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Anne Ellis

Anne Ellis, Santa Barbara, 1935 Anne Ellis (1875 - 1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.

She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.

Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center. the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her. Provided by Wikipedia
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    'Plain Anne Ellis'; more about the life of an ordinary woman by Ellis, Anne, 1875-1938

    Published: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931
    Description: 3 preliminary leaves, 264 pages : frontispiece ; 22 cm.
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    The life of an ordinary woman by Ellis, Anne, 1875-1938

    Published: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929
    Description: xii unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered unnumbered page. 300 1 unnumbered page: frontispiece, plates, portraits; 22 cm.
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    Sunshine preferred : the philosophy of an ordinary woman by Ellis, Anne, 1875-1938

    Published: University of Nebraska Press, 1984
    Description: 248 pages ; 20 cm.
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    The life of an ordinary woman by Ellis, Anne, 1875-1938

    Published: Houghton Mifflin, 1990
    Description: xvii, 300 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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    Plain Anne Ellis : more about the life of an ordinary woman by Ellis, Anne, 1875-1938

    Published: University of Nebraska Press, 1997
    Description: xiii, 264 pages ; 21 cm.
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