Contents
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
SERIES I. GENERAL
SERIES II. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
SERIES III. CONFERENCES
SERIES IV. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
SERIES V. LEGAL STATUS
SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS
SERIES VII. COMMISSIONS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
SERIES VIII. COUNTRIES
SERIES I. GENERAL
SERIES II. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
SERIES III. CONFERENCES
SERIES IV. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
SERIES V. LEGAL STATUS
SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS
SERIES VII. COMMISSIONS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
SERIES VIII. COUNTRIES
ADDED MATERIALS
OVERSIZE MATERIAL
ITEMS ON SHELF
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Women's Rights Collection, 1789-2000 (bulk 1864-1983)
Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.2004
| | | | | Title: | Women's Rights Collection | | Dates: | 1789-2000 | | Dates: | 1864-1983 | | Abstract: |
This collection contains both printed materials and original sources documenting the broad spectrum of women's rights struggles and movements from the late eighteenth century to the present, primarily in the United States. Materials include biographical writings on individuals who made significant contributions to women's rights; an important concentration of sources on women's rights conferences and conventions; records pertaining to the E.R.A. fight; records of the President's Commission on the Status of Women and state-level Commissions on the Status of Women; and documents and publications of many national and local women's organizations.
| | Extent: | 51 boxes, 23 volumes(25.75 linear ft.) | | Language: | English. | | Identification: | MS 397 |
"Souvenir of Seneca Falls, N.Y., Birthplace of Women's Rights, 1848-1948," ca. 1948 The Women's Rights Collection contains a large quantity and variety of material including both published and unpublished sources documenting the broad spectrum of women's rights struggles and movements from the late eighteenth century to the present. The vast majority of the material relates to women's rights in the United States from 1846 to 1983. Return to the Table of Contents
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This collection is organized into eight series: Return to the Table of Contents
SERIES I. GENERAL SERIES I. GENERAL includes writings and speeches by and about feminists from pamphlets dated as early as 1814, to analytical articles written in the 1970s by well-known women's historians such as Gerda Lerner and William O'Neill. SERIES II. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS SERIES II. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS includes material relating to significant figures who supported and agitated for women's rights, particularly those who made major contributions to the nineteenth century woman's rights movement, but also more recent feminist activists. Individuals represented include Ida Wells Barnett, Henry Brown Blackwell, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Abigail Kelley Foster, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Marietta Holley, Dorothy Kenyon, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Alice Paul, Ernestine Rose, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Mary Church Terrell. Types of material include articles, memorials, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and photographs, books, and a small amount of correspondence. SERIES III. CONFERENCES SERIES III. CONFERENCES includes an important concentration of published sources documenting women's rights conferences and conventions. Types of material include, correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, planning material, publicity, published proceedings, reports, resolutions, and memorabilia. Under the International Women's Year conference (1977), there are audio recordings of speeches and sessions. Others documented include the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848; the Women's Centennial Congress in New York City, 1940; the Conference on the Role of Women at Smith College in 1947; the Seneca Falls Centennial Convention of 1948; International Women's Year State Conferences held in 1977; International Women's Year Conference in Houston, 1977; and the United Nations Decade for Women World Conference in Copenhagen, 1980. There are also records pertaining to lesser-known nineteenth century woman's rights local conventions in Akron, Ohio, 1851; West Chester, Pennsylvania, 1852; Cleveland, Ohio, 1854; New York City, 1856; Boston, 1859; the New York Church of the Puritans in 1866; and the American Equal Rights Association Convention in New York in 1867, among others. SERIES IV. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT The long history of struggles related to efforts to pass and ratify the ERA from 1920 to 1983 is well documented in Series IV. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT with articles, bibliographies, correspondence, legislation, lists, memorabilia, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and publicity contained in the collection. There are interviews with feminist activists that were conducted for a 1983 project entitled The Fight for E.R.A.: Leaders, Strategies, and Directions, by Jennifer Jackman and Tamar Raphael. The 28 interviewees include Ruth Adams, Carol Atkins, Kathy Bonk, Pat and Twiss Butler, Susan Catania, Lillian Ciarrochi, Alice Cohan, Mary Jean Collins, Mary Crisp, Diane Cutri, Betsy Dunn, Catherine East, Don Edwards, Vicki Ferguson, Pat Frank, Audrey Ghizzoni, Sheila Greenwald, Mariwyn Heath, Mildred Jeffrey, Beth Leopold, Ann Lewis, Colette Roberts, Reed Gloria Sackman, Eleanor Smeal, Jane Wells-Schooley, Jinx Wingard, and Molly Yard. There are interview notes, and photographs, as well as audio recordings for some, not all, interviews. SERIES V. LEGAL STATUS SERIES V. LEGAL STATUS documents changes in women's legal status in individual states and in the United States at-large. SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS contains materials generated by women's political and equal rights groups such as the Equity Network, Human Rights for Women, International Alliance of Women, the National Advisory Committee for Women, the National Women's Education Fund, and the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus and the National Women's Political Caucus. SERIES VII. COMMISSIONS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN SERIES VII. includes Records generated by the President's Commission on the Status of Women (circa 1960s-70s) and the various state level Commissions on the Status of Women are also a significant part of the collection. Included in this section are published articles, briefs, pamphlets, publicity, reports, meeting agendas, minutes, and correspondence. SERIES VIII. COUNTRIES SERIES VIII. COUNTRIES includes a small amount of material relating to women's rights in countries outside the United States: Africa, Albania, Asia, Australia, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam. International materials can also be found in the files relating to the International Women's Year conferences in Houston, Texas and Copenhagen under CONFERENCES.
