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Title: MS 260 Jesse C. Suter and Theodore W. Noyes Papers, 1877-1961

Processor: Colleen Moore; David G. Wood

Date: April 2001; April 2013; April 2017

Jesse C. Suter (d. 1962), a native of Washington, D.C., expressed an active interest in the District’s affairs. Suter worked as a journalist for the Washington Star newspaper from 1893 until 1952. He wrote for the paper briefly in the 1890s but accepted a more permanent position in 1917. In 1933, Suter began writing a regular Sunday column entitled “Civic Problems, Civic Bodies.” This column discussed many of the social and political issues with which Suter was concerned, such as D.C. suffrage, national representation, home rule, fiscal reforms, and temperance.

Suter belonged to several local civic organizations. He was chairman of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation for the District of Columbia, a member of the Society of Natives, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations in 1925 and 1926, and president of the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants in 1952. Suter also regularly corresponded with civic organizations such as the D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs, the Federation of Civic Associations, the United Dry Forces of America, and the Voteless D.C. League of Women Voters. Suter died at the age of 89 on 6 June 1962.

Theodore W. Noyes (1858-1946) also actively participated in D.C. civic affairs. Noyes began working for the Washington Star as a reporter in 1877. For a few years, Noyes practiced law in the Dakota Territory, but he returned to Washington, D.C. in 1887 and eventually became editor of the Washington Star in 1908. Noyes was instrumental in organizing the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, and he occupied many prominent positions in local organizations. He was director and president of the Washington Board of Trade in 1898 and 1899, president of the Board of Trustees of the D.C. Public Library, a trustee of the Washington Cathedral, founder of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations and the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation, president of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants in 1908, and a charter member of the Columbia Historical Society.

Noyes became acquainted with Suter in 1917 when both men were working on the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation. Noyes and Suter were members of many of the same civic organizations and campaigned together for civic issues. After Noyes’s death in 1946, Suter appears to have taken over many of Noyes’s civic duties and to have inherited Noyes’s research materials concerning D.C. social, political, and financial affairs.

Scope and Content: The Jesse C. Suter and Theodore W. Noyes Papers, 1877-1961, consist mostly of correspondence between Suter and Noyes and the various civic organizations and local businesses with which they worked. The papers contain a significant amount of research materials, such as notes, drafts of arguments, and newspaper clippings, concerning the reorganization of D.C. government and D.C. fiscal reform. Some of Suter’s and Noyes’s person memorabilia can also be found in this collection.

This collection is arranged in three series:

SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE FILES consists of Suter’s and Noyes’s personal correspondence as well as some Federation of Citizens’ Associations’ correspondence with various civic associations and local organizations, such as the Capital Transit Company, the D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs, the D.C. Motor Club, the Federation of Civic Associations, the Monday Evening Club, and the United Dry Forces of America. The files also contain correspondence with members of U.S. Congress proposing changes in D.C. government. This series is arranged chronologically.

SERIES II: SUBJECT FILES consists of Suter’s and Noyes’s research materials and drafts of arguments as well as newspaper clippings and published articles concerning various civic organizations and D.C. civic affairs, such as alcohol legislation, D.C. suffrage and national representation, D.C. fiscal policy, and the reform of D.C.’s transportation system. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject, and then chronologically.

SERIES III: SCRAPBOOKS AND MEMORABILIA consists of Suter’s personal scrapbooks which display his newspaper articles and other materials relating to his civic activities, Suter’s collection of items related to President Abraham Lincoln, and several personal journals kept by Noyes. The scrapbooks in this series are arranged chronologically, followed by Suter’s and Noyes’s memorabilia.

Size: 2 cubic feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder)

Donor: Jesse C. Suter, 1959.005. Theodore Noyes’ notebooks, located in folder 99, were found in the collection and accessioned in 1983 (1983.326). They were incorporated into this collection at the time of processing. Additions to folder 32, and contents of folders 69A, 71A, 71B, 96A, and 98A were found in the collection and accessioned in 2013 (2013.023).

Restrictions: None

Preferred Citation: [Identified item], Jesse C. Suter and Theodore W. Noyes Papers. The Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

Related Materials: MS 422 Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia Records, 1865-2000 MS 598 Society of Natives Records, 1920-1955

Noyes, Theodore W., Our National Capital and its Un-Americanized Americans (JK 2725 .N68 1951)

Container List

SERIES I: CORRESPONDENCE FILES

Container 1

Folder 1: 1898-1909--Includes a copy of the will of John Suter, unidentified relative of Jesse Suter, 1794; speeches of the President of the Board of Trade concerning D.C. fiscal policy, 1898; and Noyes’s personal correspondence, 1908-1909.

