WRCWoman's rights collection, 1853-1958: A Finding Aid
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
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Call No.: WRC
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Title: Woman's rights collection, 1853-1958
Quantity: 85 file boxes, 7 oversize volumes, 39 framed items, 1 folio+ folder, 1 folio folder, 4 reels of microfilm (M-91, M-93, M-108)
Abstract: Correspondence, journals, notebooks, speeches, etc., from the unmicrofilmed portion of the Woman's Rights Collection.
Gift of Maud Wood Park, et al. Received 1943-1949.
Woman's rights collection, 1853-1958; item description, dates. WRC, folder #. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute,
Harvard University.
This collection consists of the correspondence, reports, speeches, books, plays, articles, clippings, biographical data, and miscellaneous materials by and re: about 100 women and 4 men who were involved in furthering the woman's rights movement from colonial times to the present. The papers record the woman's rights movement up to the 1920's, highlighting the work done in Massachusetts; the woman suffrage movement up to the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment in 1920; and the gains for women in such areas as protective legislation and employment opportunities since 1920.
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1: Grace Abbott (1879-1939) - social worker.
Scope and Content:
Director of the Immigrants' Protection League (1908-1917); resident at Hull House, Chicago (1908-1915); director of the child labor division of the Children's Bureau (1917-1919); advisor on the War Labor Policies Board (1918); executive secretary of the Illinois Immigrants' Commission (1920-1921); and chief of the Children's Bureau (1921-1934). Also see WRC - P25 for portrait (same image as in Folder 1.)
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1. Biographical information re: GA; Picture of her.
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3: Jane Addams (1860-1935) - settlement worker, author, and peace advocate.
Scope and Content: With Ellen Gates Starr she opened the Social Settlement of Hull-House, Chicago, in 1889. She became the head resident there. In 1909 she became president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. Later she was president of the Woman's International League for Peace, and presided at many of the Peace Conferences from 1915-1929.
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3. Articles re: JA, 1912-1944, undated; Articles by JA, 1912, undated
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9: Oakes Ames (1874-1950) - husband of Blanche Ames Ames and the "dean of men suffragists"
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10: Mary Anderson (1872-1964) - government official in labor field.
Scope and Content:
She was an early organizer for the National Women's Trade Union League; she pioneered in the field of collective bargaining. In 1917 she was drafted by the Council of the National Defense Advisory Committee to serve as assistant to Mary Van Kleeck, chief of the newly organized Women in Industry Service in the U.S. Dept. of Labor. When Miss Van Kleeck resigned in 1919, Miss Anderson succeeded her as chief. When the Woman's Bureau was organized, Miss Anderson became its first director (1919-1944).
See WRC - P20 - 1 for portrait.
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10. Biographical sketch of her;
Newspaper clippings re: MA and the Woman's Bureau, 1930-1943, undated;
2 letters to Maud Wood Park re: Woman's Bureau and the ship to be christened for Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, 1943; Materials re: Woman's Bureau, 1940-1946, undated
Advertisement sheet re: woman workers, n.d.
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11-11a: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) - reformer.
Scope and Content:
She was a leading figure in the temperance, abolition and woman suffrage movements. She helped organize the Woman's State Temperance Society of New York. A radical abolitionist, she was one of the first to advocate Negro suffrage after the Civil War. She helped found, and became the chairman of the executive committee of the National Woman Suffrage Association. In 1890, along with the American Woman Suffrage Association which had been the outgrowth of a division in sentiment within the NWSA, the NWSA merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. with Miss Anthony as its vice president at large. In 1890 she was elected president, serving until 1900.
See WRC - P34 for portrait.
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11. Biographical information re: SBA;
Articles re: SBA, 1925-1943;
Article re: her portrait, March, 1931;
Copies of correspondence, 1852-1906;
Copy of Rochester Convention Petitions re woman suffrage (1853);
Writings of SBA, 1904, undated;
Lecture announcement with portrait of SBA, Mar., 1913;
Blotter showing SBA's signature on NAWSA check, 1897
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11a. SBA to Studwell, re THE REVOLUTION, ALS, September 15, 1870.
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12: Grace Hodges Bagley (1860-1944) - social worker and suffragist.
Scope and Content:
She was an early worker at Hull House, Chicago; helped organize the first Juvenile Court and the first Day Nursery for children of working mothers and widowed fathers. While continuing her social work, she actively supported the woman suffrage campaign. She became president of the Equal Suffrage Association of the 10th Norfolk District of Mass.; director of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association; vice president of the Mass. League of Women Voters; and chairman of the Americanization Department of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association and of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association.
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13. Jennie Loitman Barron (1891-1969) - judge.
Scope and Content:
She was the first woman judge in Mass. (1937); was the first woman to be appointed Master in the Superior Civil Court in Mass.; was the first woman to present evidence before a Grand Jury in Mass. She drafted several laws for the League of Women Voters. In 1924 she was the delegate of the National League of Women Voters to the National Commission on Uniform Laws, where she presented and sponsored improved marriage and divorce laws and more equitable guardianship laws. She has lectured extensively on laws effecting women and children, on jury service for women, on woman suffrage, etc.
Also see WRC - P35 for portrait.
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13. Biographical information re: JLB;
Picture of her;
Newspaper clippings re: her, 1936-1947, undated;
Articles by JLB, 1924, undated;
Membership and sponsor list of Woman's Centennial Congress, March, 1940;
Copy of theme by her daughter, Deborah L. Barron, 1940.
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17-21: Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950) - journalist and suffragist.
Scope and Content:
She assisted her parents, Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, on the Woman's Journal (1881-1893) and after their deaths became editor-in-chief until 1917 when the Woman's Journal, the Woman Voter, and the Headquarters News Letter were consolidated to form The Woman Citizen, of which she became contributing editor. She was also the editor of the Woman's Column (1886-1905). She wrote extensively on woman suffrage. She was secretary of the NAWSA for 20 years; president of the New England and Mass. Woman Suffrage Associations; and honorary president of the Mass. League of Women Voters.
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22-22a: Antoinette (Brown) Blackwell (1825-1921) - minister.
Scope and Content:
She was the first woman to enter the ministry - was ordained in the Orthodox Congregational Church of South Butler, New York, in 1853. She later became a Unitarian and a minister in that faith. She was active in the abolition, prohibition and woman suffrage movements.
Also see WRC-P24 for portrait.
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22. Biographical information re: ABB;
Articles and newspaper clippings re: ABB, 1918-1944, undated;
2 poetic tributes to her by her daughters, Agnes Blackwell Jones and Ethel Blackwell Robinson;
Article by ABB re: divorce, 1902
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22a. Photographs.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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23-25: Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) - doctor.
Scope and Content:
She was the first woman doctor of medicine, receiving her M.D. in 1849. In 1850 she opened a private dispensary of her own in New York City, which, in 1857, was incorporated into the New York Infirmary and College for Women, a hospital conducted solely for women. She was later joined by her sister, Emily, who had considerable training in medicine. During the Civil War Dr. Blackwell was active in organizing units of field nurses. See WRC-P23 for portrait.
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23. 2 articles re: EB, 1899; 1911 Correspondence, 1847; 1896
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24. Reports of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children 1865-1868;
Report of the Board of Managers of The Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia, January, 1869
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25. 2 articles by EB re Christian socialism and rabies, 1882; 1891
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26-26a: Henry Blackwell (1825-1909) - editor and advocate of woman suffrage.
Scope and Content:
He was one of the earliest advocates in America of suffrage for women. He married Lucy Stone in 1855. When the AWSA was organized in 1869, he devoted most of his time to it. In 1870, when the Woman's Journal was founded in Boston, he contributed considerable amounts of money to it and later became editor of it, remaining in that position until his death.
