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Edna Ferber with Pearls

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Myra Page

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Description: Portrait of Myra Page, an author and Antioch coop student, who was both a student and later a teacher at Highlander Folk School.
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Zona Gale

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Description: A head and shoulders portrait of Zona Gale.
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Zona Gale

Date: 1925
Description: Portrait of Pulitzer Prize winning author Zona Gale wearing a hat and a coat with a fur collar.
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Irna Phillips Designing a Floor Plan

Date: 1949
Description: Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children.
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Irna Phillips and Rose Cooperman

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Description: Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing.
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Vel Phillips and Coretta Scott King

Date: 10 1969
Description: Vel Phillips sitting next to Coretta Scott King. Vel is wearing two button pins on her lapel. Coretta is holding in her lap the book "My Life with Martin L...
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Jane Addams

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Description: Portrait of Jane Addams, reading a book. Addams was a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as well ...

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