Papers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Virginia [manuscript], 1882-1958.

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Papers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Virginia [manuscript], 1882-1958.

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The bulk of the collection consists of minute books from state conventions and local union business meetings, 1882-1958. With these are the correspondence files of Amy C. Weech, director of the Virginia Evangelistic Department and Lelia Maude Greaver Page, vice- president of the Virginia WCTU; a history file; a scrapbook of the Fair and Exhibits Department; convention programs; reports and minutes; photographs of Virginia leaders; prize essays; publications; and memorabilia. Also state and national printed material including "Statue of Miss Frances E. Willard," "The light-house: a history of Richmond-Henrico County WCTU 1882-1935," several volumes of "The Virginia call" and scattered issues of other temperance publications. With the collection are a few items from the Anti-Monroe Doctrine Society.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7921396

University of Virginia. Library

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Shepherd, Lilian A.

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Page, Lelia Maude Greaver, 1887-

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Weech, Amy C.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Evangelistic Department.

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Smith, Ida B. Wise (Ida Belle Wise), 1871-1952

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Armor, Mary Harris.

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Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Typed letter signed : Richmond, Va., to Mrs. Robert M. Littlejohn, 1933 May 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270858090 John Garland Pollard was a Richmond, Va. lawyer who served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-2, was Virginia's attorney-general, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, dean of the Marshall-Wythe School of Government and Citizenship at the College of William and Mary, mayor of Williamsburg, Va...

Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Virginia

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Organization dedicated to preventing the sale and consumption of alcohol in Virginia. From the description of Papers of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Virginia [manuscript], 1882-1958. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647826833 ...

Boole, Ella A. (Ella Alexander), 1858-1952

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Church and temperance worker; interviewee married William H. Boole. From the description of Reminiscences of Ella Alexander Boole : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721674 ...

Hoge, Sara H.

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McPherson, Almera Josephine Cox. d. 1967.

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Anti-Monroe Doctrine Society.

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Sanders, Herbert W., Mrs.,

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