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Women -- Suffrage -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Bertha Harwood (Mrs. Milton W.) Arrowood scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS816
Scope and Content

This collection consists of scrapbooks compiled by Mrs. Arrowood. The scrapbooks consist of pamphlets, newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, and notes made by Mrs. Arrowood.

Dates: 1898-1938

Ella May Powell scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS467f
Scope and Content This collection contains a scrapbook and scrapbook fragments. Materials collected in the scrapbook include poetry, newspaper clippings, speeches, DeGive's Opera House programs, an 1885 edition of the Sunny South, and documentation about the life of Powell's father, Fielding Travis Powell. Of particular note are documents on Powell's advocacy of Confederate Monuments and the suffragist movement, two medicine recipes, and an image of the Georgia College of...
Dates: 1847-1962, undated

Emma Paul suffragists scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS269f
Scope and Content

This scrapbook consists of clippings, editorial cartoons, and handbills about the Atlanta Suffrage movement.

Dates: 1913-1914

Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia documents

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS826f
Scope and Content

This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial statements, and legal documents of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia. Of particular note is the charter certified by Arnold Broyles, a clerk for the Superior Court of Fulton County. Also included are checks and checkbooks from The Lowry National Bank, as well as a ledger and cash book.

Dates: 1914-1915, undated

Kate Helen Suber Thompson scrapbook

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1145
Scope and Content This collection contains a scrapbook created by Kate Thompson with materials from the Beta Chapter of the Delphian Society in Atlanta and Thompson’s daughter, Katherine. Materials include chapter documents and correspondence, as well as documents and newspaper clippings about Katherine’s education, particularly at Girls High School in Atlanta. In addition, this collection contains newspaper clippings of literary excerpts, news stories, and short pieces on motherhood. Of special note is a...
Dates: 1869-1988, undated

League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County Records

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS394
Scope and Contents of the Records Through correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications and printed material, the collection documents the activities the League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County and its relationships to national and state leagues, from 1917-1982. Subject files, the bulk of the collection, document the efforts of the group to promote political participation among the citizens of Atlanta and covers topics ranging from segregation to juvenile delinquency, as well as various city ordinances....
Dates: 1917 – 1982

Mrs. D. Mitchell Cox scrapbooks

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS340
Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of seven scrapbooks assembled by Mrs. D. Mitchell Cox. Included in the scrapbooks are newspaper clippings on the Daughters of the American Revolution, Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and programs, photographs, and correspondence.

Dates: 1870-1930, undated

Nancy Downing scrapbook on Eleonore Raoul Greene

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS932f
Scope and Content

Downing created this scrapbook as a memorial to Eleonore Raoul Greene. It contains copies of her suffrage exercises, thank you letters, newspaper articles, and letters documenting her work with the Atlanta League of Women Voters.

Dates: 1964-1977, undated

Roan family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1202
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents created and collected by the Roan family. Materials include school documents from various Atlanta and DeKalb institutions; work papers from Judge Roan and Tattie Mae Roan; military and travel papers from Charles Roan; and music and theater programs. The bulk of the material is contained within three scrapbooks, primarily consisting of news clippings, but also including photographs and other ephemera. One of the scrapbooks documents Margaret Zattau Roan's...
Dates: 1913-1971, undated

Sally Fanny Gleaton papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.mss1208
Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials that document Sally Fanny Gleaton's career in women's suffrage advocacy. The bulk of papers are from the National League of Women Voters, which include annual convention pamphlets, financials, rosters, and receipts from hotels. Other items include a scrapbook, newspapers and clippings, a "Votes for Women" banner, greeting cards, and correspondence between Gleaton and other leaders and members of the women's suffrage movement.

Dates: 1907-1935, undated