Folder 2: 1922-1926--Includes Suter’s correspondence concerning D.C. fiscal relations, a resolution adopted by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations (FCA), Noyes’s personal correspondence, memorandum concerning the extension of the powers of D.C. commissioners, and information about the Citizens’ Advisory Council.

Folder 3: 1931-1932--Includes Noyes’s correspondence concerning D.C. fiscal history, correspondence with the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, Suter’s correspondence with the American Legion about D.C. suffrage, correspondence with the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation about D.C. taxes, and memoranda related to D.C. public school buildings.

Folder 4: January-October 1933--Includes Suter’s correspondence regarding a pending D.C. beer bill, correspondence regarding the FCA’s resolution on the sale of alcohol in the District, correspondence between Suter and Noyes about the formation of an Executive Committee of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, and correspondence concerning a permanent D.C. fiscal plan.

Folder 5: November-December 1933--Includes a memorandum on the Capper-Cranton Act for developing parks and parkways, extracts from a book concerning the Public Library and related correspondence, and correspondence about the sale of alcohol in the District of Columbia.

Folder 6: February-March 1934--Includes the D.C. Federation of Women’s Club’s pamphlet and correspondence, the FCA’s correspondence about a membership drive, and Suter’s correspondence with the Board of Trade about the widening of D.C. roads.

Folder 7: April-August 1934--Includes a bill and correspondence concerning loan authorization legislation, and correspondence from the Conduit Road Citizens’ Association and the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners concerning the Chain Bridge.

Folder 8: September-December 1934--Includes correspondence from the Traffic Safety Observers of D.C., the D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs’ proposal for D.C. legislation, and the constitution and correspondence of the United Dry Forces of D.C.

Folder 9: January-May 1935--Includes correspondence concerning the expansion of the D.C. Commissioners’ powers in relation to the D.C. Public Library, information from the Public Ownership League of America regarding a conference, a resolution of the FCA regarding the Chain Bridge, and correspondence and meeting minutes of the Conduit Road Citizens’ Association concerning the Chain Bridge.

Folder 10: September-December 1935--Includes the People’s Counsel’s correspondence, annual report, and memorandum on civic activities.

Folder 11: January-February 1936--Includes a report about mass transportation in D.C., including photocopies of blueprints, and correspondence between Suter and Noyes about per capita debt (original blueprints are located in an oversized folder).

Folder 12: March-8 October 1936--Includes correspondence and a resolution of the D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs for the creation of a national monument and recreation area, correspondence of the American Legion about national representation, correspondence about starting a magazine for organized citizenship in D.C., correspondence with the Barry Farm Citizens’ Association, and a People’s Counsel report.

Folder 13: 15 October-December 1936--Includes correspondence about the submission of a fiscal argument, the minutes of a Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations meeting, a resume for a People’s Counsel candidate, and correspondence about strengthening the Citizens’ Joint Committee for National Representation.

Folder 14: January 1937--Includes an invoice for pamphlets for the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, lists of the members of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, and correspondence with U.S. Representatives and Senators regarding fiscal equity for the District.

Folder 15: February-May 1937--Includes a brief on taxation issued by the D.C. Motor Club concerning the Jacobs’ Report on “Fiscal Relations Between the United States and the District of Columbia,” and lists of bills approved by the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations.

Folder 16: June-December 1937--Includes a proposal for a bill about the Sousa Bridge, various correspondence concerning D.C. taxes, D.C. suffrage, and the presidential election of the FCA, and information about exhibits presented at the fare hearings of the Capital Transit Company.

Folder 17: 1938--Includes a report by the FCA’s Safety Committee, correspondence with Capital Transit regarding the condition of D.C. buses, proposals regarding the issue of public recreation, and correspondence and resolutions about D.C. suffrage.

Folder 18: 1939--Includes correspondence with the D.C. Voters’ League, correspondence about abuses in automobile finance, and correspondence with the Knights of Pythias Civic Association, with the Intercollegiate Association regarding alcohol problems, and with the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. Also includes report related to D.C. public school buildings.

Folder 19: 1940--Includes correspondence with the FCA’s Education Committee, correspondence about the dedication of Sousa Bridge, correspondence with Charles M. Thomas, president of the Federation of Civic Associations, regarding race relations in the District, and correspondence with the Lincoln Civic Association about a bill to regulate undertakers.