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26. Biographical information re HB;
Materials re: Blackwell Memorial Meeting, Nov. 13, 1910;
Tributes to HB by Emma Blackwell, 1910;
Copies of drafts of letters from HB to newspaper editors re: woman suffrage;
Copy of letter from Esther Frances Boland to Alice Stone Blackwell re: her biography of Lucy Stone, March 12, 1931;
Copy of address by A. Hunting to voters of Kansas re: temperance, 1867
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26a. Photographs.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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27: Emily Newell Blair (1877-1951) - writer and lecturer.
Scope and Content:
She was press and publicity chairman in the initiative suffrage campaign in Missouri, 1914; she served in several capacities for the Democratic National Committee (1921-1928); she was editor of Missouri Women (1914-1915); and she was first secretary (1922-1926) and then president (1928-1929) of the Woman's National Democratic Club.
See WRC-P27 for portrait.
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27. Articles re ENB, 1930, undated;
Letter from ENB to Edna Stantial re: WRC at Radcliffe, July 30, 1943;
Article by ENB re: women in politics, March, 1931
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28-28a: Ada C. Bowles (1836-?) - minister.
Scope and Content:
She was an ordained minister in the Universalist Church. She served as chairman of the Committee on Church Suffrage Work of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association. She was active in suffrage work from 1869 on.
She was president of the first Cambridge Suffrage Association, of the California State Suffrage Association; and associated with the Philadelphia, Mass., and New England Suffrage Societies.
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28. Biographical information re: ACB;
Correspondence, 1874-1943, undated
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28a. Photographs.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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30: Myra Bradwell (1831-1894) - lawyer.
Scope and Content:
She was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1885, after having passed her bar examination back in 1869. At that time she had been refused admission to the bar because she was a married woman under disability. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision of the state court in 1873. She was largely responsible for the passage of the Illinois law granting freedom of choosing a profession to all persons (1884). She was the first woman member of the Illinois State Bar Association and of the Illinois Press Association. She summoned the first woman's suffrage convention, in Chicago, in 1869.
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30. Cross reference to article in Woman's Journal, Jan. 8, 1870.
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31: Elizabeth Brandeis
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31. Article by her re: centralization of power and democracy, 1942.
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32: Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866-1948) - social worker and educator.
Scope and Content:
She was a resident at Hull-House, Chicago (1908-1920-; instructor in household administration (1902-1925); professor in social economy (1925-1929); delegate to the Women's Peace Conference in the Hague (1915); delegate to the Pan American Child Conference in Lima, Peru (1930); president of the NAWSA (1911), and worked with several social work associations.
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32. Article by SB and Edith Abbott re: wage-earning women and the state, n.d.
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33: Margaret Brent (1600-1670/1671) - landowner.
Scope and Content:
In 1638 she came from England to Maryland and received land in her own name due to family connections. She was appointed executrix to Governor Leonard Calvert and attorney for Lord Baltimore by the Maryland Provincial Court, and was thus involved in many lawsuits.
See WRC-P10 for portrait (copy of image in folder 33).
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33. Picture of her;
Article re: her, Dec., 1926;
Cross reference re: her
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34: Dorothy Kirchwey Brown (1888- ) - civic leader.
Scope and Content:
She was a Fellow at the Bureau of Social Research, Russell Sage Foundation (1911-1912); researcher for the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (1913-1915) and for the U.S. Children's Bureau (1920); president of the Mass. League of Women Voters (1939-1942). As National Child Welfare Chairman and head of the Child Welfare Department of the National League of Women Voters, she was prominent in the fight for the Federal Child Labor Amendment.
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34. Article by her re: federal aid to states, March, 1926
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36: Katherine C. Bushnell - doctor.
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36. 2 articles by her re: social hygiene
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37-43: Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) - lecturer and suffragist.
Scope and Content:
She worked as State lecturer and organizer of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association (1890-1895), and from 1895 on worked with the NAWSA, of which she was president (1900-1904; 1915-on). She was also president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904-1923). She worked for suffrage in the campaigns in all the woman suffrage states. She was a leader in the campaign to submit the suffrage amendment to Congress. She founded, in 1919, and since then was honorary president of the National League of Women Voters. She was the organizer and chairman of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (1925-1932), and was honorary chairman from 1932 on.
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44: Adelaide A. Claflin (1846-?) - suffragist and minister.
Scope and Content:
She was ordained a Unitarian minister at Meadville, Pa., in 1897. She was a member of the executive board of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Assoc. and was connected with the Boston Equal Suffrage League. She lectured on woman suffrage with Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore and Julia Ward Howe. She campaigned in Rhode Island in 1886. She was the author of several articles and editorials in the Boston newspapers and contributed to the Woman's Journal.
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44. Letter to Mrs. Stone re: speaking schedule, July 13, 1891
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44af+: Sue Ainslee Clark
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44af.+ "Women who have won fame ...," excerpts from Boston Herald.
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45: James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) - clergyman.
Scope and Content:
He was a Unitarian minister and founder of the Church of the Disciples (new Unitarian Church) in Boston, 1841. He was a professor at Harvard Divinity School (1867-1871); a lecturer in ethics (1867-1877); was on the board of overseers of Harvard College (1863-1888); and was active on behalf of temperance, anti-slavery and woman suffrage.
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45. Biographical information re: JFC; Copy of list of presidents of Mass. Woman Suffrage Assoc.
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47-47a: Greta Coleman
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47. Biographical sketch of her
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47a. Photograph.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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50-57, Vols. 1-5: Mary Dewson (1874-1962) - industrial economist.
Scope and Content: She was a research secretary for the National Consumers' League (1919-1924); volunteer in the economic and political field (1925-1934); she worked for the Democratic National Committee in various capacities (1928-1937); she was a member of the advisory council of the President's Commission on Economic Security and of the Consumers' Advisory Board, NRA (1933-1935); a member of the Social Security Board (1937-1938); and director of the International Migration Service.
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59: Elizabeth Gardiner Evans (1856-1937) - reformer.
Scope and Content:
In 1911 she became a member of the first state commission in the nation to study minimum wages as a constructive and preventative measure in the struggle against poverty. The law which the Mass. Commission recommended in 1912 set minimum wage rates for women and minors, the first such law in the U.S. She later became a firm believer in the organization of workers into trade unions in order to improve their conditions. By 1912 she had also taken up the cause of woman suffrage, campaigning in many states in support of it. In the 1920's she became interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and after long talks with the two men became convinced of their innocence. She campaigned in vain for a retrial and then for clemency.
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59. Biographical information re: EGE;
Poems by Alice Stone Blackwell and James Russell Lowell for the Memorial Meeting to EGE;
Memorial addresses by Dickinson S. Miller;
3 letters of EGE, 1918, 1919, undated, re: peace and suffrage;
3 letters re EGE, 1913, 1943;
Writings of EGE re: Sacco-Vanzetti Case, 1923-1924
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60-60a: Anna Christy Fall (1855-1930) - lawyer.
Scope and Content:
She was the first woman in Mass. to plead a case before a jury and to argue a case before the Supreme Court. Along with her husband, George Howard Fall (also a lawyer), she was instrumental in the passage of the bill in 1902 making both parents equal guardians of their minor children. Her book, The Tragedy of a Widow's Third, helped changed the law re: the widow's inheritance. She also lectured widely with Lucy Stone for woman suffrage.
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60. Biographical sketch of ACF;
Article by Alice Stone Blackwell re: ACF's role in the passage of the equal guardianship law in Mass. and the Narramore case, 1915.
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60a. Photograph.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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65-65a: Rose Dabney Forbes (1865-1947) - worker in peace and suffragist causes.
Scope and Content:
She was chairman of the Mass. Branch of the Woman's Peace Party. She helped to create the Mass. and Boston Leagues of Women Voters. In 1920 she was elected the first president of the Boston League of Women Voters. When women were given the vote in 1920, she turned her full attention to the cause of peace, campaigning for the League of Nations. She became chairman of the Mass. Committee of One Hundred of the Women's Non-Partisan Committee for the League of Nations.
