Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Scope and Content Note
- Subject Headings
- Administrative Information
- Access and Use
- Encoding Information
- Series List
- Container List
Collection Summary
| Repository: | Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College Libraries |
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| 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. |
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.
TopAccess and Use
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Permission to quote (publish) from unpublished or previously published material must be obtained as described in the regulations of the Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Library.
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
Encoding Information
Encoded by Elizabeth Clarke, May 2007. Updated by Emma Gronbeck, June 2024.
TopAdministrative Information
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).
Series List
Series I. Woman Suffrage - General |
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Series II. Woman Suffrage - Vassar College |
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Series III. Women's Rights |
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Container List
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Details
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.
