Archive of Incoming Correspondence of Ellen Gowen Hood of the Democratic Women’s Luncheon Club of Philadelphia, From Colleagues Including Newton Baker, 1920s-1940s.
V.P. 1920s-1940s. With fifty-eight letters from Newton Baker, 1924-1937. Generally fine condition. Ellen Gowen Hood was active in the Democratic party at both the local and national levels. An obituary from the Philadelphia Daily News in 1970 described her as “one of the earliest local advocates of women in politics.”.....