Folder 20: 1941--Includes correspondence with Charles Thomas, D.C. Federation of Women’s Club’s correspondence and resolutions about the reorganization of D.C. government, the Southwest Citizens’ Association suggestion for cooperation between citizens and civic associations, correspondence about National Music Week, and a report of the FCA about education.

Folder 21: 1942--Includes an announcement of a presentation by the Lincoln Civic Association, correspondence with Charles Thomas, and a letter from Henry Stull renouncing his civic activities in order to participate in civilian defense.

Folder 22: January-March 1943--Includes correspondence regarding the officers of the Federation of Civic Associations, correspondence with Charles Thomas about D.C. suffrage and community problems in the far Northeast, a report of the Police and Fire Protection Committee on civilian defense in D.C., and correspondence regarding the People’s Counsel.

Folder 23: April-November 1943--Includes minutes from the FCA’s March meeting, correspondence about the FCA’s war bond drive, correspondence with the Voters’ League, the annual report of the president of the FCA, and alphabetical rosters of FCA delegates.

Folder 24: 1944--Includes correspondence about slum clearance and the Washington Housing Association, FCA’s criticism of the Urban Development Bill, correspondence and invitation related to the John Philip Sousa Memorial Concert, correspondence with Capital Transit, and correspondence and resolution of the D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs regarding national representation.

Folder 25: 1945--Includes correspondence and the resolution of the Washington Housing Authority, correspondence with the Washington Cathedral about Russian priest vestments, and a FCA’s report about publishing a newspaper.

Folder 26: 1946-1947--Includes correspondence about the political position of the D.C. Voters’ Club; correspondence with Lincoln Civic Association about juvenile delinquency; National Park and Planning Commission’s report on transportation plans for D.C., including a photocopy of a plan for a major thoroughfare; a statement regarding the operations of the Public Library; correspondence about the reorganization of D.C. government; and appeals for liquor law reforms (original thoroughfare plan is in oversize folder 100). This folder also includes a letter from Mrs.

Jennie E. Clarke of the Brightwood Citizens Association, regarding the history of petitions to secure the purchase of the Emery Estate for community recreational use, January 17, 1947.

Folder 27: 1948-1950--Includes correspondence about traffic safety, correspondence with D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs about national representation and D.C. home rule, Noyes’s proposal for the publication of information about national representation, correspondence with Capital Transit about bus terminals, correspondence about the D.C. Public Library, and correspondence regarding the future of Central High School. Also includes a Federation of Citizens Associations report on a proposed neighborhood “clean-up program,” March 5, 1949.

Folder 28: 1951-1956--Includes correspondence concerning a contest for a song about the District of Columbia, correspondence concerning D.C. fiscal relations and the origin and form of D.C. government, a letter appointing Suter as a member of the Eisenhower/Nixon inauguration committee, a plan for establishing a Citizens’ Advisory Council, and correspondence about the marble columns of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Folder 29: 1959-1961--Includes correspondence with the Board of Trade regarding home rule and a notice about a meeting of the Society of Natives.

Folder 30: Undated correspondence--Includes D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs’ press release, correspondence about fiscal relations, and correspondence about a bill to increase the powers of the D.C. Commissioners.

SERIES II: SUBJECT FILES

Folder 31: Alcohol legislation, 1936-1945--Includes newspaper clippings on the sale of liquor in D.C., pamphlets from the Intercollegiate Association, information from Liquor in Life Today, a copy of the American Issue on liquor traffic and alcohol abuse, a report from the Washington Committee for Education on alcoholism, and announcements of meetings of the United Dry Forces of America.

Folder 32: Central High School legislation, 1949 - 1950--Includes Suter’s statement to the Board of Education about a proposal to transfer students from Cardozo to Central High School.

Folder 33: Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, 1935 --Includes reports and photocopies of petitions by the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations concerning local tax reform (original petitions are located in oversize folder 100).

Folder 34: Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, undated--Includes arguments on D.C. fiscal equity presented by the Committee on Brief of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations to the Advisory Committee for the Study of U.S.-D.C. Fiscal Relations.

Folder 35: Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations, undated--Includes outlines of arguments, memorandum, and lists of the members of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations.

Folder 36: Citizens for the Presidential Vote for D.C., 1961--Includes memoranda and weekly status reports of ratification by state for the District’s right to vote.

