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Pamphlet with printed versions of two winning essays in EPEL's annual suffrage essay contests for high school students. Aleck G. Whitfield won first prize and Ethel Elizabeth MacDonald took second with essays on the topic "Should Chicago Women Have…

Newspaper article about the Illinois Woman's Christian Temperance Union's work urging women to register to vote in the School Board election, including information about the registration process and requirements.

Newspaper account of plans for suffrage bazaar at Hotel LaSalle, in which Evanston women took a leadership role.

Article in the Evanston Index describing Carrie Chapman-Catt's upcoming lecture on suffrage at First Congregational Church in Evanston.

A short poem written by women's rights activist Elizabeth Boynton Harbert.

Newspaper account of recent EPEL meeting at Rickards home, 1324 Forest Avenue.

McCulloch loosely based this play on the life and experiences of Myra Bradwell, another Evanstonian woman. The play's introduction describes the incident that Mrs. Bradwell faced which portrayed the problems that married women faced regarding their…

A book of selected quotations from the writings of Frances E. Willard.

A pamphlet outlining the principles of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as specified by Frances E. Willard.

A fictional account of the legal injustices suffered by wives and mothers in the United States written by Catharine Waugh McCulloch.