Also see WRC - P14 for portrait.
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65. Biographical sketch of RDF;
2 letters to Mrs. Blanche Ames Ames and Maud Wood Park re: peace, Milton League of Women Voters and Alice Stone Blackwell (also 2nd page of letter to Mrs. Page);
Paper of RDF re: war and peace, 1915;
Address of RDF re: Boston League of Women Voters, 1921;
Ballot of Boston League of Women Voter, 1921;
Circular letter re: Boston League of Women Voters, 1922;
Invitation to tea in honor of Maud Wood Park, Jan. 14, n.y.
List of members of Mass. Woman's Non-Partisan Committee for the League of Nations, 1919
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65a. Photograph.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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66: Abby Kelley Foster (1810-1887) - abolitionist and woman's rights advocate.
Scope and Content:
She turned from teaching to the abolitionist cause in 1837, conducting a campaign through Mass. with Angelina Grimke. In 1840 she was appointed to the executive committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society. She became a leader in the radical abolitionist group and became a well-known figure throughout the North. After 1850 she was more prominent as an advocate of woman's rights than as an abolitionist leader. She took a prominent part in most of the woman's rights conventions for the next twenty years.
See WRC-P24 for portrait.
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66. Letter to Lucy Stone re: Oberlin College, Aug. 15, n.y.
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67-74, Vol. 6.: Helen Hamilton Gardener (1853-1925) - author and first woman member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission.
Scope and Content:
As an advocate of woman suffrage she was associated with Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She became vice chairman of the NAWSA Congressional Committee. Later she was elected president of the NAWSA. In 1920 President Wilson appointed her to the Civil Service Commission.
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77: Kate M. Gordon (1861-1932) - suffragist and civic leader.
Scope and Content:
She helped found, in 1896, the Era Club (the letters stood for "Equal Rights Association") in Louisiana. Its important campaign began in 1899. She was concerned with not only woman suffrage but social legislation and civic improvement. In 1901 she was elected corresponding secretary of the NAWSA, a position she held until 1909. From 1904 to 1913 she headed the Louisiana State Suffrage Association. Like many Southern suffragists she was opposed to federal amendment preferring state action. In 1913, when a federal amendment re: suffrage was beginning to seem a real possibility she organized the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference to combat it and to urge state action. After the 19th Amendment was ratified she turned to civic activities.
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77. Article re: KMG, 1944
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80: Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) - author and reformer.
Scope and Content:
Before the Civil War she devoted much of her time to writing poetry and furthering the abolitionist cause. After the War she became active in woman suffrage, prison reform, and the cause of peace. In 1868 she allied herself with the woman suffrage campaign, and when the New England Woman Suffrage Association was founded, she became its president. In 1869 she became a representative of the AWSA. She was also devoted to the world peace movement; in 1870 she issued the call for a congress of women to promote peace. In December 1870, a meeting was held in New York City to make arrangements for a "World's Congress of Women in behalf of International Peace." In 1870, when the American branch of the Woman's International Peace Association was formed, she became its first president.
Also see WRC-P5 for portrait.
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80. Biographical information re: JWH;
2 pictures of her;
Obituary, 1910;
Announcement of Mass. meeting in commemoration of JWH;
Booklet of birthday tributes to JWH, 1905;
Article re: JWH;
World Peace Foundation pamphlet, "Woman and War. Julia Ward Howe's Peace Crusade," by Edwin D. Mead. 1914;
Writings of JWH, 1906-1908;
List of presidents of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Assoc., 1919;
Cross reference sheet re: JWH;
Poem by Laura E. Richards re: U.S.O.;
Letter from Laura E. Richards to Alice Stone Blackwell, re: Russia, December 18, 1913
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81: Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) - colonist.
Scope and Content:
In 1634 she came from England to Massachusetts. Her knowledge of the Bible and her active mind led her to take an active part in the religious life of the colony. She soon began to expound her own religious beliefs, advocating a religion based on the individual's intuitive knowledge of God. Inasmuch as the Mass. church was based on an opposing philosophy - that of obedience to the laws of church and state, she was accused of antinomianism and eventually banished from the colony in 1637. She went first to Rhode Island and then to Long Island, where, in 1643, she was massacred by the Indians.
See WRC-P9 for portrait.
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81. Biographical sketch of AH
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107-608, Vols. 11-22a, Oversized materials: Grace A. Johnson (1871-1952) - educator.
Scope and Content:
She was State Congressional chairman of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association and a member of the National Council of the NAWSA (1915-1917); chairman of the board of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association (1917); executive secretary of the Mass. Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1922); member of the council of the Mass. Foreign Policy Association from 1923 on; chairman of the Educational Committee of the Mass. League of Nations Association (1926-1933); president of Garland School of Homemaking (1930-1937); lecturer at Boston Univ., Garland, Wheelock Kindergarten Training School, Mass. Department of Education Division Univ. Extension, etc.. She was the sister of Lucy (Fitch) Perkins, author.
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611: Julia Lathrop (1858-1932) - social worker.
Scope and Content:
She spent much of her life as a volunteer worker at Hull House, Chicago (1899-?). She was an active worker in several reform movements among them the case of the insane, better education for children, and child welfare. She was a member of the Illinois State Board of Charities (1893-1909); was chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau; and was appointed assessor on Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations in 1925.
See WRC-P25 for portrait.
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611. Biographical information re: JL; 2 speeches and 1 article by her
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613-614, Oversize: Gertrude Halladay Leonard (1868- ) - suffragist.
Scope and Content:
She first became interested in the suffrage cause in 1905, and for the next 12 years gave an increasing amount of time to the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association. From 1912-1917 she was chairman of the State Board of Directors and was virtually acting president as Alice Stone Blackwell was often unable to fulfill her duties as president. She was parade chairman of the first Boston Suffrage Parade. Along with Theresa Crowley, Mrs. Leonard was greatly responsible for the work of lobbying in the Mass. Legislature in favor of a suffrage bill. Mrs. Leonard resigned from her chairmanship of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association in 1917 and spent the next few months in France working with the Red Cross. In 1925-1926 she worked as an organizer for the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association.
See WRC-P33 for portrait.
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613. Biographical information re: GHL and her correspondence
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614. Materials and clippings re: suffrage, 1912-1917, undated
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OVERSIZE. Two certificates re: NAWSA (folio Box 1) and re: French decoration, 1920 (map case+)
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616: Mary A. Livermore (1820-1905) - reformer, suffragist and writer.
Scope and Content:
With the outbreak of the Civil War, Mrs. Livermore began her extraordinary career with the Northwestern Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Her war experiences helped convince her that woman suffrage was the most direct way to curtail liquor traffic, improve public education and alleviate many problems of poverty. At the end of the War, she devoted all her efforts to woman suffrage. She delivered the opening address at the first woman suffrage convention in Chicago and was elected president of the Illinois Woman's Suffrage Association. In 1869 she established The Agitator, a suffragist newspaper. Shortly thereafter, The Agitator merged with the Woman's Journal and she became editor of the new periodical. In 1872 she gave up editing to devote time to lecturing on the education of women and temperance. For 10 years she was president of the Mass. Women's Christian Temperance Union. She was also president of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association (1893-1904). See WRC-P28 for portrait.
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616. Biographical information re: MAL
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646: Bella Mansfield (1846-1911) - lawyer.
Scope and Content:
She was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1869 along with her husband. She never practiced, but rather continued to teach history, English and musical history until her death. She held administrative positions as dean of the School of Art and of the School of Music at DePauw Univ. (1893-1911). See WRC-P23 for portrait.
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646. Statement re: her admittance to bar, 1869
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648: Lucia True (Ames) Mead (1856-1936) - writer and lecturer.
Scope and Content:
She was interested primarily in peace and in the education of Negroes, as well as in woman suffrage. She was president of the Mass. Suffrage Association (1905-1915); chairman of the peace and arbitration department of the NAWSA; and director of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government.
