1914 MANUSCRIPT ADDRESS DELIVERED BY GEORGIANA FRIEDRICHS ON PEACE & ARBITRATION

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Address on Peace and Arbitration by Georgiana Young Friedrichs of the Womans Club of The Exposition of Big Ideas, New Orleans.
Manuscript speech delivered before Esplanade High School on May 18, 1914, by the largely forgotten New Orleans activist Georgiana Y. Friedrichs, an accomplished woman for the period, and a prime example of the conflicting and changing social influences then in play in the Crescent City.                                                                                                                                                                            Bears the letterhead of the women's club, including a list of members, which was ironically dissolved only a couple months later with the onset of World War I.  Several annotations/corrections throughout. Sheet measures 12 1/4 x 7 5/16 inches; bottom 3 inches pasted on to lengthen. Verso includes list of schools previously addressed on the topic in 1912 and 1913: Normal School and Sophie Wright High School. Exhibits toning, creasing from old folds, couple thumbtack holes at head, else very good.                                                "Mrs. Georgiana Young Friedrichs (Mrs. P. J. Friedrichs) has for years been a prominent worker along various lines which tend to be uplifting to humanity. Firstly a suffragist, Mrs. Friedrichs puts her enthusiasm for the cause in all her undertakings. Mrs. Friedrichs, ex-vice president of the Era Club...Many other honors given because of appreciation and realization of her valuable assistance in public work along educational and socio-economic lines are: First vice-president of the High School Alumnae and an ex-president and charter member of this educational body; treasurer of Housewives League; a member of the Executive Board of the Public School Alliance since its organization; ex-state president of the Louisiana Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy; an ex-president of the New Orleans Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy...organized the first Parents Co-operative Club in New Orleans. It was while State President of the Louisiana Division U.D.C. that Mrs. Friedrichs inaugurated Louisiana Day. As the wife of a noted Confederate soldier, Mrs. Friedrichs has never forgotten her duty to the Army of Grey. Her indefatigable work has been recognized by the many positions of honor and trust the Daughters of Confederacy have bestowed upon her." -
The New Citizen, PUBLISHED BY THE ERA CLUB OF NEW ORLEANS (To promote the equal participation of men and women in the social and civic advancement of our country),
Vol. 3 - No. 3, New Orleans, January 1914