Overview
Correspondence, journals, notebooks, speeches, etc., from the unmicrofilmed portion of the Woman's Rights Collection.
Dates
- Creation: 1853-1958
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. The majority of the collection is available only through microfilm or digital surrogates of the original materials. The following materials are available without restriction: #1-103a, 644-647, 650-6521030-1035, 1041-1047, 1049-1051, 1055-1056, 1059-1068, 1084-1091, 1093-1102, 1107-1109.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers in the woman's rights 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
35.46 linear feet (85 file boxes) plus 7 oversize volumes, 39 framed items, 1 folio+ folder, 1 folio folder, 4 reels of microfilm (M-91, M-93, M-108)This collection consists of the correspondence, reports, speeches, books, plays, articles, clippings, biographical data, and miscellaneous materials by and re: about 100 women and 4 men who were involved in furthering the woman's rights movement from colonial times to the present. The papers record the woman's rights movement up to the 1920's, highlighting the work done in Massachusetts; the woman suffrage movement up to the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment in 1920; and the gains for women in such areas as protective legislation and employment opportunities since 1920.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Maud Wood Park, et al. Received 1943-1949.
Container list
- Box 1: #1-48
- Box 2: #58-94
- Box 3: #95-100
- Box 4: #101-103a
- Box 5: #644-647, 650-652
- Box 6: #862-863, 865-875
- Box 7: #876-891
- Box 8: #892-912 (folder 1)
- Box 9: #912 (folders 2-3)-925
- Box 10: #926-945
- Box 11: #946-966
- Box 12: #967-976
- Box 13: #977-992
- Box: 14: #993-1014
- Box 15: #1015-1025
- Box 16: volumes 68-73
- Box 17: volumes 74, 75a, 77-85
- Box 18: volumes 86-93a
- Box 19: 1030-1035, 1041-1047, 1049-1051, 1055-1056, 1059-1068
- Box 20: 1084-1091, 1093-1102, 1107-1109
PHOTOGRAPH SCREENS USED FOR PUBLISHING PICTURES
* Used in Guide to the Woman's Rights Collection
- * Lucy Stone
- * 2 - Abigail Adams (one large, one small)
- * Mary Hutcheson Page
- * 2 - Pauline Agassiz Shaw (same picture)
- * Alice Stone Blackwell
- * Helen Hamilton Gardener
- * Julia Ward Howe
- * Maud Wood Park
- * Carrie Chapman Catt
- S. B. Anthony and E. C. Stanton
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Mary Hilliard Loines
Subject
- Ames, Oakes, 1874-1950 (Person)
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 (Person)
- Ames, Blanche (Person)
- Ames, Fanny Baker, 1840-1931 (Person)
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 (Person)
- Bagley, Grace Hodges, 1860-1944 (Person)
- Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910 (Person)
- Boyer, Ida Porter, 1859-1952 (Person)
- Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey (Person)
- Catt , Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 (Person)
- Coe, Evelyn Peverley, 1881-1966 (Person)
- Dewson, Molly, 1874-1962 (Person)
- Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 1856-1937 (Person)
- Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957 (Person)
- Gillmore, Inez Haynes, 1873-1970 (Person)
- Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 (Person)
- Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955 (Person)
- Robins, Margaret Dreier (Person)
- Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson (1825-1911) (Person)
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 (Person)
- Stantial, Edna Lamprey (Person)
- Wambaugh, Sarah, 1882-1955 (Person)
- Wells, Marguerite M. (Marguerite Milton), 1872-1959 (Person)
- Title
- Woman's rights collection, 1853-1958: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch01006
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.