By YVONNE FRENCH In an informal "Treasure-Talk" March 17 in the
Jefferson Building's "American Treasures" exhibition hall,
Rosemary Fry Plakas, the American history specialist in the Rare
Book and Special Collections Division, discussed the Library's
collection of "suffrage scrapbooks." The ones she mentioned were
kept by Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh
Miller. These scrapbooks document the activities of the
Political Equality Club of Geneva, N.Y., which the Millers
founded in 1897, as well as efforts at the state, national and
international levels to win the vote for women. Ms. Plakas's
talk, one of a series of Treasure-Talks on important items on
display in the "American Treasures" exhibition, coincidentally
fell on the anniversary of the Arizona legislature's passage of
an equal suffrage bill in 1903. One scrapbook has a copy of the
telegram Elizabeth Miller and Julia Ward Howe's daughter,
Florence Hall, sent to Arizona Gov. Brodie, urging him to sign
the bill. Ms. Plakas's talk also