SERIES I. GENERAL
| 2 | Women's Rights: tracts 1-6, 1851 |
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| Women's Rights Pamphlets, Cornell University Collection(microfiche)
1814-1912 |
| 5 | The Sisterhood: pamphlet, cir
ca 1870 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 6 | George William Curtis: speeches and clippings
1867 |
|
| Great American Women's Speeches: cassette tapes
1973 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 7 | Savery, Annie, Rev. T.O. Rice on the Subordination of Women: clippings
1871 |
| 8 | Petition to Improve the Condition of Married Women
n.d. |
|
| A Reply to John Stuart Mill on the Subjection of Women (Philadelphia)
1870 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 2 | 1 | Radio talks over CBC: transcripts
1955-56 |
| 2 | Speech at Business & Professional Women, Northampton
1950 |
| 3 | Lerner, Gerda, Women's Rights and American Feminism
n.d. |
| 4 | Virginia Slims American Women's Opinion Poll
1972 |
| 5 | O'Neill, William L., Feminism as a Radical Ideology
1968 |
| 6 | Powell, Rose Arnold: writings
1933 |
| 7 | Shegda, Paula, Do Women Advertise Themselves Enough?: The Split in the Feminist Movement(1975)
1869-1890 |
| 8 | Miscellaneous articles on the status of women
1963-65 |
| 8a | Publications: NWHP Gazelle: "Living the Legacy,"
1998 |
| 9 | The Women's Charter: What and Why?: articles, correspondence, and press releases
1936-38 |
|
| "Side-by-Side" (re-enactments of scenes from women's history)(phonograph record)
1848-1920 |
SERIES II. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
Box |
Folder |
| | 3 | 1 | Barnett, Ida Wells: photograph and clippings
1931 |
| 2 | Blackwell, Henry Brown: photographs, pamphlet, and manuscript
1910-27 |
| 3 | Bloomer, Amelia Jenks: article and mailing (with mini bloomers attached)
1939-48 |
| 4 | Cooley, Winifred Harper: short biographies and article02
1915-20 |
| 5 | Dodge, Mary Abigail (Gail Hamilton): pamphlets and article, cir
ca 1840-96 |
| 6 | Foster, Abigail Kelley: pamphlet and biography
1965-84 |
| 7 | Gaston, Lucy Page: article
1924 |
| 8-10 | Gilman, Charlotte Perkins: articles, photographs, pamphlets, correspondence, and thesis
1905-80 |
| 11 | Grimke, Sarah and Angelina (1805-1879): pamphlet, 1970
(1792-1873) |
| 12 | Kenyon, Dorothy: information about ERA
1971 |
| 13-14 | Mott, Lucretia Coffin: speeches, articles, pamphlets, and photographs
1849-1959 |
| 15 | Paul, Alice: photographs and articles
1917-77 |
| 16 | Robb, Lynda Bird Johnson: clippings
1979 |
| 17 | Rose, Ernestine Louise Potowski: address and clippings
1948-49 |
| 18-19 | Sojourner Truth: photographs, pamphlets, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, and biography
1850-1983 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 4 | 1-5 | Stanton, Elizabeth Cady: pamphlets, newsletters, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and speeches
1827-1972 |
| 6-8 | Stone, Lucy: book, photographs, correspondence, and speeches
1846-1978 |
| 9 | Terrell, Mary Church: clippings and program
1951-54 |
SERIES III. CONFERENCES
|
| "Role of Women," Smith College
1947 |
|
| Minutes: Volumes I and II |
| 2-4 | General: programs, clippings, SCAN, press releases, and correspondence
1947 |
| 5-6 | Correspondence
1946-47 |
| 10 | "Woman's Rights and Other 'Reforms' in Seneca Falls,"
1965 |
|
| World Conference of the International Women's Year, Mexico City,
1975 |
| 2 | Agenda items 9 and 10
1975 |
| 3 | World Plan of Action
1975 |
|
| National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year
- State Conferences,
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 6 | 1 | Alabama: correspondence, report, program, and clippings
1977 |
| 2 | Alaska: evaluations and report
1977 |
| 3 | American Samoa: pamphlet and report
1977 |
| 4 | Arizona: final report
1977 |
| 5 | Arkansas: conference information and 'litter and locator bag,'
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 7 | 1 | California: pamphlet, final report, and questionnaires
1977 |
| 2 | Colorado: plan of action
1977 |
| 3 | Connecticut: report and clippings
1977 |
| 4 | Delaware: final report
1977 |
| 9 | Idaho: recommendations and final report
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 8 | 1 | Illinois: book
1977 |
| 2 | Indiana: petition, recommendations, and reports
1977 |
| 4 | Kansas: report, voter information and program
1977 |
Box |
|
| | 8 |
| "Voices of Kentucky Women": report
1977 |
|
| Observance of International Women's Year: Appendix
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 9 | 1 | Louisiana: correspondence, recommendations, and book
1977 |
