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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

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Clara Barton Papers

Identifier: MSS11973
Abstract

Philanthropist, nurse, educator, and lecturer. Correspondence, diaries, reports, legal and financial papers, organizational records, lectures, writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, memorabilia, and other papers relating to Barton's work to provide relief services during the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War, the work of the American National Red Cross which she founded, and the National First Aid Association of America.

Dates 1805-1963; Majority of material found within 1861-1912
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Blackwell Family Papers

Identifier: MSS12880
Abstract

Family members include author and suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950); her parents, Henry Browne Blackwell (1825-1909) and Lucy Stone (1818-1893), abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; her aunt, Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman to receive an academic medical degree; and Elizabeth Blackwell's adopted daughter, Kitty Barry Blackwell (1848-1936). Includes correspondence, diaries, articles, and speeches of these and other Blackwell family members.

Dates 1759-1960; Majority of material found within 1845-1890
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Carrie Chapman Catt Papers

Identifier: MSS15404
Abstract

Feminist, lecturer, and author. Correspondence, diaries (1911-1923), drafts of speeches and articles, subject files, biographical papers, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers, chiefly 1890-1920, relating primarily to Carrie Chapman Catt's efforts on behalf of the women's suffrage movement, feminism, and the cause of international peace.

Dates 1848-1950; Majority of material found within 1890-1920
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Anna E. Dickinson Papers

Identifier: MSS18424
Abstract

Lecturer, reformer, actor, and author. Correspondence, speeches, writings, plays, legal files, financial papers, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and printed material relating to Dickinson's activities on behalf of abolition and women's rights and suffrage and to her career in the theater.

Dates 1859-1951; Majority of material found within 1859-1911
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Richmond Pearson Hobson Papers

Identifier: MSS26153
Abstract

Naval officer and United States representative from Alabama. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, lectures, articles, reports, notes, analyses, naval orders, press clippings, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Hobson's naval career and to his efforts on behalf of prohibition, restrictions on international drug trafficking, and opposition to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration.

Dates 1889-1966; Majority of material found within 1890-1937
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Alexander Jeffrey McKelway Papers

Identifier: MSS32235
Abstract

Clergyman, reformer, and Southern secretary of the National Child Labor Committee. Correspondence, telegrams, speeches, articles, notes and drafts of a biography of St. Clair McKelway, longtime editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and uncle of Alexander, family papers, financial material, printed matter, a scrapbook, and other papers relating mainly to child labor legislation and to the McKelway family.

Dates 1814-1942; Majority of material found within 1900-1918
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National American Woman Suffrage Association Records

Identifier: MSS34132
Abstract

Founded in 1890 by the merger of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Records comprising correspondence, a subject file relating chiefly to state and local suffrage organizations and leaders in the movement, scrapbooks prepared by Ida Porter Boyer documenting activities in the women's rights movement (1893-1912), and miscellaneous printed matter.

Dates 1839-1961; Majority of material found within 1890-1930
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National Woman's Party Records

Identifier: MSS34355
Abstract 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,...
Dates 1850-2022; Majority of material found within 1913-2020
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Cornelia Bryce Pinchot Papers

Identifier: MSS36269
Abstract

Politician, political activist, and wife of Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. Correspondence, political campaign papers and speeches, gardening file, and financial records relating to Pinchot's political activities and the Pinchot family.

Dates 1899-1960; Majority of material found within 1918-1947
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Woman's National Democratic Club Records

Identifier: MSS85950
Abstract Organization founded in 1922 in Washington, D.C., focusing on public policy and serving as a forum for Democratic leaders. Correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, bylaws, notes, newsletters, membership files, oral history transcripts in both physical and digital formats, photographs in both physical and digital formats, presidential campaign ephemera, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting the founding of the Woman’s National Democratic Club and its principal...
Dates 1912-2014; Majority of material found within 1922-1998