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| Creator: | Heffelfinger, Elizabeth Bradley, 1900-1981. | |
| Title: | Elizabeth Bradley Heffelfinger scrapbooks and related papers. | |
| Date: | 1931-1976. | |
| Abstract: | Scrapbook material of Elizabeth Bradley Heffelfinger, Republican National Committeewoman, 1948-1960, documenting her political work and public life as well as the home front war work of the Women's Activities Division of the Minneapolis Civilian Defense Council, 1942-1946. | |
| Quantity: | 0.75 cu. ft. (2 boxes and 1 oversize folder). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. | |
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SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
Original materials and photocopies of news clippings from four scrapbooks containing correspondence, memoranda, reports, trip itineraries, passports, mimeographed bulletins and circulars, pamphlets, programs, awards, and photographs documenting the political work and public life of Elizabeth Bradley Heffelfinger, Republican National Committeewoman, 1948-1960, as well as the home front war work of the Women's Activities Division of the Minneapolis Civilian Defense Council which Heffelfinger chaired, 1942-1946.
The bulk of the collection focuses both on Heffelfinger's activities in the Republican Party and her chairmanship of the Women's Activities Division. The roles of the Defense Council's Victory Aides and the women's division in the sale of war bonds, scrap salvage, food conservation, overseas donations, and other home front programs is extensively documented. Information is also included concerning Heffelfinger's role in the Minnesota Birth Control League, her defeated 1944 state legislative campaign, her post-war tour of Germany on behalf of the U.S. Commission on Displaced Persons, her appointment as an executive committee member of the U.S. National Commission for Unesco, Harold Stassen's bid for the 1952 Republican presidential nomination, the 1956 and 1960 presidential elections, and her tours of India and Asia.
Also included within the scrapbooks are copies of Heffelfinger's letters to her family from the 1959 Unesco conference in India and her tour of southeast Asia.
Included within the related papers are correspondence between Frank Peavey Heffelfinger (Heffelfinger's husband), John McCallum, coauthor of College Football, U.S.A. 1869-1971, Richard Nixon, and others regarding McCallum's book.
Some original pieces of personal correspondence from such notables as Thomas Dewey, Dwight Eisenhower, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon, Harold Stassen, Sinclair Lewis, and others have been placed in the Minnesota Historical Society reserve collection with photocopies available in the scrapbooks.
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RELATED MATERIALS |
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| An interview with Elizabeth Bradley Heffelfinger recorded in 1978 and 1979 is available in the Minnesota Historical Society oral history collections. | ||
| Heffelfinger appears as a correspondent in several other manuscript collections held by the Minnesota Historical Society. | ||
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INDEX TERMS |
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| This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings. | ||
| Topics: | ||
| Electioneering. | ||
| Politics, Practical. | ||
| Presidents -- United States -- Election. | ||
| Women -- History. | ||
| Women and War. | ||
| World War, 1939-1945 -- War Work -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. | ||
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis. | ||
| Places: | ||
| Asia -- Description and travel. | ||
| India -- Description and travel. | ||
| Minnesota -- Politics and government. | ||
| United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. | ||
| Organizations: | ||
| Minneapolis Defense Council. Women's Activities Division. | ||
| Minnesota Birth Control League. | ||
| Hennepin County War Finance Committee. | ||
| Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). | ||
| Republican National Committee (U.S.). | ||
| Unesco. | ||
| United States. Displaced Persons Commission. | ||
| Persons: | ||
| Andersen, Elmer L., 1909-. | ||
| Clay, Lucius D. (Lucius DuBignon), 1897-1978. | ||
| Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971. | ||
| Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1980-1969. | ||
| Heffelfinger, F. Peavey, 1897-. | ||
| Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978. | ||
| Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-. | ||
| Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979. | ||
| Stassen, Harold Edward, 1907-. | ||
| Types of Documentation: | ||
| Photographs. | ||
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION |
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| Preferred Citation: | ||
| [Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Elizabeth Bradley Heffelfinger Scrapbooks and Related Papers. Minnesota Historical Society. | ||
| See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples. | ||
| Accession Information: | ||
| Accession number: 12,492 | ||
| Processing Information: | ||
| Processed by: Bonnie Palmquist, May 1980 and Monica Manny Ralston, September 1997 | ||
| PALS ID number: 09-00319536 | ||
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