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Records, 1925-1987.

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Inactive membership files containing completed nomination and application forms, geographical and professional files, correspondence relating to membership status, printed material, newspaper clippings, and photos. Includes files on society officers Harriet Chalmers Adams, Dorothy M. Andrews, Mary Hastings Bradley, Berta N. Briggs, Edna Fay Campbell, Frances Carpenter, Mary McRae Colby, Mabel Cook Cole, Elizabeth Derr Davisson, Nordis Felland, Alice Foster, Marguerite Harrison, Florence Jaques, Muna Lee, Florence Lowther, Reba Forbes Morse, Blair Niles, Ruth Crosby Noble, Mary A. Nourse, Marie Peary, Gertrude Emerson Sen, Gertrude Mathews Shelby, Isabelle F. Story, Helen M. Strong, Helen Damrosch Tee-Van, Mildred G. Uhrbrock, and Mary Vander Pyl. Other women represented include Delia J. Akeley, Mary Ritter Beard, Ruby A. Black, Frances Bolton, Margaret Bourke-White, Louise Boyd, Muriel Brown, Rachel Carson, Dickey Chapelle, Sally Clark, Elisabeth May Craig, Bettina Crowe, Frances Densmore, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Lucille S. Douglass, Hettie Dyrenfurth, Amelia Earhart, Nordis Felland, Laura Gilpin, Elina González Acha de Correa Morales, Elsie May Grosvenor, Ella Fullmore Harllee, Virginia Haviland, Alice Hobart, Marion Ingersoll, Theodora Kroeber, Margaret Landon, Rose Wilder Lane, Margaret Mead, Mary Lee Mills, Margaret Alice Murray, Annie Smith Peck, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen B. Smith, Esther Van Deman, and Irene Wright.

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