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Victories of four decades : A history of the Woman's Christian temperance union of southern California, 1883-1924

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    Woman's Christian Temperance Union

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of the papers of Elizabeth Boynton Harbert. Chiefly correspondence, the collection also contains manuscripts (including diaries, address books of woman suffrage workers, poetry and music), printed matter and ephemera, large scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, some photographs, and an extensive collection of pamphlets and broadsides on the topic of woman suffrage.

    mssHarbert

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    Woman"s Christian Temperance Union of California. Resolution Passed at Convention

    Manuscripts

    There are 631 manuscripts, 525 of which are by Caroline Severance. These include speeches, poetry, essays, articles, notebooks, commonplace books, miscellaneous notes, and a 347-page unpublished autobiography by Caroline Severance entitled "Own Story." The majority of the 10,634 pieces of correspondence is made up of family letters; only 232 letters are written by Caroline Severance. The rest of the correspondence is made up of letters written to Caroline Severance by over 1,700 different authors. The collection contains 9,007 pieces of ephemera, which is made up of address books, appointment books, brochures, business papers, greeting cards, legal documents, newspaper clippings, postcards, fliers, brochures, programs, notebooks, photographs, and financial papers of the family. The manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera cover the following subjects: African American women suffrage and clubs, Susan B. Anthony, Jessie Benton Frémont, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe, child labor reform, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Fröbel and the Kindergarten movement, Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Helen Modjeska, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, dress reform, suffrage, temperance, Unitarianism, women's rights, women's clubs, and the history, politics and social life of 19th and 20th century Los Angeles, California.

    mssSeverance papers

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    How to organize a Woman's Christian temperance union

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    Fruitvale, Calif., branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union minutes of monthly meetings

    Manuscripts

    The minutes of the Fruitvale branch of thw WCTU contain information about the election of officers, regional and national WCTU meetings, political elections, the 18th Amendment, temperance, narcotics, and the general meetings and activities of the Fruitvale branch

    mssHM 60929