Women's history collection

Descriptive Summary
Title: Women's history collection
Creator: Draper, Lucy Hargrett
Creator: Unknown
Inclusive Dates: 1793-2005
Language(s): English
Extent: 5 Linear Feet 2 boxes, 2 oversized boxes, 3 oversized folders
Collection Number: ms4210
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Scope and Content

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.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Women's History collection, ms4210, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

General Notes

Materials in this collection were acquired through the The Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

Related collections in this repository include: Cambio-Avery women's movement collection, ms3939; Rebecca Latimer Felton papers, ms81; Georgia Commission on the Status of Women, ms2045; Corra Harris papers, ms734; Marion Colley Boyd papers, ms1149; and Jeannette Rankin papers, RBRL325.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Postcards and Stamps
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1	1	Think it over, Equal Suffrage knows no sex - postcard - National American Woman Suffrage Association
1	2	25 color cartoon postcards depicting women in Army training - WWII era
1	3	Susan B. Anthony envelope with first day issue Woman Suffrage 50th Anniversary stamp - 2 envelopes, 1970
1	4	Women's Vote stamps - New Zealand - set of 4, 1998
1	5	Radcliffe, Fanny and family - set of 21 postcards, 1910-1916
1	6	Votes for Women parody postcard - "there ain't much 'am in that sandwich, 'Arry." No; but there's plenty of mustard.", 1915
1	7	Color cutout Valentine card - Child speaking to other children on top of Votes for Women box
1	8	Francis Neilson - Liberal candidate for Northern Division of Shropshire - postcard, 1908
1	9	Women Suffrage postcards - 34 various scenes
1	10	Greeting from a Suffragist - Marion Patten Guild - postcard, 1917
1	11	The Anti-Suffragist! - postcard - Ernestine Mills
1	12	Anthony, Mary S. - postcard to Senator Henry W. Blair - signed Susan B. Anthony, 1886 December 1
1	13	Actual speech at Woman Suffrage meeting in Omaha, Nebraska - postcard

 

2. Circulars and Posters
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1	14	Your Future Wife - Your Future Child - card
1	15	How to Vote For the Woman Suffrage Amendment, Election Day (2 copies), 1917 November 6
1	16	Political Equality Series - Vol. 1, No. 3 - Fruits of Suffrage, II, Vol. 2, No. 3 - More Testimony from Colorado - National American Woman Suffrage Association - bifold
1	17	Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association - Resolutions - Broadsides (22 copies), 1869
1	18	An Act to Dissolve the Marriage of John Street - 6 pages, bifold, 1793
1	19	Copy of the Women's Franchise Act - New South Wales, 1902
1	20	Parliamentary Franchise (Extension to Women) No. 2 - Bill, 1889
1	21	Public meeting notice - National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
1	22	Woman Suffrage in War Time - National Ameican Woman Suffrage Association - broadside, 1918
1	23	Woman Suffrage Leaflet - Vol. 1, No. 3 - A Duty of Women - bifold, 1888 October 15
1	24	Woman Suffrage Leaflet - Vol. 5, No. 3 - Dr. Gregg on Equal Rights - bifold, 1892 May
1	25	Woman Suffrage Leaflet - Vol. 6, No. 3 - Wyoming Speaks for Herself - 2 pages, 1893 May
1	26	Prosperity in Colorado - National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1916
1	27	An Appeal to Woman's Missionary Societies - Emeline Burlingame-Cheney - West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association - bifold, 1916
1	28	Votes for Women. The Conciliation Bill Explained - double sided - National Union of Women's Suffragist Societies, 1912
1	29	The Enemies of Votes for Women - broadside
1	30	The Abstainer and the Drinker - illustrated by Edward Carswell - National Temperence Society and Publication House, No. 130 - broadside
1	31	The Devil's Orchard - National Temperence Society and Publishing House, No. 125 - broadside
1	32	The Little Cup-Bearer - National Temperence Society and Publishing House, No. 108 - broadside
1	33	Devil's Toboggan Slide - National Temperence Society and Publishing House, No. 112 - broadside
1	34	International Women's Congress, Holland - Preliminary Programme - bifold, 1915 April 28-30
1	35	National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - program, No. B 45, 1912 February
1	36	National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - Election Campaign in Cumberland - petition, 1909
1	37	To the 8,000,000 Working Women in the United States - National Woman Suffrage Association - broadside
1	38	Women in the Home - National Woman Suffrage Association - broadside
1	39	Measures Advocated by Women's Organizations Supported by Senator Herbert C. Jones - broadside
1	40	The Fruits of Cider-Drinking - National Woman's Temperence Union, Cider series no. 13 - broadside
1	41	Women on Juries - Vote "Yes" on Both Propositions - broadside, 1930 November 4
1	42	Johnson, L.C. - Extracts From a Letter Received in Reply to Inquiry Regarding the Workings of Woman Suffrage in Colorado and Other States Where It Has Heen Tried - broadside, 1911 August 20
1	43	List of Books and Pamphlets on the Emancipation of Women - Scottish University Women's Suffrage Union - 3 pages
1	44	Benson, T.D. - The Suffragettes and Their Unruly Methods - Women's Freedom League - broadside
1	45	Women's Suffrage and the Social Evil - Women's Freedom League - bifold, 6 pages
1	46	Prelooker, Jaakoff - The Women's Demonstrations - A Russian Point of View - 2 pages
1	47	Why Women Want to Vote - broadside
1	48	Ballots and Brooms - "What a Vote Will Not Do" rebuttal by Alice Stone Blackwell - New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association - broadside
1	49	Hear What Our Opponents Say - Central Society for Women's Suffrage - broadside, 1904
1	50	Suffrage Mass Meeting with Mrs. Flora McDonald Dennison, Mr. Frank Dunham - broadside
1	51	Why Working Women Want the Vote - New York State Woman's Suffrage Party, 1917 April 3
1	52	The Truth About Colorado - National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, 1916
1	53	Your Great Opportunity to Hear Two of the Country's Famous Suffrage Speakers - Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Hon. William H. Wadhams - broadside
1	54	Women Voters - Wilson Opposes Suffrage - National Woman's Party - broadside
1	55	Woman Suffrage Leaflet - Vol. 7, No. 6 - A Humble Advocate - bilfold, 1895 November
1	56	Woman Suffrage Leaflet - Vol. 5, No. 5 - The Test of Woman Suffrage in Colorado - bifold, 1896 September
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1		The Woman-Suffrage Movement in New York City - Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly - cover, 1894 May 3
1		Marching for Suffrage - Harper's Weekly-in Two Parts-Part II - 4 pages - bifold, 1912 May 11
1		A Woman's Place Is at the Top - Annie Smith Peck - poster - TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1978
1		"Women Have Long Hair and Short Wits" - poster - TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1978
1		Chief Sarah Winnemucca - Paiute peacemaker, author, leader of her people - poster - TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1979
1		Women in Government - poster - TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1979
1		Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins - Author of Social Security - poster - TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1980
1		Women's History Week - poster - TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1981
1		Elizabeth Cady Stanton - poster - TABS: Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1983
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2		Reproduction Women's Suffrage posters - 7 various images
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3		Handicapped! - reproduction Women's Suffrage poster