| 3 | Maryland: proclamation and pamphlet
1977 |
Box |
|
| | 10 |
| Massachusetts: Women at Home in the World (report)
1977 |
| 1 | Minnesota: report and agenda
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 11 | 1 | Montana: vote results and final report
1977 |
| 2 | Nevada: pamphlet and final report
1977 |
| 3 | New Hampshire: plan for action and final reports
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 12 | 1 | New Mexico: final report
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 13 | 1 | Correspondence, ballot questions, and first meeting
1974-77 |
| 2 | North Carolina: report
1977 |
|
| North Dakota: final report
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 14 | 1-2 | Oklahoma: correspondence, workshop results, and final report
1977 |
| 3 | Oregon: final report
1977 |
|
| Pennsylvania: "Womankind,"
1977 |
| 4 | Puerto Rico: documents and final report
1977 |
Box |
|
| | 15 |
| Rhode Island: report
1977 |
| 1 | South Carolina: final report and resolutions
1977 |
| 2 | South Dakota: report
1977 |
| 3 | Tennessee: ballot, pamphlets, photographs, minutes, and recommendations
1977 |
| 4 | Texas: final report and flyer
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 16 | 1 | Utah: final report
1977 |
| 2 | Vermont: final report
1977 |
| 3 | Virgin Islands: survey and report
1977 |
| 4 | Virginia: final report, conference information, and clippings
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 17 | 1 | Washington, D.C.: minutes and plan of action
1977 |
| 2 | Washington (state): policy statements and final report
1977 |
| 3 | West Virginia: resolutions, report, and recommendations
1977 |
| 4 | Wisconsin: draft of report and supporting material
1977 |
|
| IWY National Women's Conference (Houston), November
1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 18 | 1 | Daily Breakthrough and bulletins
1977 |
| 2 | Memorabilia: calendar, t-shirt, flyer, and song lyrics
1977 |
| 3 | Articles, clippings, speeches: clippings, magazines, script, flyers, and press release
1977 |
| 4 | Clippings and magazine
1977 |
| 5 | Pamphlets, magazine, bulletin, resolutions, and newspaper
1977 |
| 6 | Resolutions and news
1977 |
| 7 | Declaration of American women: cassette tape and slides
1977 |
| 8 | IWY conventions- states: newspaper, manual, pamphlet, and clipping
1976-77 |
| 9 | Exhibit material: letter cut-outs and magazine pages
1977 |
| 10 | "Decade of Achievement": report
1977 |
| 11 | National Women's Conference: pamphlets
1978 |
|
| UN World Conference, Decade for Women, Copenhagen
1980 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 19 | 1 | Index to microfiche |
|
| Background Press Release; Secretary General's Opening Remarks |
|
| Overview of Progress/Obstacles at the National Level |
|
| Employment review/evaluation |
|
| Education review/education |
|
| National machinery review/evaluation |
|
| Descriptive list of National Machineries |
|
| Political Participation, International Co-op and International Peace: review |
|
| Women in Rural Areas: statistical abstract |
|
| Technological Change and Microelectronics for Women Workers |
|
| Information/communication as developed resources; employment effects of science and technology |
|
| International Seminar -- Women and Media |
|
| Influence/Mass Media/Attitudes toward Societal Roles of Men and Women |
|
| Health Effects/Cultural Practices on Women and Children |
|
| Women's Status/Role in Education and in Economy/Social Areas |
|
| Reviews/Evaluation of Regional/ Global UN Programmes |
|
| UN Conference Recommendations re: Women |
|
| UN System Agencies re: Decade goals: review |
|
| ESCAP Regional Preparatory Meeting at New Delhi; Lusaka; Damascus |
|
| Economic Role of Women in ECE Region |
|
| UN Dept. of International Economic and Social Affairs re: World Plan of Action: review |
|
| Decade for Women Voluntary Fund: Secretary General's report |
|
| Dept. Technology Co-op for Development: report |
|
| Industrial Development Organization: report |
|
| Women, children, and development: UNICEF report |
|
| World Food Programme and Decade for Women |
|
| Ongoing and Future Programs re: Decade for Women: UNITAR report |
|
| Measures Taken to Implement UN Decade for Women: ILO report |
|
| Integration of Women in Rural Development: FAO report |
|
| School Education for Girls: UNESCO report |
|
| Health and Status of Women: WHO report |
|
| "Invisible" Women in Development: World Bank report |
|
| Rural Women's Participation in Development: UNDP report |
|
| Policies/Programs in the Field of Women/Population/Development: UNFPA report |
|
