Description: |
A scrapbook created by Grace Julian Clarke, an activist for womens suffrage and world peace, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The volume largely contains newspaper clippings with articles about her father, George W. Julian. Julian was a prominent politician, lawyer, writer, and abolitionist who served 6 terms as a congressman from Indiana to the U.S. House of Representatives, mainly during the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The clippings concern Julians first marriage to Anne Elizabeth Finch Julian (1827–1860) and their children; his political career with the Free Soil Party and Republican Party; his speeches and letters to the editor; American politics from the mid-1840s to 1850s and the late 1860s to the 1870s; social reform causes including abolitionism and womens suffrage; and the Julian family. |
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Origin: | 1844-1884 |
Created By: |
Clarke, Grace Julian, 1865-1938 |
Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll48/id/7833 |
Collection: |
Women in Hoosier History |
Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Copyright: |
No Copyright - United States |
Geography: |
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
Subjects: |
Clarke, Grace Julian, 1865-1938 scrapbooks Julian, George Washington, 1817-1899 clippings Indianapolis (Ind.) Irvington (Indianapolis, Ind.) politicians politics and government Republican Party (U.S. : 1854-) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) slavery abolitionists social reformers marriage Morton, Oliver P. (Oliver Perry), 1823-1877 obituaries poetry Free Soil Party (U.S.) elections speeches United States. Congress. House of Representatives Texas Centerville (Ind.) divorce Indiana. General Assembly frontier and pioneer life Wayne County (Ind.) Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850 Yellowstone National Park public lands American Party Wabash and Erie Canal (Ind. and Ohio) suffrage African Americans Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927 womens rights womens suffrage correspondence telegrams Julian family caricatures and cartoons racism Asians |
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