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Photo, Print, Drawing Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers

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Title

  • Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers

Summary

  • LOT 13267-1 is comprised of photocopies of original lantern slides illustrating events in the women's suffrage movement, ca. 1859-1928. The first thirty-seven reproductions (lantern slides LC-B633-1 to LC-B633-37) show images used by Mary Foulke Morrisson and Maud Wood Park in speeches delivered Jan.9, 1939 in recognition of the eightieth birthday of Carrie Chapman Catt. Photocopies of the speeches and corresponding lantern slide caption lists are included in the LOT. These images include portraits of Catt as a child and young adult; portraits of her parents Lucius and Maria Lane; Catt and others attending meetings of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance; suffrage parades and pageants. One slide shows Catt with board members of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. Additional photocopies (lantern slide numbers LC-B633-38 to LC-B633-75) depict suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Maud Wood Park, Julia Ward Howe, and Catherine Breshkovsky, suffrage meetings, hearings, and parades. LOT 13267-2 is comprised of portrait photographs of members of the Blackwell family: women's suffrage leader Alice Blackwell; her parents Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone, abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Alice's aunt, first woman to receive an academic medical degree and activist for women in the medical profession; and Hannah Lane Blackwell, matriarch of the family; also, one portrait of Lucy Stone designed to be worn as a button and one photograph of Lucy Stone's birthplace in West Brookfield, Mass. Also includes portraits of others related to or involved in the fight for women's suffrage; officers and members of the National American Women's Suffrage Association and the National League of Women Voters; snapshots of women marching in a suffrage parade, New York City, Oct. 17, 1917. Other suffrage activities depicted include Judge Florence Allen and Bertha A. Miller on a 1913 pilgrimage march from New York to Washington, D.C.; Florence Allen, Elizabeth J. Hauser and Greta Coleman checking and sorting suffrage petitions in Ohio, 1914; Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett signing the Suffrage Bill, June 5, 1919.

Names

  • Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955.
  • Morrisson, Mary Foulke.

Created / Published

  • 1840-ca. 1935, bulk 1890-1925.

Headings

  • -  Catt, Carrie Chapman,--1859-1947
  • -  Blackwell, Alice Stone,--1857-1950
  • -  Blackwell, Elizabeth,--1821-1910
  • -  Blackwell family
  • -  Blackwell, H. B.--(Henry Browne),--1825-1909
  • -  Stone, Lucy,--1818-1893
  • -  Breshko-Breshkovskai︠a︡, Ekaterina Konstantinovna,--1844-1934
  • -  National American Woman Suffrage Association--People--1900-1920
  • -  National League of Women Voters (U.S.)--People--1920-1940
  • -  International Woman Suffrage Alliance--People--1920-1940
  • -  Women's suffrage--1880-1930
  • -  Suffragists--1840-1930
  • -  Parades & processions--United States--1910-1930
  • -  Meetings--United States--1890-1930
  • -  Women--Organizations--1890-1930
  • -  Women--Political activity--1890-1930

Headings

  • Buttons (Information artifacts)--1920-1930.
  • Collotypes--1880-1940.
  • Film negatives--1890-1940.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1890-1940.
  • Glass negatives--1890-1900.
  • Group portraits--1880-1940.
  • Lantern slides--1880-1940.
  • Lectures--1930-1940.
  • Portrait photographs--1840-1940.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1840-1940
  • Buttons (Information artifacts)--1920-1930
  • Group portraits--1880-1940
  • Lantern slides--1880-1940
  • Collotypes--1880-1940
  • Film negatives--1890-1940
  • Glass negatives--1890-1900
  • Gelatin silver prints--1890-1940
  • Lectures--1930-1940

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Arranged into two subdivisions: LOT 13267-1 (photocopy surrogates of original b&w and hand-colored lantern slides in filing series LC-B633) and LOT 13267-2 (photographic prints and collotype).
  • -  LOT 13267-2 includes some copy prints made by the LC Photoduplication Service from original film and glass negatives in filing series LC-B613, LC-B614, LC-B622, LC-B623, and LC-B634.
  • -  Photographs in LOT 13267-2 are credited to various commercial photographers, including Underwood & Underwood, Washington, D.C.; Elmer Chickering, Boston, Mass.; Harris & Ewing; Notman Photo Co., Boston, Mass.; and Bachrach.
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (Blackwell family papers); 1968 (DLC/PP-1968:005).
  • -  Transfer; LC Manuscript Division (Blackwell family papers); 1985 (DLC/PP-1985:108).
  • -  Finding aid for LOT 13267-2 listing names of people depicted in portraits is available in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room (filed under call number). Also available online https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp002008
  • -  Forms part of: Blackwell family papers.

Medium

  • whole collection 171 items
  • 171 photographs (chiefly lantern slides and photographic prints) ; 28 x 23 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13267 (F) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Blackwell family papers

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2001696354

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Original lantern slides, daguerreotype, and negatives are available through photographic surrogates in this LOT. A color photocopy surrogate of a portrait button of Lucy Stone is provided in LOT 13267-2 in lieu of the original. Original lantern slide boxes and the original portrait button are housed in the Prints & Photographs Division Supplementary Archives (call number: Suppl. Archives-- Blackwell family papers).

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  • Reproduction Number: ---
  • Call Number: LOT 13267 (F) [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: Original lantern slides, daguerreotype, and negatives are available through photographic surrogates in this LOT. A color photocopy surrogate of a portrait button of Lucy Stone is provided in LOT 13267-2 in lieu of the original. Original lantern slide boxes and the original portrait button are housed in the Prints & Photographs Division Supplementary Archives (call number: Suppl. Archives-- Blackwell family papers).

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Chicago citation style:

Park, Maud Wood, and Mary Foulke Morrisson. Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. United States, ca. 1935. 1840-, Bulk 1890 to 1925. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2001696354/.

APA citation style:

Park, M. W. & Morrisson, M. F. (ca. 1935) Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. United States, ca. 1935. 1840-, Bulk 1890 to 1925. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2001696354/.

MLA citation style:

Park, Maud Wood, and Mary Foulke Morrisson. Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers. 1840-, Bulk 1890 to 1925. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2001696354/>.