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  • Tags: Evanston Political Equality League

Prize Essays 1.jpg
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…

Treasurer's Book 1.jpg
Treasurer's book of EPEL, 1904-1907. Includes records of dues-paying members and disbursements.

New Officers 1.jpg
Newspaper account of EPEL annual meeting and election of new officers.

Officers 1 of 2.jpg
Card with list of EPEL officers, EPEL constitution, and space for membership pledge on reverse side.

Bazaar 1.jpg
Newspaper account of plans for suffrage bazaar at Hotel LaSalle, in which Evanston women took a leadership role.

Votes for Women Urged by League.jpg
Newspaper account of recent EPEL meeting at Rickards home, 1324 Forest Avenue.

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

Membership Application.jpg
A membership pledge from Mrs. A.M. Blunt to the Evanston Political Equality League.

Covers, The New Era, EBH, November  1885 214.1.3.2.pdf
A sampling of covers from The New Era, a newspaper published by Elizabeth Boynton Harbert to elucidate the cause of women's suffrage.
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