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Sherwin, Belle, 1868-1955
Sherwin, Belle, 1868-1955
Identifierbellesherwin002.jpg
TitleMiss Belle Sherwin, President of the National League of Women Voters
Description[Image credit: Courtesy of the League of Women Voters of the United States. Original source: http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=1563]
NameSherwin, Belle, 1868-1955
Birth Date1868-03-20
Death Date1955-07-09
AccomplishmentsBelle Sherwin was the former president for the national League of Women Voters (1924-1934). She was also a founder of the Women's City Club in Cleveland, Ohio.
ProfessionGovernment
Community
SubjectWomen's City Club
Suffrage
Suffragists
Women's suffrage
League Of Women Voters (Lwv) Of Cleveland
Date Originalunknown
Time PeriodPost-Industrial: 1930-1959
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entryhttp://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SB3
Cleveland State University Library ResourcesFor the public record : a documentary history of the League of Women Voters: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41035415
Vote and voice : women's organizations and political literacy, 1915-1930: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54685830
Personal PapersAt Radcliffe College: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00198
Additional ResourcesLetter to national League of Women Voters from Franklin D. Roosevelt: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=14851
League of Women Voters article in Ohio History Central: http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=918 The big vote: Gender, consumer culture and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52601559
League of Women Voters through the decades; the 1930s: http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=9143
Ohio history of the League of Women Voters: http://www.cboss.com/lwv/ohiolwv.htm
Digital CollectionFamous Women of Cleveland
RepositoryLeague of Women Voters of the United States
Repository Homepagehttp://www.lwv.org
Creatorunknown
Object Typeblack-and-white photographs
FormatJPG
Digital Processing NotesJPG, 72 dpi
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