circa 1906

Whittier, Helen A., fl. 1906

Postcard

Title: to Mrs. Edmund L. Killey

One postcard from Massachusetts State Federation Of Women's Clubs to Mrs. Edmund L. Killey dated circa 1906. The postcard is entitled: To the Club Women of Massachusetts: Shall We Not Help Our California Sisters in Dire Distress? It was sent regarding the San Francisco earthquake that took place in 1906. It asks members to send money for aid and relief work being done in San Francisco.

GLC09942

circa 1919

National Women Suffrage Association

Broadside

Title: About Voting: Who gave the MEN their right to Vote and when?

One broadside entitled About Voting: Who gave the MEN their right to Vote and when? dated circa 1919. The broadside outlines who can vote and why woman should have the right to vote.

GLC09948

1917

New York State Woman Suffrage Party

Pamphlet

Title: What President Wilson Says

One pamphlet entitled What President Wilson Says by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, dated 1917. This is a promotional for New York's successful 1917 referendum on woman's suffrage. Its focus was on President Wilson's statements in support of suffrage, including text from a letter he wrote to Carrie Chapman Catt. Its back page reads, “Stand by Our President and make our own glorious country a Democracy--'for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Government.'”

GLC10124

1866-1867

Newspaper

Title: National anti-slavery standard. [Vol. 26, no. 35 (January 6, 1866)- v. 28, no. 34 (December 28, 1867)] [with gaps]

Volume 26 is missing issue numbers 43 and 47. Volume 27 is missing issue numbers 8,13,and 35. Volume 28 is missing issue number 28. The January 5, 1866, Vol. 27, no. 35 most likely contains a misprint in either the date or the Volume and issue number. The issues contain information on the 14th Amendment & impeachment of [Andrew] Johnson, speeches of Sumner, women's suffrage, and advertisements for colored soldiers to collect bounties. 41 issues housed in 003 MS-D.

GLC05825.02

1866-1867

Newspaper

Title: National anti-slavery standard. [Vol. 26, no. 35 (January 6, 1866)- v. 28, no. 34 (December 28, 1867)] [with gaps]

Volume 26 is missing issue numbers 43 and 47. Volume 27 is missing issue numbers 8,13,and 35. Volume 28 is missing issue number 28. The January 5, 1866, Vol. 27, no. 35 most likely contains a misprint in either the date or the Volume and issue number. The issues contain information on the 14th Amendment & impeachment of [Andrew] Johnson, speeches of Sumner, women's suffrage, and advertisements for colored soldiers to collect bounties. 41 issues housed in 002 MS-D.

GLC05825.01

1885-1903

Book

Title: Why women do not want the vote. vol 1

Two-volume bound compilation of 94 different anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets. Most issued by Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Most leaflets run between 6-10 pages. Spine title on both volumes: "Why Women do not Want the Ballot." 8vo. Average no. of pages, about 6 to 10. One of the volumes has a separate leaf of contents. Both volumes. uniformly bound in buckram, with leather labels: "Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot". Includes "Aims of Massachusetts Association"; "Preamble and Protest of New York", "Protest of Illinois Assn."; "Woman'…

GLC06064.01

1885-1903

Book

Title: Why women do not want the vote. vol 2

Two-volume bound compilation of 94 different anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets. Most issued by Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Most leaflets run between 6-10 pages. Spine title on both volumes: "Why Women do not Want the Ballot." 8vo. Average no. of pages, about 6 to 10. One of the volumes has a separate leaf of contents. Both volumes. uniformly bound in buckram, with leather labels: "Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot". Includes "Aims of Massachusetts Association"; "Preamble and Protest of New York", "Protest of Illinois Assn."; "Woman'…

GLC06064.02

circa 1880

Engraving Signed

Title: Engraving of Martha Coffin Wright

One engraving of Martha Coffin Wright dated circa 1880. Bust portrait of Wright.

GLC08878.0986

circa 1900

Engraving Signed

Title: Engraving of Frances E. Willard

One engraving of Frances E. Willard dated circa 1900. Bust portrait of Willard.

GLC08878.0888

1845

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880

Book

Title: Letters from New York : Second series.

Second volume of journalism published by author and abolitionist Child. Includes a chapter on the rights of women. First edition. Printed by C.S. Francis (New York) and J. H. France (Boston). BAL 3152.

GLC06218

1851-1854

Book signed

Title: [The Proceedings of the woman's rights conventions].

Compilation of the 1850 through 1854 women's rights conventions. Contents include the 1850 convention held at Worcester; the 1851 convention held at Worcester; the 1852 convention held in Syracuse; the 1853 convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York; and the 1854 convention held in Cleveland. Included in the section on the convention in Cleveland is a printing of the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Inscription reads, "Harriet H. Robinson from Paulina Gerry, Nov. 1881." Gerry attended the 1850 convention. Robinson used this volume in writing "…

GLC06228

circa 1885

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

Pamphlet

Title: Woman's co-operation essential to pure politics.

