Charlotte Everett Hopkins collection of National Civic Federation. Woman's Department. District of Columbia Section records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
Subjects: Housing; Health; Refuse collection; Correspondence; National Committee on Prison Labor; Council of National Defense (Washington, D.C.). Woman's Committee; War relief; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Associated Charities of the District of Columbia; Municipal government; Work environment; World War, 1914-1918; Colored Settlement Association (Washington, D.C.); Juvenile delinquency; Civilian relief; Alley Improvement Association; National Surgical Dressings Committee; Playgrounds; National Civic Federation. Woman's Department. District of Columbia Section; Council of National Defense (Washington, D.C.).; National Civic Federation; Milk
Description: Correspondence, minutes, reports, circulars, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Hopkins's activities as chairman of the National Civic Federation Woman's Department District of Columbia Section.  Subjects include municipal reform efforts in the areas of war relief, housing, garbage collection, health, diet, pure milk, juvenile delinquency, playgrounds, and working conditions of District citizens.  Includes documents authored by Carrie Chapman Catt and Anna Howard Shaw.  Correspondents include Steven B. Ayres, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, Jacob H. Gallinger, Natalie Harris Hammond, Thomas Jesse Jones, Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and Maude A.K. Wetmore.  Organizational correspondents include the Alley Improvement Association, Washington, D.C.; Associated Charities of the District of Columbia; Colored Settlement Association (Washington, D.C.); Council of National Defense (Washington, D.C.) Woman's Committee; National American Woman Suffrage Association; National Committee on Prison Labor; and the National Surgical Dressings Committee, Washington, D.C.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Charlotte Everett Hopkins, 1927.

Civic leader, philanthropist, and social reformer.  Full name: Charlotte Everett Wise Hopkins; also, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins.  Born 1851; died 1935.

Collection material in English.

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