Constance Ashton Myers collection, 1974 June 24-19uu.

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Constance Ashton Myers collection, 1974 June 24-19uu.

Collection of 35 oral histories (T1-T35) discussing efforts to secure votes for women during the early 20th century; C.A. Myers interviewed suffragist activists or their descendents on such topics as women's involvement with politics, suffrage, and various other reform movements. Includes interviews with Laura Bragg, Clara Hammond Buchanan, Niels Christensen, Alderman Duncan, Wil Lou Gray, Carrie Pollitzer, Eulalie Salley, Marguerite Tolbert, and others; interviews transcribed by Cathy H. Mann. Some interviews described individually in catalog; for list select AUTHOR search for: Constance Ashton Myers collection.

1.25 linear ft. (1 carton)

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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...

Myers, Constance Ashton

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Historian Constance Ashton Myers was born in New York City in 1936, and has lived mainly in Augusta, S.C., and taught mainly at the University of Aiken, South Carolina. For biographical information, see Who's Who of American Women, 1981-1982. From the description of Papers, 1976, 1981. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007805 ...