| Conference of Non-Aligned/Other Developing Countries on Role of Women in Development |
|
| Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
|
| Preparatory Committee Report (Sessions
1-3) |
|
| Commission on the Status of Women Report (Sessions
27-28) |
|
| Effective Mobilization/Integration of Women in Development |
|
| Situation of Women Refugees Worldwide |
|
| Women's Role in Liberation Struggles in Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa |
|
| Assistance Measures for Women in Southern Africa |
|
| Apartheid Effects of Women's Status in South Africa and Namibia |
|
| Lusaka Declaration on Racism/Racial Prejudice |
|
| Apartheid and Women's Employment/Women in Trade Unions |
|
| Women and Apartheid: reports of Montreal and Helsinki Seminars |
|
| Israeli Occupation Effects on Palestinian Women: Assistance Measures to Palestinian Women |
|
| Social/Economic Conditions of Palestinian Women |
|
| Contents and abbreviations |
|
| Background; National, International and Regional Levels of Action |
|
| Resolutions and Origins of the Conference |
|
| Organization of Work; General Debate; Report of First Committee |
|
| Reports of Second and Third Committees; adoption of conference report, Corrigendum |
|
| Program of Action: information paper |
|
| Resolutions: information paper |
|
| Women 1980: DESI newsletters
(1-8) |
Box |
Folder |
| | 20 | 1 | Women's Centennial Congress, NYC (1940): clipping, minutes, programs, correspondence, pamphlets, book, and newsletters
1939-40 |
|
| Seneca Falls Convention
(1848) |
| 2 | Report, photograph, honor roll, and pamphlets
1848 |
| 4 | Clippings and newspaper
1948 |
| 5 | Pageant scripts (English and Spanish) and news reports
1940-48 |
| 6 | Seneca Falls Historical Society: pamphlet
1972 |
| 7 | Memorabilia: pamphlets, napkin, envelopes, map, and magazines
1937-48 |
| 8 | Akron, OH: book(reprint of 1851 proceedings)
1973 |
| 9 | West Chester, PA: proceedings
1852 |
| 10 | Cleveland, OH: circular
1854 |
| 11 | Broadway Tabernacle, NYC: pamphlet
1856 |
| 12 | Mercantile Hall, Boston: reports
1859 |
| 13 | Church of the Puritans, NYC: proceedings
1866 |
| 14 | American Equal Rights Association, NY: proceedings
1867 |
| 15 |
National Women's Rights Convention of 1850: Lisa Connolly Cook: M.A. thesis
2000 |
SERIES IV. EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Box |
Folder |
| | 21 | 1 | Alice Paul: clippings, telegram, correspondence, and photographs
1939-76 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 22 | 1-9 | Reports, correspondence, and printed materials
1898-1979 |
| 10 | Freedom Train documents (list)
n.d. |
| 11 | Anti-ERA: clippings, book, articles, statements, and pamphlets
1924-75 |
Box |
|
| | 22 |
| The Fight for ERA (oral history project)
1983 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 23 | 1 | Accession records, contents list, and memo |
| 2 | Interview schedule and questions |
| 3 | Adams, Ruth: interview notes, photographs, and 3 tapes |
| 4 | Atkins, Carol: interview notes, photographs, and 2 tapes |
| 5 | Bonk, Kathy: interview notes, photographs and 2 tapes * |
| 6 | Butler, Pat and Twiss: interview notes, photographs and 3 tapes |
| 7 | Catania, Susan: interview notes, photographs and 3 tapes * |
| 8 | Ciarrochi, Lillian: interview notes, photographs and 2 tapes |
| 9 | Cohan, Alice: interview notes and photographs |
| 10 | Collins, Mary Jean: interview notes |
| 11 | Crisp, Mary: interview notes and photographs |
| 12 | Cutri, Diane: interview notes, photographs and 2 tapes |
| 13 | Dunn, Betsy: interview notes, photographs and 3 tapes |
| 14 | East, Catherine: interview notes, photographs and 2 tapes * |
| 15 | Edwards, Don: interview notes, photographs and 1 tapes |
| 16 | Ferguson, Vicki: interview notes, photographs and 2 tapes * |
| 17 | Frank, Pat: interview notes and 1 tape |
| 18 | Ghizzoni, Audrey: interview notes and 2 tapes |
| 19 | Greenwald, Sheila: interview notes, photographs and 1 tape * |
| 20 | Heath, Mariwyn: interview notes and 2 tapes * |
| 21 | Jeffrey, Mildred: interview notes and 2 tapes |
| 22 | Leopold, Beth: interview notes and 2 tapes |
| 23 | Lewis, Ann: interview notes, program, photographs, and 1 tape |
Box |
Folder |
| | 24 | 1 | Roberts, Colette: interview notes and 2 tapes * |
| 2 | Sackman, Reed Gloria: interview notes photographs, and 4 tapes * |
| 3 | Smeal, Eleanor: interview notes and photographs |
| 4 | Wells-Schooley, Jane: interview notes and photographs |
| 5 | Wingard, Jinx: interview notes, photographs and 2 tapes |
| 6 | Yard, Molly: interview notes and photographs |
| 7 | Yard, Molly and Alice Cohan: interview notes and photographs |
