1896 1908 SOUTHERN SCRAPBOOK FULL CLIPPINGS STORIES BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA PACKED
by Mary Alice Gatling, Society Lady & Writer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
Scrapbook. Very Good. Hardcover. --'A Southern Lady's Scrapbook, made by MARY ALICE GATLING'-- cut & pasted news-clippings of civic events & society life in Birmingham, Alabama, 1896-1919. Mary Alice Gatling was a published author, lecturer for womens' organizations, member of the DAR; she favored prohibition and women's suffrage, and was described as 'the only woman paragrapher [editorial page writer] in the South'. Miss Gatling's 'Scrapbook' is packed: (136) pages of news stories on women's suffrage/ the 1919 women's right to vote/ articles about Confederate veterans (several on the 1908 death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee)/ Presbyterian Church news/ a program for the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College, that opened in 1885 to teach Mississippi women only, and drew immediate controversy over the question of whether to teach poor girls liberal arts or just job skills/ news articles by Sarah Beaumont Kennedy, an editor at Tennessee newspaper, the 'Memphis Commercial Appeal'. There are formal social invitation cards for Miss Gatling and her family sprinkled through the album. In good condition, 7.5" x 10"..
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- Seller
- Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- cq44
- Title
- 1896 1908 SOUTHERN SCRAPBOOK FULL CLIPPINGS STORIES BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA PACKED
- Author
- Mary Alice Gatling, Society Lady & Writer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Keywords
- womens suffrage,vote, civil war, newspapers, Reconstruction, South
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Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books
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Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books
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Brooklyn, New York
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