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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items) |
Abstract | Elsie G. Riddick was born in Gates County, N.C., the daughter of Elbert and Cornelia (Speight) Riddick. She attended the North Carolina Normal and Industrial School at Greensboro, N.C., and after graduating in 1897 went to work for the Agricultural Commission in Raleigh. In 1899 she began work with the Corporations Commission, which in 1933 became the Public Utilities Commission. She was active in the women's suffrage movement, both locally and nationally; the Business and Professional Women's Association; the Democratic Party; and other organizations. She also organized the Elsie G. Riddick Fund to provide loans to young women attending the Women's College at Greensboro [now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro]. Two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings; a few letters, 1898-1959; and the autobiography (20 p.) of Elsie G. Riddick, covering her life from 1894 to 1920, describing working conditions of women in Raleigh, N.C., circa 1915; women in the local and state Democratic Party; the work of the Raleigh Suffrage League; and the National Business and Professional Women's Association. Other items include family portraits and pictures of the family home in Gates County; 144 picture postcards from Asheville and other places in North Carolina, various places in the United States, Europe, and China; and a young girl's autograph album, circa 1853. |
Creator | Riddick, Elsie G., 1879-1959. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Elsie G. Riddick was born in Gates County, N.C., the daughter of Elbert and Cornelia (Speight) Riddick. She attended the North Carolina Normal and Industrial School at Greensboro, N.C., and after graduating in 1897 went to work for the Agricultural Commission in Raleigh. In 1899 she began work with the Corporations Commission, which in 1933 became the Public Utilities Commission. She was active in the women's suffrage movement, both locally and nationally; the Business and Professional Women's Association; the Democratic Party; and other organizations. She also organized the Elsie G. Riddick Fund to provide loans to young women attending the Women's College at Greensboro [now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro].
Back to TopTwo scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings; a few letters, 1898-1959; and the autobiography (20 p.) of Elsie G. Riddick, covering her life from 1894 to 1920, describing working conditions of women in Raleigh, N.C., circa 1915; women in the local and state Democratic Party; the work of the Raleigh Suffrage League; and the National Business and Professional Women's Association. Other items include family portraits and pictures of the family home in Gates County; 144 picture postcards from Asheville and other places in North Carolina, various places in the United States, Europe, and China; and a young girl's autograph album, circa 1853.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Correspondence |
Folder 2 |
Typescript of Elsie Riddick's Autobiography |
Folder 3 |
Postcards of North Carolina, 1905-1907 |
Folder 4a |
Postcards of the United States, 1905-1910 |
Folder 4b |
Postcards of Europe |
Folder 5 |
Souvenirs of Democratic Covention, 1932 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Arrangement: chronological (or whatever)..
Image P-4115/1-5
P-4115/1P-4115/2P-4115/3P-4115/4P-4115/5 |
Photographs of Elsie Riddick. |
Image P-4115/6-10
P-4115/6P-4115/7P-4115/8P-4115/9P-4115/10 |
Photographs of relatives and home of Elsie Riddick. |
Image P-4115/11-20
P-4115/11P-4115/12P-4115/13P-4115/14P-4115/15P-4115/16P-4115/17P-4115/18P-4115/19P-4115/20 |
Photographs of unidentified people. |
Image P-4115/21-23
P-4115/21P-4115/22P-4115/23 |
Group portraits of unidentified people. |