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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

Educational pamphlet on the topic of venereal disease.
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Reprint of an editorial from the Richmond Evening Journal, May 4, 1915. "Virginia Warns Her People Against Suffrage ---- Twenty-nine counties would go under Negro Rule Over sixty counties in the State of Georgia The entire State of Mississippi -----…
VCU_M 9 Box 51 Virginia Warns Her People anti suffrage.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

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

Woman's Christian Temperance Union placard. A stick handle was once attached to this sign.
M 9 Box 51_ WCTU placard rsz.jpg

This program announces the topics and speakers for the Equal Suffrage League of Richmond's weekly meetings between Thursday, January 8, 1914 and Thursday, April 2, 1914. Topics for these weekly meetings include "Woman Suffrage and Organized…
VCU_M 9 Box 48 Programme ESL Richmond rsz.jpg

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

Members of the Virginia League of Women Voters meeting in Alexandria, Virginia on February 3, 1923.Identification from back of photoLeft to right:Mrs. Sarah Matthews, NorfolkMrs. John H. Lewis (Eliz. Langer Lewis), LynchburgMiss Adele Clark,…
VCU_M 9 Box 242 LWV Convention Alexandria 1923 rsz.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

Printed by Erie Litho & Ptg Co.
Illustration by Louis Valentine Bonhajo (1885-1970)
M9 b233 f7 League of Women VOTE poster crop rsz.jpg

Flyer advertising a presentation by Adele Clark in Blackstone, Va."Miss Adelle [sic] Clark, of Richmond, the Vice President of the National League of Women Voters, will address the ladies of Blackstone and community on the issues of the presidential…
VCU_M 9 LWV meeting Adele Clark speaks Oct 30 1928 rsz.jpg

Group portrait of attendees at the Interracial Conference of Church Women, Eagles Mere, Pa., September 21-22, 1926.The conference was held by the Commission on the Church and Race Relations of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America,…
VCU M 9 Box 239 Interracial Conference of Church Women Sep 21_22 Eagles Mere PA 1926 crop 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

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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