Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

(a) Mrs. Costigan, Dr. Parker, Mrs. Penfield, Dr. Hebord, Mrs. Catt, M. Shuler, M. Kennere. Building where, in March 1870, the first jury sat, in which women, as voting citizens, took part. (b) This tablet marks the site where the first woman jury served during March 1870. (c) Mrs. Louisa Swain. First woman voter in Wyoming, first in world. (d) Mrs. Martha Simon Boies Atkinson. The first woman bailiff in the world.

Officers and delegates of the first convention of Alabama Equal Suffrage Association, January 1913. (a) Mrs. Virginia Clay, Clopton, wife of Alabama Sen. Suffrage worker in Alabama and D.C. (b) Mrs. Pattie R. Jacobs and Mrs. Maude W. Park. (c) Officers of Alabama Woman Suffrage Association. (d) Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs Alabama Leader.

(a) Portrait of unidentified woman. (b) Portrait of Mary A. Livermore, abolitionist, suffragist, and temperance worker, 1821-1905. Mary A. Livermore made her first speech for suffrage in May 1869, in Boston. She was the woman who then said, Why don't these brothers of ours call us, the reserves, into action? We could help them. This same cry was echoed by women of all countries in the Great War of 1914-1918. But it was first said by Mrs. Livermore who had been a famous nurse during the Civil War. Mrs. Livermore, who had published the "Agitator" in Chicago, went to Boston in 1870 as one of the editors of the Woman's Journal, with Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. Assitant editors were Julia Ward Howe, William Lloyd Garrison, and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson. One of Mrs. Livermore's greatest tasks was her report of the sanitary work done by women in the war. Through their patriotic services to the soldiary in the Civil War the United States first realized women's talent for administering great enterprises. (c) Unidentified group portrait. (d) Lucy Stone, founder of "the Woman's Journal" in 1870 and its editor in chief for many years. (e) Henry Blackwell.

(a) Suffragists selling the Woman's Journal. Mrs. W.J. Roach, Mrs. E.J. Graham, and Mrs. W.J. Scott. (b) Breaking the Ice in the South, clipping from New Orleans' paper.

Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky signing the Woman Suffrage Amendment, January 6, 1920. Mrs. Morrow, back of chair, and members of Kentucky Equal Rights Association.

(a) Recruits of the heroic Russian "Batallion of Death, First World War. (b) A Russian girl soldier. Second World War.

Clippings from the New York Times, October 31, 1915. (a) "The woman suffrage parade in which 25, 000 persons marched, passing the New York Public Library and the official reviewing stand, Fifth Avenue, Fortieth to Forty-Second Streets. (b) Mrs. Herbert Carpenter, leader of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, returning the salute of a fellow leader.

Clipping from the New York Herald Tribune, Sunday, February 7, 1932. "British Petitions for Peace to the Geneva Conference." The Women's International League in England packed off to Geneva these cases containing 2, 000, 000 signatures pleading for world disarmament. The cases were sent from Victoria Station, London.

Hungarian Delegation to International Suffrage Alliance Conference, Stockholm, 1911. (b) Hungarian Delegation to Woman Suffrage International Alliance Conference held in Budapest, 1913.

(a) Mrs. Martha C. Wright. A sister of Lucretia Mott, and one of the five women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. (b) Tablet in Seneca Falls, New York. To commemorate the First Woman's Rights Conference. It was called by Lucretia Mott and Mrs. Stanton for June 19-20, 1848. (c) Mrs. Lucretia Mott, 1793-1880. (d) Mary A. Livermore.