Papers, 1902-1957.

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Papers, 1902-1957.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46726269

The Ethel Eyre Valentine Dreier Papers include correspondence, speeches, writings, photographs, notebooks, appointment books, travel diaries, clippings, pamphlets, and publications. The personal correspondence consists primarily of letters to her husband. Other correspondence includes letters to Ethel Dreier from Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith, and others. The bulk of professional papers relate to her suffrage work and civic activities in New York, including records of the New York state campaign for woman suffrage (1912-17), and records of activities of the Women's City Club of New York (1919-65). The collection also contains records of Dreier's work for public housing in Brooklyn, for the LaGuardia Mayoral Campaign, and her settlement house work.

2.75 linear ft. (7 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947

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Women's City Club of New York

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All Sorts and Conditions of Girls (Organization : Brooklyn)

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Packer Collegiate Institute, Brooklyn

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Settlement house president; Suffragist; Woman's club leader; Civic leader. Ethel Eyre Valentine (1874-1958) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Brooklyn's Packer Collegiate Institute in 1895. She married H. Edward Dreier in 1901; they had four children. After graduation, she organized and became president of Brooklyn's first social settlement, All Sorts and Conditions of Girls; was President of the United Neighborhood Guild (of five settlements), and Peopl...