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Miss Edythe [Edith] Wynne Matthison of Connecticut is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss Matthison is well known to all Americans for her brilliant work on the stage, particularly for her acting in "Every Woman." Few realize however, the strong interest which she feels in the suffrage movement and the active support which she is enabled to give the Congressional Union.

Miss Helen Kellar [Keller] of Massachusetts is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss Kellar [Keller] is known to all Americans for her marvelous intellectual and educational accomplishments, in spite of the handicap imposed upon her by her deafness and blindness. Not so well known however is her strong espousal of the suffrage cause and the sincere support which she has given to the work of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage.

Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss Whitney was president of the College Suffrage League of California during the campaign which resulted in the winning of suffrage in that state. Miss Whitney was formerly the first vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She is now one of the prominent officers of the Civic Association of California. Miss Whitney is a Californian.

Miss Pauline Clarke, of New York, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, is one of the assistant editors of "The Suffragist," weekly official organ of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party. When Miss Clarke was a student at Bryn Mawr, she was President of that branch of the College Equal Suffrage League.

Miss Martin, Assistant to Chairman of the National Republican Committee. Washington, D.C., Sept. 22. An informal picture of Miss Marion E. Martin, of Bangor, Maine, who has been recently appointed as Assistant to the Chairman, in charge of women's Activities of the National Republican Committee. Miss Martin served in the last campaign in the Eastern Headquarters of the Women's Division. She succeeds Mrs. Robert Lincoln Hoyal. 9/22/37

"McIntyre meets the Ladies" Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Three of Washington's loveliest meet the Secretary to the president, and are shown thru the White House. The girls have been competing for the title of Miss Washington, and Miss Dorothy Parker, left; won. Next Marvin McIntyre, Nadine Petrrey, 2nd place, and Miss Toni Mann, who placed third, Miss Parker will take part in the nation wide contest to be held in Atlantic City Labor Day, for the title of Miss America, she weighs 112 lbs, and is 5 feet 4 inches tall, and is 18 years old, 8/4/38

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Miss Ada James of Wisconsin is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Miss James was formerly President of the Political Equality League of Wisconsin. Her prominence in that State where her father has been a well known member of the State Legislature, has enabled her to contribute greatly to the strength of the Congressional Union in that section of the country.

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Miss Anna McCue is one of the organizers of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. She began work as a child in the hosiery mills in Kensington, Philadelphia and worked in the Kensington factories until 22 years old when she became an organizer for the Congressional Union. Since that time she has been one of the most powerful speakers in the work for the national suffrage amendment, making a very effective appeal because of her intimate acquaintance with the hardships involved in the life of the wage earning woman.

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Summary: Head and shoulders portrait of Anna McCue, facing camera, with bar brooch.

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Exhausted after wage-hour fight in senate. Washington, D.C., June 13. Senator Allen Ellender Democrat of Louisana and onetime Lieutenant of the late Huey Long, is snapped by news cameramen as he rests in his office after leading the victorious fight for the compromise in the wage-hour bill. The compromise is expected to make wage differentials possible for many southern industries. He has threatened a filibuster unless the south got what it wanted in the measure, 6/13/38

Commissioners of the Kensington District of the Northern Liberties. Standing commi ttees for the year 1832. Philadelphia. Joseph Rakestraw, printer. No. 256 North Third Street [1832?].

Boy working in Talladega Hosiery Mills. Location: Talladega, Alabama.

Aluminum City Terrace, 2-3 Bedroom Unit Type, East Hill Drive, New Kensington, Westmoreland County, PA

$119,000,000,000 lost to American wage earners during nine years of unemployment. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Questioned by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, right, Co-chairman of the Joint Monopoly Committee, Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Depart. Of Labor, explains with a special chart how American wage and salary earners have lost $119,000,000,000 during nine years of unemployment. Lubin was the first witness before the Committee, Joint Legislative-Executive Body Created to Study Economic Ills and Recommend Remedial Legislation

Urges equal rights for women. Washington, D.C., Feb. 9. Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller, Democratic National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania and a sister of Senator Joseph Guffey, urged approval of the Burke Constitutional Amendment for Equal Rights for Women as she testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today. Mrs.. Miller, shown with Senator Burke, author of the Amendment, told the committee that business women have "felt the ruinious effects of discriminatory and so-called protective legislation," 2/9/38

A journal, containing an accurate and interesting account of the hardships, sufferings, battles, defeat, and captivity of those heroic Kentucky volunteers and regulars : commanded by General Winchester, in the years 1812-13. Also, two narratives by men that were wounded in the battles on the River Raisin and taken captive by the Indians

Argument in Favor of Equal Suffrage Constitutional Amendment in Oregon

Mrs. Bertha C. Moller of Minneapolis, Minn.

Sage advice. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Key Pittman, Veteran from Nevada and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discusses with the youthful Republican Senator Henry Cabor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the amendment he (lodge) has proposed to the Neutrality Act which would make the U.S. Neutral in fact as well in theory. Senator Lodge is also a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2/2/38

Missouri Senator opposes rail wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. Senator Harry Truman, of Missouri, today joined Senator Burton K. Wheeler in opposing the proposed rail wage cut as both appeared before the President's fact finding board at the Capitol. He contended the cut will not save the present financial situation of the railroads, 10/14/38

How do you do, Mr. McCue - Public domain American sheet music

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