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Women in public life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Ida Husted Harper papers

 Collection — Folder S0595
Identifier: S0595
Scope and Contents This collection contains Ida Husted Harper's manuscript, The Associated Work of the Women of Indiana. The handwritten manuscript is 140 pages long and contains 45 chapters that relate information and statistics regarding the many missionary societies, temperance unions, literary clubs, and other organizations managed by women in Indiana up to April 1893. The collection also includes a letter sent by Mrs. Harper to Ed Hawkins regarding the publishing of her...
Dates: 1893

"Literary Curiosity" poem

 Collection — Folder S2002
Identifier: S2002
Scope and Contents The poem entitled "Literary Curiosity," is an unfavorable poem written about women by an unknown poet circa 1900s.
Dates: 1900s

Margaret Afflis Johnston collection

 Collection
Identifier: L555
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and political correspondence and papers, photographs, notebooks, publications and other materials from Margaret Afflis Johnston in Delphi, Carroll County and Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from 1916 to 1967, regarding her political career, public service, the Democratic Party in Indiana, the Indiana Women's Prison and the state correctional system, community engagement, and personal life. Campaign materials and periodicals for various democratic candidates and...
Dates: circa 1916-1967

Mary Smiley photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: P070
Scope and Contents This collection includes photographs from Marie Stuart Edwards and the Shirk, Stuart, and Edwards families in Lafayette and Peru, Indiana and Marion, Ohio, as well as photographs, letters, and scrapbook pages from Mary Castner Smiley in Denver, Indiana, ranging from 1876 to 1990, regarding Edwards' women's suffrage activism (circa 1920-1922) and war work during World War II; family portraits of Edwards and three generations of the Stuart and Edwards families; the Shirk-Edwards House in Peru,...
Dates: 1876-1990