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652: Mary Kenney O'Sullivan (1864-1945) - labor organizer.
Scope and Content:
She was a labor organizer, factory inspector and settlement worker in Chicago and Boston. She was a bindery worker who organized the women of her trade in Boston. She was the AFofL's first woman organizer. Later she worked with Florence Kelley in Chicago as assistant factory inspector. She was a founder of the National Women's Trade Union League. From 1914-1929 she was inspector for the Mass. Board of Labor and Industries.
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652. Biographical sketch of her (1907);
Picture of her; "Why the working woman needs the vote," by MKO's
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653-653b, Vol. 23ao. Mary Hutcheson Page (1860-1940) - suffragist.
Scope and Content:
She founded the Brookline Equal Suffrage Association. For many years she was chairman of the Executive Boards of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association and of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government. Later she went to Ohio and worked for woman suffrage there. In 1918 she retired and went to Washington, DC to work for the NAWSA. She retired from public life soon after her husband's death in 1923.
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862-1025, Vols. 68-96: Frances Perkins (1882-1965) - government official.
Scope and Content:
She was executive secretary of the New York Consumers' League (1910-1912); director of investigations of the New York State Factory Commission (1912-1915); commissioner of New York State Industrial Commission (1919-1921); director of the Council on Immigration Education (1921-1923); member of the New York State Industrial Board (1923-1929); industrial commissioner of the State of New York (1929-1933), secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (1933-1945); chairman of the President's Committee on Economic Security (1934); and member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission (1946-1953). See WRC-P26 for portrait.
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862. Correspondence re: WRC at Radcliffe, 1936-1945
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863-864, vols. 68-75: MATERIAL RE: NEW YORK STATE, DEPT. OF LABOR, INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION (1926-1933)
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863. Material re: Industrial Commission, n.d.
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864. Correspondence re: Industrial Commission, 1931-1932
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Vols. 68-75. Annual Reports of the Industrial Commissioner, 1926-1933
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865-996, Vols. 75-96: MATERIAL RE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (1919; 1932-1945)
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865- 936: International Labor Organization
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865. Material re: ILO, n.d.
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866. Material re: ILO, 1932; 1934
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867. Material re: ILO, 1935-1941
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868. Material re: ILO, 1943
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869. Notes of FP re: ILO, August 10, 1945
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870. Correspondence re: ILO, April-Nov., 1933
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871. Correspondence re: ILO, Jan.-April, 1934
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872. Correspondence re: ILO, May-June, 1934
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873. Correspondence re: ILO, July-Aug., 1934
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874. Correspondence re: ILO, Sept.-Dec., 1934
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875. Correspondence re: ILO, Jan., 1935-Sept., 1936
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876. Correspondence re: ILO, 1937
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877. Correspondence re: ILO, 1938-1939
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878. Material re: 20th Anniversary Dinner of ILO, Nov. 14, 1939
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879. Correspondence re: 20th Anniversary Dinner of ILO, Oct.-Nov., 1939
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880. Correspondence re: ILO, Jan.-Aug., 1940
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881. Correspondence re: ILO, Mar.-Oct., 1941
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882. Correspondence re: ILO, June-Dec., 1943
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883. Correspondence re: ILO, Jan., 1944-June, 1945
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884. List of ILO Congresses (Sept.-Oct., 1934), Sept. 4, 1934
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885. Material re: ILO Conference (Washington), 1919
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886. Mailing list for ILO Conference (Geneva), June, 1933
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887. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (June, 1933), Oct., 1932-June, 1933
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888. Reports of U.S. Delegation to ILO Conference (June 1933)
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889. Material re: ILO Conference (Geneva), June, 1934
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890. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (June 1934), May, 1933-Aug., 1934
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891. Records and reports of ILO Conference and of U.S. Delegation, June, 1934
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892. Material re: ILO Conference (Geneva), June, 1935
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893. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (June, 1935), Jan.-Sept., 1935
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894. Report of U.S. Delegation to ILO Conference (June, 1935) to AFL
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895. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (June 1936), April-June, 1936
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896. Material re: ILO Conference (Washington), April, 1937
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897. Proposed telegram to Carter Goodrich, U.S. Labor Commissioner in Geneva, re: ILO Conference (April, 1937), Oct. 23, 1936
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898. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (Geneva, Oct., 1937), Jan.-Mar., 1937
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899. Material re: ILO Conference (Geneva), June, 1938
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900. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (Geneva, June, 1938), May-Aug., 1938
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901. Material re: ILO Conference (Geneva), June, 1939
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902. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (June, 1939), May-June, 1939
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903. Report of Director of 25th Sess. of ILO Conference, June, 1939
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904. Material re: ILO Conference (New York), Oct., 1941
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905. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (Oct., 1941), Mar., 1941-Jan., 1942
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906. Correspondence re: FP's reception at ILO Conference (Oct., 1941) Sept.-Nov., 1941; n.d.
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907. List of U.S. Delegations to ILO Conference (Oct., 1941)
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908. Minutes of 1st sitting of Committee on Collaboration, ILO Conference (Oct., 1941), Oct. 28, 1941
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908a. Agenda for ILO Conference, 194?.
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909. Resolution submitted to ILO Conference by Selection Committee, Oct., 1941
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910. Resolution submitted to ILO Conference by certain workers' delegates, Oct., 1941
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911. Resolutions adopted by ILO Conference, Oct-Nov, 1941
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Vol.75. Provisional Record of the ILO Conference (New York, Oct-Nov., 1941)
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912. Advance copy of Report of Acting Director of International Labor Office to ILO, Oct., 1941
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Vol. 76. Report of Acting Director of International Labor Office to ILO, Oct., 1941
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913. Report to member states of ILO by John G. Winant, 1941
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914. Material re: ILO Conference (London), April, 1942
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915. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (London), Jan-Dec., 1942
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916. Proccedings of ILO Conference (Montreal), April 15-17, 1943
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917. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (Geneva, June, 1944), Sept. 1943-July, 1944
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918. Material re: ILO Conference (Philadelphia), Nov., 1944
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919. Records and reports of ILO Conference (Phila.), Nov., 1944
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920. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (San Francisco, April, 1945), April-May, 1945
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921. Memorandum on ILO Conference (Paris, Sept., 1945)
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922. Correspondence re: ILO Conference (Paris, Sept., 1945), n.d.
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923. Letter re: 62nd Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Geneva, April, 1933), May, 1933)
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924. Correspondence re: 68th Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Geneva, Sept, 1934), Aug-Sept., 1934
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925. Correspondence re: 69th Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Geneva, Jan., 1935), Dec., 1934-Feb., 1935
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926. Correspondence re: 70th Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Geneva, April, 1935), Mar.-Sept., 1935
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927. Material re: 72nd Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Geneva, June, 1935)
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928. Correspondence re: 73rd Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Geneva, Oct., 1935), Oct.-Nov., 1935
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929. Correspondence re: Sess of ILO Governing Body (Geneva, June, 1937), May-June, 1937
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930. Memorandum re: Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Jan., 1938), Feb. 28, 1938
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931. Correspondence re: 90th Sess. of ILO Governing Body (New York, Oct.-Nov., 1941), Sept., 1941
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932. Minutes of 90th Sess. of ILO Governing Body
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933. Correspondence re: Sess. of ILO Governing Body (1943), Dec. 2, 1941
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934. Memorandum re: 94th Sess. of ILO Governing Body (London, Jan., 1944), Jan 3, 1944
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935. Correspondence re: Sess. of ILO Governing Body (Quebec, June, 1945), June, 1945
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936. Newspaper clippings re: ILO, 1934-1941; n.d.
