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Adèle Clark's convention badge for the National League of Women Voters Fifth Annual Convention, April 24 - 29, 1924, Buffalo, NY.
VCU_M9 Box 230 Adele Clark LWV Buffalo Convention 1924 badge.jpg

This photograph and article were published in the April 20, 1918 issueof The Woman Citizen. Adele Clark and Nora Houston, Richmond art teachers and leaders in the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (ESL), decorated the float which was sponsored by the…
VCU_Woman Citizen article April 20 1918 ESL Thrift Day float rsz.jpg

DescriptionEqual Suffrage League of Virginia float depicting the Barge of State with Victory at the prow. This photograph was taken at the Thrift Day Parade held the afternoon of Saturday, March 23, 1918 in Richmond, VA. According to newspaper…
VCU_M9 Box 239 ESL Thrift Day float 1918 rsz.jpg

Equal Suffrage League of Richmond, Va. in front of Washington Monument, Capitol Square, Richmond. The members of the ESL were promoting the suffrage film, "Your Girl and Mine."Photo published inThe Times-Dispatch: Richmond, Va., February 28, 1915, p.…
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union placard. A stick handle was once attached to this sign.
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Historical highway marker commemorating the life of Adèle Goodman Clark. Located between Wilmer Avenue and Brook Road (Route 1), near Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Henrico County, Virginia.
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Educational pamphlet on the topic of venereal disease.
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Photograph of Adèle Clark, inscribed on reverse:"For my dear Papa-from his lovinglittle Pet.Adèle ClarkMarch 16th /87Four and a half years old."Photograph byRichmond Photo Co.827 1/2 Broad St.Richmond, VA
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Postcard with poem promoting Woman Suffrage.Text reads:Bread and Roses, by James OppenheimAs we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days --The rising of the Women means the rising of the race --No more the drudge and idler -- Ten that toil…
M 9 B 55 Bread and Roses suffrage postcard rsz.jpg

Photograph ofAdèle Clark's grandmother and sister taken at the studio of Theodore Lilienthal, 121 Canal St., New Orleans. Inscribed on reverse at top to Cecile "Cely" Goodman Ions [Maternal aunt of Adèle Clark and her godmother].Inscribed on…
VCU_Amelia Harris Goodman and Edith Clark 1880_M 9 Box 238 rsz.jpg

Printed by Erie Litho & Ptg Co.
Illustration by Louis Valentine Bonhajo (1885-1970)
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Photograph of Adèle Clark, Nora Houston, Mae Schaill, Mary Eugenia Benson Jobson, 1915.Published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 1, 1915 ("Suffrage Advocates Appear With Candidates"), the article notes "For the first time in the history of…
VCU_M9 Box 239_Adele Clark Nora Houston May Schaill Mrs Frank Jobson 1915 rsz.jpg

Pages 7-8 (front and back) removed fromFederal Council Bulletin, September-October, 1926. The article, "Church Women Explore Interracial Paths," details an interracial conference held on September 21-22, 1926 at Eagles Mere, Pa.The conference was…
VCU_M 9 Box 81 fInterracial Commission Federal Council Bulletin Sept Oct 1926 p7 rsz.jpg

Child labor street permit. This pinback button for an errand boy was issued in 1929. Variant state seal with armored Virtus and mountains in the distance.
M9 Box 230 Adele Clark_Errand Boys Child labor street permit crop rsz2.jpg

Letter from President Coolidge to Kate Waller Barrett regarding the Florence Crittenton Mission which managed homes for unwed mothers and prostitutes.

My dear Mrs. Barrett:
It is not easy to imagine a single reason why the work of the Florence…
M 9 Box 111 Letter to K W Barrett from C Coolidge 10_23_1924 rsz.jpg

Drawing of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Grace and Ninth Streets across from Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.

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VCU_M9 B233 St Pauls RVA by Adele Clark rsz.jpg

Publication of the Art Club of Richmond located at 521 West Grace St., Richmond, Va.

"Membership and Junior Membership, $3.00 a Year
Contributing Membership, $10.00 a Year"
VCU_M 9 Box 169 Art club 1914 by Adele Clark rsz.jpg

Venereal disease bulletin, no. 54.
Public health pamphlet arguing that prostitution spreads venereal disease and cannot be "segregated, licensed, and made sanitary."
M 9 Box 54 Case Against the Red Light cover crop rsz .jpg
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