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Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_no_date_115.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from M.F.C. [Des Moines, Iowa?] asking Bloomer to secure people to agitate the [women's rights] questions in Iowa's newspapers.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_2_13_108.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Lucy Stone, written from Waverly, New York, suggesting that a convention in Iowa would be better at the time of the anniversary of the American Association, since many speakers would be nearby.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1879_2_15_079.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from C.S. Carter, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Carter notes that Bloomer's letter to Mrs. [Elizabeth Cady?] Stanton has been forwarded, and that she is arranging Stanton's route to the West. She would go to Council Bluffs if she…

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1878_12_26_078.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Samuel Aughey, Omaha Nebraska. Aughey, Secretary of the Nebraska Historical Society, thanks Bloomer for her history of the effort to establish woman's suffrage in Nebraska, and that her narrative will be filed with…

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1878_12_13_077.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Samuel Aughey, Omaha Nebraska. Aughey, Secretary of the Nebraska State Historical Society, requests that Bloomer write out, for their annals, an account of her address to the Nebraska Legislature re: woman suffrage.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1876_3_2_075.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Anne Elizabeth McDowell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, re: Bloomer's question about the date McDowell's "The Woman's Advocate" was announced. McDowell states that it no man had part in the newspaper, but that the…

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1874_9_10_071.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Lizzie B. Hertbert, Des Moines, Iowa. Herbert informs Bloomer that she (Bloomer) has been elected as a member of the Cooperative Committee of the State Society, and begging her to accept. Herbert details some of the…

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1871_3_1_065.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Annie Savery, Des Moines, Iowa. Letter references a criticism of the [Des Moines?] Register re: paid lectures. Also mention of Savery's efforts in Muscatine.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_5_16_063.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Lucy Stone, New York, New York. She discusses the issues with/between the two national suffrage associations, and specifically referencing Mr. (Theodore) Tilton and Mrs. (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_5_14_062.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from A.P. Lowery, Marshalltown, Iowa. Invitation to Mrs. Bloomer to attend the ball for women's rights in Marshalltown.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_4_26_061.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from J.S. Loomis, Independence, Iowa. Writes to tell Mrs. Bloomer that Joseph A. Dugdale of Mt. Pleasant has contacted him re: a state suffrage convention in Mount Pleasant. Writer suggests that any suffrage convention…

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_3_12_057.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Mrs. M. Brown Haven, Des Moines, Iowa. Author writes that she moved to Iowa 5 months ago, thinks there is no state association and opines that one should be started.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_3_1_056.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Annie Savery, Des Moines, Iowa. Writer regrets that Mrs. Bloomer is unable to travel to Des Moines to address the legislature. Mrs. Savery notes that she was invited to respond to a toast at a Knights Templars…

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_2_27_055.pdf
A letter to Amelia Bloomer from Ewing and Sara F. Summers, West Liberty, Iowa. The Summers' offer their willingness to help canvas Iowa on behalf of women's suffrage, and to add their names to any call for a state suffrage convention.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_2_14_054.pdf
A letter written to Amelia Bloomer from Annie Savery, Des Moines. The writer notes Mrs. Bloomer's illness, then asks that she deliver her "Woman Suffrage" lecture before the Iowa Legislature.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_2_11_053.pdf
A letter written to Amelia Bloomer from Mrs. A.D. Davidson, Monticello, Iowa. Mrs. Davidson expresses the opinion that there should be a state convention, and names several men who might be considered to speak on behalf of women's suffrage.

Letters_to_Amelia_Bloomer_1870_2_10_052.pdf
A letter written to Amelia Bloomer from Olive Logan. The letter discusses the possibility of an Iowa convention for women's suffrage, and how to approach the Iowa Legislature.

GMT20200811-150928_Our-Right-_640x360.mp4
A panel discussion featuring State Representative MaryAnn Hanusa, Congresswoman Cindy Axne, Senator Joni Ernst and members of the AAUW: Loess Hills Branch of Iowa.

The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment,…

Bloomer_Amelia_Jenks_and_Mr_D_C_copy_1854_03.jpg
Amelia Bloomer [photo portrait, head and shoulders, of Amelia Bloomer, copy of 1954 photo.]
On back of photo:
Mrs. D.C. Bloomer
"Amelia" Bloomer
copy 1854 ]
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