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- catalog abstract "Collection includes biographical material, correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, clippings, photographs, family papers, etc.".
- catalog contributor b2287002.
- catalog date "1850".
- catalog description "After her unsuccessful run for Congress, she traveled abroad. She worked as a freelance lecturer and writer and served as a member of the Women's Committee of Four of the American Farm Bureau Federation, investigating country life abroad. After her return to the United States in 1927 she married Hugh Miller. She held a number of positions, working as freelance writer and lecturer (1920-1927); Radio Dramatic Director and Commentator on Current Events for WGY-Radio in Schenectady, New York (1927-1930); Commissioner of the Department of Public Welfare of Schenectady, New York (1929-1931); several federal government positions (1935-1942) among them Regional Director of Women's Activities for the central states in the Work Projects Administration and Regional Supervisor, War Public Services; and as host of a show on KQBC-Radio in La Jolla, California. She developed an interest in Christian Science during its early years and appears to have been an adherent of the First Church of Christ Scientist. Following the death of Mary Baker Eddy, and a subsequent schism in the church, she followed the teachings of the Christian Science Parent Church and several future incarnations. She died in La Jolla, California, in 1978.".
- catalog description "Collection includes biographical material, correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, clippings, photographs, family papers, etc.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch01286".
- catalog description "Following her husband's death, she became increasingly politically active, working in support of the suffrage amendment in West Virginia. She was also chosen to make the seconding speech for presidential candidate John W. Davis at the Democratic national convention in 1920. Following the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, she became one of the first woman to run--unsuccessfully for United States Congress in 1922. She was an ardent supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1936 traveling ten thousand miles by plane with pilot Phoebe Fairgrove Omlie to campaign for him.".
- catalog description "Izetta Jewel Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Izetta Jewel was born Izetta Jewel Kenney in Hackettstown, New Jersey, to Elizabeth Henrietta (Denno) Kenney and Cornelius C. Kenney. She attended private schools: Pamlico in Pompton, New Jersey, and East Greenwich Academy in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, until she began her training at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She made her first stage appearance in the play "Tess" in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1900. She continued her stage work, traveling around the country making notable performances in New York, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon, and joining various stock companies, among them the Castle Theater Stock Company in Boston, Massachusetts, until she arrived in Washington D. C., and met and married William G. Brown, Jr., in 1914. The couple settled at Brown's estate in Kingswood, West Virginia, and had one child, Izetta "June" Brown, who was born just weeks before William G. Brown, Jr.'s sudden death in March 1916.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog extent "15.43 linear ft. (37 file boxes) plus 1 folio folder, 3 folio+ folders, 1 supersize folder, 2 photograph file boxes.".
- catalog issued "1850".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Actresses United States.".
- catalog subject "Beauchamp, A. A.".
- catalog subject "Bill, Annie.".
- catalog subject "Brown, William Gay, 1854-1916.".
- catalog subject "Christian Science Parent Church.".
- catalog subject "Christian Science United States.".
- catalog subject "Church of Universal Design.".
- catalog subject "Courtship United States.".
- catalog subject "Dittemore, Joseph V.".
- catalog subject "Fathers and daughters United States.".
- catalog subject "Jewel, Izetta, 1883-1978.".
- catalog subject "Journalists United States.".
- catalog subject "Marriage United States.".
- catalog subject "Mothers and daughters United States.".
- catalog subject "Mott, Francis J.".
- catalog subject "Radio journalists United States.".
- catalog subject "Sisters United States.".
- catalog subject "Voyages and travels.".
- catalog subject "Widows United States.".
- catalog subject "Women Political activity United States.".
- catalog subject "Women Suffrage United States.".
- catalog subject "Women and spirituality.".
- catalog subject "Women in the theater United States.".
- catalog subject "Women political candidates United States.".
- catalog title "Papers of Izetta Jewel, ca.1850-1978 (inclusive) 1899-1965 (bulk)".
- catalog type "Diaries.".
- catalog type "Family records.".
- catalog type "Photographs. aat".
- catalog type "Scrapbooks. aat".
- catalog type "Scripts (documents). aat".
- catalog type "Speeches. aat".
- catalog type "collection".