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
Doctors Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell
Title:
Doctors Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell
Description:
(a) Relief portrait of Dr. Emily Blackwell, Dean of the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, which was founded by Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell. (b) Portrait of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. 1821-1910.
Date:
1913
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage meeting
Title:
Suffrage meeting
Description:
Illustration from Harper's Weekly. Ye May Session of Ye Woman's Rights Convention-Ye Orator of Ye Day Denouncing Ye Lords of Creation.
Date:
(approximate)1919-06-11
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
American woman and her political peers
Title:
American woman and her political peers
Description:
Copy print of a pastel drawing by Henrietta Briggs-Wall. Miss Frances E. Willard is depicted in the center of the image, surrounded by likenesses of an idiot, a convict, a Native American Indian, and an insane man. Briggs-Wall, of Kansas, planned this picture, found subjects for the photographs, and exhibited it at the World's Fair, in Chicago, 1893. Small reproductions were sold, circulated from coast to coast, making many converts.
Date:
1893
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Women's suffrage
Title:
Women's suffrage
Description:
(a) Suffrage leaders in costume. (b) State headquarters at Sioux Falls South Dakota. Mrs. Tinsley and Secretary. (c) South Dakota Suffrage School. (d) Sioux Falls women impersonating countries where women vote. A "Float" in the Suffrage Parade, July 4th, 1918.
Date:
1913 - 1918
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Republican National Convention
Title:
Republican National Convention
Description:
(a) Chicago, Jan. 6, 1920, Mrs. John E. South. Miss Mary Garrett Hay. Leading Delegates at Republican National Convention. (b) Miss Mary McDowell, Chicago settlement worker who has just learned, in San Francisco that the Women in Industry plank of the League of Women Voters is to be incorporated in the Democratic platform, and Aurelia Reinhart, of Mills College.
Date:
1920
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage parade
Title:
Suffrage parade
Description:
(a) Typical scene in Labor Day Parade, 1910, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This "woman suffrage auto" took part. (b) Kansas. The Sunflower State. Parades for Women Suffrage.
Date:
1910
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
Woman's Journal staff
Title:
Woman's Journal staff
Description:
Staff of Woman's Journal, in Boston. The Journal came to New York in 1916.
Date:
1916
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragists campaigning
Title:
Suffragists campaigning
Description:
(a) One of the floats in parade, May 3, 1913. (b) "Handing on the Torch" publicity stunt. (c) Suffragists on steps of National Capital in federal campaign. (d) Suffragists on steps of National Capital in campaign for votes.
Date:
1913-05-03
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
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

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