Mobilizing woman-power
This book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter emphasizes the importance of women's contributions to World War I. It helps demostrate the link British and American suffragists were making between wartime sacrifice and women's disenfranchisement. There is an interesting foreword by Theodore Roosevelt, which reveals his position on woman suffrage.
Contributor:
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) - Blatch, Harriot Stanton
Date:1918
Book/Printed Material
The record of the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, Inc., 1917-1929
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission, a complete record, 1917-1929 | Complete record
This is a fascinating account of Miriam Florence Follin Leslie, the wife of Frank Leslie of "Leslie"s Illustrated Newspaper." When Frank Leslie died in 1880, Florence legally changed her name to "Frank Leslie" and continued publishing the paper. When Mrs. Frank died in 1914, she willed $2,000,000 of her estate to Carrie Chapman Catt to be used for the women suffrage campaign. Only $977,000...
Contributor:
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet) - Catt, Carrie Chapman
Date:1929
Book/Printed Material
From pinafores to politics
This autobiography details the life of Daisy Hurst (Mrs. J. Borden) Harriman, a wealthy New York woman who worked diligently for issues concerning working-class women. Harriman was one of the women who lent her financial support to the shirtwaist workers' strike in 1909. In addition, with Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont and Miss Anne Morgan, she helped organize a strike meeting of the WTUL at...
Contributor:
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Harriman, Florence Jaffray
Date:1923
Book/Printed Material
The Woman suffrage year book.
This book was originally produced for use by suffrage workers. It contains a lot of statistical information valuable for conducting a national suffrage campaign, such as a listing of the states and foreign nations in which either full or partial woman suffrage exists; a list of senators and representatives who both favor and oppose woman suffrage; and an analysis of various laws affecting women...
Contributor:
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stapler, Martha G.
Contributor:
Bower, Emma E. - National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National Council of Women of the United States. Meeting
Date:1917
Manuscript/Mixed Material
Front door lobby
This is an original manuscript of Park's account of her work on the NAWSA Congressional Committee.
Contributor:
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Park, Maud Wood
Contributor:
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - National Council of Women of the United States. Meeting
Date:1916
Book/Printed Material
Taxation of women in Massachusetts
This pamphlet examines the legal and political status of women in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1871. It includes a brief appendix tabulating the amount women have paid in taxes while being denied the right to vote.
Contributor:
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Bowditch, William I. (William Ingersoll)
