Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919. Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1908-1943: 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 A18; WRC 1036-40
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Anna Howard Shaw, 1847-1919
Title: Woman's Rights Collection (WRC)
Quantity: Folders 1036-1040
Abstract: Biographical material, correspondence, photographs, etc., of Anna Howard Shaw, English-born Methodist minister, temperance lecturer, and woman suffrage leader. These papers are part of the Woman's Rights Collection.

These papers of Anna Howard Shaw fill five folders 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 these folders was prepared for microfilming in May 1989 by Chris M. Ponticelli. It was microfilmed as part of a Schlesinger Library/University Publications of America project.

Access Restrictions:

ORIGINALS CLOSED. USE MICROFILM. REQUEST AS: M-133, reel A18.

Preferred citation for publication:

Anna Howard Shaw Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1908-1943; item description, dates. WRC 1036-40, folder #. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

BIOGRAPHY

Anna Howard Shaw, reformer, minister, and physician, became a lecturer for the Massachusetts State Suffrage Association in 1885. She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and was vice-president-at-large of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1892-1904) and president (1904-1915). Upon retirement as president in 1915 she was named honorary president for life. For additional biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (Cambridge, Mass. 1971), which includes a list of additional sources.

There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see Series X of the Mary Earhart Dillon Collection, Anna Howard Shaw papers, 1863-1955 (M-133, reel A14-18; A-68).

INVENTORY

1036. Biographical sketches of AHS, including memorial statements by Ida Husted Harper and Maud Wood Park, 1919, 1940, n.d. Pamphlet by AHS, "What the War Meant to Women", 1919

1037. Correspondence: AHS to Maud Wood Park re: suffrage work, 1908, 1917

1038. Re: christening of liberty ship SS. Anna Howard Shaw, 1943: correspondence, list of invitees, clippings

1039. Miscellaneous: Woman Suffrage Party luncheon, 1910; annuity fund for AHS, 1916; poem by MWP, 1918.

1040. Two PHOTOGRAPHS of AHS: in academic dress, 1920; portrait, n.d.
FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.

Additional catalog entries

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

Anderson, Mary, 1872-1964

Anthony, Lucy E., 1861-1944

Harper, Ida (Husted), 1851-1931

Park, Maud (Wood), 1871-1955

National American Woman Suffrage Association

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