The papers (1850-1970, bulk 1880-1970) of Mrs. Edna Gellhorn, civic leader, reformer, and first vice president of the National League of Women Voters, include correspondence, general files, scrapbooks, appointment calenders, and miscellany. The files cover primarily materials from the 1880s through the 1960s. Included are information files on the League of Women Voters and the American Association for the United Nations. Additional material includes files and scrapbooks documenting Gellhorn's activites as a member of the Women's Central Committee on Food Conservation, 1917-1919; Consumer's Milk Commission, 1930-1942; Smoke Elimination Committee, 1940; City Governement Institute of St. Louis, 1941; promotion of the merit system in civil service, 1935-1943; and the Greater St. Louis Citizen's Committee for Nuclear Information, 1957-1962. The files also include materials pertaining to the Gellhorn and Fischel families. Also included in the collection are photocopies of her correspondence with Eleanor Roosevelt from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, 4079 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538. There are also photocopies of Edna Gellhorn's papers from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, 3 James Street, Cambridge, Mass.
