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1. Woman's Party Corporation records, 1918-1998

   21,500 items. 85 containers plus 1 oversize. 35.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Women's rights organization. Correspondence, legal papers, financial records, board of directors minutes, bylaws, notes, printed matter, architectural documents, and subject files relating to litigation between the Woman's Party Corporation and its parent organization, the National Woman's Party, maintenance of the Sewall-Belmont House, and the corporation's various activites and fraught relationship with the National Woman's Party.

2. National Woman's Party records, 1850-2022

   343,000 items. 898 containers plus 114 oversize. 390 linear feet. 275 microfilm reels. 101,529 digital files (459.60 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   National organization in the women's rights movement, founded 1916-1917 and led by Alice Paul. The records include correspondence; administrative files; minutes of meetings; reports; financial and legal records; personal papers; printed matter; photographs; scrapbooks; material concerning the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, formerly the Sewall-Belmont House; historic preservation and museum documents; digital audio and video files; databases; website files; and other items, including the records of the World Woman's Party (1938-1958), documenting efforts by the party to promote Congressional passage of the federal woman suffrage amendment and the Equal Rights Amendment.

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3. Mary Church Terrell papers, 1851-1962

   13,000 items. 51 containers plus 1 oversize. 22.5 linear feet. 34 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   African-American civil rights leader, lecturer, and educator. Correspondence, diaries, printed material, clippings, speeches and writings, and other papers focusing primarily on Terrell's career as an advocate of women's rights and equal treatment for African Americans.

4. Anna Kelton Wiley papers, 1798-1964

   110,000 items. 362 containers plus 4 oversize. 147 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Consumers' rights reformer, feminist, and clubwoman of Washington, D.C. Correspondence, speeches and articles, financial papers, appointment books, family papers, invitations, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and printed material relating to Wiley's activities on behalf of women's rights and her membership and work in many associations and clubs. Included are papers relating to her husband, Harvey Washington Wiley (1844-1930); father, J. C. Kelton (1828-1893); and grandfather, William S. Campbell.

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5. Visual materials from the National Woman's Party records

   ca. 550 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Includes primarily portraits of National Woman's Party (NWP) officers, suffragists, politicians and business women; NWP meetings and formal gatherings; women delegates at United Nations sessions on human and civil rights; views of the organization's headquarters at Washington, D.C.; postcards depicting women's suffrage slogans; anti-war posters from the National Council for Prevention of War, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Women's International League.