These papers consist of three scrapbooks including numerous photographs related to Cornelia's years as editor of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union newspaper, The Union Signal; her visit to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909; her trip to Alaska with a group of national newspaper editors the summer of 1909 on the Alaska Steamship company's vessel the S. S. Northwestern; her 1911 marriage to Robert Lee Hatcher, the prospector and miner who is credited with starting underground mining in the Talkeetna Mountains of south-central Alaska in 1906; her winter in Knik, Alaska, in 1912-13; her role in Robert Lee Hatcher's development of the Gold Mint Mine; her gathering a petition for woman suffrage that contributed to the first bill passed by Alaska's fist legislature enfranchising Alaska women in 1913; her service as president of the Alaska Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1913-1924; her leadership of the 1916 prohibition campaign in Alaska that resulted in a two-to-one vote in favor of prohibiting toxicating liquor effective January 1, 1918; her lobbying Congress for approval of Alaska's Bone Dry law; her support of the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs; her operation of beauty salon and service as a leader in the Business and Professional Women's and Soroptimist clubs in Long Beach, California, 1924-30; her service during the Hoover administration as research secretary for the Women's Division of the Republican Party, 1930-35. [Scrapbooks were assembled by Cornelia's daughter, Hazel Jewett Phelps Wells; they contain Hazel's notes on her mother's life.]