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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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
Suffrage parade
Title:
Suffrage parade
Description:
(a) Chicago's suffrage parade, 1914. Right to left: Grace W. Trout, Antoinette Funk, Elena Downey, Elizabeth Booth. (b) Chicago, June, 1914. Right to left: Elena Downey, Grace W. Trout, Elizabeth Booth, Antoinette Funk.
Date:
1914
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International suffragists
Title:
International suffragists
Description:
(a) Official Board, International Suffrage Alliance. Elected at Budapest Conference, 1913. Standing, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, USA. Mrs. M.G. Faucett, Gr.B. Mrs. A. S. Coit, Gr.B. Mrs. A. Lindeman, Ger. Miss A. Furnplyelun, Finland. Miss S. Bergman, Sweden. Mme. R. Schwimmer, Hungary. Seated, Mrs. Faucett, Gr B. Mrs. Catt, U.S.A. Mme Schlumbergm. France. (b) Board of International Suffrage Alliance, 1906-1913.
Date:
1913
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage in Great Britain
Title:
Suffrage in Great Britain
Description:
(a) Mrs. Despard. President British Women's Freedom League (b) Lady Astor and Mrs. Catt. Nancy Astor was first woman member Parliament in Great Britain. (c) Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, Vice-President Woman's Social and Political Union of Great Britain.
Date:
1890
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress, Budapest
Title:
International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress, Budapest
Description:
(a) Delegates to International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress, Budapest, 1913. (b) One of the Delegations to International Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress, 1913.
Date:
1913
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Mrs. Cobden Sanderson
Title:
Mrs. Cobden Sanderson
Description:
(a) Mrs. Cobden Sanderson, of London, leader in British Equal Rights movement. (b) Mrs. Cobden Sanderson, speaking to small-town audience in England.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Swedish and Finnish Delegation, International Alliance Conference
Title:
Swedish and Finnish Delegation, International Alliance Conference
Description:
(a) Swedish Delegation: International Alliance, Conference Budapest, 1913 (b) Finnish Delegation.
Date:
1913
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
First Chinese Legislature, Canton
Title:
First Chinese Legislature, Canton
Description:
First Chinese Legislature, Canton, 1912.
Date:
1912
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International Alliance Suffrage Conference
Title:
International Alliance Suffrage Conference
Description:
(a) International Alliance Suffrage Conference. Amsterdam, Holland, 1908. (b) Delegates to the Woman Suffrage Alliance Congress, Amsterdam, Aug. 15, 1908 hear the chair of Cathedral at Vespers.
Date:
1908
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragist portraits
Title:
Suffragist portraits
Description:
(a) Sculpture. The Dutch Parliament passed a law forbidding women to be employed at night work about 1908. Whereupon, the women employed in a textile factory where they had worked at night exchanged work with day working men who carried bricks to brick-layers. A sculptor made a marble piece showing a woman at such work, thus putting the law to ridicule. (b) Frau Marianne Hainisch, founder of the Austrian National Council of Women and its Hon. President. (c) Mrs. Louise Woods Beckman, an American woman who married a Swede and lived in Sweden most of her life. She joined the Swedish leaders in the suffrage movement. (d) Lady Battersea, daughter of Lord Rothschild, who dared to be a suffragist in England when the cause was young and much ridiculed.
Date:
1910
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International suffragists
Title:
International suffragists
Description:
(a) Mrs. Ralph Smith, of Ireland, member of Canadian Parliament. (b) Mrs. Stowe Gullen, President Canadian Suffrage Association. (c) Mrs. Margaret Bright Lucas, friend of Miss Anthony. (d) Mrs. Garrett Anderson, Mayor of English-town. Probably the first woman-mayor in the world.
Date:
(approximate)1890 - (approximate)1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Lady Astor, the first woman in Parliament
Title:
Lady Astor, the first woman in Parliament
Description:
(a) Lady Astor, first woman to sit in the House of Commons in Great Britain. Photo shows her addressing crowd at Plymouth. (b) Lady Astor after election, addressing crowd from Town Hall.
Date:
1920
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International suffragists
Title:
International suffragists
Description:
(a) Dr. Tomo Inouye, of Japan, Delegate I. Md. Conf. N.Y. 1918 (b) A Japanese doctor, attending conference in N.Y., 1918. (c) Mrs. Tang, Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Sheng, Chinese leaders and orators.
Date:
1918
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Scandinavian suffragists
Title:
Scandinavian suffragists
Description:
(a) Mrs. Asmundsen of Iceland as she appeared at Stockholm Con, 1911 (Marie Quam). (b) Mrs. Elna Munch and Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, in Copenhagen, 1940. Mrs. Munch was then member of Parliament. Her husband was Denmark's Secretary of War. Mrs. Ruth Owen was first woman Minister from U.S.A. to a foreign country. She was minister to Denmark from 1906 to 1940. (c) Mrs. Elna Munch of Denmark in 1906.
Date:
1906 - 1940
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage in Brazil
Title:
Suffrage in Brazil
Description:
(a) Dr. Bertha Lutz, leader in Brazilian Woman Suffrage Movement. (b) Woman Suffrage Congress in Rio Janeiro, Brazail, Dec. 19, 1922. Mrs. Catt and Dr. Lutz, center front, Rosa Manus back of them. (c) Luncheon given by Ambassador Morgan to foreign guests. (d) Mrs. Catt opening the Congress at Rio Janeiro, 1922.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International group in Brazil
Title:
International group in Brazil
Description:
International group in Brazil. Dr. Berta Lutz and Mrs. Catt (in center), 30 Dec. 1922.
Date:
1922-12-30
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International Woman Suffrace Conference, Geneva
Title:
International Woman Suffrace Conference, Geneva
Description:
(a) International Woman Suffrage Conference, Geneva, June 1920. (b) Delegation from India attending Geneva Congress, June 6-12, 1920.
Date:
1920-06
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International suffrage
Title:
International suffrage
Description:
(a) Senora de Veyas, leader Woman Suffrage Association Philippines. (b) Chinese orator and war-worker (c) Mrs. Gauntlett often went on missions to foreign countries to represent the women of Japan. Her husband was English and taught music in Tokyo schools. (d) Egyptian delegate to Geneva Congress. (e) Mrs. Zata and daughter were India's delegates to Congress in Amsterdam and to London.
Date:
1924
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragist portraits
Title:
Suffragist portraits
Description:
Portraits of eight suffragists.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
International suffragists
Title:
International suffragists
Description:
(a) Mrs. Ethel Snowden, of London, lecturer and co-worker with labor leader Philip Snowden, her husband. (b) Mrs. Quam, President Norwegian Suffrage Association and descendant of Vikings. (c) Mme. Aino Malmberg, Finnish suffrage leader and lecturer. (d) Board meeting I.S.A. 1923 in connection with Rome. Con.
Date:
1900 - 1923
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

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