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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in Philadelphia. May 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th, 1838 This pamphlet helps to emphasize the relationship between abolitionism and women's rights.
- Contributor: Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1838
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Book/Printed MaterialSocial evils, their causes and cure : being a brief discussion of the social status, with reference to methods of reform In this pamphlet, the author addresses a number of issues contributing to problems in contemporary society, among them poor diet, prostitution, marriage and divorce, the plight of orphans, and women in prisons. She suggests, in part, that better education for women and their enfranchisement will be a part of the remedy for these social evils.
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - King, Maria M. - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1870
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Book/Printed MaterialConsistent democracy : the elective franchise for women These are very brief (paragraph-length) statements of support for woman suffrage. Among the "prominent men" included are Henry Ward Beecher, William Lloyd Garrison, Horace Greeley, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel J. May, Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, Gerrit Smith, William H. Channing, the Ohio Senate, and the Wisconsin legislature.
- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)
- Date: 1858
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Book/Printed MaterialAn address on woman's rights : delivered before the people's Sunday meeting, in Cochituate Hall, on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 19th, 1851 No. 3 in a vol. with binder's title: Miscellaneous speeches. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm (Microfilm O1291 reel 221, no.10E). LAC tnb 2019-07-30 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-08-05 review LAC knj 2022-06-29 update (1 card) LAC knj 2022-07-22 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2022-07-28
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Rose, Ernestine L. (Ernestine Louise) - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1851
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Book/Printed MaterialThe mortality of nations : an address delivered before the American Equal Rights Association, in New York, Thursday evening, May 9, 1867 No. 37 in a collection of pamphlets lettered: Miscellaneous speeches, etc. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC tnb 2019-07-31 update (1 card) LAC rwp 2019-08-05 review LAC knj 2022-07-25 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2022-08-25
- Contributor: Pillsbury, Parker - American Equal Rights Association - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1867
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Book/Printed MaterialWoman's right to preach the gospel : a sermon, preached at the ordination of the Rev. Miss Antoinette L. Brown, at South Butler, Wayne County, N.Y., Sept. 15, 1853 This sermon was preached at the ordination of Antoinette L. Brown, on 15 September 1853. Brown was one of the first women to be ordained in the Congregational church.
- Contributor: Lee, Luther - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1853
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Book/Printed MaterialA sermon of the public function of woman : preached at the Music Hall, March 27, 1853 This sermon was one of a long series of sermons delivered by Parker on the "spiritual development of the human race." In one section containing four sermons devoted to women, Parker argues that women were prevented from voting primarily by the efforts of men.
- Contributor: Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Yerrinton, J. M. W. (James Manning Winchell) - Stone, Lucy - Parker, Theodore - Leighton, Rufus - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1853
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Book/Printed MaterialThe first convention ever called to discuss the civil and political rights of women, Seneca Falls, N.Y., July 19, 20, 1848 Caption title. "This call was published in the Seneca County courier, July 14, 1848, without any signatures. The movers of this convention, who drafted the call, the declaration and resolutions were Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane C. Hunt"--Footnote. Includes p. [1] first and closing paragraphs of Mrs. Stanton's address. Also available in digital form on the...
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1848
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Book/Printed MaterialThe proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at West Chester, Pa., June 2d and 3d, 1852 This meeting was presided over by Lucretia Mott, who also addressed the assembly.
- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1852
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Book/Printed MaterialThe rights and condition of women : a sermon, preached in Syracuse, Nov., 1845 Reprint of a sermon delivered by May in Syracuse, New York in November, 1845. It follows the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 but precedes the first women's rights convention in America by more than two and a half years.
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph)
- Date: 1853
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Book/Printed MaterialDiscourse on woman This lecture by Mott, delivered 17 December 1849, was in response to one by an unidentified lecturer criticizing the demand for equal rights for women. She makes a very gentle appeal here for women's enfranchisement, placing emphasis instead on the injustices done to women in marriage.
