Papers, 1833-1975 (inclusive), 1884-1972 (bulk).

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Papers, 1833-1975 (inclusive), 1884-1972 (bulk).

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence. The papers document Miller's many interests and volunteer activities: Democratic Party politics on the local, state, and national levels, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, Slippery Rock State College, the National Woman's Party and the Equal Rights Amendment, the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. There is almost no information about her family or her personal life (childhood, adolescence, and her marriage after 1907).

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