Folder 37: Committee lists, undated--Includes lists of the members of the Bridges Committee of the Board of Trade, various Federation of Citizens’ Associations’ committees, and the Federation of Civic Associations.

Folder 38: D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1934-1945--Includes a pamphlet about the history of the Federation of Women’s Clubs, monthly bulletins, and a program for its annual luncheon.

Folder 39: D.C. Federation of Women’s Clubs, undated--Includes Suter’s draft and notes for an article on the Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Folder 40: D.C. government, 1908-1949--Includes newspaper clippings about D.C. government issues, including the reorganization of D.C. government, national representation, and D.C. suffrage.

Folder 41: D.C. government, 1914-1947--Includes printed reports, drafts of arguments, and research notes concerning the origin and form of D.C. government.

Folder 42: D.C. government, 1933-1943--Includes bill proposals, reports, drafts of arguments, and research notes concerning the reorganization of D.C. government.

Folder 43: D.C. government, undated--Includes a report by Suter on the governmental organization of D.C.

Folder 44: D.C. government, undated--Includes lists and descriptions of D.C. government offices, A-E.

Folder 45: D.C. government, undated--Includes lists and descriptions of D.C. government offices, F-Z.

Folder 46: D.C. government, undated--Includes notes and drafts of Suter’s manuscript about the reorganization of District government.

Folder 47: D.C. government, undated--Includes assorted research notes and drafts for arguments and articles prepared by Suter.

Folder 47A: D.C. government reorganization. Symposium, 1934.

Folder 47B: D.C. government reorganization. McCarran “Home Rule” Plan, 1943-1945. Washington Post articles.

Folder 47C: D.C. government reorganization. McCarran “Home Rule” Plan, 1943-1945. Washington Daily News articles.

Folder 47D: D.C. government reorganization. Kennedy Plan, 1939.

Folder 47E: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Times articles, 1937-1938.

Folder 47F: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Herald articles, 1934.

Folder 47G: D.C. government reorganization. Duplicates of clippings.

Folder 47H: D.C. government reorganization. Griffenhagen Plan, 1939.

Folder 47I: D.C. government reorganization. Bills (proposed legislation), 1917 – 1945.

Folder 47J: D.C. government reorganization. Bills (proposed legislation), 1939 – 1940.

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Folder 47K: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Post articles, 1933 – 1938.

Folder 47L: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Times-Herald articles, 1940 (loose).

Folder 47M: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Times-Herald articles, 1939 – 1940 (mounted).

Folder 47N: D.C. government reorganization. McCarran “Home Rule” plan, 1943-1945. Washington Star articles (mounted)

Folder 47O: D.C. government reorganization. McCarran “Home Rule” plan, 1943-1945. Washington Star articles (loose)

Folder 47P: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Post articles, 1939 – 1940 (mounted).

Folder 47Q: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Post articles, 1940 (loose).

Folder 47R: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Daily News articles, 1934, 1937.

Folder 47S: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Federal of Citizens’ Associations Plan, 1935.

Folder 47T: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Star articles, 1937 1938.

Folder 47U: D.C. government reorganization. Representative Ramspeck, 1936, Washington Star articles.

Folder 47V: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Star articles, 1916 – 1934.

Folder 47W: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Star and Washington Herald articles, 1933.

Folder 47X: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Star articles, 1934 – 1935.

Folder 47Y: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Daily News articles, 1939 – 1940 (loose).

Folder 47Z: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Daily News articles, 1939 (mounted).

Folder 47AA: D.C. government reorganization. Duplicates of material on file, 1937 (articles from several newspapers).

Folder 47BB: D.C. government reorganization. Washington Herald articles, 1937.

Folder 47CC: D.C. government reorganization. 1935 (miscellaneous newspaper articles).

Folder 47DD: D.C. government reorganization. Prettyman Plan, 1934 – 1935.

Folder 47EE: D.C. government reorganization. Plans, 1937.

Folder 47FF: D.C. government reorganization. McCarran “Home Rule” Plan, 1945. Washington Times-Herald articles (mounted).

Folder 48: D.C. history, undated--Includes a historical sketch of D.C. written by Suter.

Folder 49: D.C. history, undated--Includes a report written by Suter on Maryland and Virginia legislative acts pertaining to the District of Columbia.

Folder 50: Federation of Citizens’ Associations (FCA), 1938-1961--Includes memoranda about a farewell dinner for Lieutenant Colonel Dan I. Sultan, and information about the FCA’s 30th, 31st, 32nd, 35th, and 51st anniversary celebrations.

