Letter and envelope : County Chairman [Iowa Equal Suffrage Association?] to a school teacher. March 18, 1916
Black Hawk County (Iowa)
Cedar Falls (Iowa)
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Survey
Voting--Iowa
Women--Suffrage--Iowa
Letter most likely sent to teachers throughout Black Hawk County asks the recipient to conduct a survey of men in their school district on how they intend to vote on the suffrage referendum in the upcoming election on June 5th. The referendum did not pass.
This particular letter went to Miss Loraney Smith in Jesup, Iowa (Black Hawk County) on March 21, 1916. Also enclosed with the letter was information on the Black Hawk County Suffrage Campaign Committee, Rural School Contest. See item #
1916-03-18
1 p.
English
DOCU.1916.07
Cedar Falls (Iowa)
Black Hawk County [Iowa] Suffrage Campaign Committee, Rural School Contest. 1916
Black Hawk County (Iowa)
Black Hawk County Suffrage Campaign Committee
Cedar Falls (Iowa)
Iowa Equal Suffrage Association
Survey
Voting--Iowa
Women--Suffrage--Iowa
Terms for a contest sponsored by the Black Hawk Country Suffrage Campaign Committee for the "rural school puils of Black Hawk County who will write the best letters containing the greatest number of best reasons why women should be given the privilege to vote." The Committee offered cash prizes to the the five best letters and the ten second best letters.
This page, along with a letter to the recipient, were enclosed in an envelope from Cedar Falls, Iowa to Miss Loraney Smith, Jesup, Iowa, March 21, 1916. See item #
1916-03
1 p.
English
DOCU.1916.08
Black Hawk County (Iowa)