The Circular. Vol. 6, no. 22. August 16, 1869
Collective settlements -- United States -- Periodicals
Croly, J. C. (Jane Cunningham) , 1829-1901
Education
Home economics
Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
Oneida Community
Oneida Community -- Periodicals
Prisoners and prisons
Public Health
Wallingford Community
Women--Societies and clubs
The Oneida Community, founded by John Humphrey Noyes, was a religiously based, socialist group of about 250, dedicated to living as one family and to sharing all property, work, and love. The Community disbanded in 1880 and formed a corporation, Oneida Community Ltd which gained recognition for the tableware it produced. The Circular was created in 1851 and continued in several iterations until 1876, when the Community created a new periodical called the American Socialist.
This issue contains an article written by Jane Cunningham Croly, entitled "A Woman's Parliament." Croly, an author and journalist, created the Women's Parliament in 1856, and in 1869, formed the women's club, Sorosis to seek "collective elevation and advancement." She went on to found the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1890. In this appeal, Croly issues and invitation to a meeting to be held in New York in October 1869 to discuss the formation of a "legislative body of women to represent women upon all subjects of vital interest to themselves and their children."
Croly mentions issues of concern including public education, prisons and reformatory schools, hygienic and sanitary reforms, female labor, the Department of Domestic Economy, dishonesty in public life, and the function of the women's parliament.
Oneida Community
Oneida, N.Y. : Oneida Community
1869-08-16
Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886, editor
Croly, J. C. (Jane Cunningham), 1829-1901, author
English
Text
1864-1870
Pamphlet : Women's votes and wages by F.W. Pethick Lawrence. [Circa 1911-1912]
Pay equity
Wages--Women--Great Britain
Women--Employment
Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)
Frederick Pethick Lawrence was a politician married to suffragist Emmeline Pethick. He became involved in the Labour Party and the Women's Social and Political Union.
In this article, Pethick Lawrence discusses the disparity in women's wages and the need for equal pay reform. His "call to action" is women's right to vote.
Pethick-Lawrence, Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, Baron, 1871-1961
Women's Social and Political Union (Great Britain)
[London] : Woman's Press
[ca. 1911-1912]
24 p.
English
DOCU.1910.13
Clipping : "What's the Reason" by McDonald
Unfair labor practices
Labor laws and legislation
Wages--Women--United States
Wages--Women--Law and legislation
Cartoon by artist, McDonald depicting unfair wages and conditions for working women.
[Circa 1912-1913]
English
Pamphlet : Twenty Questions about the Federal Amendment proposed by the National Woman's Party. January 1922
Equal Rights Amendment
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932
Marriage
National Consumers' League
National Woman's Party
Women--Employment--1920-1930
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- Controversial literature.
Florence Kelley, head of the National Consumers' League, outlines the League's objections to the Equal Rights Amendment focusing on how protections offered by present laws would be diminished or nullified by the ERA.
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932
New York : National Consumers League
1922
7 p.
English
DOCU.1922.02
Pamphlet : The New Look. CIO Political Action Committee. [Circa 1942-1945]
Campaign literature
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee
United States--Politics and government--1940-1950
Voting
Campaign literature that uses a popular slogan, "the new look" as a way to encourage women to vote. The pamphlet contains photographs and facts about the conditions for families before and after women had the right to vote, outlines the work still to be done to improve conditions and provides information on how women can do their part by voting in elections and educating their husbands on who to vote for, and using the local political action committee as a resource.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations was founded in 1928 as a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada. The CIO merged with the American Federation of Labor to form the AFL-CIO in 1955. The CIO PAC was established in 1942.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.). Political Action Committee
Washington, D.C. : Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee
[Circa 1942-1945]
15 p.
English
Flier : Facts worth knowing. Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association. April 1915
Constitutional amendment
Elections
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
Referendum
Voting
Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania
Facts about the various laws passed within the eleven states that had woman suffrage in 1915 to demonstrate the progress made when women are granted the right to vote. Laws passed in these states included equal guardianship of children; eight-hour day for working women; child labor protection, widowed mother's pension, etc.
In Pennsylvania in 1915, voters rejected the referendum to grant women of the state the right to vote. Pennsylvania ratified the federal suffrage amendment on June 24, 1919.
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
Harrisburg, Penn. : Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association
1915-04
1 p.
English
DOCU.1915.27
Leaflet : What good will suffrage do them? Committee on protest against women suffrage. [Circa 1896-1900]
Article written published by the Committee on Protest against Woman Suffrage of the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York, argues that women will not necessarily be better off if they are granted the right to vote. The author focuses specifically on the issue of pay equity and protective labor legislation.
[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.1000.73
Postcard : And this is what, the vote has done for us women! [Circa 1922-1924]
Children
Children and politics
United States--New Jersey--Atlantic City
United States--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem
This card features a full color illustration of a young girl and boy. The boy is seated, with his legs crossed, smiling. The girl is carrying two buckets, walking toward him.
The card is addressed to Miss Edith [Becheal?] 833 Broadway Beth. Pa., postmarked September 13, 1924. Written to the left of the address is "Uncle Chas."
Silver, Ruth Welch
[Circa 1922-1924]
Pamphlet : Report on the summer work of the League of Self-Supporting Women. [1907]
Blatch, Nora Stanton (Barney), 1883-1971
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940
Claghorn, Kate Holladay, 1863-1938
Cook, Elizabeth E.
Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (New York, N.Y.)
Hughes, Charles E.
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932
Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-1972
United States--New York
Women's Political Union (New York, N.Y.)
Issued by the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women, this pamphlet includes a brief synopsis of a conference held on April 9, 1907 at Cooper Institute in NewYork; reprints of letters written to similar associations, letters to and from Governor Hughes, an address sent to Finland praising the women as an example for the United States to follow; and a resolution by the Conference of Women Trade Unionists calling for women's enfranchisement in New York.
The Equality League of Self-Supporting Women was established in New York City in 1907. In 1915, the name was changed to the Women's Political Union.
Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (New York, N.Y.)
New York, The League of Self-Supporting Women
[1907]
7 p.
English
DOCU.1907.01
New York
Letter from Josephine Casey, Street Railway Employees' Union, [1915].
Barnum, Gertrude, 1866-1948
Casey, Josephine, 1878(?)-1950
Dreier, Mary, 1875-1963
Elections
Kelley, Nellie
Labor laws and legislation--New York (State)--New York
O'Reilly, Leonora, 1870-1927
Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-1972
Street Railway Employees' Union
Stritt, Louise
Triangle Shirtwaist Company--Fire, 1911
working class women
Younger, Maud, 1870-1936
Letter from Josephine Casey, Street Railway Employees' Union, asking members to vote for women's suffrage during the New York referendum on November 2, 1915.
Casey, Josephine, 1878(?)-1950
[1915]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1915.53