Vassar College Digital Library
Guide to the Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights Collection, 1866–1989

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Collection Summary

Repository: Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries
Creator: Vassar College
Title: Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights Collection
Dates: 1866-1989
Quantity: 3.2 cubic feet (4 boxes)
Abstract: An artificial collection of petitions, speeches, correspondence, publications, scrapbooks, and broadsides relating to the struggles for woman suffrage and other women's rights. Includes documents relating to debates over the suffrage issue at Vassar College.
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Scope and Content Note

Materials relating to woman suffrage include a petition to the New York State Assembly signed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Henry Blackwell, and Lucy Stone, 1866; Stanton's speech "Solitude of Self," 1892; speeches by Clara M. Hill and Dr. Howard B. Kelly; correspondence of Henry MacCracken on suffrage and Vassar College, 1917-1918; publications of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and other suffrage organizations; scrapbooks of clippings, 1906-1917; and other programs, songs, plays, speeches, broadsides, government documents, and clippings on woman suffrage in the United States and abroad. Materials relating to women's rights include publications, programs, and other printed materials on equal rights, women and war, women in education, and women's liberation; organizations include the National Woman's Party, Women's Bureau of the U.S. Dept. of Labor, the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, and the National Organization of Women.

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Access

This collection is open for research according to the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library without any additional restrictions.

Restrictions on Use

Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.

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Subject Headings

Names:

  • Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
  • Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909
  • Hill, Clara M.
  • Kelly, Howard B.
  • MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), 1880-1970
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
  • Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

Organizations:

  • International Federation of Business and Professional Women
  • Men's League for Woman Suffrage
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association
  • National Organization for Women
  • National Woman's Party
  • Political Equality Association
  • Vassar College

Subjects:

  • Feminism
  • Feminists--United States
  • Women and war
  • Women in business
  • Women in education
  • Women in politics
  • Women in the professions
  • Women social reformers
  • Women's rights
  • Women--Employment
  • Women--Societies and clubs
  • Women--Suffrage

Places:

  • United States. Women's Bureau

Document Types:

  • Broadsides
  • Printed ephemera
  • Publications
  • Scrapbooks
  • Songs

VCL Categories:

  • Women's History
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Encoding Information

Encoded by Elizabeth Clarke, May 2007. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, June 2024.

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Preferred Citation

Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights Collection, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.

Processing Information

Original processing date unknown.

Acquisition Information

Gift of various donors, including Priscilla Leith (M2004-003).

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Series List

Series I. Woman Suffrage - General

Series II. Woman Suffrage - Vassar College

Series III. Women's Rights

Container List

Series I. Woman Suffrage

Folder 1.1 Anti-suffrage material
Folder 1.2 Men’s organizations for woman suffrage
Folder 1.3 Petition to the New York State Assembly, signed by E. Cady Stanton, S.B. Anthony, Henry Blackwell, and Lucy Stone, on behalf of the American Equal Rights Association, 1866 Jan 3
Folder 1.4 Facsimiles of suffrage broadsides (see also Folder 37), cartoons, and other materials
Folder 2.58 Suffrage calendar, 1912
Folder 1.5 Suffrage photographs
Folder 1.6 Suffrage plays
Folder 1.7 Suffrage postcards
Folder 1.8 Suffrage programs
Folder 1.9 Suffrage songs
Folder 1.10 Suffrage stamps
Folder 1.11 Solitude of Self, an address by E. Cady Stanton, 1892 Jan 18
Folder 1.12 Suffrage speeches by Clara M. Hill
Folder 1.13 Address by Dr. Howard B. Kelly given when presenting a medallion of Susan B. Anthony to Bryn Mawr College, 1902
Folder 1.14 Germany
Folders 1.15-17 Great Britain (see also Folder 39)
Folder 1.18 Great Britain: Women as Poor Law Guardians
Folder 1.19 Italy
Folder 1.20 Switzerland
Folder 1.21 United States
Folder 1.22 United States: Selections of U.S. government documents, 1887-1916
Folder 1.27 National American Woman Suffrage Association - catalogs and price lists, 1915-1916, undated
Folders 1.28-31 National American Woman Suffrage Association
Folder 1.32 Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, New York State Woman Suffrage Party, Empire State Campaign Committee
Folder 1.33 Men’s League for Woman Suffrage, Political Equality Association
Folder 2.34 The Woman’s Journal and American Suffrage Association
Folders 2.35-36 Miscellaneous associations’ publications
Folder 2.37 Suffrage broadsides
Folder 2.38 Suffrage band and banner
Folder 2.39 Suffrage: Great Britain: Government reports, 1894, 1912
Box 4 Scrapbooks of suffrage-related clippings, 1906-1917 [2 scrapbooks]
Folder 2.40 Scrapbook enclosures, 1906-1917
Map Case - Drawer 33 "Votes for Women a Success," by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, undated
Folder 3.73 "The New York State Woman Suffrage Party - Educational Section," [1920?]

Series II. Woman Suffrage - Vassar College

Folder 1.23 General — includes prison notes of Elizabeth McShane Hilles, VC 1913
Folder 1.24 Suffrage Club
Folder 1.25 MacCracken correspondence, 1915-1917
Folder 1.26 MacCracken correspondence, 1917-1918, undated

Series III. Women's Rights

Folder 2.42 Miscellaneous printed material regarding equal rights for women, 1921-1935, undated
Folders 2.43-46 Miscellaneous items relating to and/or printed by the National Woman’s Party, 1920-1945, undated
Folder 2.47 Miscellaneous publications regarding women and war (especially World War II), 1920-1945, undated
Folders 2.48-51 Miscellaneous publications of the Woman’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor regarding employment of women during World War II
Folder 2.52 First-day-of-issue stamp commemorating women in the armed forces, 1952
Folder 2.53 Miscellaneous publications of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, 1942-1947
Folder 2.54 Materials relating to KNOW, Inc.
Folder 2.55 Miscellaneous publications of the International Council of Women, 1970
Folder 2.55 Miscellaneous publications of the National Council of Women of the United States, 1969-1970
Folder 2.56 Materials relating to the National Organization for Women, 1955-1970
Folder 2.57 Women’s Bibliography, by Joan Kelly-Gadol, Sarah Lawrence College, 1974 Fall
Folders 2.59-61 Program and materials of the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education, October 4-6, 1972: Women in Higher Education
Folders 3.62-66 Miscellaneous publications about women’s liberation
Folders 3.67-69 Miscellaneous publications of the National Organization for Women (NOW), 1979-1989
Folders 3.70-72 Miscellaneous publications of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and other feminist organizations, circa 1974-1986

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