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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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
Suffrage newsies
Title:
Suffrage newsies
Description:
(a) Elizabeth Freeman and the "newsies" who invaded Wall Street. The press said a panic struck "the street" when they appeared. (b) A new type of Suffrage Newsie. Five boys hold up copies of the Woman's Journal. (c) Suffrage Newsies selling The Woman's Journal.
Date:
1915
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
Suffrage speakers
Title:
Suffrage speakers
Description:
(a) Women on horse-drawn carriage carry sign that says "Votes for Women." (b) Dr. Anna Howard shaw leaving "Suffrage Special" to address the legislators in Jefferson City, Mo. in 1913. Standing at left is Miss Mathilde Dalmeyer. (c) Mrs. John Barriger speaking front of the St. Louis, Missouri, Court House. From these steps slaves were sold in slave market days.
Date:
1913
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage pageant
Title:
Suffrage pageant
Description:
(a) Tableau of enfranchised and unenfranchised states just before the 1917 elections in New York State. Mrs. F. Edey, Goddess of Liberty. (b) Heralds who announced the opening of the pageant. Louise Gura, Christine Mellor, Edna White and Erminie Kahn.
Date:
1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage parade in Chicago, 1914
Title:
Suffrage parade in Chicago, 1914
Description:
(a) Chicago, 1914 suffrage parade on Michigan Avenue. (b) With hammer Mrs. Ellis & Mrs. Kohl stand above Mrs. Kohlhame. (c) Suffragists decorating float for 1914 parade.
Date:
1914
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragists in parade
Title:
Suffragists in parade
Description:
(a) Illinois suffragists in parade, Washington, 1913. (b) Suffragists saluting their Governor in 1913, their victory year.
Date:
1913
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage parade
Title:
Suffrage parade
Description:
(a) Chicago Suffrage Parade, 1913. (b) Grace W. Trout on "tour" for suffrage in Illinois. (c) One of the Floats in Chicago Sufffrage parade, 1913.
Date:
1913
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
Margaret Foley
Title:
Margaret Foley
Description:
Margaret Foley, the "Suffrage Whirlwind" riding in the Historic Lucy Stone Carriage, belonging to the Woman's Journal, advertising a meeting in Boston.
Date:
1910
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage parade
Title:
Suffrage parade
Description:
(a) Rhode Island suffragists stage a patriotic pageant and rally. (b) Suffrage parade on Boston Common. (c) Susan Fitzgerald of Boston, Mass. speaking at a suffrage street meeting.
Date:
1915
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
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
New York suffragists
Title:
New York suffragists
Description:
(a) Mrs. Ogden Reid, Mrs. Whitehouse, President Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. Laidlaw, Oyster Bay, N.Y. (b) Miss Ruth Morgan, Mrs. Norrie, Miss Hay, Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Whitehouse.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragist portraits
Title:
Suffragist portraits
Description:
(a) Miss Mary Dreier. (b) Miss Rose Schneiderman Women's Trade Union League. (c) Dr. Katharine Bement Davis. (d) Miss Margaret Henchey.
Date:
1905
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffragists in New York
Title:
Suffragists in New York
Description:
(a) Mrs. Ruth Litt, Chairman Suffrage Agriculture, N.Y. State. (b) Priscilla Hackstaff, President Brooklyn S.A. (c) Miss Bertha Rembaugh, candidate for Municipal District, Manhattan. (d) Mrs. Cora Perry Hamilton, Queens 4th District Leader.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Title:
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Description:
(a) Mrs. Mary Sumner Boyd, Research Det. (b) Mrs. Ida H. Harper, author of History of Woman Suffrage. (c) Miss Esther Ogden Publicity Head National American Woman Suffrage Association. (d) Miss Rose Young, Director Bureau of suffrage education and propoganda and editor of "Woman Citizen." (e) Mrs. Gertrude Foster Brown, editor of "Woman Citizen." (f) Mrs. Rose Lawler Gryer, editor of "Woman Citizen."
Date:
1910
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

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