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Woman Dept, Lewiston Saturday Journal (folder) I Greenwood Papers Box 540 Folder 49

Isabel Greenwood Maine Woman Suffrage Association

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Repository Citation Greenwood, Isabel, "Woman Suffrage Dept, Lewiston Saturday Journal (folder) I Greenwood Papers Box 540 Folder 49" (1917). Archival Materials. 42. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/maine_women_archival_all/42

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