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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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
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) No task too difficult for English lassies who work for country. Wheeling wheelbarrows filled with dirt may be a back-bending task, generally not attributed to women, but nevertheless, Great Britain"s lassies have taken it upon their shoulders to do even that task. Photo shows them wheeling away earth excavated for the installation of hydraulic pumps. Official photo, 6/3/1917. (b) Englishwomen prove capable railroaders. Cleaning a big railroad engine in an English yard. In many of the yards and round-houses women have taken the place of men who have gone to fight the Germans. They have proved capable and efficient workers. Many other positions besides that of cleaner are filled by women. They hold jobs as watch women, flag women, oilers, track inspectors, and guards.
Date:
1917-06-03
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Russia, World War I
Title:
Russia, World War I
Description:
(a) Recruits of the heroic Russian "Batallion of Death, First World War. (b) A Russian girl soldier. Second World War.
Date:
(approximate) 1915 - (approximate) 1945
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Russia, World War I
Title:
Russia, World War I
Description:
(a) Orderlies of the Battalion of Death going to the Russian Army for food for their comrades. (b) First photographs showing American Mission in Russia headed by Elihu Root and Gen. Scott. On the trip through Russian women workers cleaned the American Mission's special train. One of the army officers attached to the Mission watching them work, 8/15/1917.
Date:
1917
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage leaders
Title:
Suffrage leaders
Description:
(a) Mrs. Martha C. Wright. A sister of Lucretia Mott, and one of the five women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. (b) Tablet in Seneca Falls, New York. To commemorate the First Woman's Rights Conference. It was called by Lucretia Mott and Mrs. Stanton for June 19-20, 1848. (c) Mrs. Lucretia Mott, 1793-1880. (d) Mary A. Livermore.
Date:
1890
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage leaders
Title:
Suffrage leaders
Description:
(a) Portrait of John Stuart Mill. (b) Portrait of Mentia Taylor Mill. When the "Woman's Rights Convention" was held in Worcester, Mass in 1850, Mrs. Mentia Taylor, (a widow, whose husband, Peter Taylor, had been a member of Parliament) wrote an account of it for a British magazine and thus started the movement in Great Britain. She later married John Stuart Mill, who introduced the first woman suffrage bill in Parliament.
Date:
1850
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage leaders
Title:
Suffrage leaders
Description:
(a) Florence Nightingale, of England, was a Hospital reformer. In 1854 she headed a band of 38 nurses to attend wounded in the Crimean War. (b) Mary Seymour Howell, Suffrage leader and friend of Miss Anthony. (c) Clara Barton in old age. (d) Clara Barton, 1821-1912. Nursed wounded in Civil War. Founded Red Cross, 1873.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Suffrage leaders
Title:
Suffrage leaders
Description:
(a) Henry B. Blackwell, 1824-1909. For more than fifty years he spoke and wrote and worked for the cause of woman suffrage. (b) Lucy Stone, 1818-1893. Founder of the Suffrage Movement in New England and leader in American Woman Suffrage Association for many years. (c) Alice Stone Blackwell, author, poet, linguist and suffrage leader. Editor of Woman's Journal, Secrtay of American Woman Suffrage for 20 years.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Julia Ward Howe
Title:
Julia Ward Howe
Description:
(a-b) Early and late portraits of Julia Ward Howe. Suffrage leader and author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Date:
1910
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Friends of the suffrage cause
Title:
Friends of the suffrage cause
Description:
Portraits of distinguished friends of the suffrage cause. (a) S.L. Clemmens, Mark Twain. (b) William Dean Howell. (c) G.W. Holmes. (d) Thomas Wentworth Higginson. (e) George William Curtis.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Friends of the suffrage cause
Title:
Friends of the suffrage cause
Description:
Portraits of friends of suffrage cause and ardent workers for the abolition of slavery. (a) Unidentified. (b) Abraham Lincoln. (c) Nathaniel P. Rogers, 1840. (d) Frederick L. Douglas. (e) William Lloyd Garrison.
Date:
1840
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association elected in 1895
Title:
Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association elected in 1895
Description:
(a) Vice President, Anna Howard Shaw. (b) Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell, of Mass. (c) President, Susan B. Anthony of New York. (d) Treasurer Harriet T. Upton, of Ohio. (e) Corresponding Secretary, Rachel Foster Avery, of Pennsylvania.
Date:
1895
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
N.Y. Equal Franchise
Title:
N.Y. Equal Franchise
Description:
(a) Mrs. Howard Mansfield, President N.Y. Equal Franchise Association. (b) Jean Brooks Greanleaf, Presidet New York State W.S. Association. (c) Ella Hoawley Crossett, President New York State W.S. Association for 8 yrs. (d) Mrs. Roxana Bradly Burrows, Hudover, N.Y.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Title:
Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Description:
Group of State Presidents and Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association at National Convention, 1892.
Date:
1892
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Title:
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Description:
(a) Washington Headquarters, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1823 H. Street N.W. (b) Carrie Chapman-Catt in Washington, 1915. (c) Newly Elected Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1915. Clockwise from center top: 1. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 2. Mrs. Stanley McCormick, 3. Mrs. James W. Morrison, 4. Mrs. Walter McNab Miller, 5. Miss Hannah J. Patterson, 6. Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, 7. Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, 8. Miss Esther G. Ogden, 9. Mrs. Frank M. Roessing.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Title:
Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Description:
Officers of National American Woman Suffrage Association elected in 1895. (a) Catharine Waugh McCulloch, of Illinois, Auditor. (b) Carrie Chapman Catt, of New York. Chairman. Organization Co. (c) Laura Clay, of Kentucky, Auditor.
Date:
1895
Collection:
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

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