| 1 | General: articles, paper, and pamphlets
1970-83 |
| 2 | Common Cause: memos and pamphlets
1972-74 |
| 3 | Citizens' Advisory Council: pamphlets
1970-76 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 25 | 4 | ERAmerica: mailings, correspondence, pamphlets, and articles
1976-77 |
| 5 | League of Women Voters: "weather report" and pamphlet, cir
ca 1977 |
| 6 | Correspondence and pamphlets
1970-78 |
| 7 | Bibliographies and pamphlets
1976 |
| 8 | NOW: information packet, pamphlets, petition, flyer, and newspaper
1971-78 |
| 9 | Pamphlets and articles
1970-77 |
| 10 | National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.: pamphlets and background material, circa late
1970s |
| 11 | Women United: pamphlet, memos, and press release
1971-72 |
| 12 | Housewives for ERA: pamphlets and correspondence
1975 |
| 13 | Pamphlets, memos, resolutions, and mailing
1970-78 |
| 14 | Vital Issues - Center for Information on America: pamphlet
1975 |
| 15 | Memorabilia: potholder, pins, matches, postcards, bumper stickers, invitation, and information packet
n.d. |
| 16 | Anti-ERA: correspondence, pamphlets, memos, and clippings
1977 |
| 17 | ERA: hearings and congressional records
1970-72 |
Box |
|
| | 25a |
| Memorabilia: mug with ERA inscription
n.d. |
Box |
Folder |
| | 26 | 1 | Committee to ratify the Massachusetts State Equal Rights: clippings, pamphlets, bumper sticker, and reports
1975-76 |
| 2 | Pamphlets, reports, clippings, and newsletters
1973-78 |
SERIES V. LEGAL STATUS
Box |
Folder |
| | 27 | 1 | Harvard Women's Law Journal (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Spring 1978 |
|
| Articles and flyers
1970-81 |
| 3 | Court decisions: legal docket, and clippings
1970-77 |
| 4 | Heath, Kathryn G., Legislation and its Implications for Eliminating Sex Bias
1973 |
| 5 | Legislation: clippings, correspondence, and reports
1927-78 |
| 6 | Packard Trial: book
1869 |
| 7 | Property rights: legislation and article
1970 |
| 8 | Report of the President's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities
1970 |
| 9 | Social Security: report and statement
1946-78 |
| 10 | National Women's Agenda: agenda
1976 |
| 11 | Legal status and treatment of women: questionnaire replies
1947 |
| 12-13 | Women and the Law Conference: workshops, pamphlets, and supporting materials
1976-81 |
| 14 | Women Law Reporter: newsletters
1974-75 |
| 15 | Women's Rights Project (American Civil Liberties Union): correspondence
n.d. |
| 16 | Articles, speech, and magazine
1971-74 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 28 | 1 | Pamphlets, magazine, articles, and report
1901-81 |
|
| Rights of Women: workbook of international conventions relating to women's issues and concerns
1983 |
| 2 | National League of Women Voters: pamphlets, stories, and speeches
1924-48 |
| 3 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights - UN Assembly: pamphlets
1949 |
| 4 | Women and the Law: report, cir
ca 1983 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 29 | 1 | Surveys and articles
1924-71 |
| 2 | Book, pamphlets, reports, and clippings
1908-78 |
| 3 | Connecticut: clippings, newsletters, and newspapers
1972-77 |
| 4 | General: pamphlets, clippings, papers, newsletters, and correspondence
1967-75 |
| 5 | CMS: petition and legislation
n.d. |
| 6 | Bills relating to women: pamphlets
1971-72 |
| 7 | Commission Against Discrimination: pamphlets
1967 |
| 8 | Michigan: report and newsletters
1973-79 |
| 9 | Minnesota: legislation
1971 |
Box |
|
| | 10 |
| New Jersey: legislation
n.d. |
| 11 | Tennessee: clippings
1912 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 29 | 12 | Blueprints for Women Conference: newspaper
1976 |
|
| National Commission on the Observance of IWY: Homemakers Committee reports
1977 |
|
| The Legal Status of Homemakers in... |
Box |
Folder |
| | 30 | 1-37 | Alabama - Oregon |
Box |
Folder |
| | 31 | 1-13 | Pennsylvania - Wyoming |
SERIES VI. ORGANIZATIONS
|
| National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year |
Box |
Folder |
| | 32 | 1 | Agenda letters
1977 |
| 2 | Miscellaneous: memos, pamphlets, and correspondence
1976-77 |
| 3-4 | Press releases
1976-1977 |
| 6 | Report "To Form a More Perfect Union,"
1976 |
| 8-9 | Workshop guides,
circa 1977 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 33 | 1 | National Women's rights organizations: fact sheet
n.d. |
| 2 | Anti-defamation League of B'nai B'rith: press release
n.d. |
| 3 | Equity Network: correspondence and handouts
1981 |
| 4 | Human Rights for Women: handbook, mailings, and court rulings
1971-73 |
| 5 | International Alliance of Women: pamphlet
