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

 - 200,000  items. 492  2  containers plus  oversize. 97  microfilm reels. 197.2  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in four groups composed of nineteen series along with one oversize series.  Group I arranged in five series.  Series 1: Correspondence, 1891-1940; Series 2: Administrative Files, 1913-1921; Series 3: Printed Matter, 1889-1936; Series 4: Photographs, 1911-1935; and Series 5: Medals and Ribbons, undated.  Group II arranged in eight series.  Series 1: Correspondence, 1877-1974; Series 2: Minutes, 1917-1972; Series 3: Legal Papers, 1914-1972; Series 4: Financial Records, 1912-1966; Series 5: Printed Matter, 1850-1974; Series 6: Photographs, 1912-1970; Series 7: World Woman's Party Papers, 1938-1958; and Series 8: Addendum, 1912-1972.  Group III arranged in three series.  Series 1: Correspondence, 1912-1971; Series 2: Account Books, 1913-1967; and Series 3: Miscellany, 1912-1965.  Group IV arranged in 3 series.  Series 1: Addition I, 1884-1963; Series 2: Addition II, 1876-1968; and Series 3: Addition III, 1898-1975.  Oversize arranged in one series.  Series 1: Oversize, 1913-1916. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Microfilm 18,276-97P (Suffrage Years) produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. <br/>Sanford, N.C. : <br/>Microfilming Corporation of America, <br/>1981. <br/>Photostats produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. <br/>Washington, D.C. : <br/>Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, <br/>1939. 
<br/><br/><br/>Some photographs, postcards, posters, and other photographic items <br/>Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <br/>transferred to <br/>Sound recording and reel of safety film <br/>Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. <br/>transferred to 
<br/><br/><br/>National organization in the women's rights movement.  Founded as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in 1916-1917 by Alice Paul. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003077 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 82034355  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. 19th Amendment.  Constitution. <br/>International Woman Suffrage Alliance.<br/>World Woman's Party.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Equal rights.<br/>Suffragist.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Constitutional amendments--United States.<br/>Equal rights amendments--United States.<br/>Suffragists--History.--United States<br/>Jury duty.<br/>Women--Economic conditions.<br/>Women--Economic conditions.--United States<br/>Women--Legal status, laws, etc.<br/>Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.<br/>Women--Social conditions.<br/>Women--Social conditions.--United States<br/>Women--Societies and clubs.<br/>Women--Suffrage--Periodicals.<br/>Women--Suffrage--United States.<br/>Women's rights.<br/>Women's rights--International cooperation.