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International Council of Women, Washington, DC, March, 1888

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: March 1888
Call number: photPF 11097
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[Group portrait of twenty-seven women at the first International Convention of Women]

Visual Materials

Group portrait of twenty-seven women attending the first International Convention of Women in Washington, D.C., in 1888. Sitters consist of Rev. Ada C. Bowles, Virginia L. Minor, Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, Zerelda G. Wallace, Rachel G. Foster, Rev. Annie Shaw, Frances E. Willard, Laura Ormiston Chant, Bessie Starr Keefer, Lillie Devereux Blake, Louise Reed Stowell, Susan B. Anthony, Sophia Magelsson Groth, Hannah Whitall Smith, Alice Scatcherd, Isabella Bogelot, Victoria Richardson, Alli Trygg, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Lisle Saxon, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Caroline Merrick, May Wright Sewall, Alexandra Gripenberg, Margaret Moore, and Mrs. Ashton Dilke. Key listing the names of the sitters and their affiliations printed in bottom margin.

photOV 11685

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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.

AF 77

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The constitutional rights of the women of the United States : An address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888

Rare Books

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Correspondence: Women's Legislative Council of Washington State

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters and documents which formed a portion of the Business Women's Legislative Council of California's records. The items in the collection pertain to the organization, maintenance and activities of the Council. The records span the years from 1927 to 1943, although there is a general gap in the files before 1929 and from 1936 through 1938. Grouped into folders, by document type, the folders are in alphabetical order by and files within every folder are arranged chronologically. Notable correspondence includes letters from elected officials as well as candidates in California and the governors of nearly all states in response to questions about their positions on "equal rights for women wage-earners." Prominent gubernatorial signatories include Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Bilbo, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. Among the many letters from California legislators, the one from Culbert Olson is the most notable. Ephemera includes pamphlets on women's rights from other organizations, newspaper clippings/transcripts and convention programs.

mssBusiness Women's Legislative Council

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Morey, G. W. (George Washington), 1888-1965. 1 letter (1941, Apr. 7) to Theodore Dunham, 1897-. 1 item

Manuscripts

The majority of the collection is made up of correspondence (364 items) between Theodore Dunham and various astronomers throughout the United States and England (and a couple other countries). Dunham and the other astronomers' research and work are the main topics of the letters. These subjects include: Dunham's work on stars (including our sun) and planets (Jupiter, Venus); biophysics; telescopes and lenses; and the Fund for Astrophysical Research. There is a folder with correspondence between Dunham, Harry Plaskett (Dunham's closest friend and astronomer at Oxford), and others regarding Dunham's attempt at doing his part during World War II. He contacts several people and institutions in England and Canada including the National Research Council in Ottawa looking for a position somewhere. This folder includes a copy of a letter by Dunham to Winston Churchill offering any assistance he can give to the war effort as well as copies of Dunham's "Summary of Scientific Work" (resume). The majority of the letters by Dunham are copies that he kept for his own records.

mssDunham papers

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Young Women's Christian Association

Manuscripts

The Friday Morning Club records consists of materials created by the Club and its members, dating from the year the club started in 1891 to is closure in 2012. These records document the activities of the club such as: philanthropy and charity work; finances; fundraising; the various work of the club's committees on science, art, and other topics; the construction of their clubhouses in Los Angeles; and the meeting minutes of both regular meetings and the board. The collection is comprised of subject files, financial and business records, membership applications and cards, manuscripts and essays, and clippings (1770-2012); publications printed by the Friday Morning Club, including their monthly newsletter, and publications printed by other clubs (1850-1993); photograph albums, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes (1891-2012); photographs, certificates, awards, and some objects that belonged to the club, including the bronze plaque that hung at the clubhouse (1890-2000). The collection contains material by and about several prominent members and suffragettes, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Bixby Smith, Jessie Benton Frémont, Margaret Collier Graham, Olive Percival, Idah Strobridge, Louise Watkins, Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, and the club's founder Caroline Severance. The collection also contains material about other clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs and California Women of the Golden West.

mssFMC

International Council of Women, Washington, DC, March, 1888

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