Overview
Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Jane Norman Smith, chairman of the National Woman's Party.
Dates
- Creation: 1913-1953
Creator
- Smith, Jane Norman, 1874-1953 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Jane Norman Smith as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
7.63 linear feet ((16 file boxes, 1 folio box) plus 1 supersize photograph folder)Jane Norman Smith's papers center about the activities of the National Woman's Party of which she was chairman, 1927-1929, and its campaign for equality for women in all spheres of activities. Among Mrs. Smith's particular interests were industrial equality for women in New York and the investment of National Woman's Party funds. The bulk of the collection is correspondence and includes information about the 1947 lawsuits within the National Woman's Party, some material on other women's organizations, on international women's activities, and on suffrage in New York. There are also many National Woman's Party publications and 3 volumes of newspaper clippings re suffrage and equal rights.
BIOGRAPHY
Jane Norman Smith was chairman of the National Woman's Party from 1927 to 1929.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 56-119
Gift of Helen Norman Smith. Received 1956.
SEPARATION RECORD
The following items have been removed from the collection:
- bound volume The Suffragist, December 1915-December 1917
- League of Nations publications re status of women, 1937
- Miscellaneous issues of various magazines and newspapers
- Bulletin, The Consumer's League of New York
- California Woman
- Equal Rights
- Industrial Equality
- International Woman Suffrage News
- Legislative Counsellor
- The Woman Republican
- Woman's Pulpit
CONTAINER LIST
- Box 1: 1-44
- Box 2: 45-62
- Box 3: 63-73
- Box 4: 74-83
- Box 5: 84-97
- Box 6: 98-111
- Box 7: 112-125
- Box 8: 126-140
- Box 9: 141-158
- Box 10: 159-174
- Box 11: 175-188
- Box 12: 189-202
- Box 13: 203-217
- Box 14: 218-234
- Box 15: 235-247
- Box 16: volume 1, volume 3
- Folio Box 17: volume 2
Creator
- Smith, Jane Norman, 1874-1953 (Person)
Subject
- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 (Person)
- Lutz, Alma (Person)
- Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 1894-1988 (Person)
- Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963 (Person)
- Title
- Smith, Jane Norman, 1874-1953. Papers of Jane Norman Smith, 1913-1953: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00912
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
The preeminent research library on the history of women in the United States, the Schlesinger Library documents women's lives from the past and present for the future. In addition to its traditional strengths in the history of feminisms, women’s health, and women’s activism, the Schlesinger collections document the intersectional workings of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in American history.