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World War I Portrait Photograph of Dwight F. Chellis with pencil description of war service medals and bars

1919rif. 277021919. Ephemera. Very good condition. Silvertone photograph of Dwight Chellis Navy Chief in the Locomotive-Mounted U.S. Naval Railroad Batteries who fought with the American Expeditionary force in France during W.W.I. Photo most likely taken in France showing Chellis a former student of the University of Michigan before the war in what might be a U.S. Marine uniform. Photo has writing in the margins: "Dwight F. Chellis/served in all the big battles/ decorated for superior marksmanship in the U.S. Marines/only naval battery on armament or swivel cars." It is accompanied by a three page handwritten note in pencil possibly written later by another family member who identified Chellis as a sailor Dwight F. Chellis/February 1919/Chief Engineers mate/U.S. Naval Battery" The note is mistaken with regard to his rating and Marine Corps service. According to The Michigan Alumnus April 1919 Chellis had been a member of the Michigan Naval Militia which was organized at UMichigan in January 1917. He with 37 other students enlisted or were commissioned in the U.S. Naval Batteries USNB and served in France by July 9 1918. The magazine notes that he was a "CCM" Chief Carpenter's Mate rather than a "Chief Engineers mate" per the note. The note is also incorrect regarding Chellis's having served with the Marine Corps. As documented in Navy Department Publication Number 6: The United States Navy Railroad Batteries in France 1922 and the Naval History and Heritage Command's Historical Summary of the U.S. Naval Railway Batteries 2018 the USNB was strictly a U.S. Navy unit and never affiliated with the U.S. Marines. Rather it was assigned to the U.S. Army specifically the First Army's Railway Artillery Reserve RAR. The photograph appears to show Chellis wearing an indistinct shoulder sleeve patch. Army soldiers assigned to the RAR wore shoulder patches featuring the Coastal Artilleries fictional mascot the Oozlefinch Woozlefinch and some sources suggest that the USNB wore a variation of this patch. Following the war Chellis returned to New England and became a successful real estate agent in Rutland VT. Photo 3.25" x 4" attached to partial album page with 3 8.5 x 5.5" pages written in pencil. Photo in vgc notes toned slt ruffled. An interesting vernacular image of a W.W.I soldier. unknown

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Michigan Women's SuffrageABAA

Women's Rights and Temperance Reform: Michigan WCTU Suffrage Appeal by Caroline Bartlett Crane 1910

1910rif. 164301910. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Michigan. An Expert's Opinion: The Suffrage Question as Viewed by the Competent Michigan Woman 1910 uses the public authority of Caroline Bartlett Crane to advocate equal suffrage during the decade preceding ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Crane a Michigan minister civic reformer and suffragist known for her municipal reform work states the argument directly: "I believe in Equal Suffrage because men and women are co-partners in the great business of living." Issued by the Michigan WCTU the broadside documents the organization's use of prominent women reformers and short quotable endorsements to advance voting rights as part of its political program. An Expert's Opinion: The Suffrage Question as Viewed by the Competent Michigan Woman. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Michigan. St. Louis: Michigan Woman's Christian Temperance Union Press Bureau 1910. Broadside. The text identifies Caroline Bartlett Crane as the authority behind its suffrage argument and centers her declaration that women's participation in civic life justified equal political participation. Crane's endorsement joined two closely connected strands of Progressive Era reform in Michigan: organized woman suffrage and the municipal reform work for which she became nationally known. The WCTU had formally endorsed woman suffrage in 1881 under Frances Willard's leadership after temperance organizers increasingly concluded that the ballot would give women political power to pursue prohibition and other social reforms. By 1910 the Michigan organization could draw upon Crane's reputation as a public speaker civic reformer and suffrage advocate to present voting rights as part of women's existing responsibility for public life rather than as a departure from it. Very good condition. A Michigan WCTU campaign broadside preserving Caroline Bartlett Crane's concise argument for political equality within the organizational campaign that linked temperance reform to women's enfranchisement. unknown books