Women's history collection, 1793-2005
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Draper, Lucy Hargrett and Unknown
- Date:
- 1793-2005
- Extent:
- 5 Linear Feet 2 boxes, 2 oversized boxes, 3 oversized folders
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Women's History collection, ms4210, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains postcards, posters, photographs, artifacts, and other printed materials relating to women's suffrage movements in the United States and England. Also included are items documenting efforts toward action on women's rights and temperance. Featured items include signed correspondence by Susan B. Anthony, a stereo card featuring Anna Howard Shaw, a divorce paper from 1793, a North Caroilina bastardy bond, and a banner decorated with postage stamps.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Buttons (information artifacts)
Women's rights -- United States.
Suffrage -- Great Britain.
Temperance -- United States -- Societies, etc.
Ribbons -- Georgia -- Athens.
Suffrage -- United States.
Suffragists.
Postage stamps.
Correspondence
Editorial cartoons.
Postcards.
Stereographs.
Autographs (manuscripts)
Broadsides (notices) - Names:
- Friganza, Trixie, 1870-1955
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Draper, Lucy Hargrett
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
Sewall, Harriet Winslow, 1819-1889
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Franks, Rebecca
Access and use restrictions
- Preferred citation:
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Women's History collection, ms4210, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.