Papers, 1909-1989 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1909-1989 (inclusive).

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Collection consists of sixteen photographs of her Pennsylvania suffrage campaign in 1915; reproductions of high school and Vassar photographs as well as pages from the Vassarion, 1909-1913; copy of her typed diary kept while in jail, Nov. 1917; typed notes on her life, 1971; excerpt from Women Win the Vote by Betsy Covington Smith, 1989.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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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...

Vassar College.

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Ingham, Mary H.

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Hilles, Elizabeth McShane, 1891-1976.

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Suffragist Elizabeth McShane Hilles was born on a farm in Fayette County, Pa., the daughter of Anna Dixon Vail and William McShane. She graduated from Uniontown (Pa.) High School and from Vassar College in 1913. After teaching in Indianapolis, Ind., Hilles joined the campaign for women's suffrage, traveling with college classmate Louise Hall throughout Pennsylvania during the summer of 1915 with a replica of the Liberty Bell mounted on a truck. She later moved to Philadelphia, working as an assi...