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	The Sphinx Fund was started as a memorial to the founding of the American Woman's Republic. This postcard showing American Woman's Republic officers Mabel Lewis, President (seated, holding sphinx model ) and (standing left to right) Mildred McFaden, Secretary; Alma Moore, Vice President; Claudia Hazen White, Secretary of the Interior; Margaret Tucker, Secretary of Education and Social Services; and Susie Johnson, Secretary of Commerce and Industry, may have been a promotional piece used to encourage members to contribute to the fund.
	In 1912 when the People's University was closing, the Art Academy became more focused on the production of commercial ware and items that could be mass produced for sale. In this photograph Edward Gardner Lewis (standing left), founder of the Art Academy appears with associates (left to right, back) Frank Furman, an unidentified woman and an unidentified man. In front (left to right) are Mabel, his wife and an artist in her own right, and unidentified woman and Claudia Hazen White, Secretary of the Interior for the American Woman's Republic. The items on display are all made from molds and are awaiting decoration or glazing.
	This formal portrait of Edward Gardner Lewis, (1869-1950) was taken by Eugene Taylor who was on Lewis' staff. Lewis was President of the Lewis Publishing Company and the People's United States Bank, and was also founder of the American Woman's League and the American Woman's Republic. He founded University City, Missouri and served as mayor from 1906 to 1913. He signed this portrait with his motto, "Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows. E. G. Lewis 5/10/1910."
	This photograph was taken on October 2, 1912 at the 44th Convention of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association meeting in Galesburg, Illinois. Delegates and officers at the meeting were joined by Mabel Lewis (fifth from right), president of the American Woman's Republic, and Claudia Hazen White (fourth from right), Secretary of the Interior of the Republic. Many of the women are wearing badges that read "Votes for Women."
	This is the model made about 1910 of the University City Plaza, showing the buildings projected by Edward Gardner Lewis. This was his conception of the central group for the "City Beautiful" as the capitol of the American Woman's Republic. Five of the buildings had already been constructed: The Art Academy of the People's University City (far right), the octagonal Woman's Magazine Building and Press Annex (center), the Egyptian style Woman's National Daily Building (far left), and University City's first City Hall (left center). The Lion Gates had also been constructed. Other buildings planned were a public school (lower left) and five additional buildings for the People's University. A building modeled after the Taj Mahal was intended to be the head chapter house for the American Woman's Republic, and the building resembling the Parthenon was to be the headquarters for the People's Savings Trust Company. He also envisioned two churches as part of the Plaza. The Woman's Magazine Building is now University City's City Hall, and this model is on display in the lobby.
	Elliot W. Major, Missouri Attorney General in 1912, visited University City. Major was a candidate for governor of Missouri, and he gave a speech at University City City Hall on October 7, 1912. He was elected governor and served from 1913 until 1917. In this photograph, Mabel Lewis is on the left, Edward Gardner Lewis is on the left in the center with Attorney General Major, and Claudia Hazen White, Secretary of the Interior for the American Woman's Republic is on the right.

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