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The History of Women

 

 

From "An American Time Capsule, Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera" collection:

Declaration and protest of the women of the United States by the National woman suffrage association. July 4th, 1876.

Some reasons why we oppose votes for women ... National association opposed to woman suffrage. New York City [1894].

26th Convention of the Kentucky equal rights .... (1900)

Votes for women! The woman's reason. ... National American woman suffrage association. Headquarters: 505 Fifth Avenue, New York. (1912)

A terrible blot on American civilization. 3424 lynchings in 33 years ... Prepared by the Committee on public affairs The Inter-fraternal council. Issued by District of Columbia anti-lynching committee North eastern federation of Colored women's (1922)

A prayer for the spiritual union of mankind (1924)

Listen!!! "Gallant American women" Women in the making of America. Tuesday 2:00- 2:30 P. M. (EST)- N. B. C. Blue network ... National Broadcasting company 1939.

 

From "Words and Deeds in American History" collection:

Letter, Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron concerning women's rights and the education of women physicians, 4 March 1851.

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895.

Letter, Susan B. Anthony to Adelaide Johnson discussing women ministers and Johnson's sculpture memorializing prominent suffragists, 8 February 1896.

Amelia Earhart's palm print and analysis of her character prepared by Nellie Simmons Meier, 28 June 1933.

Clare Boothe Luce's scene description of her play The Women, ca. 1936.

Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White detailing the First Lady's lobbying efforts for federal action against lynchings, 19 March 1936.

 

From "Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women Suffrage Association Collection 1848-1921":

Enfranchisement of women : reprinted from the Westminster and foreign quarterly review, for July, 1851.

Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the history of its formation : with the times and places in which the association has held meetings up to 1880.

That terrible question, or, A few thoughts on love and marriage / by Moses Hull. (1868)

The constitutional rights of the women of the United States : an address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888 / by Isabella Beecher Hooker.

The women's vote in Kansas / by F.G. Adams.

Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Twentieth Annual Convention of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union / by Frances E. Willard. (1893)

Legal status of women in Iowa. Comp. by Jennie L. Wilson ... (1894)

Women and the alphabet; a series of essays, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. (1900)

American women in civic work, by Helen Christine Bennett, with portraits. (1915)

The trade union woman, by Alice Henry ... (1915)

Mobilizing woman-power, by Harriot Stanton Blatch; with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt ...(1918)

Front Door Lobby / by Maud Wood Park. (192-)

Handbook of the National American Woman Suffrage Association : and proceedings of the Convention held at Cleveland, Ohio, April 13, 1921 / edited by Nettie Rogers Shuler.

 

From "By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920" collection:

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Harriot--from a daguerreotype 1856.

The apotheosis of suffrage. (1896)

Election Day!. (1909)

Woman suffrage headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland (1912)

Suffragists Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker, April 22, 1913.

Florence F. Noyes as "Liberty" in suffrage pageant. (1913)

Head of suffrage parade, Washington, D.C.. (1913)

Official program - Woman suffrage procession, Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913 / Dale.

Suffrage parade 3/13/13.

The first picket line - College day in the picket line line. (1917)

Three suffragists casting votes in New York City (1917)

Marble statue of three suffragists by Adelaide Johnson in the Capitol crypt, Washington, D.C. (1965)

Susan B. Anthony, full-length portrait, seated, facing left

Lucy Stone, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right

Julia Ward Howe, half-lenght portrait, seated, facing left

Alice Stone Blackwell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, seated, and Susan B. Anthony, standing, three-quarter length portrait

Suffrage campaign days in New Jersey.

Sojourner Truth, three-quarter length portrait, standing, wearing spectacles, shawl, and peaked cap, right hand resting on cane

 

From "Women of Protest" collection:

Brief Timeline of the National Woman's Party 1912-1997

Mrs. Catherine Boyle, 908 Young St., New Castle, Del. (1910)

Nell Mercer, Norfolk, Virginia (1910)

Mrs. Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a sixty-day sentence

Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas at right waiting for mobs to attack pickets so she can order out new banners. (1917)

Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." (1917)

Miss [Lucy] Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington (1917)

Lucy Branham in Occoquan prison dress. (1919)

Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, New York (1921)

Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, who donated the headquarters of the National Woman's Party, speaking at the dedication ceremony, May 21, 1922.

 

From "Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911" collection:

Scrapbook 1897-1904

Some items in the above scrapbook:

Sojourner Truth

The Demand for Enfranchisement by Elizabeth Burrill Curtis (1894?)

Petition for a Woman Suffrage Amendment (1894)

Anne Fitzhugh Miller's Introductory remarks (1894)

Woman Suffrage Convention! In Geneva! (1897)

The Thirtieth Annual Convention and Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration; National American Woman Suffrage Association

Geneva Political Equality Club Meeting program (1899)

Ella Hawley Crossett speaks to Geneva Political Equality Club (1901)

A Lesson in Equality (1902)

 

Scrapbook 1907-1908

Some items in the above scrapbook:

39th Annual New York State Woman Suffrage Association Convention (1907)

Suffragists Hold Busy Sessions (1907)

Geneva Political Equality Club Tenth Anniversary Souvenir Program, 1907-1908 Season

Special school election held (1907)

Legislative Committee, New York State Woman Suffrage Association, Mary Craigie, Chairman, to local political equality club presidents (1908)

Anne Fitzhugh Miller and Harriot Stanton Blatch address Solvay Women's Guild, Syracuse (1908)

Anniversary Celebration of 1848 Woman's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls (1908)

Women's National Anti-Suffrage League organizing meeting (1908)

New York State Woman Suffrage Association Letterhead with Geneva Political Equality Club Constitution affixed

 

 

Other:

Representative women / L. Schamer del. (1870)

Edith Campbell registering (to vote?) (1912)

Votes for women (1913)

Suffrage march line--How thousands of women parade today at Capitol (1913)

The feminine of Jeckyll and Hyde (1913)

Votes for women (1913)

"All together now! Stop her!" (1914)

"Oh! - tee hee! - horrors!" How true it is that politics make strange bedfellows! (1914)

The latest suffrage recruit (1915?)

Suffrage parade, NYC, Oct. 23, 1915

The new freedom (1915)

Woman modelling marching costume for Chicago's suffrage parade, June 6, 1916

Suffragettes - Mrs. Alice Burke and Nell Richardson (1916)

Would the soldier give her the ballot? (1917)

Alice Paul, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly right, sewing suffrage flag

Group of 10 suffragettes

Lucy Stone, 1818-1893

Photograph of Harriet Tubman (1911)

List of Life Members of Geneva Political Equality Club

Susan B. Anthony 1820-February 15-1900. Celebration of the eightieth birthday

Clara Barton, (1821-1912) president of the American Red Cross from 1882 until 1904

The progress of colored women / by Mary Church Terrell ...

Citizenship, its rights and duties--woman suffrage

 
 
 
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