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Call No.: A-113
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Edna Fischel Gellhorn, 1878-1970
Title: Papers, 1919-1960
Quantity: 1 file box
Abstract: Correspondence, biographical material, etc., of Edna Fischel Gelhorn, civic worker and suffragist.

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SCOPE AND CONTENT

The papers of Mrs. George Gellhorn, an active civic worker in St. Louis, Missouri, contain biographical material and correspondence relating to her position as director of the National Woman Suffrage Association, as president of the St. Louis and Missouri Leagues of Women Voters, and as vice-president of the National League of Women Voters. There is also considerable correspondence with Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Catt's letters to members of the N.A.W.S.A., and biographical and other material about Mrs. Catt.

CONTAINER LIST

• Box 1: 1-18

INVENTORY

• 1-6: I. Mrs. George Gellhorn
  • 1. Correspondence, 1919-1930
  • 2. Correspondence, 1938-1960
  • 3. Awards; voted one of five outstanding U.S. women
  • 4. League of Women voters
  • 5. Newspaper clippings re Mrs. George Gellhorn
  • 6. Miscellaneous re Mrs. Gellhorn

• 7-13: II. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt
  • 7. Mrs. Gellhorn's correspondence with C.C. Catt, 1919-1946
  • 8. C.C.Catt - correspondence with members of N.A.W.S.A., 1919-1947
  • 9. Presentation of portrait of Mrs. Catt to Smithsonian Institution, 1939
  • 10. Committee of Ten, Mrs. C.C.Catt, chairman "Asylum for refugees under our immigration laws"
  • 11. Financial statement of Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission and Leslie Continuing Committee, 1917 - 1941
  • 12. Biographical and miscellaneous re C.C.Catt
  • 13. Death of Mrs. C.C.Catt, 1947

• 14-18: III. Miscellaneous
  • 14. Missouri Anti-Suffragist letter to candidates, 1918 N.A.W.S.A. reply
  • 15. Radio broadcast re Woman Suffrage, May 27, 1936
  • 16. Disbanding of National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1950
  • 17. Mrs. W.E. Fischel [Mama (Ellis) Fischel, EFG's mother]
  • 18. Miscellaneous

Published materials received with Gellhorn papers:

• Colton, Olive A., The Forward March, 1938
• Woman Suffrage, Arguments and Results

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INDEX

• Abbott, C. G. 9
• Allen, Florence Ellinwood 1,2
• Anthony, Lucy E. 1
• Blackwell, Alice Stone 2
• Brown, Gertrude Foster (Mrs. Raymond) 1
• Catt, Carrie Chapman 7, 8, 15
• Collins, Nancy Love 2
• Dennison, Eleanor E. 2
• Donnell, Forrest C. 2
• Douglas, Emily Taft 2
• Douglas, Mrs. Ralph W. 1
• Dulin, Irene L. 2
• Edwards, M.S. [Mrs. Richard] 1
• Ellicott, Mrs. Charles E. 1
• English, M.L. (Mrs. Fred L.) 1
• Farrington, Josephine B. 2
• Fischer, Mrs. Aaron 2
• Ford, Mrs. George B. 2
• Gellhorn, Edna Fischel 1,2,7 8,15
• Gellhorn, Martha 2
• Goldmark, Josephine 1
• Hansl, Eva v. B. 15
• Harrison, Gladys 1
• Hauser, Elizabeth J. 1
• Holt, Hamilton 1
• Hudson, Jay William 2
• Hyde, Clara M. 1
• Kenyon, Dorothy 2
• McBride, Kathy 2
• McCormick, Katharine Dexter 9
• McCulloch, Catharine Waugh 1
• McDowell, Mary E. 1,2
• Martin, Helen 2
• Morgan, Ruth 1
• Nagel, Hildegard 2
• Newton, C. A. 1
• Pabst, Bertha 2
• Park, Maud Wood 1
• Pieksen, Margot I. 18
• Potter, Virginia 1
• Robins, Margaret Drier (Mrs. Raymond) 1
• Roosevelt, Eleanor 2
• Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 1
• Sacks, Ruth B. 14
• Sherwin, Belle 1
• Slade, F. Louis 16
• Strauss, Anna Lord 2
• Swan, Olive B. 1
• Symington, Stuart 2
• Upton, Harriet Taylor 1
• Wells, Marguerite M. 2, 9
• Wilkinson, M. L. 1
• Hay, Mary Garrett 1