| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Emily Newell Blair Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Blair, Emily Newell Family | | | | Dates: | 1896-1951 | | | | Abstract: | Emily Newell Blair was a suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party official, mother and writer. During World War I she worked in the press department of the Missouri Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, eventually becoming vice chair. Representing Missouri on the Democratic National Committee, Blair was chosen national vice chair responsible for organizing women voters and women's activities, and eventually rose to first vice president, organized 2,000 plus Democratic women's clubs, and helped found the Woman's National Democratic Club. In 1935, she was appointed to the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and, in 1942, was appointed chief of the Women's Interest Section of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau. Her husband, Harry Wallace Blair, was U.S. Assistant Attorney General in the Land Division of the Justice Department in the 1930s and later served with the President's Loyalty Review Board. The collection consists of family correspondence. It includes letters (1896-1900) from Harry Wallace Blair, Jasper County (Missouri) court stenographer, to Emily Newell prior to their marriage in 1900, while she was a school teacher in Sarcoxie, Missouri. The collection also includes letters (1933, 1937-1940) from Emily and Harry Blair to their daughter Harriet Blair Forsythe, of Evanston and Kenilworth, Illinois. | | | | Call #: | MS 4715 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Blair, Emily Newell, b. 1877. | Blair, Harry W. (Harry Wallace), 1879- | Blair family. | Forsythe, Harriet Blair. | Women -- Missouri. | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918. | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945. | Missouri -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
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