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Harriot Stanton Blatch

A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress

Prepared by Mary W. Wolfskill
Revised and expanded by Bradley E. Gernand

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Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

Washington, D.C.

2007

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Finding aid encoded by Library of Congress Manuscript Division, 2007

Finding aid URL: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007113

Table of Contents

Collection Summary

Selected Search Terms

Personal Names

Organizations

Subjects

Occupations

Administrative Information

Provenance:

Processing History:

Copyright Status:

Microfilm:

Preferred Citation:

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Related Materials

Arrangement of the Papers

Container List

Collection Summary

Title: Papers of Harriot Stanton Blatch
Span Dates: 1907-1915
ID No.: MSS12997
Creator: Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940
Extent: 14 items; 13 containers plus 4 oversize; 3.2 linear feet; 5 microfilm reels
Language: Collection material in English
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Abstract: Scrapbooks containing correspondence, questionnaires, annual reports of the Women's Political Union, other reports, pamphlets, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and additional material documenting the struggle of women's suffrage in New York state.

Selected Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.



Personal Names
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902--Anniversaries, etc.

Organizations
New York (State). Legislature.
Women's Political Union (New York, N.Y.)

Subjects
Women--Suffrage--New York (State)

Occupations
Suffragists.

Administrative Information

Provenance:

The papers of Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffrage leader, lecturer, and author, were given to the Library of Congress by Blatch in 1932. An addition was donated by Rhoda Jenkins in 1991.

Processing History:

The papers of Harriot Stanton Blatch were arranged and described in 1984. The collection was expanded and revised in 1997 and the finding aid revised in 2007.

Copyright Status:

The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Harriet Stanton Blatch is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).

Microfilm:

A microfilm edition of these papers is available on five reels. Consult a reference librarian in the Manuscript Division concerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan.

Preferred Citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Harriet Stanton Blatch Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Biographical Note

Date Event
1856, Jan. 20 Born, Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1878 Graduated from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1879-1880 Attended Boston School of Oratory, Boston, Mass.
1880-1881 Traveled abroad as tutor and companion to young girls
1882 Married William Henry Blatch (died 1915)
1882-1902 Lived in Basingstoke, England
1894 M.A., Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1902 Returned to United States with family
1907 Founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (name changed to Women's Political Union in 1910); served as president, 1907-1915
1913 Joined the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and helped devise strategy to defeat Democratic candidates in the 1914 congressional election
1917 Aided in bringing together the Congressional Union (with which the Women's Political Union had merged in 1916) and the National Woman's Party
Headed speakers bureau, United States Food Administration
Director, Woman's Land Army for farm labor
1918 Published Mobilizing Woman-Power. New York: Womans Press
1920 Published A Woman's Point of View; Some Roads to Peace. New York: Womans Press
1922 Published with Theodore Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary, and Reminiscences. New York: Harper & Brothers
1940 Published with Alma Lutz Challenging Years; the Memoirs of Harriot Stanton Blatch. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
1940, Nov. 20 Died, New York, N.Y.

Scope and Content Note

The papers of Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) consist of scrapbooks documenting the women's suffrage movement in New York from 1907 to 1915, the year the suffrage bill passed the state legislature, thus allowing it to be put before the electorate. Arranged in fourteen volumes in rough chronological sequence, the scrapbooks contain clippings, correspondence, questionnaires, reports on debates, pamphlets, photographs, and annual reports of the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, later called the Women's Political Union, which Blatch founded. At the end of the first twelve volumes is a selected subject index. Two scrapbooks (Vol. XIII and Vol. XIV) added to the collection in 1997 contain clippings dating between 1909 and 1912.

An historical essay by Nora Blatch de Forest, Blatch's daughter, at the beginning of Volume I highlights many of the political activities evident in the scrapbooks. These include appearances before congressional committees, distribution of suffrage literature, service as "watchers" at the polls, lectures before mass meetings, organization of suffrage parades, support for legislators sympathetic to the cause and opposition to those unfavorable, lobbying political parties to include the suffrage amendment in their platforms, monitoring bills through the legislature, and other actions. Volume XII is devoted to the centennial celebration of the birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Related Materials

Arrangement of the Papers

This collection is arranged by volume number in a rough chronological sequence.

Container List

Available on microfilm. Shelf nos. 18,964 (reels 1-4) and 21,173 (reel 5)
Container Contents
BOX 1
REEL 1 		Scrapbooks
BOX 1
REEL 1 		Vol. I, 1907-1910 See Oversize
BOX 2
REEL 1 		Vol. II, 1910-1912 See Oversize
BOX 3
REEL 1 		Vol. III, 1911-1912 See also Oversize
BOX 4
REEL 2 		Vol. IV. 1912 See also Oversize
(3 folders)
BOX 5
REEL 2 		Vol. V, 1912
(2 folders)
BOX 6
REEL 2 		Vol. VI, 1913 See also Oversize
(4 folders)
BOX 7
REEL 2-3 		Vol. VII, 1913
(3 folders)
BOX 8
REEL 3 		Vol. VIII, 1913-1914 See Oversize
BOX 9
REEL 3 		Vol. IX, 1914 See Oversize
BOX 10
REEL 3 		Vol. X, 1914
(3 folders)
BOX 11
REEL 4 		Vol. XI, 1914-1915
(3 folders)
BOX 12
REEL 4 		Vol. XII, 1915
(4 folders)
BOX 13
REEL 5 		Vol. XIII, 1909-1911 See Oversize
BOX 13
REEL 5 		Vol. XIV, 1911-1912 See Oversize
BOX OV 1 Oversize
BOX OV 1 Loose items removed from scrapbooks
BOX OV 1 Vol. III, 1912 (Container 3)
BOX OV 1 Vol. IV, 1912 (Container 4)
BOX OV 1 Vol. VI, 1913 (Container 6)
BOX OV 2 Scrapbooks
BOX OV 2 Vol. 1, 1907-1910 (Container 1)
BOX OV 3 Vol. II, 1910-1912 (Container 2)
BOX OV 4 Vol. XIII, 1909-1911 (Container 13)
BOX OV 4 Vol. XIV, 1911-1912 (Container 13)
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