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937-971, Vol. 77: Committee on Economic Security
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937. Material re: Com. on Ecom. Sec., June-Sept., 1934
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938. Material re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Nov.-Dec., 1934
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939. Material re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Jan., 1935
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940. Material re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Feb., 1935
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941. Material re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Feb., 1935
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942. Material re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Feb.-Mar., 1935
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943. Material re: Com. on Econ. Sec., 1936; 1939-1940
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943a. Members of Advisory Council on Econ. Sec.; on Medical Advisory Com.; on Dental Advisory Com.; on Public Health Advisory Com; and on Hospital Advisory Board, n.d.
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944. Correspondence re: Com. on Econ. Sec., June 26-Oct. 5, 1934; n.d.
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945. Correspondence re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Nov. 5-27, 1934
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946. Correspondence re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Nov. 28-Dec. 12, 1934
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947. Correspondence re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Dec. 15-31, 1934
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948. Correspondence re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Jan.-Feb., 1935
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949. Correspondence re: Com. on Econ. Sec., Mar.-Nov., 1935
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950. Correspondence re: Com. on Econ. Sec., 1936; 1939-1940
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951. Clipping re: Econ. Sec., 1934
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952. Agenda and minutes of Com. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Aug. 13, 1934
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953. Preliminary agenda and minutes of Com. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Oct. 1, 1934
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954. Agenda, recommendations and minutes of Com. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Nov. 27, 1934
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955. Agenda, recommendations and minutes of Com. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Dec., 4, 1934
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956. Minutes of Com. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Dec. 7, 1934
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957. Agenda and minutes of Con. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Dec. 18, 1934
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958. Agenda and minutes of Com. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Dec. 19, 1934
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959. Agenda and minutes of Com. on Econ. Sec. meeting, Dec. 28, 1934
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959a. Agenda for meetings of Advisory Council on Econ., Dec.6-8, 1934
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960. Preliminary report of staff of Com. on Com. on Econ. Sec., Sept. 1934
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961. Reports on progress of work by Com. on Econ. Sec.
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962. Report of Com. on Econ. Sec. to President, Jan. 15, 1935
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963. Report on Risks to Econ. Sec. Arising out of Illness, Com. on Econ. Sec., 1935
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964. Interim report of Com. on Econ. Sec., 1935
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965. Appendices to Interim report of Com. on Econ. Sec., 1935
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966. Final report of Com. on Econ. Sec. on risks to econ. sec. arising out of illness, June, 1935; Jan. 1936
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967. Preliminary recommendations of Technical Board to Com. on Econ. Sec.
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968. Tentative draft of report of Advisory Council on Econ. Sec. re: unemployment compensation
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969. Report of Advisory Council on Econ. Sec., Dec. 18, 1934
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970. Material re: National Conference on Econ. Sec. (Washington, 1934), Nov. 1934
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971. Correspondence re: National Conference on Econ. Sec. (1934), Oct. 29-Nov. 9, 1934
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Vol. 77. Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 74th Cong., 1st Sess., on Economic Security Act, Jan-Feb., 1935
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972-981: Social Security and Social Security Board
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972. Material re: Social Security, 1934
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973. Material re: Social Security, 1935
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974. Material re: Social Security, 1936-1939
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975. Material re: Social Security, 1940-1944
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976. Correspondence re: Social Security, Sept., 1934-April, 1935
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977. Correspondence re: Social Security, May, 1935-Nov., 1938
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978. Correspondence re: Social Security, Jan. 1940-April, 1944
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978a. Clippings re: Social Security, 1939-1943
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979. Summary of progress of Social Security Board, July 1-Oct. 31, 1937
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980. Report of Social Security Board, Jan. 16, 1939
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981. Final report of Advisory Council on Social Security, Dec. 10, 1938
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982, Vols. 78-85: National Conference on Labor Legislation
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Vols. 78-84. Proceedings of the National Conferences on Labor Legislation, 1934-1940
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Vol. 85. Reports of Committees and Resolutions adopted at Eighth National Conference on Labor Legislation, Nov. 12-14, 1941.
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982. Resume of proceedings of 9th National Conference on Labor Legislation, Nov. 17-18, 1942
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983-984: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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983. Material re: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1940-1943
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984. Correspondence re: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1940-1944
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985-986: National Defense Mediation Board
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985. Material re: National Defense Mediation Board, 1941
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986. Correspondence re: NDMB, Mar.-Dec., 1941
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986a. National Labor Board. Photostatic copy of Executive Order No. 6580 re: NLB, Feb. 1, 1934
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987-990: National War Labor Board
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988. Correspondence re: NWLB, Nov. 1941-Jan., 1942
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988a. Newspaper clippings re: NWLB, 1941-1942
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989. Material re: War Labor Conference, Dec. 17, 1941
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990. Correspondence re: Government Labor-Industry Conference (Dec., 1941), Nov. 1941-Dec., 1941
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991. U.S. Conciliation Service. Correspondence re: U.S. Conciliation Service, Oct.-Nov., 1942
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992, Vol. 86: Wages and Hours and Public Contracts Division
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992. Correspondence re: Wages and Hours and Public Contracts Division
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Vol.86. Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee of the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 74th Cong., 2nd Sess., on Conditions of Government Contracts, March, 1936.
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993. War Mobilization and Reconversion. First report to President and Congress of the Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion, Jan. 1, 1945
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993a. National Resources Planning Board. List of members of Long-Range Work and Relief Policies Com. of NRLB, Nov., 1942
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994-996, Vols. 87-96: Annual Reports of Secretary of Labor
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Vols. 87-96 Annual Reports of Secretary of Labor, 1933-1942
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994. Miscellaneous material re: U.S. Department of Labor
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995. Miscellaneous correspondence re: U.S. Dept, of Labor, 1936-1945
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996. Newspaper clippings re: U.S. Department of Labor, 1932-1942
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997-1025: WRITINGS OF FP (1910-1945)
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997. A Bibliographical list of FP's writings, 1910-1937 (includes a list of writings re: FP)
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998. Articles (including 2 autobiographical ones), 1929-1941
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999. Review of her book, The Roosevelt I Knew
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1000. Interviews, 1919; 1936
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1001. Radio Addresses, 1934-1935; 1943-1944
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1002. Article re: Radio address, Dec., 1935
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1003-1020: Speeches
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1019. Correspondence re: speeches, 1934; 1941
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1020. Articles, clippings and releases re: speeches, 1935-1945; n.d.
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1021-1025: Statements and Testimonies
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1021. Statements and testimonies at Congressional hearings, 1933-1939
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1022. Release re: FP's testimony before Joint Session of Ky. legislature, Feb. 21, 1934
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1023. Miscellaneous notes
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1024. Miscellaneous papers, n.d.
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1025. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1935; 1952
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1030: Mira H. Pitman
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1030. "The Woman's Doxology," poem by MHP, 1920
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1031: Margaret Dreier Robins (1868-1945) - social economist
Scope and Content: She was a founder of the Women's Municipal League, New York; chairman of the League's legislative committee (1903-1904); president of the New York Women's Trade Union League (1905); president of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League (Jan. 1907-1914); president of the National Women's Trade Union League (1907-1922); member of executive board of the Chicago Federation of Labor (1908-1917); chairman of committee on women in industry of the League of Women Voters; member of Republican National Executive Committee, Women's Division (1918-1920); member of committee opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment of the National Women's Trade Union League (1945); worked with the International Congresses of Women (1919; 1923); and was associated with countless committees and conferences concerned with social economy.
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1031. "An Appreciation," pamphlet pub. by National Women's Trade Union League of Amer., in praise of MDR.
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1032: Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825-1911) - author
Scope and Content: An operative at the Lowell Mills, she began writing while she worked there. Her verses appeared in the "Lowell Offering." She was very deeply interested in all movements aimed at the advancement of women and wrote in their behalf. She was one of the women who spoke before the committee on woman suffrage when it was formed in Congress. In 1889, through Senator Dawes, she asked Congress to remove her political disabilities so she could vote. Her petition was read and referred. A hearing was refused by the committee on woman suffrage and there the matter rested.