- Contributor: Mott, Lucretia - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1850
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Book/Printed MaterialWoman's rights In this pamphlet, clergyman John Todd argues that women are not equal to men because they cannot invent or reason extensively. A good examination of the separate spheres ideology.
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Todd, John
- Date: 1867
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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings at the presentation to the Hon. Robert Dale Owen of a silver pitcher, on behalf of the women of Indiana, on the 28th day of May, 1851 In 1851, Indiana adopted a state constitution that included a measure protecting the property rights of married women. Robert Dale Owen was the chief architect of this provision and the women of Indiana honored him with a silver pitcher. This pamphlet details the ceremony surrounding this presentation, including speeches by Professor W.C. Larrabee of Indian Asbury University and Robert Dale Owen. What is interesting...
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1851
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Book/Printed MaterialAnd the truth shall make you free" : a speech on the principles of social freedom, delivered in Steinway Hall, Nov. 20, 1871
Speech on the principles of social freedom This speech defends Woodhull's advocacy of free love or social freedom, which served to create divisions within the women's rights movement and led eventually to her ostracism by some women's rights associations.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin)
- Date: 1871
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Whole World's Temperance Convention, held at Metropolitan Hall in the city of New York, on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 1st and 2d, 1853 This conference included the expulsion of female delegates, among them Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Abby Foster.
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Whole World's Temperance Convention
- Date: 1853
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Book/Printed MaterialThe proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, October 23d & 24th, 1850 This pamphlet includes addresses by Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Price, and Harriet K. Hunt.
- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1851
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Book/Printed MaterialThe women's vote in Kansas This is a tabulation of votes cast by women in Kansas following the passage of municipal suffrage legislation in April 1887. It suggests that women exercised their franchise in a responsible and intelligent manner.
- Contributor: Adams, F. G. (Franklin George) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1888
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Book/Printed MaterialThe proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, October 15th and 16th, 1851 This pamphlet includes addresses by Ernestine Rose, Wendell Phillips, and Abby Price, as well as correspondence from Harriet Martineau of England and from Jeanne Deroin Pauline Roland of France.
- Contributor: Pease, Elizabeth Nichol - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Pease, Elizabeth - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Woman's Rights Convention - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1852
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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the National Women's Rights Convention held at Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, October 5th, 6th, and 7th, 1853 This pamphlet addresses a variety of different problems facing women in the nineteenth century, including equal access to education and employment, reform of laws governing marriage and divorce, and concerns about prostitution and temperance. One issue discussed at this convention was women's right to vote.
- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - National Woman's Rights Convention - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)
- Date: 1854
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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle, in the city of New York, on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 6th and 7th, 1853 This pamphlet contains addresses by William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, and C.C. Burleigh.
- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - Stone, Lucy - Woman's Rights Convention
- Date: 1853
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Book/Printed MaterialProceedings of the Ninth National Woman's Rights Convention held in New York City, Thursday, May 12, 1859 : with a phonographic report of the speech of Wendell Phillips This pamphlet contains a speech by Wendell Phillips advocating for women's enfranchisement.
- Contributor: Wattles, Susan E. - Wattles, Susan Elvira - Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) - National Woman's Rights Convention - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1859
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Book/Printed MaterialConstitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the history of its formation : with the times and places in which the association has held meetings up to 1880 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone. Gift; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nov. 1, 1938.
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - American Woman Suffrage Association - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1881
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Book/Printed MaterialAn appeal to the women of the United States The appeal argues that women were already enfranchised by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
- Contributor: Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress) - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee
- Date: 1871
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Book/Printed MaterialSenate, no. 343, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in Senate, May 24, 1869
Suffrage to women This pamphlet contains the action concerning a proposal submitted in 1869 to amend the Massachusetts state constitution to enfranchise women.- Contributor: Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Woman's Suffrage - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy
- Date: 1869
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Book/Printed MaterialUncivil liberty : an essay to show the injustice and impolicy of ruling woman against her consent Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone. Gift; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nov. 1, 1938.
- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Stone, Lucy - Heywood, Ezra H. (Ezra Hervey)
- Date: 1871
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