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Item from the Elizabeth Cady Staton Papers, Archives and Special Collections Library, Vassar College. The collection includes a variety of materials on such subjects as women's rights, suffrage, feminism, religion, abolition, temperance, travel, and social conditions for women.

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Lockwood, Annea

Mace, Mary Ann Fitz-Hugh

Mace, Mary Ann Fitz-Hugh part 2

McHugh, Tom

Miller, Mitchell & McCarthy, Michael

Miller, Mitchell & McCarthy, Michael part 1

Miller, Mitchell & McCarthy, Michael part 2

Miller, Mitchell & McCarthy, Michael part 3

Miller, Mitchell & McCarthy, Michael part 4

Miller, Mitchell & McCarthy, Michael part 5

Miscellaneous Printed Material: "Actor's donation helps preserve historic home" from The Poughkeepsie Journal

Miscellaneous Printed Material: "Elizabeth Cady Stanton" by Helen Waltermire in Hudson River Magazine

Miscellaneous Printed Material: "Life Sketch of Elizabeth Cady Stanton" by Nora Stanton Barney

Miscellaneous Printed Material: "Stanton, Elizabeth Cady" from The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women, Vol. 1

Miscellaneous Printed Material: "Tributes to Elizabeth Cady Stanton" from Equal Rights

Miscellaneous Printed Material: Lithograph portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, engraved by H. B. Hall, Jr. (from Eminent Women of the Age by James Parton)

Miscellaneous Printed Material: The Birth of an Idea" from Lucretia and Elizabeth by Katharine Fisher

Page, Barbara

Peck, Dan

Photograph of Judge Daniel Cady, n.d.

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