Pennsylvania -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Jacob R. Elfreth Jr. diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-020
Abstract
The diaries of Jacob R. Elfreth Jr., a Quaker merchant, elder, and minister. Early diaries, from 1861 to 1867, focus on military movement and battles during the Civil War, reactions to President Lincoln's assassination, and the political tensions during the aftermath of the war. The majority of entries detail day-to-day activities, family news, news of Elfreth's carpet business, attendance at Quaker meetings, social calls, accounts of weather, and births, deaths, and marriages within the...
Dates:
1861-1924
Speer Family papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-M72
Abstract
The Speer Family papers represent four generations of that family, with the bulk of material attributed to the last two generations, especially Robert Elliott Speer and his wife and three of his five children: Emma Bailey, Elliott, Margaret Bailey, and William Speer. The family was active in the Presbyterian Church, serving that institution in a variety of different capacities. The children, in addition to their religious roles, held prominent positions in academic administration. The...
Dates:
1802 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1943
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M88
Abstract
The Women's Suffrage Ephemera collection includes a variety of ephemera related to the fight for women's suffrage dating from c. 1910 until the early 1920s.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