1985 |
| 6 | Maine Women's Political Caucus: correspondence and newsletters
1973-74 |
|
| Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus |
| 7 | General: handouts, newsletters, bylaws, correspondence, pin, clippings, and pamphlets
1971-83 |
| 8 | Plenary Session: information
1971 |
| 9 | November Caucus, Boston College: agenda and pamphlet
1971 |
| 10 | Second Plenary Session: agenda
1972 |
| 12 | National Advisory Committee for Women: clippings
1979 |
| 13 | National Women's Education Fund: poster and correspondence
1978 |
| 14-15 | National Women's Political Caucus: pin, agenda, statements, workshop information, pamphlets, clippings, and articles
1971-76 |
| 16 | North Carolina Women's Political Caucus: clippings
1971 |
| 17 | Oregon Women's Political Caucus: newspaper
1977 |
| 18 | Pennsylvanians for Women's Rights: newsletters
1973 |
| 19 | The Women's Commission in Exile: newsletters
1982-83 |
| 20 | Virginia Women's Political Caucus: clippings
1971 |
| 21 | Women USA: correspondence and pamphlets
1980 |
| 22 | Women's Action Alliance: pamphlets, press releases, correspondence, and agenda
1976-79 |
| 23 | Women's Coalition for the Third Century: pamphlets, correspondence, articles, and pin
1974-76 |
| 24 | Women's Commission in Exile - Massachusetts: pamphlets, annual report, and newsletters
1979-81 |
| 25 | Women's Equity Action League: pamphlets, press releases, articles, and memos
1971-78 |
| 26 | Women's Lobby, Inc.: correspondence, newsletters, and pamphlets
1973-78 |
| 27 | Miscellaneous women's rights organizations: clippings
1971 |
SERIES VII. COMMISSIONS ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Box |
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| | 34 |
| Statement by the President on the Establishment of the President's Commission on the Status of Women |
|
| Report of the Committee on Home and Community
1963 |
|
| Report of the Committee on Private Employment
1963 |
|
| Report of the Committee on Federal Employment
1963 |
|
| Report of the Committee on Protective Labor Legislation
1963 |
|
| Report of the Committee on Social Insurance and Taxes
1963 |
|
| Report of the Committee on Education
1963 |
| 1 | Report request forms
1964-65 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 35 | 1-4 | Commission meetings: reports, agendas, press releases, correspondence, pamphlets, and minutes
1961-63 |
Box |
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| | 36 |
| Executive letters: executive letters to members of the commission with press releases, and reports
1962-63 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 37 | 1 | Reports of the Committee on Education
n.d. |
Box |
Folder |
| | 38 | 1 | Report of the Committee on Federal Employment Policies and Practices
1963 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 39 | 1 | Reports of the Committee on Social Insurance and Taxes: pamphlets
1962-63 |
Box |
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| | 40 |
| Report of the Committee on Political and Social Rights
1963 |
| 1 | Reports and articles
1961-63 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 41 | 1 | Agenda, reports, minutes, and memos
1962-63 |
| 2 | Committee on Private Employment: background facts
1962 |
| 3 | Press releases and proposals
1962-63 |
| 4 | Committee on Protective Labor Legislation: pamphlets, memos, and reports
1962-68 |
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| Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women |
Box |
Folder |
| | 42 | 1-6 | Women in Women in 1975 (6 reports)
1970- |
| 7 | Committee on Home and Community: memos, agendas, reports, and pamphlets
1962-72 |
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| Miscellaneous publications |
Box |
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| | 43 |
| Women Today: Trends and Issues, by Dr. Caroline F. Ware
1962 |
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| American Women (3 copies)
1963 |
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| Background Memorandum of the Status of Women, by Dr. Caroline F. Ware
1962 |
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| Report on Four Consultations, by the Commission
1963 |
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| Report of the Committee on Private Employment, by the Commission
1963 |
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| Report of the Committee on Social Insurance and Taxes, by the Commission
1963 |
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| A Brief in favor of an Equal Rights Amendment (3 copies) presented by National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
