International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Constitution in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1909: A Finding Aid

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
December 2005

Descriptive Summary

Call No.: M-133, reel D8; WRC 1081b
Note: ORIGINALS CLOSED. USE MICROFILM. REQUEST AS: M-133, reel D8.
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Title: Woman's Rights Collection (WRC)
Quantity: Folder 1081b
Abstract: Constitution adopted at the London convention of the International Woman Suffrage Association, a loose international union of suffragists. These records are part of the Woman's Rights Collection.

This item of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance fills one folder of the Woman's Rights Collection, which was given to Radcliffe College in August 1943 and formed the nucleus of the Women's Archives, later the Schlesinger Library. The material in this folder was prepared for microfilming in June 1990 by Kim Brookes. It was microfilmed as part of a Schlesinger Library/University Publications of America project.

Preferred citation for publication:

International Woman Suffrage Alliance Constitution in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1909; item description, dates. WRC 1081b, folder #. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

HISTORY

Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, invited representatives of suffrage societies from other countries to NAWSA's 1902 annual convention in Washington. Representatives from ten countries decided to form a loose international union, which formally became the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at the second meeting, held in Berlin two years later.

IWSA, which later became the International Alliance of Women, held its "First Quinquennial IWSA Meeting" in London, April 26-May 1, 1909. Representatives from twenty countries attended; CCC presided. Although this meeting has been referred to (particularly by contemporaries) as the fifth congress or convention, historians usually refer to it as the fourth. For further information see Adele Schreiber and Margaret Mathieson, Journey Towards Freedom, Written for the Golden Jubilee of the International Alliance of Women (London: William Clowes and Sons, 1955) or Arnold Whittick, Woman into Citizen (London: Athenaeum, 1979).

SCOPE AND CONTENT

See inventory below.

INVENTORY

1081b. Constitution adopted at London Convention, May 1, 1909

Additional catalog entries

The following catalog entries represent persons, organizations, and topics documented in this series. An entry for each appears in the Harvard On Line Library Information System (HOLLIS) and other automated bibliographic databases.

International organization

Women-Suffrage-United States

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