Postcard depicts a large woman addressing a crowd of women seated in a hall. On the wall are signs, including "We will never give in" and "Votes for women." In the foreground, another woman is seated, holding a piece of paper.
Introduced by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the document details remarks by Elizabeth D. Bacon, Connecticut; Mary E. Marehand Milligan, Delaware; Ellen Powell Thompson, District of Columbia; Mrs. Frank L.…
Compilation of editorials, speeches, and extracts from journals about American entrepreneur, George Francis Train's trip to Kansas to stump for woman's suffrage. In November 1867, Kansas held a referendum to grant the vote to women and blacks in…
Reprint of an article from the St. Louis Star praising Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell (Elizabeth Crannell) for the address she delivered the day before to the Committee on Resolutions at the Republican National Convention, held in St. Louis.
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 as a part of the International Council of Women, a new organization intended to establish connections between women's rights organizations across the world. May Wright Sewall was…
Two speeches given by famed abolitionist and orator, Wendell Phillips. The first is entitled "The Lesson of the Hour." The second, entitled "Progress" was addressed to the twenty-eighth Congregational Society. In the second, Phillips discusses the…
A brief report on the 1915 International Congress of Women, comprised of women from Europe and North America, and held at the Hague to discuss proposals for a peaceful end to the war. This report includes a list of the International Committee of the…
Full report on the 1915 International Congress of Women, comprised of women from Europe and North America, and held at the Hague to discuss proposals for a peaceful end to the war. This report includes a detailed account of the activities during the…