Papers, 1898-1970.

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Papers, 1898-1970.

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Correspondence, minutes, reports, press releases, financial and legal papers, clippings, speeches, government documents, articles, and diaries relating to her personal and political activities. Subjects include the National Woman's Party, suffrage, women's rights, Equal Rights Amendment, civil rights, Connecticut politics, civic affairs, her teaching career, history of Joel Barlow, her hobby of breeding Swiss Toggenberg milk goats, and family and personal affairs. Correspondents include Alice Paul, 1915-1970, Anita Pollitzer, 1921-1969, Albert Lévitt, 1921-1968, her sister Clara M. Hill, 1898-1939, and Cary Fink, 1903-1939. Collection also includes correspondence of Albert Lévitt, 1921-1965, with Robert W. Clairborne, Alice Paul, Roscoe Pound, Elsie Hill, Clara M. Hill, his daughter Elsie Hill-Lévitt, and others. There are also unprocessed papers of Clara M. Hill, Ebenezer J. Hill, U.S. Congressman from Connecticut and father of Elsie and Clara Hill, and other family members.

ca. 45 cubic ft.

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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...

United States. Congress. House

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National Woman's Party

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Pound, Nathan Roscoe, 1870-1964

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Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Pound as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century. ...

Hill, Elsie Mary, 1883-1970.

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Hill (Vassar College Class of 1906) was a national organizer for and later chair of the National Woman's Party. From 1921 to 1956 she was married to Albert Lévitt (1887-1968), a lawyer and politician who served as Judge of the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands from 1935 to 1937. From the description of Elsie M. Hill papers, 1898-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576511 From the description of Papers, 1898-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519132 ...

Hill, Ebenezer J., 1845-1917

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Ebenezer J. Hill was born in Redding, Connecticut on August 4, 1845. He attended Yale College (Class of 1865) and served in the U.S. Army in a civilian capacity in 1863. Hill was a businessman and politician in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was elected to the U.S. Congress and served from 1895-1913 and 1915-1917. He died in 1917. From the description of Ebenezer J. Hill papers, 1884-1913 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166952 From the guide to the Ebenezer J. Hill ...

Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812

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Poet, author, statesman, army chaplain, merchant, publisher, and lawyer. From the description of Joel Barlow collection, 1787-1887. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70953035 Barlow was an American poet and statesman. He served as American consul in Algiers and as Minister to France (1811-1812). From the description of Papers, 1775-1935. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122419312 From the description of Papers, 1775-193...

Hill, Clara Mossman

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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...

Clairborne, Robert W.

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Hill-Lévitt, Elsie.

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Fink, Cary.

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Lévitt, Albert, 1887-

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