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Genesis of the International Council of Women and the story of its growth, 1888-1893
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International Council of Women, Washington, DC, March, 1888
Visual Materials
Suffragist group photo. Standing, back row: Bessie Starr Keefer (Canada); Rachel Foster (America); Sophia Magelsson Groth (Norway); Margaret Dilke (England); May Wright Sewall (America); Alice Scatcherd (England); Margaret Moore (Ireland). Seated, front row: Laura Ormiston Chant (England); Susan B. Anthony (America); Isabelle Bogelot (France); Elizabeth Cady Stanton (America); Matilda Joslyn Gage (America); Alexandra Gripenberg (Finland). In 1888, Susan B. Anthony and other leading feminists founded the International Council of Women. The council sought to “impress the important lesson that the position of women anywhere affects their position everywhere.” Many of the women pictured in this delivered addresses during the council’s three-week-long inaugural gathering.
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International Council of Women. Autograph album
Manuscripts
The collection contains primarily letters and some manuscripts concerning Anthony family affairs and woman suffrage activities. There are four large letterbooks of Joseph Anthony, three loose-leaf binders of typed copies of Susan B. Anthony letters in other libraries, and an autograph speech of Susan B. Anthony. Other subjects included in the collection are the Battle of Osawatamie and ideas and discussion about populism, racism, and religion. Anthony Family members represented in the collection include Jessie Anthony, Joseph Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy E. Anthony, Katherine Boyles, Maude Anthony Koehler, and Frank Anthony Mosher. Significant figures related to the history of woman suffrage represented in the collection include Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Carrie Chapman Catt. There are also some letters to and about the artist Lorado Taft and one letter by Frederick Douglass.
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Memorandum on the meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Women
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Women's International Club
Manuscripts
The Hong family papers were organized into six series with sets of subseries. 1) You Chung Hong series (Business, Chinatown, Chinese American Citizens Alliance, education, legal, personal, and political activities). 2) Mabel Hong series (Education, personal, and community activities). 3) Nowland C. Hong series (Chinese American Citizens Alliance, personal, and political activities). 4) Roger S. Hong series (Business, Chinatown, education, personal, and community activities). 5) Ephemera series. 6) Oversize Series. The Hong family papers were organized into six series with sets of subseries. 1) You Chung Hong series (Business, Chinatown, Chinese American Citizens Alliance, education, legal, personal, and political activities). 2) Mabel Hong series (Education, personal, and community activities). 3) Nowland C. Hong series (Chinese American Citizens Alliance, personal, and political activities). 4) Roger S. Hong series (Business, Chinatown, education, personal, and community activities). 5) Ephemera series. 6) Oversize Series. The Hong family photos were organized into five series with sets of subseries. 1) You Chung Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 2) Mabel Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 3) Nowland C. Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 4) Roger S. Hong photo series (Photographic and textual files). 5) Oversize photo series.
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