 

3. Autographs and Letters
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1	57	Anthony, Susan B. - letter to Mrs. Kalloch, 1885 January 14
1	58	Anthony, Susan B. - letter to James B. Bradwell, 1903 February 4
1	59	Anthony, Susan B. - letter to Myra Bradwell, 1888 February 14
1	60	Anthony, Susan B. - Invitation and autograph, 1900
1	61	Anthony, Susan B. - letter to Mrs. Sweet, 1904 January 5
1	62	Anthony, Susan B. - letter soliciting buyers for History of Woman Suffrage book
1	63	Album containing autographs of Susan B. Anthony and Clara Bewick Colby, 1876-1887
1	64	Tarbell, Ida M - letter to W.G. Williams, 1939 April 5
1	65	Ferrell, Lucille - membership certificate and welcome letter - American Woman's Republic, 1912 July 20
1	66	Sewall, Harriet W. - Poetry journal - given to her by Samuel E. Sewall
1	67	Garrison, William Lloyd - letter to Narcissa A.A. Claflin, 1892 September 24
1	68	Letter remarking on Suffragist activities in England, 1913 August 15
1	69	Bastardy Bond of Rebecca Franks - North Carolina, 1825 July 19

 

4. Articles and Clippings
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1	70	Women in Government quiz sheet - TABS : Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1980
1	71	Millstein, Beth - Margaret Sanger and the Right to Know - TABS : Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1978
1	72	Weinbaum, Alexandria - Elizabeth Cady Stanton : Launching the Women's Rights Movement - TABS : Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1983
1	73	Rivera, Anne - Chief Sarah Winnemucca - Paiute Peacemaker - TABS : Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1979
1	74	Cron, Lisa - Annie Smith Peck - A Woman at the Top - TABS : Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1978
1	75	Women's History Week - TABS : Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1981
1	76	Frances Perkins - Stateswoman of the New Deal - TABS : Aids for Ending Sexism in School, 1980
1	77	Women of Alaska Given Franchise, King George Becoming Active - newspaper clippings, 1913 March
1	78	Blackwell, Alice Stone - The Worth of a Vote - Woman's Journal
1	79	The Women's Charter of Inequality - National Woman's Party, 1937
1	80	Equal Rights for Women Doctors - National Woman's Party, 1922
1	81	Price, Lucy Jeanne - Liquor and Suffrage - broadside
1	82	1776 - Retouching an Old Masterpiece - illustrated by Paulk Stahr - Life cover, Vol. 66, No. 1705, 1915 July 1
1	83	Rosiere, Gabrielle - Place-cards for a Suffrage Luncheon, 1913
1	84	Society and Stage in a Suffragette Operetta - The Theatre, 1916 March
1	85	Balfour, James Arthur Balfour, Earl of. - Parliamentary Franchise (Women) Bill - Speech - 8 pages, 1910
1	86	Women Do Not Wish to Vote - The National Bulletin - Vol. 2, No. 3, 1894 April
1	116	Know Inc. - Women: Take Your Men, Too!, Divisiveness and Self-Destruction in the Women's Movement: A Letter of Resignation, by Anselma dell'Olio, Anything You Can Do: An Answer to the Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, Male Chauvinism: Attitudes & Practices, 1968-1970
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3		The Woman Vote - They Elect Officers for the Suffrage Convention - The Constitution: Atlanta - page 18, 1895 February 3
3		Closing Days With the Woman Suffragists - The Constitution: Atlanta - page 19, 1895 February 3
3		One Hundredth Birthday of Abraham Lincoln - The San Francisco Sunday Call, 1909 February 7
3		Lincoln Was for Woman Suffrage - San Francisco Examiner, 1915 October 31
3		Suffragette Leaders on Hike to Washington - The Tacoma Tribune, 1913 February 28