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1032. Copy of letter from Ruth L.S. Child to Edna Stantial with biographical sketch of HHR, June, 1943.
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1033: Josephine Roche (1886- ) - welfare fund executive
Scope and Content: She was executive secretary of the Colorado Progressive Service (1913-1915); director of the girls' department of the Juvenile Court, City and County of Denver (1915-1918); referee and director for the New York and Washington offices of the Foreign Language Information Service (1918-1927); director of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (1927-1950); assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury (1934-1937); director of the United Mine Workers of America's Welfare and Retirement Fund (1948- ).
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1033. Newspaper article re: JR, n.d.;
Newspaper picture of JR, n.d.
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1034-1034a: Emma Fall Schofield (1885- ) - lawyer
Scope and Content: She was admitted to the Mass. bar in 1908. She was commissioner of Mass. Industrial Accident Board (1922-1927); assistant attorney general of Mass. (1927-1930); associated justice of 1st District Court of Eastern Middlesex, Malden, Mass. (1930-1957). She was the first woman in New England to sit on the bench, first woman commissioner in Mass, first woman assistant attorney general in New England. She organized probation work for women and girls in Springfield (1911-1912). Judge Schofield is the daughter of Anna Christy Fall.
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1034. Biographical sketch of EFS;
Letters to Edna Stantial, 1943;
Two fliers re: her lectures
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1034a. 1 photograph of EMS.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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1035: Samuel Edmund Sewall - male suffragist
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1035. Paragraph on Alice Stone Blackwell's stationery re: his efforts to improve rights of women.
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1036-1040: Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) - reformer, physician, minister
Scope and Content: In 1885 she became a lecturer for the Mass. State Suffrage Association and from then on was actively associated with the effort to secure woman suffrage. In 1886 she became superintendent of the franchise on the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, a position she kept for many years without payment. She met Susan B. Anthony at the International Council of Women in Washington and they became close friends. For 18 years they campaigned together for woman's rights. From 1892 to 1904 she was vice president at large of NAWSA; was president of NAWSA (1904-1915). She resigned in 1915, becoming honorary president for life. In 1917 she was appointed by the Council of National Defense chairman of the woman's committee, working at that till 1919 when she took up the cause of the League of Nations.
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1041: Isabella Pratt Shaw
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1041. Picture of IPS
Correspondence, 1919-1922, n.d.
See WRC-P13 for portrait.
Certificate of appointment as Honorary Delegate to New England Congress for a League of Free Nations, 1919
Letter to editor of Transcript, 1919, from IPS
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1042-1045a: Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841-1917) - philanthropist
Scope and Content: She was a pioneer in education and in social service, supporting public kindergartens, manual training programs, free normal instruction in various manual arts for teachers and children, and vocational guidance.
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1042. Biographical information re: PAS;
Copy of obituary from Boston Evening Transcript, 1917;
Articles re: PAS;
Tributes to her;
Address of George R. Agassiz which contains some biographical information re: PAS (1932)
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1043. Correspondence, 1903-1916; 1941; 1943
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1044. Material re: Boston Equal Suffrage Assoc. for Good Government, 1916-1917
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1045. Sonnet by Mr. George H. Page to PAS
Copy of biographical sketch of Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz by Mrs. S.M. Perkins, 1900
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1045a. 1 photomechanical reproduction of drawing of EAS.
FILED IN PHOTO DRAWER.
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1046: Belle Sherwin (1868-1955) - civic leader
Scope and Content: She was president of the Consumers' League of Ohio (1899-1904); did volunteer work with such Cleveland, Ohio, organizations as the Baby's Dispensary and Hospital (1904-1921), the Charity and Philanthropy, and Welfare Foundation (1913-1924), and the Cleveland Foundation (1916-1924); was chairman of the Ohio Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense (1917-1919); vice president of the National League of Women Voters (1921-1924); and president of the National League of Women Voters (1924-1934). See WRC-P31 for portrait.
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1046. Biographical information re: BS
Letter to Edna Stantial re: WRC at Radcliffe, June 27, 1935
Article by BS re: political conventions and women
Speeches by BS re: League of Women Voters and Woman's Bureau.
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1047: Mary P. Sleeper
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1047. Letter to "Grace," August 16, 1945
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1048: Judith Winsor Smith (1822- )
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1050: Edna Lamprey Stantial
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1051: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) - reformer
Scope and Content: She was appointed a delegate to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention (1840) in London. There she met Lucretia Mott, with whom she signed the first call for a woman's rights convention. She was the chief agent in calling the Seneca Falls Convention (1848). After that Convention she remained one of the leaders of women in America until her death. In 1854 she addressed the New York Legislature on the rights of married women, and, in 1860, on the advocacy of divorce for drunkenness. In 1867 she spoke to the legislative and constitutional convention of New York saying that women had a right to vote for members of the convention. In 1867 she traveled throughout Kansas, and in 1874 throughout Michigan, when those states were submitting the woman suffrage question to the people. From 1855-1865 she served as president of the National Committee of the Suffrage Party. She was president of NWSA till 1890. In 1868 The Revolution was started in New York City and Mrs. Stanton became the editor. She was joint author of The History of Woman Suffrage. See WRC-P34 for portrait.
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1051. Biographical information re: ECS;
Newspaper article re: ECS;
Program for celebration of ECS's 80th birth day, Nov. 12, 1895;
Copy of letter to Lucy Stone re: biography of LC in Encyclopedia, August 4, 1876;
Address by ECS on her 70th birthday (1885), "The Pleasures of Age."
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1052-1054: Lucy Stone (1813-1893) - reformer
Scope and Content: In 1847 she gave her first public address on woman's rights. The next year she began to lecture regularly for the Anti-Slavery Society, but urged woman's rights every chance she got. In 1850 she called for the first national woman's rights convention and had much to do with arranging the later conventions which were held annually. She published the proceedings at her own expense. In 1855 she married Henry Brown Blackwell, but kept her own name by prior, mutual agreement. When the 14th Amendment was pending both she and her husband tried, in vain, to strike the word "male" from it and thereby win suffrage for women. In 1866, when the American Equal Rights Association was organized, she became a member of the executive committee. In 1867, partly through her efforts, the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association was organized, with her as president. For two months in 1867 she and her husband campaigned in Kansas in behalf of the amendments to the State constitution extending suffrage to women and to Negroes. In 1868 they helped organize the New England Woman Suffrage Association. At this time a split over methods and aims occurred within the American Equal Rights Association and in its place developed the NWSA and the AWSA; she helped organize the latter which was mainly concerned with gaining suffrage through the states. Twenty years later the two groups merged, forming the NAWSA which Lucy Stone on the executive committee. In 1870 she helped found the Woman's Journal and two years later she and her husband assumed the editorship and were in charge of it for the remainder of their lives. Meanwhile she was a leading figure in the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association, which she helped found in 1870, and in the American and New England Associations. She likewise spent a great deal of time lecturing, drafting bills, and attending legislative hearings in the interest of women's rights.
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1055-1056: Elizabeth Tilton (1869-1950) - reformer
Scope and Content: She was active particularly in the suffrage, peace, and temperance causes from 1910 to 1933. She was national chairman of legislation for the Congress of Parents and Teachers (1921-1932); chairman of the Woman's National Committee for Education Against Alcohol; organization chairman of the Mass. Woman Suffrage Association; member of the Woman's Committee of the Mass. Anti-Saloon League (1917-1926); and president of the Unitarian Temperance Society.
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1055. Autobiographical information (chapters from Autobiography re: suffrage, temperance, and League of nations)
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1056. Two letters to Maud Wood Park re: CCCatt and suffrage, n.d.;
Letter from Maud Wood Park to Elizabeth G. Evans, re: ET, June 22, 1918;
Unitarian Temperance Society Report, 1929-1930;
"Instructions," of ET re: Anti-Saloon League of Amer. (1938)
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1057-1058: Harriet Taylor Upton ( -1945) - suffragist
Scope and Content: She was active in the woman suffrage movement from 1890 on. She was president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association (1899-1919); treasurer of NASWA for 15 years. After the passage of the 19th Amendment, she was chosen the vice-chairman of the Republican National Executive Committee and was, therefore, the first woman to serve as a member of a political party on the National Executive Committee.
