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National Woman's Party records, 1850-1975 (bulk 1913-1972).

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National Woman's Party

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Mixed materialsDescription: 200,000 items; 492 containers plus 2 oversize; 97 microfilm reels; 197.2 linear feetSubject(s): Online resources:

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Selected photographs also available through the Library of Congress Web site.
Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,276.
Photostats, in part. [S.l.].

Summary: Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, administrative files, financial and legal records, printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records documenting the organization's efforts to promote congressional passage of both the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote and the Equal Rights Amendment. Subjects include legal, social, and economic status of women in the U.S. and around the world, the party's publications Suffragist and Equal Rights, attempts to promote jury service for women, cooperative efforts with other woman's organizations and with the international women's movement, the treatment of imprisoned suffragists, and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.Summary: Also includes records (1938-1958) of the World Woman's Party and papers of party members and officials including Jean Kane Foulke DuPont, Lucia Hanna Hadley, Dora G. Ogle, Alice Paul, Anita Pollitzer, and Helen Hunt West.

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Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports, administrative files, financial and legal records, printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other records documenting the organization's efforts to promote congressional passage of both the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote and the Equal Rights Amendment. Subjects include legal, social, and economic status of women in the U.S. and around the world, the party's publications Suffragist and Equal Rights, attempts to promote jury service for women, cooperative efforts with other woman's organizations and with the international women's movement, the treatment of imprisoned suffragists, and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.

Also includes records (1938-1958) of the World Woman's Party and papers of party members and officials including Jean Kane Foulke DuPont, Lucia Hanna Hadley, Dora G. Ogle, Alice Paul, Anita Pollitzer, and Helen Hunt West.

Selected photographs also available through the Library of Congress Web site.

Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 18,276.

Photostats, in part. [S.l.].

Microfilm 18,276-97P (Suffrage Years) produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corporation of America, 1981.

Photostats produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1939.

Some photographs, postcards, posters, and other photographic items transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Sound recording and reel of safety film transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

National organization in the women's rights movement. Founded as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1916-1917 by Alice Paul.