1963 |
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| Women (in 1972), by Citizens' Advisory Council, on the Status of Women (2 copies)
1973 |
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| Report on Progress in 1965 on the Status of Women, by Citizens' Advisory Council, on the Status of Women, 1965 |
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| Report of the Committee on Protective Labor Legislation
1963 |
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| Report of the Committee on Federal Employment (2 copies)
1963 |
Box |
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| | 44 |
| Interdepartmental Committee and Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women: Progress Reports
1964-66 |
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| Report on Four Consultations
1963 |
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| Report of the Task Force on Family Law and Policy
1968 |
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| Women in 1970 - Women in 1975 (6 reports)
1970-75 |
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| Press release concerning new appointments
1969 |
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| Report of the Task Force on Labor Standards,
1968 |
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| Report of the Task Force on Health and Welfare
1968 |
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| Progress and Prospects
1965 |
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| The President's Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities: press releases, bill, and reports
1961-70 |
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| State Commissions on the Status of Women |
Box |
Folder |
| | 45 | 1 | Alabama: bulletin and statement
1951-71 |
| 2 | California: bulletin
1977 |
| 3 | Colorado: summary report
1965 |
| 4 | Connecticut: annual report
1974 |
| 5 | Florida: annual report
1978 |
| 6 | Hawaii: reports, newsletter, and book
1966-77 |
| 8 | Kentucky: Kentucky Women
1964 |
| 9 | Maryland: legislation
1971 |
| 10 | Massachusetts: clippings, reports, correspondence, and newsletters
1974-75 |
| 12 | Minnesota: annual report
n.d. |
| 13 | New Jersey: report
1964 |
| 14 | New York: pamphlets
1964-77 |
| 15 | North Carolina: report
1964 |
| 17 | Pennsylvania: remarks, report, newsletter, and pamphlet
1965-73 |
| 20 | Washington: reports
1963-78 |
| 21 | Wisconsin: reports and newsletter
1965-76 |
SERIES VIII. COUNTRIES
Box |
Folder |
| | 46 | 1 | General: note cards, clippings, articles, and packets
1973-80 |
| 2 | United Nations: clippings, articles, and pamphlets
1968-75 |
| 9 | Israel/ Jerusalem - Arabs
1973 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 47 | 1 | La Bonne Parole: pamphlets and newspapers
1917-58 |
| 2-3 | Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women: pamphlets
1982 |
| 5 | Casgrain, Madame. Pierra F.: clipping, pamphlet, and transcript
n.d. |
| 6 | Le Code Civil: articles and pamphlets
1943-49 |
| 7 | Legal status of married women: pamphlets, correspondence, and clippings
1924-64 |
| 8 | National Action Committee: pamphlets, cir
ca 1974 |
| 9 | Nationality of married women: pamphlet
1959 |
| 10 | Status Anyone?: pamphlet
1972 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 48 | 1 | General: pamphlets, clippings, and A Woman's Place
1850-1974 |
| 2 | Nationality rights: pamphlets
1925-46 |
| 3-5 | Pamphlets and books
1866-1976 |
| 6 | Alfred B. Wallace: correspondence
1913 |
| 7 | Wollstonecraft, Mary: pamphlets, correspondence, articles, and engraving, cir
ca 1876 |
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| Facsimile of a Deed by a Single Lady of land in the Manor of Naudelsleigh, Lancasshire, England(poster)
1318 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 48 | 8 | General: clippings, pamphlets, and book
1871-1974 |
| 9 | Early History: books and articles
1888-1893 |
| 10 | Condorcet, Marquis de: pamphlets
1789 |
| 11 | Gallant, Mavis: "Annals of Justice,"
1971 |
Box |
|
| | 51 (os) |
| International Women's Year (IWY) conference, Puerto Rico: minutes, agendas, correspondence, resolutions, and program materials
1976-78 |
Box |
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| | 49 |
| New York State Women's Meeting: report
1977 |
Box |
|
| | 50 |
| Winifred Harper Cooley: scrapbook of articles re: women's rights
circa 1920s |
Box |
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| | 51 |
| "Representative Women," Lithograph by L. Grozelier (Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abby Kelley Foster, Lucy Stone, Lydia Maria Child, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Maria Weston Chapman)
