thompson company

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Advertising agency. From the description of Radio programs, 1953-1961 and n.d. [sound recording]. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 37954564 After graduating from Mount Holyoke College, Lois Gaeta worked at the J. Walter Thompson Company advertising agency as a script writer for television and radio commercials during the years 1955 through 1961. Later in her career, Gaeta worked in video and in continuing education programs in the medical profession. ...

People's Mandate for Inter-American Peace and Cooperation)

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