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Mississippi Valley suffragists conference includes 3 Kentucky speakers
The presidents of the suffrage organizations from nineteen states -- from the South and West -- came together in a conference in St. Louis at the Buckingham Hotel, April 2-4, 1913. Kentuckians scheduled to speak were: Laura Clay (Lexington, KY) on "The Value of Non-Dues-Paying Organizations;" Belle Harris Bennett (Whitehall [Richmond], KY) on "Southern Women and the Ballot;" Madeline McDowell Breckenridge (Lexington, KY) on "What Women May Do for Women through the Ballot."
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US Forestry Department, National Parks Service, WPA, and Lexington Northside Neighborhood Association photos added to ExploreUK
The following materials were recently added to ExploreUK, the digital library of the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center. Contact us if you have any questions or would like to know more about our holdings.
Laura Clay and group marching for the Madison, Fayette, and Franklin Kentucky Equal Rights Association, at Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, [n.d.], , [n.d.]. Laura Clay Photographic Collection, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY
Title: Laura Clay and group marching for the Madison, Fayette, and Franklin Kentucky Equal Rights Association, at Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, [n.d.], , [n.d.].
Publisher: Laura Clay Photographic Collection, Box 1, item 3. University of Kentucky, Lexington KY.
See details on the photo in the Kentuckiana Digital Library's catalog: http://kdl.kyvl.org/catalog/xt7sbc3svg22_1_4.
Susan Ann Bennett (1843-1891)
Image of Susan Ann Bennett (1843-1891 snipped from p 83 of:
MacDonnell, Mrs. Robert W. Belle Harris Bennett: Her Life Work. Nashville, TN: The Woman's Section of the Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1928. Available online via Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/belleharrisbenne01macd