Folder 51: Fiscal policy, 1914-1951--Includes newspaper clippings about D.C. fiscal issues, including the municipal budget and D.C. tax reform.

Folder 52: Fiscal policy, 1934-1939--Includes drafts of arguments and two published articles opposing tax increases and advocating tax reform.

Folder 53: Fiscal policy, 1935--Includes three printed reports, one published by the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury and two published by the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations which compare D.C.’s tax burden to the tax burden of other U.S. cities.

Folder 54: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes drafts of arguments comparing D.C.’s tax burden to the tax burden of other cities.

Folder 55: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes a report on public welfare costs and wage and hour labor laws.

Folder 56: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes a table of contents and first drafts of a fiscal argument prepared by Suter.

Folder 57: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes a copy of Suter’s fiscal argument, one draft.

Folder 58: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes the original draft of Suter’s fiscal argument.

Folder 59: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes Part C of Suter’s fiscal argument, two drafts.

Folder 60: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes Part C of Suter’s fiscal argument, two drafts.

Folder 61: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes the table of contents of Volume I and II of Noyes’s argument “Financial Equity for D.C.”

Folder 62: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes two copies of Sydney’s “Essays to the U.S. Congress on Retrocession,” 1820.

Folder 63: Fiscal policy, undated--Includes fiscal notes and memoranda for the construction of fiscal arguments and articles.

Folder 64: Foreign Capitals, 1930-1931--Includes drafts of articles comparing U.S.-D.C. fiscal relations to the relations between other nations and their capitals, a typed copy of a survey that the Washington Star conducted on the fiscal relations between foreign countries and their capital cities, and extracts from the House Select Committee’s report on the same subject.

Folder 65: Foreign Capitals, 1931--Includes completed questionnaires and related correspondence from 39 foreign countries about the fiscal structure of the capitals. Folder 66: Home rule, undated--Includes information provided by the Library of Congress and memoranda from the Washington Home Rule Committee about D.C. home rule.

Folder 67: Housing legislation, 1936-1943--Includes pamphlets about cooperative housing projects, a draft of an article about slum clearance in D.C., and a summary of the work of the Alley Dwelling Authority (ADA).

Folder 68: Monday Evening Club, 1915-1941--Includes the club’s constitution, bulletins (1937), invitation to its annual banquet, and announcements of club meetings.

Folder 69: National Representation, 1935-1949--Includes bill proposals, drafts of arguments, and a report written by Noyes concerning national representation for District residents.

Folder 69A: (In booklet form) Forms of Proposed Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to provide representation to residents of the District of Columbia (compiled by Suter?), bearing Suter’s typed name. (Appears to be basis of Appendix C of Noyes’ book, Our National Capital and its Un-Americanized Americans [JK 2725 .N68 1951]).

Folder 70: People’s Counsel and Public Utilities Committee, 1926-1945--Includes a copy of People’s Counsel William A. Roberts’s speech before the National Municipal Ownership League, transcripts of radio discussions given by Roberts, a resolution of the FCA’s Public Utilities Committee, and legal documents concerning a hearing involving the Public Utilities Committee and the Potomac Electric Company.

Folder 70A: Planning, City—includes “Words and Works, A Compilation of Quotations on The Development of the National Capital” (January 1940); and photocopy of Washington Post article “1985 Plan Virtually Ignores Ghetto Problem” (September 26, 1965).

Folder 71: Public Library, 1934-1935--Includes extracts from hearings before the House Committee on D.C. and memorandum prepared for the Senate Committee on D.C. concerning the appointment and removal of D.C. Public Library employees.

Folder 71A: Public schools, 1908 – 1909—correspondence and articles related to controversy concerning termination of William E. Chancellor, Superintendent of Schools.

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Folder 71B: Public schools, 1925 – 1943—analyses of D.C. public schools prepared by J.F. Bell, Engineer Commissioner (photocopies, 1928); and by Superintendent Frank Ballou dated Feb. 21, 1934 (original), and Oct. 21, 1938 and April 17, 1943 (photocopies).

Folder 72: Railway legislation, 1908-1924--Includes newspaper clippings concerning government ownership of D.C. street railways and railway inefficiency during World War I.

Folder 73: Social survey report on public welfare, August 1946.

Folder 74: Social survey report on religious relations, August 1946.

Folder 75: Social survey report on race relations, November 1946.

Folder 76: Social survey report on children’s services, public and private, November 1946.

Folder 77: Social survey report on the care of the aged, public and private, November 1946.

Folder 78: Social survey report on recreation, December 1946.

