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[Identification of item], in the Elsie G. Riddick papers #4115, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Mrs. Herbert C. Davis in 1976 and 1978.

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• Democratic Party (N.C.)--History--20th century.
• Gates County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• National Federation of Business and Professional Women (U.S.)
• North Carolina Agricultural Commission--Officials and employees--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Postcards.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Politics and government.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Raleigh Business and Professional Women's Club.
• Riddick family.
• Riddick, Elsie G., 1879-1959.
• Scrapbooks--North Carolina--History.
• Wake County Suffrage League (N.C.)
• Woman's College of the University of North Carolina.
• Women in politics--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Women in the civil service--North Carolina--History.
• Women--Suffrage--North Carolina.

• Riddick Family Papers (#4120).

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.

• P-4115/1-23