The civitas of women's political culture: The twentieth century club of Berkeley, 1904-1929

California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 175-208

  Henderson, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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20. See also Rebecca J. Mead, How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914 (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 121.
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84. "Scrapbook" vol. 1.
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87. both in Berkeley Daily Gazette.
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106. February 1918 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
107. February 1918 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
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109. March 1918 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
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111. March 1918 "Bulletin. "
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114. October 1918 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
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122. see New York Times, January 1, 1930, 29. The Berkeley newspaper's front-page eulogy said Schloss was "endowed with all of the qualifications for leadership" and "one of the most prominent and best beloved women in the State in social, club and civic circles."
123. Berkeley Daily Gazette, December 31, 1929, p. 1.
124. January 1920 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
125. November 1921 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
126. "International Relations to be Topic of Institute", clipping [n. d., n. p.], "Scrapbook" vol. 3(1922-1937), TCC MSS.
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128. "Institute of International Relations Program", March 6-8, 1928, pamphlet, "Scrapbook" vol. 3.
129. Letter, U. S. Department of State to Mrs. Frederick G. Athearn, President of the TCC, March 18, 1919, "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
130. January 1929 "Bulletin", February 1929 "Bulletin, ""Scrapbook" vol. 3.
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132. September 1928 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 3.
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134. For Saylor's letter to Carnegie and her efforts to create the library, see http://www.elwood.lib.in. us/historyofourlib3.htm.
135. "Wabash Valley Profiles: Anna McBride Saylor", available at: http://web.indstate.edu/community/vchs/wvp/!saylora.pdf.
136. Membership roster, "Scrapbook" vol. 1;
137. CFWC, Clubwomen of California: State Register and Directory, 1916 (Los Angeles: CFWC, 1916), 121.
138. Martha P. Bennett, "Twentieth Century Club Has Notables Among Membership", clipping [n. d., ca. 1929, n. p.], "Scrapbook" vol. 3.
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144. Information on Saylor's life is thin; see "Wabash Valley Profiles: Anna McBride Saylor, "
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147. Kieffer, "President's Annual Report", 13, 16.
148. April 1914 "Bulletin", "Scrapbook" vol. 2.
149. Gibson, A Record, 64, 197.
150. "Constitution and By-Laws."
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153. WOA, Berkeley, 146.
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