National American Woman Suffrage Association Records

Documents in this collection

Pleads for Suffrage, April 17, 1906

Addams offers reasons in support of woman suffrage.

Education, Labor, Politics, Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Alice Stone Blackwell, May 12, 1914

Addams telegrams Blackwell to tell her that an interview was correct and that they should emphasize their agreement with the Congressional Union.

Requests, Woman Suffrage

Mary Ware Dennett to National American Woman Suffrage Association Executive Council, February 19, 1914 (fragment)

Dennett informs the Executive Board of the results of votes regarding auxiliary memberships, as well as new applications.

Memberships, Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Carrie Chapman Catt, December 14, 1914

Addams discusses plans for a peace meeting, preferring to limit the participation to social workers and economists.

Meetings, Peace

Jane Addams to Sara M. Algeo, June 22, 1914

Addams declines Algeo invitation to speak, due to the press of work.

Lectures, Requests

Jane Addams to National American Woman Suffrage Association, November 25, 1920

Addams offers her condolences at the death of Madeline Breckinridge.

Death

Description

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

Rights

Cleared

Source

Finding Aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998019.3

Alternative Title

National American Woman Suffrage Association Records