Transcript of a speech given by Hoar, a noted supporter of women's suffrage. Pamphlet published under the auspices of American Woman Suffrage Association. Date from a letter cited in the piece.

GLC06306.01

circa 1880

Willard, Mary B., fl. 1880

Document

Title: Why the W.C.T.U. seeks the ballot.

Willard explains why the Women's Christian Temperance Union seeks suffrage for women.

GLC06306.02

1879

Pamphlet

Pamphlet

Title: Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report to accompany bill S. Res. 12.

Committee rejection of a proposed amendment that would have granted women the right to vote, issued as Senate Report No. 523 (45th Congress, 3rd Session). Collateral with this is the minority report in support of the proposed amendment, with title that reads "Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following as the views of the minority (to accompany the foregoing report)."

GLC06081

1885-1903

Header Record

Title: Why women do not want the vote.

Two-volume bound compilation of 94 different anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets. Most issued by Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women. Most leaflets run between 6-10 pages. Spine title on both volumes: "Why Women do not Want the Ballot." 8vo. Average no. of pages, about 6 to 10. One of the volumes has a separate leaf of contents. Both volumes. uniformly bound in buckram, with leather labels: "Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot". Includes "Aims of Massachusetts Association"; "Preamble and Protest of New York", "Protest of Illinois Assn."; "Woman'…

GLC06064

circa 1920

Callaway, James, fl. 1920

Broadside

Title: [Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].

A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his daughter by sending her away and did not bring her body home for burial as a tribute to the people who took care of her.

GLC06073

14 April 1869

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

Pamphlet

Title: Women's right and the public welfare.

Title continues: "Remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts legislature, April 14, 1869." "I have failed to think of a single reason which I can give why you or I should have the right of suffrage which does not include women." Woman's suffrage tracts, No. 6.

GLC06082

March 1948

Coles, Howard Wilson, 1903-1996

Magazine

Title: Frederick Douglass monthly. [Vol. 1, no.1 (March 1948)]

Published by Voice Publishing Co. Contains reprint of Douglass's "Men of Color, to Arms" from the 2 March 1863 printing: "This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies." Also includes a printing of a radio speech by Mrs. Howard W. Coles on Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony (originally delivered 3 November 1947). Includes an article on Abraham Lincoln, and a quiz on African American history. Stamped "Sample." On first page, contains a print of a photograph of Douglass.

GLC05822

1866-1867

Header Record

Title: National anti-slavery standard. [Vol. 26, no. 35 (January 6, 1866)- v. 28, no. 34 (December 28, 1867)] [with gaps]

Volume 26 is missing issue numbers 43 and 47. Volume 27 is missing issue numbers 8,13,and 35. Volume 28 is missing issue number 28. The January 5, 1866, Vol. 27, no. 35 most likely contains misprint in either the date or the Volume and issue number. The issues contain information on the 14th Amendment & impeachment of [Andrew] Johnson, speeches of Sumner, women's suffrage, and advertisements for colored soldiers to collect bounties.

GLC05825

7 November 1901

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: A signed and dated one page statement of the current state of her work for equal rights for women

Anthony states: "The one purpose of my life has been the establishment of perfect equality of rights for women...civil and political-industrial and educational."

GLC07337

1880s ca.

Masceau

Photograph

Title: [Susan B. Anthony]

Three quarter length standing portrait in black dress, holding flower. Imprint of Masceau on verso.

GLC07753.02

1838

Grimke, Sarah M., fl. 1838

Book

Title: Letters on the equality of the sexes and the condition of woman.

Title continues: "addressed to Mary S. Parker, president of the Boston Female Anti-slavery Society." First women's rights pamphlet published in United States. Examines the present state of inequality of women, its causes and possible solutions. First edition, in original boards, cloth spine and with pasted front-board label.

GLC06552

25 November 1900

Willett, Grace, fl. 1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sylvia Willett

Discusses women suffrage in Wyoming in the election of 1900. Comments that turnout among women was high, but "their voting does not help purify politics." Willett supported the candidacy of Williams Jennings Bryan. Also comments on bad weather, money available to send, illness in the family, and playing music professionally.

GLC06594

1917

Catt, Carrie C., 1859-1947

Book

Title: Women Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amendment [inscribed]

Inscribed to Congressman Robert Crosser. First edition published by National Woman Suffrage Publishing. Inscribed "To Congressman Robert Crosser, Compliments, Carrie Chapman Catt"

GLC06891

1867

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Pamphlet signed

Title: Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention.

Title continues: "Before the Judiciary committees of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights association." Inscribed Horace E. Smith, compliments of the author." In the original wrappers.

GLC05170