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Collection Summary

Scope and Content Note

Organized/Arranged

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Container List

Surrogates of Lantern Slides ca. 1859-1928

Portrait Photographs

Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers

Prepared by Prints & Photographs Division staff

2002

Collection Summary

Title Visual materials from the Blackwell family papers
Dates 1840-ca. 1935bulk 1890-1925
Abstract: The Blackwell family members worked from women's rights. This collection includes images of events and portraits of notable women and men involved in the women's suffrage movement.
Extent: 171 items (chiefly lantern slides and photographic prints) ; 28 x 23 cm. or smaller
Language: Collection material in English
Identification: LOT 13267
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Scope and Content Note

LOT 13267-1 is comprised of photocopies of original lantern slides illustrating events in the women's suffrage movement, ca. 1859-1928. LOT 13267-2 is comprised of portrait photographs of members of the Blackwell family, and others related to or involved in the fight for women's suffrage.

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Selected Search Terms

People

  • Blackwell family.
  • Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950.
  • Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910.
  • Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909.
  • Breshko-Breshkovskai︠a︡, Ekaterina Konstantinovna, 1844-1934
  • Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.
  • Morrisson, Mary Foulke.
  • Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955.
  • Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893.

Organizations

  • International Woman Suffrage Alliance--People--1920-1940.
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association--People--1900-1920.
  • National League of Women Voters (U.S.)--People--1920-1940.

Subjects

  • Meetings--United States--1890-1930.
  • Parades & processions--United States--1910-1930.
  • Suffragists--1840-1930.
  • Women's suffrage--1880-1930.
  • Women--Organizations--1890-1930.
  • Women--Political activity--1890-1930.

Form/Genre

  • Buttons (Information artifacts)--1920-1930.
  • Collotypes--1880-1940.
  • Film negatives--1890-1940.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1890-1940.
  • Glass negatives--1890-1900.
  • Group portraits--1880-1940.
  • Lantern slides--1880-1940.
  • Lectures--1930-1940.
  • Portrait photographs--1840-1940.

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Organized/Arranged

Arranged into two subdivisions: LOT 13267-1 (photocopy surrogates of original b&w and hand-colored lantern slides in filing series LC-B633) and LOT 13267-2 (photographic prints and collotype).

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LOT 13267-1Surrogates of Lantern Slides ca. 1859-1928

LOT 13267-1 is comprised of photocopies of original lantern slides illustrating events in the women's suffrage movement, ca. 1859-1928. The first thirty-seven reproductions (lantern slides LC-B633-1 to LC-B633-37) show images used by Mary Foulke Morrisson and Maud Wood Park in speeches delivered Jan.9, 1939 in recognition of the eightieth birthday of Carrie Chapman Catt. Photocopies of the speeches and corresponding lantern slide caption lists are included in the LOT. These images include portraits of Catt as a child and young adult; portraits of her parents Lucius and Maria Lane; Catt and others attending meetings of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance; suffrage parades and pageants. One slide shows Catt with board members of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War. Additional photocopies (lantern slide numbers LC-B633-38 to LC-B633-75) depict suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Maud Wood Park, Julia Ward Howe, and Catherine Breshkovsky, suffrage meetings, hearings, and parades.

LOT 13267-2Portrait Photographs

LOT 13267-2 is comprised of portrait photographs of members of the Blackwell family: women's suffrage leader Alice Blackwell; her parents Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone, abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, Alice's aunt, first woman to receive an academic medical degree and activist for women in the medical profession; and Hannah Lane Blackwell, matriarch of the family; also, one portrait of Lucy Stone designed to be worn as a button and one photograph of Lucy Stone's birthplace in West Brookfield, Mass. Also includes portraits of others related to or involved in the fight for women's suffrage; officers and members of the National American Women's Suffrage Association and the National League of Women Voters; snapshots of women marching in a suffrage parade, New York City, Oct. 17, 1917. Other suffrage activities depicted include Judge Florence Allen and Bertha A. Miller on a 1913 pilgrimage march from New York to Washington, D.C.; Florence Allen, Elizabeth J. Hauser and Greta Coleman checking and sorting suffrage petitions in Ohio, 1914; Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett signing the Suffrage Bill, June 5, 1919.

LOT 13267-2, no. 1Abbott, Grace

LOT 13267-2, no. 2Addams, Jane

LOT 13267-2, no. 3-6Allen, Judge Florence

LOT 13267-2, no. 46Beshidy, Dr. A. A.

LOT 13267-2, no. 7-13Blackwell, Alice

LOT 13267-2, no. 14-16Blackwell, Dr. Elizabeth

LOT 13267-2, no. 17-19Blackwell, Family

LOT 13267-2, no. 20Blackwell, Hannah Lane

LOT 13267-2, no. 21-23Blackwell, Henry

LOT 13267-2, no. 31Breckinridge, Sophonisba P.

LOT 13267-2, no. 32-39Breshkovsky, Catherine

LOT 13267-2, no. 40Brooks, Mrs. Charles H.

LOT 13267-2, no. 41Brown, Mrs. Raymond

LOT 13267-2, no. 42-44Catt, Carrie Chapman

LOT 13267-2, no. 4Coleman, Greta

LOT 13267-2, no. 45Cunningham, Minnie Fisher

LOT 13267-2, no. 47-50Edson, Katherine Philips

LOT 13267-2, no. 51Gardner, Helen

LOT 13267-2, no. 52Gellhorn, Mrs. George

LOT 13267-2, no. 53Gillett with men & women

LOT 13267-2, no. 54Goode, Mrs. J. Paul

LOT 13267-2, no. 55Harrison, Mrs. H. G.

LOT 13267-2, no. 4Hauser, Elizabeth J.

LOT 13267-2, no. 56Hay, Mary Garrett

LOT 13267-2, no. 57Hooper, Mrs. Ben

LOT 13267-2, no. 58Lawrence, Isabel

LOT 13267-2, no. 59MacPherson, James G.

LOT 13267-2, no. 60McCormick, Mrs. Stanley

LOT 13267-2, no. 61Meyer, Heloise

LOT 13267-2, no. 3Miller, Bertha A.

LOT 13267-2, no. 62Miller, Mrs. John O.

LOT 13267-2, no. 63Moss, Luella St. Clair

LOT 13267-2, no. 64Mott, Lucretia

LOT 13267-2, no. 65Mussey, Ellen Spencer

LOT 13267-2, no. 66-70Parades

LOT 13267-2, no. 71Parker, Valerie H.

LOT 13267-2, no. 72Roosevelt, Theodore

LOT 13267-2, no. 73Shaw, Anna Howard

LOT 13267-2, no. 74Skinner, Cornelia Otis

LOT 13267-2, no. 24-28, 30Stone, Lucy

LOT 13267-2, no. 29 [original filed in Supplementary Archives]Stone, Lucy (photograph button)

LOT 13267-2, no. 78Stone, Lucy (digital reproduction of an original daguerreotype filed in DAG, no. 1201)

LOT 13267-2, no. 75Webster, Ann

LOT 13267-2, no. 76White, Armenia S.

LOT 13267-2, no. 77Whitehouse, Mrs. Norman

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