Harriet W. Elliott papers, 1900-1947.

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Harriet W. Elliott papers, 1900-1947.

1900-1947

https://uncg.on.worldcat.org/oclc/71788984

Correspondence, speeches, reports, minutes, and photographs document Elliott's personal life and her involvement in various political, civic, and professional organizations from 1900 to 1947. Significant subjects include Elliott's student years at Park College and Hanover College in the early 1900s; her role as consumer commissioner on the Advisory Commission to the Council of National Defense, 1940-1941; her service as a delegate to UNESCO in 1945; and her work as a government appointee to several commissions related to women's issues and women in the government in the early 1940s. Prominent correspondents include Frankin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Allen, Mary "Molly" Dewson, O. Max Gardner, and Ellen Woodward.

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8085659

University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, UNCG University Libraries

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