Postcard : Invitation by Mrs. William T. Peck to Miss Mary D. Larkin to a meeting of the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage Club. 1913.
Larkin, Mary D.
Lynchburg Equal Suffrage Club
Peck, Mrs. William T.
Women--Suffrage--Virginia
United States--Virginia--Lynchburg
Handwritten note that reads: "Your presence is urgently requested at a meeting of the Lynchburg Equal Suffrage Club to be held at 609 Court Street, on Monday, oct. 6th, at 4 p.m. to elect delegates to the State Equal Suffrage Convention which convenes in Lynchburg Oct. 23-24, 1913. Mrs. William T. Peck, Sec't. [Secretary]"
Peck, Mrs. William T.
1913
English
DOCU.1913.15
Pamphlet : Julia Ward Howe on suffrage. [Circa 1905-1915]
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
New England Woman's Suffrage Association (Boston, Mass.)
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Reprint of Julia Ward Howe's address on suffrage at the May Festival of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. The New England Woman Suffrage Association was formed in November, 1868, with Julia Ward Howe as president. The Association's annual meeting was held in May.
Howe, Julia Ward (1819-1910)
New York
[Circa 1905-1915]
4 p.
English
DOCU.1000.90
Boston, Massachusetts
Leaflet : Was unjustly quoted : President Eliot of Harvard University writes a letter… October 14, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Albany Anti-Suffrage Association
Anti-suffrage
Doane, William Croswell, 1832-1913
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Harvard University
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention
United States--New York--Albany
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
Letter from Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University, written to Bishop William Croswell Doane, of Albany, New York, reprinted for distribution by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association.
Eliot objects to the use of a quutation from an article he wrote, by the Natioanl American Woman Suffrage Association for their call to the organization's twenty-eight annual convention. In the letter he gives Bishop Doane permission to have it reprinted.
The letter has been reprinted by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association, more formally referred to as the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
[Sacramento daily record-union]
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1896-1900]
3 p.
English
DOCU.1000.52
Pamphlet : International Council of Women : assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Association of the United States to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the first woman's rights convention, Albaugh's Opera House, Washington, D.C. March 25 to April 1, 1888, inclusive. 1888
Albaugh's Opera House (Washington, D.C.)
International Council of Women. Convention
National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
Woman's Rights Convention
Women--United States--Congresses
Women --Suffrage --Washington (D.C.)
Program for the inaugural convention of the International Council of Women includes detailed information for the attendees, including a morning and evening session calendar; a list of the speakers; information on room and board; and lyrics to 19 hymns used during religious services to open and close the convention.
The International Council of Women, founded in 1888, was created during the second international conference of the National Woman Suffrage Association as a way to bring women from many countries together to work for women's issues.
International Council of Women
National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
Washington, D.C. : Rufus H. Darby, Printer
1888
16 p.
English
DOCU.1888.04
Washington, D.C.
Program : Eleventh Convention of the National Women's Trade Union League of America. May 6-11, 1929. 1929
Convention
Labor union
National Women's Trade Union League of America
Women--employment
Women labor leaders
Women labor union members
Official program for the 25th anniversary and convention of the National Women's Trade Union League of America, held at the Grace Dodge Hotel in Washington, D.C.
National Women's Trade Union League of America
National Women's Trade Union League of America
1929
25 p.
English
DOCU.1929.01
Invitation : Victory convention (1869-1920) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association including the Susan B. Anthony centenary celebration and the Anna Howard Shaw memorial : together with the first national congress of the League of Women Voters. [1920]
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Constitutional amendments
Convention
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention
National American Woman Suffrage Association. League of Women Voters
National League of Women Voters (U.S.)
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
United States--Illinois--Chicago
Formal invitation to NAWSA's annual convention, dubbed the "Victory Convention" and held in Chicago, Illinois.
At the time of the convention, 33 states had ratified the federal suffrage amendment. The victory came on August 18, 1920 when Tennessee became the 36th and final state to ratify the amendment.
At the convention, Carrie Chapman Catt formally founded the League of Women Voters as a "mighty political experiment" to help women carry out their new responsibility as voters.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National American Woman Suffrage Association
[1920]
Tri-fold
English
DOCU.1920.02
Chicago, Illinois
Leaflet : What President Wilson Says. 1917
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Crabtree, W. R.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
This leaflet quotes Wilson on five occasions endorsing suffrage for women, and encourages peopole to work for and vote for the New York Woman Suffrage Amendment on November 6, 1917.
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
1917
4 p.
English
DOCU.1917.27
Clipping : "Milady is Angry / 'We No Longer Are Supplicants,' says Dr. A. Shaw." [December 1913]
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention
Publicity
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
News article about the 45th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, hled at the Masonic Temple in Washington, D.C., November 29th to December 5th, 1913.
[1913-12]
English
Washington, D.C.
Clipping : "7000 Gather in and Around Metropolitan Opera House to Hear Women Leaders Sound Suffrage Appeal." November 25, 1912
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Crane, Caroline Bartlett, 1858-1935
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention
Publicity
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Women--Suffrage--Michigan
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Full page series of articles on the 44th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention held in Philadelphia November 21-26, 1912. Articles detail speeches by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, and Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop, of Chicago, who spoke on women's suffrage to more than 5,000 people in Metropolitan Opera House.
11/25/12
English
Clipping : "Suffragists Disperse / Only a Rear-Guard Left in Washington." The Washington Post. [December 6, 1913]
Byrns, Elinor
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention
Publicity
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
News article about the conclusion of the 45th annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and those members left in Washington, D.C. to continue the work toward a federal consititutional amendment.
12/6/13
English