Folder 79: Social survey report on social work organization and structure February 1947.

Folder 80: Sousa Bridge dedication, 1936-1939--Includes legislative acts, reports, newspaper clippings, and programs for the naming and dedication of the John Phillip Sousa Bridge.

Folder 81: Street expansion legislation, 1933--Includes a draft of an article and resolution of the Petworth Citizens’ Association regarding the widening of F Street, and drafts of arguments for an amendment to the Highway Act.

Folder 82: Suffrage for the District of Columbia, 1937-1946--Includes statements from various suffrage associations such as the D.C. Suffrage Association and the Citizens’ Conference on District Suffrage, drafts of arguments concerning D.C. suffrage, and proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution allowing D.C. suffrage.

Folder 83: Traffic Safety, 1938--Includes a minority report of the FCA’s Safety Committee concerning the dangers of morning traffic for school children and a newspaper clipping about providing licensed drivers with updated traffic rules.

Folder 84: Transportation, 1949--Includes newspaper clippings, photocopies of statistical charts, and a resolution from the Manor Park Citizens’ Association concerning problems with bus transportation in the District (original statistical charts are located in oversize folder 100).

Folder 85: Transportation, undated--Includes two reports regarding the merger of D.C. transportation facilities.

Folder 86: Voteless D.C. League of Women Voters, 1931-1948--Includes monthly bulletin, publication “Our Minorities and the World Order,” and an advertisement for the league’s 7th annual conference.

Folder 87: Voteless D.C. League of Women Voters’ newsletters, 1941-1942.

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Folder 88: Voteless D.C. League of Women Voters’ newsletters, 1943-1945.

Folder 89: Washington Cathedral, 1944-1945--Includes correspondence and photographs regarding Noyes’ donation of Russian priest vestments to the Washington Cathedral.

Folder 90: Washington D.C. Song contest, 1951--Includes newspaper clippings regarding a contest for a song about Washington, D.C. and regarding the Association of Oldest Inhabitants’ disapproval of the new song.

SERIES III: SCRAPBOOKS AND MEMORABILIA

Folder 91: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the subject of “Know Your D.C.”, 1942. Also includes the annual message of Noyes as president of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of D.C., 1944.

Folder 92: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the subject of “D.C. Reorganization, Made or Proposed,” compiled and written by Suter, 1944-1949. Also includes a pamphlet containing the statement of Senator Capper on national representation, 1947.

Folder 93: Scrapbook of newspaper clippings on the subject of “D.C. Reorganization and Home Rule” by Suter, 1947-1949. Also includes a pamphlet about a Senate hearing on national representation, 1945; copies of Congressional Record concerning national representation, 1940, and D.C. suffrage, 1922; and a clipping from the American Coal Journal about Suter, 1919.

Folder 94: Suter’s personal scrapbook, undated, including a pamphlet on the origin and forms of government, a statement by Senator Capper, a statistical chart on state illiteracy, and Suter’s notes and newspaper clippings about D.C. suffrage and national representation.

Folder 95: Loose material from Suter’s personal scrapbook, undated, including copies of speeches delivered by Senator Capper and printed in the Congressional Record, a newspaper clipping about D.C. suffrage, and an invitation for Suter to attend the Communist party’s discussion of D.C. suffrage.

Folder 96: Suter’s collection of items related to President Abraham Lincoln, including newsletters from various Lincoln societies.

Folder 96A: Seven pamphlets, apparently from Suter’s collection (all but one bear “J.C. Suter” in pencil), mostly printed versions of speeches given by President Lincoln and other officials.

Folder 97: Suter’s memorabilia, including memberships to the Landon and Knox Campaign Club of the Republican State Committee of D.C. and to the World’s Congress Auxiliary, and an invitation to the laying of the cornerstone of the National Press Building.

Folder 98: Noyes’s memorabilia, including a transcript of a radio broadcast on NBC, a program for his eightieth birthday celebration, and copies of a poem written in his honor.

Folder 99: Noyes’s notebooks, ca. 1890s-1907, consisting of four small journals with Noyes’ opinions on local topics, genealogical notes, appointments, addresses, and expenditures.

Folder 99A: Miscellaneous, including letter (w/ envelop) referencing Noyes, to Mr. John Morris dated Aug. 20, 1877; and pamphlet (photocopied) concerning the "Citizens' Joint Committee for an Elective School Board" formed in 1919.

Folder 100 (oversize): Original petitions, blueprints, and statistical charts noted above.