Collection Manuscript/Mixed Material Carrie Chapman Catt papers,

Title

• Carrie Chapman Catt papers,

Summary

• Correspondence, diaries, drafts of speeches and articles, subject files, biographical papers, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Catt's efforts on behalf of the women's suffrage movement, feminism, and international peace. Also includes material on the Women's Centennial Congress of 1940 and the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. Diaries describe her travels to Africa, East Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
• Correspondents include Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Newton Diehl Baker, Alice Stone Blackwell, Josephus Daniels, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ida Husted Harper, Mary Garrett Hay, Clara Hyde, Fiorello H. La Guardia, Julia Clifford Lathrop, Rosette Suzanne Manus, Katherine Dexter McCormick, Maud Wood Park, Mary Gray Peck, Helen Rogers Reid, Rose Schneiderman, Rosika Schwimmer, Edna Lamprey Stantial, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, William H. Taft, Joseph P. Tumulty, William Allen White, and Justina Leavitt Wilson.

Names

• Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
• Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

Headings

• -  Abbott, Grace,--1878-1939--Correspondence
• -  Addams, Jane,--1860-1935--Correspondence
• -  Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor,--Viscountess,--1879-1964--Correspondence
• -  Baker, Newton Diehl,--1871-1937--Correspondence
• -  Blackwell, Alice Stone,--1857-1950--Correspondence
• -  Daniels, Josephus,--1862-1948--Correspondence
• -  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,--1860-1935--Correspondence
• -  Harper, Ida Husted,--1851-1931--Correspondence
• -  Hay, Mary Garrett,--1857-1928--Correspondence
• -  Hyde, Clara--Correspondence
• -  La Guardia, Fiorello H.--(Fiorello Henry),--1882-1947--Correspondence
• -  Lathrop, Julia Clifford,--1858-1932--Correspondence
• -  Manus, Rosette Suzanne,--1881-1942--Correspondence
• -  McCormick, Katharine Dexter,--1875-1967--Correspondence
• -  Park, Maud Wood,--1871-1955--Correspondence
• -  Peck, Mary Gray,--1867?-1957--Correspondence
• -  Reid, Helen Rogers,--1882-1970--Correspondence
• -  Schneiderman, Rose,--1882-1972--Correspondence
• -  Schwimmer, Rosika,--1877-1948--Correspondence
• -  Stantial, Edna Lamprey--Correspondence
• -  Sulzberger, Arthur Hays,--1891-1968--Correspondence
• -  Taft, William H.--(William Howard),--1857-1930--Correspondence
• -  Tumulty, Joseph P.--(Joseph Patrick),--1879-1954--Correspondence
• -  White, William Allen,--1868-1944--Correspondence
• -  Wilson, Justina Leavitt,---1955--Correspondence
• -  National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (U.S.)
• -  Women's Centennial Congress--(1940 :--New York, N.Y.)
• -  Feminism
• -  Peace
• -  Suffrage
• -  Suffrage--United States
• -  Women--Suffrage--United States
• -  Women--United States--Societies, etc
• -  Women's rights--United States
• -  Africa--Description and travel
• -  East Asia--Description and travel
• -  Europe--Description and travel
• -  Middle East--Description and travel

Notes

• -  Arranged in six series. Series 1: Diaries, 1911-1923; Series 2: General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947; Series 3: Speech and Article File, 1892-1946; Series 4: Subject File, 1848-1950; Series 5: Miscellany; and Series 6: Oversize.
• -  Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• -  Microfilm edition available, no. 17,349.
• -  Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
• -  Gift, Alda Wilson and Edna Lamprey Stantial, 1947-1960.
• -  Related datasets: Transcription datasets from Carrie Chapman Catt Papers, Manuscript Division. Available on the Library of Congress website.
• -  The Carrie Chapman Catt papers are closely linked by provenance and subject matter with the Blackwell family papers and with the records of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). 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.
• -  Feminist, lecturer, and author.
• -  Collection material in English.
• -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998018

Medium

• 9,500 items.
• 30 containers plus 1 oversize.
• 18 microfilm reels.
• 12.4 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

• mm78015404

Access Advisory

• Open to research.

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/mm78015404

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record