Emma Smith DeVoe's correspondence and scrapbooks, 1880-1920 / compiled, arranged and collected by Bernice Sapp.

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Emma Smith DeVoe's correspondence and scrapbooks, 1880-1920 / compiled, arranged and collected by Bernice Sapp.

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This is a collection of general correspondence and scrapbooks (bk.) of newspaper clippings relating to the women's suffrage movement in the United States in general and Washington State in particular. Also includes "Victory Letters" to Emma Smith DeVoe celebrating the 1910 passage of a women's suffrage law in Washington and a broadside. The correspondence includes: files concerning the suffrage movement in Washington State during 1900-1911; correspondence of the National Council of Women Voters; personal correspondence between Mrs. DeVoe and her husband and some personal correspondence of Bernice Sapp. Most of the correspondence is written to Mrs. Emma S. DeVoe.

22 boxes (circa 5 linear feet)

Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State

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SNAC Resource ID: 7639783

Washington State Library, Office of Secretary of State

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National League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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Dick, Malcolm R., Mrs.

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Devoe, Emma Smith 1848-1927

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Emma Smith was born in Warren County, Illinois in 1858. She moved with her parents to Tazewell County Illinois with her parents where she received a liberal education. She took charge of the Music Dept. of Eureka College in 1870. In 1880 she married J. Henry DeVoe. In 1881 the couple moved to the Dakota Territory and in 1891 they moved to Harvey, Ill. where Henry was an attorney and police magistrate. Mrs. DeVoe had been active in the temperance movement in Dakota Territory and work...

Sapp, Bernice A., 1871-1965.

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National Council of Women Voters (U.S.)

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Elsom, Clara Watson.

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Smith-Eaton, Cora, 1867-1939

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Daughters of the Pioneers of Washington

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DeVoe, J. Henry, d. 1928.

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Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

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