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1059: Mary Van Kleeck (1883- ) - industrial sociologist
Scope and Content: She conducted investigations of women in industry (1905-1909); was director in industrial studies, Russell Sage Foundation (1909-1948); associate director of International Industrial Relations Institute (1928-1948); director of the woman's branch of the industrial service section of Ordnance Department, Washington (Jan.-July, 1918).
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1059. Cross reference to Maud Wood Park Papers
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1064: Martha E. Davis White (1863-1944) - writer and lecturer
Scope and Content: In 1915 she joined the Congressional Committee of the Mass. Suffrage Association. Soon thereafter the Arlington branch of the Assoc. was organized, and Mrs. White was chosen its chairman. In 1918 she became chairman of publicity, a position she held throughout the suffrage battle and in the League of Women Voters until 1938. She wrote the "Primer of Massachusetts Citizenship and Government," a question and answer booklet designed for the use of women after they gained the vote. In addition she conducted numerous classes and demonstrations in an effort to prepare women for their newly won right. She retired from active public service in 1938.
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1064. Autobiographical and biographical information re: MW; Obituary, 1944;
Articles re: MW, 1929-1941;
Correspondence, 1918, n.d.;
"A Primer for Voters," by MW, Sept., 1936
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1065: Emma Willard (1787-1870) - educator
Scope and Content: Before she founded her famous Troy Female Seminary, New York, in 1821, she had founded a girls boarding school (1814) in Middlebury and a girls' school (1819) in Waterford, New York. She conducted the Troy Female Seminary until 1838. After that she spent much time traveling and addressing groups in favor of higher education for women.
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1065. Bulletins of Emma Willard School, July, 1944; Oct., 1944; 1945-1946.
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1066: Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) - reformer
Scope and Content: She was first a teacher for many years. She later became president of the Ladies' College, Evanston, Illinois. She was a strong supporter of co-education. In 1874 she resigned her position at Ladies' College and took up the temperance cause to which she devoted most of the rest of her life. She was made president of the Chicago Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Soon thereafter she became secretary of the first Illinois State convention of the WCTU, and in November, 1874, was elected its corresponding secretary in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1876 she began to speak for woman suffrage as a protection to the home from the tyranny of liquor. She was one of the founders of the WCTU's paper, Our Union. In 1879 she was elected president of the National WCTU and was largely responsible for organizing the Union chapters all over the country. So great was the influence of Miss Willard that by 1884 the WCTU had become a political influence. Under Miss Willard's leadership the WCTU gained an international following. In 1887 she was elected president of the World's WCTU.
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1066. "An Appeal to Mothers," article by FEW (1945);
Review of Mary Earhart's biography of FEW, Frances Willard, From Prayer to Politics.
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1067: Mabel Caldwell Willard (1862--1940) - teacher and worker for suffrage & peace
Scope and Content: She belonged to the Congressional Committee of the NASWA; was active in the Boston College Equal Suffrage League; and in the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government. After woman suffrage was won in 1920, she devoted her efforts to the cause of peace. See WRC - P35 for portrait.
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1067. Biographical information re: MCW;
Newspaper picture of her;
Poems and tributes to MCW;
Article re: her
Correspondence, 1918, 1930, n.d.
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1068-1107, Vols. 96a-OVERSIZE 118: ORGANIZATION PAPERS IN WRC (Selected Index)
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1068: New England Woman Suffrage Association: List of officers, 1870
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Vol. 96a: Woman's Suffrage Bazaar Association.
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1069, Vols. 97-105: Mass. Woman Suffrage Association.
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1070-1081af, Vols. 106-110: Cambridge Political Equality Association.
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Vols. 112-113. College Equal Suffrage League.
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1081b. International Woman Suffrage Alliance.
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1082-1083. New Hampshire Woman Suffrage Association.
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1084. Radcliffe College:
Plans and descriptions of residence halls, 1912
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1085. Mass. State Board of Labor and Industry: Laws relating to Labor, 1913
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1086. Association of Collegiate Alumnae: Journal, January, 1914
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1087-1091: National Woman's Party
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1087. Declaration of principles, Nov. 11, 1922
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1088. Material re: Equal Rights Amendment, 1943
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1089. Correspondence, 1914-1918
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1092. Cambridge Public School Association.
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Vols. 114-117. Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government.
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1093. School of Horticulture for Women: Course Listing, April-June, 1918
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1094. Boston Committee for Fatherless Children of France: Letter to Mrs. Parker from Allan Forbes re:, Jan. 1, 1919
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1095. Boston League of Women Voters: Material re:, 1922
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1096. Cambridge League of Women Voters: Material re:, 1920-1923
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1097, OVERSIZE. Vol. 118: Mass. League of Women Voters
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OVERSIZE. Vol. 118. Treasurer's records, 1920-1925
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1097. Article re: 10th Anniversary Convention (May, 1930)
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1097a-1097c: National League of Women Voters
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1097a. Material re: Anniversary and Memorial Fund, 1930
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1097af+. Re: Memorial Fund Massachusetts women, 1930
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1097b. Correspondence re: Fund, 1929, n.d.
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1097c. Material re: Ramspeck Bill, 1940
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1098. U.S. Women's-Bureau: Material re: 1935-1952
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1099. Cambridge Civic Association:
Letter re: May 1, 1946
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1100. Women's Peace Party: List of men who signed petition re: Federal Amendment, n.d.
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1101-1102: American Woman Suffrage Association
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1101. Copy of page from scrapbook of Henry B. Blackwell re:, n.d.
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1102. Flier re: war and franchise for women, n.d. (NWSA)
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1103. Woman Suffrage Party of Cambridge.
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1104-1106. Woman's Journal.
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1107. Women's Centennial Congress: Material re:, 1940
1. American Woman Suffrage Association
1a. Authors
2. Boston Equal Suffrage League
3. Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
4. Cambridge Political Equality Association
5. College Equal Suffrage League
6. Education
7. Equal Rights Amendment
8. International Labor Office
9. League of Nations
10. League of Nations Association
11. League of Nations - Societies
12. League of Women Voters of the U.S.
13. Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
14. National American Woman Suffrage Association
15. National Woman's Party
16. Prohibition
16a. Progressive Party
17. U.S. Department of Labor
18. U.S. Department of Labor - Children's Bureau
19. Woman - employment
20. Woman - legal status, laws, etc.
21. Women - Rights of women
22. Suffrage
23. Teachers
24. Woman's Journal
25. [blank]
26. [blank]
27. [blank]
28. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
29. World Court
i. Abbott, Grace (1879-1939)
ii. Adams, Abigail (1744-1818)
iii. Addams, Jane (1860-1935)
iv. Allen, Florence E. (1884-1966)
v. Ames, Blanche Ames (1878-1969)
vi. Ames, Fanny B. (1840-1931)
vii. Ames, Oakes (1874-1950)
viii. Anderson, Mary (1872-1964)
ix. Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)
x. Bagley, Grace Hodges (1860-1944)
xi. Barron, Jennie Loitman (1891-1969)
xii. Barton, Clara (1821-1912)
xiii. Beatley, Clara Bancroft (1858-1923)
xiv. Bird, Anna Child (1856-1942)
xv. Blackwell, Alice Stone (1857-1950)
xvi. Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (1825-1921)
xvii. Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910)
xviii. Blackwell, Henry B. (1825-1909)
xix. Blair, Emily Newell (1877-1951)
xx. Bowles, Ada C. (1836-?)
xxi. Boyer, Ida Porter (1859-?)
