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Title: 1896 1908 Southern Scrapbook Full Clippings Stories Birmingham Alabama Packed
Description: 0. Hardcover. Scrapbook, c1908 - c1919. The scrapbook belonged to Miss Mary Alice Gatling. Several articles and news photos about her and her family sprinkled throughout the scrapbook Articles about women's suffrage and the recent [1919] women's right to vote. She also had an interest on the subject of Confederate veterans - several articles concerning the death of General Stephen D. Lee in 1908. Invitations card to important social events. A program from the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College [Only Mississippi women]. It opened October 1885, with 341 students from all parts of Mississippi and from all economic circumstances. Almost immediately considerable controversy developed as to whether the school should focus on providing a liberal arts education or job skills for poor girls. Articles by Sarah Beaumont Kennedy who worked as an editor at the Memphis Commercial Appeal, a Tennessee newspaper. She was described as "the only woman paragrapher [editorial page writer] in the South". She was a published author, lectured to women's organizations. A member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, she favored prohibition and woman's suffrage. Very enlightening picture through the eyes of an upper crust woman in post Civil War South. 136 packed pages, book measures 7 5"x10" inches. IT'S A GEM!. Very Good.

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