 

5. Editorial Cartoons
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1	87	Cheney, Leo - Militant Suffragist (after long and futile efforts to light a fire for her tea-kettle). "And to think that only yesterday I burnt two pavillions and a church!" - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1913 June 4
1	88	Armour, George Denholm - Race-course in the near future, suffragette-proof - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1914 July 8
1	89	Stampa, George Loraine - The Child is Daughter of the Woman - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1913 March 5
1	90	Shepperson, Claude Allen - Another Militant - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1913 March 19
1	91	Reynolds, Frank - How Militant Suffragettes are Made - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1913 February 5
1	92	Raven-Hill, Leonard - The Judgement of Parisette - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1911 December 27
1	93	Partridge, Bernard - Rag-Time in the House - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1913 January 29
1	94	Partridge, Bernard - A Pleasure Deferred - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1913 February 5
1	95	Partridge, Bernard - The Majesty of the Law - Punch, or the London Charivari, 1913 March 5
1	96	Partridge, Bernard - Mr. Punch's Russian Ballet - Punch's Almanack for 1913 - color, 1913

 

6. Photographs and Prints
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1	97	Anthony, Susan Brownwell - photographic reproduction
1	98	Friganza, Trixie - photograph reprint
1	99	Suffragette Tug, New Jersey - photograph reprint
1	100	Shaw, Dr. Anna Howard - stereo card
1	101	Suffragettes, London - photograph reprint
1	102	Browning, Elizabeth - book plate engravings
1	103	Anthony, Susan B. - photograph - signed

 

7. Ephemera
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1	104	Celebration of the Granting of Equal Suffrage to the Women of the United States - Fort Worth, Texas, 1920 September 6
1	105	Gilman, Charlotte Perkins - Lecture and book brochure
1	106	Paper doll - woman with "Votes for Women" pennant
1	107	Election Campaign in Cumberland - petition - National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - broadside, 1909
1	108	Votes for Women - paper wafer - Women's Social and Political Union
1	109	Husband's and Wife's Commandments - advertising card - J.W. Wilson
1	110	Junior Senior Reception - program - featuring Suffragette Salad, 1912 April 5
1	111	Anthony, Susan B. - Crackerjack toy puzzle
1	112	Anthony, Susan B. - program - Unveiling of bust at the Hall of Fame, New York University, 1952 May 18
1	113	75th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage - hand held fan, 1995

 

8. Artifacts
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1	114	Set of 8 reproduction Suffragette pins and badges
1	115	Vote No on Woman Suffrage - pinback button
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1		The Ladies Effort - banner - letters and decoration made from postage stamps - 10 x 48 inches
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2		Suffragette figurine - Cameo Girls, 2005
2		Votes for Women - set of 4 tea pots - Preservation Society of Newport County
2		Anthony, Susan B. - letter opener
2		Anthony, Susan B. - Death mask necklace
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2		Loyal Temperance Legion pin - St. Louis Button Company
2		Netherlands thimble
2		Am I Not a Man and a Brother - British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society - convention coin
2		Queen Elizabeth portrait print and autograph - framed
2		Woman Suffrage Party of Greater Cleveland - convention delegate ribbon, 1917 January 30
2		Votes for Women - Vote Yes November 6 - sewing kit
2		If you think you don't need a vote, some other woman knows she does. Be fair. - lantern slide
2		Abraham Lincoln quote - lantern slide
2		Women are in Chains Without ERA - button - Congressional Union
2		Green, white, purple bow with pin
2		Green, white, purple ribbon
2		Green, white, purple ribbon with gold tassels on ends
2		Schultz on Woman's Suffrage - Frank Kennedy - 10 inch, 78 rpm record - Victor Talking Machine Company