Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material National American Woman Suffrage Association records,

Title

• National American Woman Suffrage Association records,

Summary

• Correspondence; subject file relating chiefly to state and local suffrage organizations, to leaders in the movement, and to the official organ of the association, the Woman's Journal; scrapbooks prepared by Ida Porter Boyer documenting the association's history and activities in the women's rights movement (1893-1912); and miscellaneous printed matter.
• Correspondents include Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Abby Kelley Foster, Helen H. Gardener, Sarah Grimké, Ida Husted Harper, Mary Garrett Hay, Julia Ward Howe, Florence Kelley, Belle Case La Follette, Mary A. Livermore, Lucretia Mott, E. Sylvia Pankhurst, Maud Wood Park, Mary Gray Peck, Jeannette Rankin, Rosika Schwimmer, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Emma Willard.
• Other correspondents include prominent writers, reformers and political leaders such as Henry Ward Beecher, William Edgar Borah, Witter Bynner, W.H. Channing, Eugene V. Debs, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, William Dean Howells, Robert M. La Follette, Ben B. Lindsey, Upton Sinclair, Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Theodore Tilton, Oswald Garrison Villard, James Wolcott Wadsworth (1877-1952), Theodore Dwight Weld, and Woodrow Wilson.

Names

• National American Woman Suffrage Association
• Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

Headings

• -  Beecher, Henry Ward,--1813-1887--Correspondence
• -  Borah, William Edgar,--1865-1940--Correspondence
• -  Boyer, Ida Porter,--1859-1952
• -  Bynner, Witter,--1881-1968--Correspondence
• -  Channing, W. H.--(William Henry),--1810-1884--Correspondence
• -  Debs, Eugene V.--(Eugene Victor),--1855-1926--Correspondence
• -  Einstein, Albert,--1879-1955--Correspondence
• -  Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Correspondence
• -  Fawcett, Millicent Garrett,--Dame,--1847-1929--Correspondence
• -  Foster, Abby Kelley,--1811-1887--Correspondence
• -  Gardener, Helen H.--(Helen Hamilton),--1853-1925--Correspondence
• -  Garrison, William Lloyd,--1805-1879--Correspondence
• -  Grimké, Sarah,--1792-1873--Correspondence
• -  Harper, Ida Husted,--1851-1931--Correspondence
• -  Hay, Mary Garrett,--1857-1928--Correspondence
• -  Howe, Julia Ward,--1819-1910--Correspondence
• -  Howells, William Dean,--1837-1920--Correspondence
• -  Kelley, Florence,--1859-1932--Correspondence
• -  La Follette, Belle Case,--1859-1931--Correspondence
• -  La Follette, Robert M.--(Robert Marion),--1855-1925--Correspondence
• -  Lindsey, Ben B.--(Ben Barr),--1869-1943--Correspondence
• -  Livermore, Mary A.--(Mary Ashton),--1820-1905--Correspondence
• -  Mott, Lucretia,--1793-1880--Correspondence
• -  Pankhurst, E. Sylvia--(Estelle Sylvia),--1882-1960--Correspondence
• -  Park, Maud Wood,--1871-1955--Correspondence
• -  Peck, Mary Gray,--1867?-1957--Correspondence
• -  Rankin, Jeannette,--1880-1973--Correspondence
• -  Schwimmer, Rosika,--1877-1948--Correspondence
• -  Shaw, Anna Howard,--1847-1919--Correspondence
• -  Sinclair, Upton,--1878-1968--Correspondence
• -  Spofford, Ainsworth Rand,--1825-1908--Correspondence
• -  Stanton, Elizabeth Cady,--1815-1902--Correspondence
• -  Tilton, Theodore,--1835-1907--Correspondence
• -  Villard, Oswald Garrison,--1872-1949--Correspondence
• -  Wadsworth, James Wolcott,--1877-1952--Correspondence
• -  Weld, Theodore Dwight,--1803-1895--Correspondence
• -  Willard, Emma,--1787-1870--Correspondence
• -  Wilson, Woodrow,--1856-1924--Correspondence
• -  American Woman Suffrage Association
• -  Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (U.S.)
• -  National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
• -  Woman's journal
• -  Suffrage
• -  Suffrage--United States
• -  Women--Suffrage--United States
• -  Women--United States--Periodicals
• -  Women--United States--Societies, etc
• -  Women's rights--United States

Notes

• -  Arranged in five series. Series 1: General Correspondence, 1839-1961; Series 2: Subject File, 1851-1953; Series 3: Miscellany, 1890-1950; Series 4: 2024 Addition, 1889-1919; and Series 5: Oversize, 1912.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,404.
• -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1982.
• -  Gift, Edna Lamprey Stantial, archivist of the association, 1961.
• -  Other gift, 2004-2023.
• -  Related dataset: Transcription dataset from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, Manuscript Division. Available on the Library of Congress website.
• -  The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) records are closely linked by provenance and subject matter with the Blackwell family papers and with the Carrie Chapman Catt papers. These three collections held by the Manuscript Division have been known collectively as the Suffrage Archives. Also related by provenance is the Library of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and its president Carrie Chapman Catt, a library of seven to eight hundred titles collected between 1890 and 1938 by members of NAWSA and donated to the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division by Catt in 1938.
• -  Formed in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Dissolved in 1950.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998019

Medium

• 26,700 items.
• 99 containers plus 1 oversize.
• 73 microfilm reels.
• 39.4 linear feet.

Repository

• Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

Library of Congress Control Number

• mm77034132

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm77034132

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record