National Woman's Party records, 1850-2022

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Collection Summary

Title	National Woman's Party records, 1850-2022
Inclusive Dates	1850-2022
Bulk Dates	1913-2020
ID No.	MSS34355
Creator	National Woman's Party
Extent	343,000 items
Extent	898 containers plus 114 oversize
Extent	390 linear feet
Extent	275 microfilm reels
Extent	101,529 digital files (459.60 GB)
Language	Collection material in English
Location	Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Finding Aid Permalink	Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003077
LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82034355
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.
Online Content	Selected photographs from the records of the National Woman's Party are available on the Library of Congress website "Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Woman's Party" (see http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000004)..