Description
Mary Earhart Dillon assembled this collection in the early 1940s in the course of writing Frances Willard: From Prayers to Politics (published under the name Mary Earhart by University of Chicago Press in 1944). Due to the difficulty of finding primary source material, MED contacted various women in the Midwest (especially the Chicago lawyer and suffragist, Catharine Waugh McCulloch) who had been active in temperance, woman's suffrage, and related movements and activities. These women gave MED books and papers they had created or accumulated during their work for these causes, and MED, as a member of the faculty of Northwestern University, arranged with the university library that she would deposit the materials there when she had completed her research.
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Alternative Title
Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, Catharine Waugh McCulloch Papers