1857 |
Box |
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| | 52-55 |
| The Fight for ERA(oral history project): original cassette tapes and preservation copies
1983 |
Box |
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| | 56-57 |
| The Fight for ERA(oral history project): CD use copies
1983 |
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| Equal Rights Amendment: editorials and press comments
1943-44 |
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| Exhibit material (IWY conference, Houston): photographs and printed material
1977 |
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| Fac-simile of a Deed by a Single Lady... (poster), 1318 |
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| Poster, "The Time is Now," (for benefit of women candidates)
1992 |
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| Proclamation of Women's History Month(signed by Bill Clinton)
1999 |
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| Side-by-Side (phonograph record album): re-enactments of scenes from women's history
1848-1920 |
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| Seneca Falls Centennialnewspaper, 1948
(1948): |
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| Stone, Lucy (Blackwell): clipping from Woman's Journal
1893 |
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| Alexander, Shana, Women's Legal Rights
1975 |
|
| Blackwell, Alice Stone, What I Owe to My Father
1931, 1999 |
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| Davis, Paulina W., A History of the National Woman's Rights Movement
1871 |
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| Discrimination Against Women (Parts I and II)
1970 |
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| The "Equal Rights" Amendment
1970 |
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| The Federal Civil Rights Enforcement Effort-
1974 |
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| First New York State Women's Meeting (volumes I and II): report
1977 |
|
| Women's Rights Pamphlets, Cornell University Collection(microfiche)
1814-1912 |
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| Fishman, Nathaniel, Married Woman's Bill of Rights, intro by Dorothy Kenyon
1943 |
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| Holley, Marietta, Samantha Among the Brethren
1890 |
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| International Women's Year National Women's Conference: cassette tapes
1977 |
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| IWY National Women's Conference: Official Briefing Book
1977 |
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| Keep Your Laws Off My Body
n.d. |
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| Report of the Women's Action Program
1972 |
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| The Spirit of Houston
1978 |
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| Status of Women in Canada
1970 |
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| ...To Form a More Perfect Union...
1976 |
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| Woman's Centennial Congress
1940 |
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| Woman's Rights Pamphlets (bound volume)
n.d. |
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| Miscellaneous publications (photocopies) |
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| Woman's Rights Almanac
1858 |
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| The Rights and Conditions of Women by Samuel J.
May, 1846 |
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| Letters to Dupont De L'Eure on the Political Position of Women by Emma Willard
1848 |
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| Enfranchisement of Women
1851 |
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| Education of Females by Paulina W. Davis
1851 |
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| Sanctity of Marriage by E. Oakes Smith
n.d. |
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| Responsibilities of Woman by C.I.H Nichold
1851 |
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| Letter from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Stanton
1850 |
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| The Elective Franchise by Geo William Curtis
1858 |
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| National Women's Political Caucues, keynote speeches, San Jose, California (6 audio cassettes)
September 9-11, 1997 |
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