xxii. Bradwell, Myra (1831-1894)
xxiii. Brandeis, Elizabeth
xxiv. Breckinridge, Sophonisba (1866-1948)
xxv. Brent, Margaret (1600-1670/71)
xxvi. Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey (1888- )
xxvii. Brown, Gertrude Foster (1867- )
xxviii. Bushnell, Katherine C.
xxix. Catt, Carrie Chapman (1859-1947)
xxx. Claflin, Adelaide A. (1846-?)
xxxi. Clark, Sue Ainslee
xxxii. Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888)
xxxiii. Coe, Evelyn Peverley
xxxiv. Coleman, Greta
xxxv. Corbin, Hannah Lee
xxxvi. Crowley, Teresa A. (1874-1930)
xxxvii. Dewson, Mary (1874-1962)
xxxviii. du Pont, Zara (1869- )
xxxix. Evans, Elizabeth Gardiner (1856-1937)
xl. Fall, Anna Christy (1855-1930)
xli. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1959)
xlii. Fitzgerald, Susan W. (1871-1943)
xliii. Foley, Margaret
xliv. Forbes, Rose Dabney (1865-1947)
xlv. Foster, Abbey Kelley (1810-1887)
xlvi. Gardener, Helen Hamilton (1853-1925)
xlvii. Garrison, Edith S.
xlviii. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)
xlix. Gordon, Kate M. (1861-1932)
l. Grimke, Sarah M. (1792-1873)
li. Hay, Mary Garrett (1857-1925)
lii. Hodder, Jessie (1870-1931)
liii. Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
liv. Hutchinson, Anne (1591-1643)
lv. Irwin, Inez Haynes (1873-1970)
lvi. Jeffrey, Jennette A.S. (1872- )
lvii. Johnson, Ethel M. (18-?- )
lviii. Johnson, Grace A. (1871-1952)
lvix. Kelley, Florence (1859-1932)
lx. Lathrop, Julia (1858-1932)
lxi. Lenroot, Katherine F. (1891- )
lxii. Leonard, Gertrude Halladay (1868-19- )
lxiii. Lindsley, Virginia (1856-1941)
lxiv. Livermore, Mary A. (1820-1905)
lxv. Loines, Mary Hilliard (1844-1944)
lxvi. Luscomb, Florence H. (1887- )
lxvii. McCormick, Katherine Dexter (1875- )
lxviii. McCulloch, Catherine Waugh (1862-1945)
lxix. Mansfield, Bella (1846-1911)
lxx. Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)
lxxi. Mead, Lucia True (Ames) (1856-1936)
lxxii. Miller, Helen Clarkson (1879- )
lxxiii. Morris, Esther (1814-1902)
lxxiv. Mott, Lucretia (1793-1880)
lxxv. Osgood, Fanny C. (18-?-1929?)
lxxvi. O'Sullivan, Mary Kenny (1864-1945)
lxxvii. Page, Mary Hutcheson (1860-1940)
lxxviii. Park, Maud Wood (1871-1955)
lxxix. Perkins, Frances (1882-1965)
lxxx. Pinkham, Wenona Osborne (1882-1930)
lxxxi. Pitman, Mira H.
lxxxii. Robins, Margaret Dreier (1868-1945)
lxxxiii. Robinson, Harriet Hanson (1825-1911)
lxxxix. Roche, Josephine (1886- )
xc. Schofield, Emma Fall (1885- )
xci. Sewall, Samuel Edmund
xcii. Shaw, Anna Howard (1847-1919)
xciii. Shaw, Isabella Pratt
xciv. Shaw, Pauline Agassiz (1841-1917)
xcv. Sherwin, Belle (1868-1955)
xcvi. Sleeper, Mary P.
xcvii. Smith, Judith Winsor
xcviii. Stanley, Louise (1883-1954)
xcix. Stantial, Edna Lamprey
c. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902)
ci. Stone, Lucy (1813-1893)
cii. Tilton, Elizabeth (1869-1950)
ciii. Upton, Harriet Taylor ( -1945)
civ. Van Kleeck, Mary (1883- )
cv. Wambaugh, Sarah (1882-1956)
cvi. Wells, Marguerite M. (1872-1959)
cvii. White, Martha E. Davis (1863-1944)
cviii. Willard, Emma (1787-1870)
cix. Willard, Frances E. (1839-1898)
cx. Willard, Mabel Caldwell (1862-1940)
cxi. Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
cxii. Woolley, Mary Emma (1863-1947)
- 1. Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818
- 2. Stone, Lucy, 1813-1893
- 3. Catt, Carrie Chapman (also numbered WRC 38.5)
- 4. Blackwell, Alice Stone
- 5. Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
- 6. Page, Mary Hutcheson, 1860-1940
- 7. Shaw, Pauline Agassiz, 1841-1917 (also numbered WRC 1045-1)
- 8. Gardener, Helen Hamilton (also numbered WRC 68-1)
- 9. Hutchinson, Anne
- 10. Brent, Margaret
- 11. Shaw, Anna Howard (Now unframed and numbered as WRC 1036-1 dupe) see folder WRC 1036
- 12. Hay, Mary Garrett
- 13. Shaw, Isabella Pratt
- 14. Forbes, Rose Dabney
- 15. Jacobs, Patty Ruffner and Maud Wood Park holding League of Women Voters poster
- 16. A list of Workers for Improved Economic Conditions for Women and of Early Appointees to Foreign Service
- 17. Haynes, Inez (also numbered WRC 82-1); Wood, Maud (also numbered WRC 656-10)
- 18. Child, Lydia Maria;Fuller, Margaret
- 19. Willard, Emma; Lyon, Mary
- 20. Anderson, Mary; Stanley, Louise
- 21. Fearing, Hester Sullivan (Cochrane)
- 22. Bird, Anna Child
- 23. Blackwell, Antoinette Brown; Blackwell, Elizabeth; Mansfield, Belle
- 24. Wright, Frances;Grimke, Angelina Emily; Foster, Abby Kelley
- 25. Lathrop, Julia C.; Abbott, Grace; Lenroot, Katherine F.
- 26. Allen, Florence E.; Perkins, Frances
- 27. Blair, Emily Newell; Upton, Harriet Taylor
- 28. Livermore, Mary; Blackwell, Alice Stone
- 29. Woodward, Margaret Perley; A list of Names of Massachusetts Workers
- 30. First Board of Directors, League of Women Voters (also numbered as WRC 747a-1)
- 31. Park, Maud Wood (also numbered as WRC 656-18); Sherwin, Belle; Wells, Marguerite
- 32. Gardener, Helen Hamilton (also numbered as WRC 656-19); Blackwell, Alice Stone; Park, Maud Wood
- 33. Ames, Blanche; Johnson, Grace Allen; Crowley, Teresa A.; Leonard, Gertrude Halladay; Pinkham, Wenona Osborne
- 34. Mott, Lucretia; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Anthony, Susan B.
- 35. Luscomb, Florence H.; Foley, Margaret; DuPont, Zara; Willard, Mabel Caldwell; Boyer, Ida Porter; Quirk, Hilda Hedstrom; Barron, Jennie Loitman; Stantial, Edna Lamprey
- 36. Signing the 19th Amendment - 2 pictures: 1 after House Approval and 1 after Senate Approval
- 37. A plaque of names of the Mass. League of Women Voters, 1930
- 38. Resolution by the Women's Union of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- 39. Original Act giving the right of suffrage to women in Wyoming, Dec. 10, 1869
* Used in Guide to the Woman's Rights Collection
- * Lucy Stone
- * 2 - Abigail Adams (one large, one small)
- * Mary Hutcheson Page
- * 2 - Pauline Agassiz Shaw (same picture)
- * Alice Stone Blackwell
- * Helen Hamilton Gardener
- * Julia Ward Howe
- * Maud Wood Park
- * Carrie Chapman Catt
- S. B. Anthony and E. C. Stanton
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Mary Hilliard Loines
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