Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an internationally recognized suffragist, feminist, and political activist. This collection contains six of Catt’s personal photograph albums, circa 1840 to 1940. The albums contain approximately 815 photographs related to the women's suffrage movement, including portraits and records of parades, demonstrations, conferences, and other events. The albums cover both the American and international suffrage movements. Notable figures depicted include: Louisa May Alcott, Dr. Josephine Baker, Carrie Chapman Catt, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Woodrow Wilson.

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Suffragist portraits
Title:
Suffragist portraits
Description:
(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.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Governor of Maine Signing Suffrage Bill
Title:
Governor of Maine Signing Suffrage Bill
Description:
(a) The Governor of Maine signing a partial suffrage bill in February 1917. (b) Governor of Maine signing Federal Amendment November 1920. (c) Signing of Woman Suffrage Measure at Augusta Maine at 10:51 A.M. Friday, February 23, 1917. Reading from left, standing: Mrs. Robert T. Whitehouse, Hon. C.A. Milliken, father of the Governor. Mr[s]. Guy Gannett, Mrs. Arthur T. Balentrue President Maine Woman's Suffrage Association, Mrs. William R. Pattangall Vice. President Maine Woman Suffrage Association. Sitting: Mrs. H.W. Cobb, Congressional Councillor[sic] Maine Woman Suffrage Association. Mrs. Carl E. Millikin, wife of the Governor. Governor Carl E. Milliken. Mrs. Deborah K. Livingston State Campaign Manager.
Date:
1917-02 - 1920-11
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragists in Alabama
Title:
Suffragists in Alabama
Description:
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.
Date:
1910-01
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Letter from Mary A. Hunter to Carrie Chapman Catt, August 12, 1945
Title:
Letter from Mary A. Hunter to Carrie Chapman Catt, 1945
Date:
1945-08-12
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Mary A. Livermore, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell
Title:
Mary A. Livermore, and Henry Blackwell
Description:
(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.
Date:
(approximate)1870 - (approximate)1920
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) French women deliver the mail. (b) English women fill positions vacated by men fighting abroad. English woman who is serving as village blacksmith, repairing farm implements, and doing other jobs that fall to the lot of the knight of the forge. This resourceful lady has two brothers in the British Army, one a major-farrier, the other a sergeant-farrier. Her father is dead and as there is no one else to keep the fires burning she took over the shop and can now wield the hammer with strength and precision. Besides being a good horse-shoer, she can repair nearly any agricultural machine used on neighboring farms, 2/15/1917 (c) Elephants from zoo do farm work in Surrey. (d) English woman "village blacksmith."
Date:
1917-02-05
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) Widows of France working as porters on French railroads. French women transferring luggage at a railway station near Paris. A great deal of this sort of work is being done by women, who not only act as porters but also fire and drive the engines. They are commonly known as widows of France. Every woman who has filled these positions has released a man for some labor which aids in bringing the war to a speedier and victorious termination, 7/21/1917. (b) Women replacing men in ammunition factories of France. One of the most important industries of the countries now at war is the manufacture of ammunition for the men at the front. The women have taken an active part in all the occuopations left vacant by the men who went to the aid of their country, but have been especially active in the munition factories. They are working hard in the new plants set up for making the messengers of death. The accompanying photogaph is but a common scene in France. The women are seen filling the shells with shrapnel in one of the factories at Chamond, 8/31/1915.
Date:
1915 - 1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) French women work as engineers and firemen on French railroads. Photograph taken at a round-house station near Paris. The three women shown in the picture do the actual work of engineers and firemen. The widows of France are doing more than their share in the nation"s battle for victory. They fill all sorts of positions but are especially numerous on the railroad"s of the country, 7/21/1917. (b) Together they labor--shoulder to shoulder, women and men in British industries. Two types of boiler makers-the old and the new. As a rule boiler makers are not considered ladylike but this plucky woman has thrown tradition to the winds entering on a career in a boiler factory in Glasgow. Clad in working togs deserted by a huskier boiler maker when the call to the colors sent him to the front, she is shown in this picture as a Hydraulic riveter, assisted by a man. Numerous other arguments for votes for women are presented at this boiler factory in Glasgow where women are working as stokers, drillers, riveters and planers, 11/11/1916.
Date:
1916 - 1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Russia, World War II
Title:
Russia, World War II
Description:
(a) Germany sends Russian prisoners-of-war to Denmark for Internment, 1943. (b) Russian women take over Industry (c) Russian children are evacuated from invaded zones.
Date:
1943
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women working during World War I
Title:
Women working during World War I
Description:
(a) Ladies of the nobility of Petrograd hard at work at one of the "dpots" making bandages and respirators for the troops at the front. First World War, 9/7/1917. (b) Scene outside of a creche at one of the convents where the women of Russia are caring for orphans who have lost their parents in the war.
Date:
1917-09-07
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Campaigning
Title:
Campaigning
Description:
(a) Mrs. Laidlaw and Mrs. W.B. Morgan selling flowers for suffrage in New York City. (b) "Huskies" in corner in Hearn's Department Store. (c) Stationed in shop-window she turns the pages.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Campaigning
Title:
Campaigning
Description:
(a) Suffrage propaganda automobile. (b) Woman's Liberty Bell on its truck. Mrs. Roessing, President Pennsylvania Woman's Suffrage Association on speaking platform. Mrs. Foy seated in center. (c) Free Day Nursery and Baby Saving Show conducted by the Fair Com. of the Chester Co. Woman's Suffrage Association at Chester Co. Fair, West Chester, Pa.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage news
Title:
Suffrage news
Description:
(a-d) "Newsies" and College women selling the Woman's Journal and Suffrage News.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Your Girl and Mine
Title:
Your Girl and Mine
Description:
(a-d) In "Your Girl and Mine, the great Woman Suffrage Picture Melodrama (Dr. Shaw in black, standing).
Date:
1914
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragists campaigning
Title:
Suffragists campaigning
Description:
(a) Touring the state to secure signatures asking for "Votes for Women." (b) Mrs. Laidlaw getting signatures of soldiers of World War I.
Date:
1914
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragists campaigning
Title:
Suffragists campaigning
Description:
(a) In Connecticut women gathered signatures for the vote. Here are 100, 000 assembled in the State Capitol, Hartford, to show the Legislature that women do want the vote. (b) Activities of Suffragists. (c-e) Connecticut women on educational "campaign". (f) Coming through the rural districts.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Campaigning
Title:
Campaigning
Description:
(a) "General" Rosalie Jones, famous "hiker" for suffrage. (b) Mrs. Edgar A. Sammines [?] II. Their votes for women badges were pinned to the backs of their sweaters so that they would be seen as they rode [on a twenty-person sled]. (c) The suffragists call upon the Mayor of New York City. Suffragettes leaving City Hall, New York, 10/28/1908. (d) When not allowed to use regular spaces for subway advertising the suffragists resort to "Lap-boards" carrying their arguments. They boarded all trains and rode "up and downtown."
Date:
1908-10-28 - 1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Street meetings
Title:
Street meetings
Description:
(a) Street meeting. Speech given by Janette Rankin. (b-d) Typical street meetings.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage parade
Title:
Suffrage parade
Description:
Publicity floats in suffrage parades.
Date:
1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragists selling the Woman's Journal
Title:
Suffragists selling the Woman's Journal
Description:
(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.
Date:
(approximate)1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

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