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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Margery Corbett Ashby
Title:
Margery Corbett Ashby
Description:
(a) Margery Corbett as a young girl. Picture on Souvenir Program of International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Copenhagen, 1940. (b) Mrs. Margaret Corbett Ashby of England elected President of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1923. Continued in office to 1945. (c) Excursion "up the Bosphorus" International Woman Suffrage Association Congress Istanbul, 1935.
Date:
1935 - 1940
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage in Peru
Title:
Suffrage in Peru
Description:
(a) Mrs. Catt addressing an audience at the University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru, in 1923. (b) Mrs. Catt with leaders in the Woman Movement in Lima, Peru. (c) Mme. Maria de Coronado Colombian Delegate to the Pan American Con. (d) Mrs. Catt with women's group at University of San Marcos Lima, 1923. (e) Suffragists advertising Lima meeting.
Date:
1923
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage in the Americas
Title:
Suffrage in the Americas
Description:
(a) Organizing Suffrage Association in University of San Marcos, Peru. The first University to be founded in the two Americas. (b) Conference audience in Lima, Peru. 1923. (c) Mrs. Catt and interpretor for speech in San Marcos. (d) Audience in San Marcos, Lima, Peru. (e) Cuban Ambassador introducing Mrs. Catt in Lima, Peru, 1923.
Date:
1923
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
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 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
International suffragists
Title:
International suffragists
Description:
(a) Sarah Anne Leer, Mayor of Oldham, England, 1910-1911. (b) Miss Fuhrhjiem, member of Finnish Parliament and Board of Int. S. Alliance. (c) Lady Aberdeen, of Scotland, was for many years President of International Council of Women. (d) Right: Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, first woman member U.S. Congress, being conducted to Capitol.
Date:
1899 - 1911
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
Latin American suffrage leaders
Title:
Latin American suffrage leaders
Description:
(a) Amanda Labarca, leader in Chilean Woman Suffrage Movement. (b) Mrs. Clelia P. de Vitale, leader in Uruguay.
Date:
1923
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

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