Papers of Ella Jane Seass Stewart in the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, 1895-1939 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The papers of Ella Jane Seass Stewart consist of correspondence, clippings, minutes of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and other organizations, biographical documents, flyers, scrapbooks, photographs, a contract for an oratorical contest, and articles by Stewart and others. As well as documenting Stewart's suffrage activities, it provides information about the woman suffrage campaign in Illinois and elsewhere, the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and National American Woman Suffrage Association. The correspondence includes letters from many well-known suffragists and is primarily about suffrage work and speaking engagements, although many letters are also personal