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Collection Summary

Scope and Content Note

Organization of the Collection

Selected Search Terms

Container List

People and activities of the National Woman's Party 1884-ca. 1965

Printing plates

Posters ca. 1910-ca. 1940

Visual Materials from the Records of the National Woman's Party

A Finding Aid in the Library of Congress

Prepared by Prints & Photographs Division staff

2002

Collection Summary

Title Visual Materials from the Records of the National Woman's Party
Dates 1884-ca. 1965bulk 1920-1960
Abstract: These photographs are primarily portraits of persons involved in the National Woman's Party.
Extent: ca. 450 items
Language: Collection material in English
Identification: Guide Record
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Scope and Content Note

Includes primarily portraits of National Woman's Party (NWP) officers, suffragists, politicians and business women; NWP meetings and formal gatherings; women delegates at United Nations sessions on human and civil rights; views of the organization's headquarters at Washington, D.C.; postcards depicting women's suffrage slogans; anti-war posters from the National Council for Prevention of War, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Women's International League.

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Selected Search Terms

Organizations

  • National Woman's Party, collector.
  • National Woman's Party--1880-1970.

Subjects

  • Women's suffrage--1880-1970.
  • Women--Civil rights--1920-1970.
  • Women--Organizations--1920-1970.
  • Women--Political activity--1920-1970.

Form/Genre

  • Group portraits--1880-1970.
  • Negatives--1920-1970.
  • Photographic prints--1880-1970.
  • Photomechanical prints--1880-1940.
  • Portrait photographs--1880-1970.
  • Postcards--1880-1970.
  • Printing plates--1920-1970.
  • Proofs--1920-1970.
  • Protest posters--1910-1940.
  • Slides--1880-1970.
  • Tintypes--1880-1930.

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Organization of the Collection

Organized by subject and by format into the following filing series which serve as call number designations: LOT 13445 (photographs and prints); POS U.S. (Posters); Supplementary Archives (Printing plates); LC-MISC (negatives and transparencies).

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Container List

LOT 13445People and activities of the National Woman's Party 1884-ca. 1965

Includes primarily portraits of National Woman's Party (NWP) officers; suffragists; and other women in politics and business; NWP meetings and formal gatherings, including Susan B. Anthony celebrations; the NWP Detroit Convention of 1940; women delegates at United Nations sessions dealing with women's rights issues. Also includes the organization's headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Sewall-Belmont House); views of suffragist Alva Belmont's home at Port Washington, Long Island; a few photographs of NWP founder, Alice Paul's home in Vermont. Also postcards depicting women's suffrage slogans, a 1913 suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., and President Wilson's inauguration and parade at Washington, D.C.

Organized roughly by subject.

Printing plates

Four printing plates are in the Supplementary Archives (Suppl. Archiv.) filing series. Two depict a woman on a horse and the slogan "forward into light"; a third reproduces the "jailhouse door" commemorative pin designed by Alice Paul in 1917; the fourth is a half-tone plate depicting a portrait of an unidentified woman.

Posters ca. 1910-ca. 1940

POS U.S. R618, no. 1 (B size)World peace. Before another Christmas still less of armanent and none of war [1918?] 1 print (poster) : color ; 49 x 32 cm.

POS U.S. R618, no. 2 (C size)The whole earth is everychild's home. No matter where his home is, the whole earth today is everychild's treasure chest and workshop and playroom [193-] 1 print (poster): color ; 45 x 30 cm.

U.S. N372, no, 2 (C size)Labor fights wars and then pays for them. Organize for peace. [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 78 x 53 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 3 (C size)Disputes will continue to arise between nations. Do you want them settled by reason or poison gas? By a world court or world war? [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 63 x 47 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 4 (C size)General pact for the renunciation of war. . . 1929 1 print (poster) : color ; 110 x 68 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 5 (C size)U.S. presidents for 30 years have favored a world court! Write your 2 senators. We must join now. 1931 1 print (poster) ; 55 x 41 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 6 (C size)Remove a cause of war. Provide access for all nations to the world's resources and markets. Will you pay this price for peace? [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 55 x 41 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 7 (C size)Law not war [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 61 x 46 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 8 (C size)Betraying humanity! Private trading in armaments knows no frontier, no patriotism, no humantiy. The government must prevent it. [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 55 x 42 cm.

U.S. N 372, no. 9 (C size)The world must choose at the world disarmament conference [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 56 x 44 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 10 (C size)The sermon on the mount. Poverty or peace? Armaments or bread? World disarmament conference [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 56 x 44 cm.

U.S. N372, no. 11 (C size)Machine massacre. War the world's enemy. Support disarmament conference. [193-] 1 print (poster) ; 56 x 38 cm.

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