Carrie Chapman Catt Papers
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Collection SummaryTitle: Carrie Chapman Catt PapersSpan Dates: 1848-1950Bulk Dates: (bulk 1890-1920)ID No.: MSS15404Creator: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947Extent: 9,500 items ; 31 containers plus 1 oversize ; 12.4 linear feet ; 18 microfilm reelsLanguage: Collection material in EnglishLocation: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.Summary: Feminist, lecturer, and author. Correspondence, diaries (1911-1923), drafts of speeches and articles, subjectfiles, biographical papers, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers, chiefly 1890-1920, relating primarily toCarrie Chapman Catt's efforts on behalf of the women's suffrage movement, feminism, and the cause of international peace.
Selected Search TermsThe following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They aregrouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
PeopleAbbott, Grace, 1878-1939--Correspondence.Addams, Jane, 1860-1935--Correspondence.Astor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess, 1879-1964--Correspondence.Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937--Correspondence.Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950--Correspondence.Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947.Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948--Correspondence.Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935--Correspondence.Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931.--Correspondence.Hay, Mary Garrett, 1857-1928--Correspondence.Hyde, Clara--Correspondence.La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947--Correspondence.Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932--Correspondence.Manus, Rosette Suzanne, 1881-1942--Correspondence.McCormick, Katherine Dexter, 1876-1967--Correspondence.Park, Maud Wood, 1871-1955--Correspondence.Peck, Mary Gray, 1867?-1957--Correspondence.Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970--Correspondence.Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-1972--Correspondence.Schwimmer, Rosika, 1877-1948--Correspondence.Stantial, Edna Lamprey--Correspondence.Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 1891-1968--Correspondence.Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930--Correspondence.Tumulty, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1879-1954--Correspondence.White, William Allen, 1868-1944--Correspondence.Wilson, Justina Leavitt, -1955--Correspondence.
OrganizationsNational Committee on the Cause and Cure of War (U.S.)Women's Centennial Congress (1940 : New York, N.Y.)
SubjectsFeminism.Peace.Women's rights.
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Women--Suffrage.
PlacesAfrica--Description and travel.East Asia--Description and travel.Europe--Description and travel.Middle East--Description and travel.
OccupationsAuthors.Feminists.Lecturers.
Administrative InformationProvenance
The papers of Carrie Chapman Catt were given to the Library of Congress by Alda Wilson, executrix of Catt's estate, in1947, and by Edna Lamprey Stantial, archivist of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in 1960.
Processing History
The papers of Carrie Chapman Catt were processed in 1974. The finding aid was revised in 1999, and additional changeswere made in 2006 to reflect the renumbering of oversize material.
Related Material
Catt's papers are closely linked by provenance and subject matter with the Blackwell family papers, and with the records ofthe National American Woman Suffrage Association, of which Catt was president. These three collections held by theManuscript Division have been known collectively as the "Suffrage Archives." Also related by provenance is the NationalAmerican Woman Suffrage Association Collection, a library of seven to eight hundred titles collected between 1890 and1938 by members of NAWSA and donated to the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congressby Catt in 1938.
Copyright Status
Copyright in the unpublished writings of Carrie Chapman Catt in these and in other collections of papers in the custody ofthe Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
Access and Restrictions
The papers of Carrie Chapman Catt are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Roomprior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Microfilm
A microfilm edition of these papers is available on eighteen reels. Consult reference staff in the Manuscript Divisionconcerning availability for purchase or interlibrary loan. To promote preservation of the originals, researchers are requiredto consult the microfilm edition.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container or reel number, CarrieChapman Catt Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Biographical NoteDate Event1859, Jan. 9 Born, Ripon, Wis.
1880 Graduated from Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa
1883-1884 Superintendent of schools, Mason City, Iowa
1884 Married Lee Chapman (died 1886)
1890 Married George Catt
1890-1900 Worked with organization committee, National American Woman Suffrage Association
1900-1904 President, National American Woman Suffrage Association
1900-1920 Worked for woman suffrage through an amendment to the U.S. Constitution
1904-1923 President, International Woman Suffrage Alliance
1911-1912 Made world tour for the suffrage cause
1915-1920 President, National American Woman Suffrage Association
1919 Helped found the National League of Women Voters
1923 Published with Nettie Rogers Shuler Woman Suffrage and Politics (New York: C. Scribner's Sons.504 pp.)
1923-1947 Devoted herself chiefly to the peace movement
1925-1932 Helped organize and served as chairman, National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War
1947, Mar. 9 Died, New Rochelle, N.Y.
Scope and Content NoteThe papers of Carrie Love Chapman Catt (1859-1947), which span the years 1848-1950, reflect her steadfast dedication totwo major ideals--the rights of women, particularly the right to vote, and world peace. The greater part of the manuscripts,1890-1920, relates to Catt's efforts to secure the ballot for women. General Correspondence and Subject File series in thecollection reveal the tactics she employed in achieving this goal. After the adoption of the nineteenth amendment to theUnited States Constitution in 1920, the subject matter of the collection reflects Catt's increasing concern with the settlementof international problems and the establishment of a world peace organization.
Her papers include diaries which recount in great detail her trip around the world on behalf of woman suffrage in1911-1912, and substantial correspondence with prominent leaders of the women's movement. Notable among hercorrespondents are Alice Stone Blackwell, Ida Husted Harper, Mary Garrett Hay, Clara Hyde, Rosette Suzanne Manus,Maud Wood Park, Mary Gray Peck, Rosika Schwimmer, Edna Lamprey Stantial, and Justina Leavitt Wilson.
There is an extensive file of Catt's speeches and articles, most of which deal with woman's rights and peace. In the SubjectFile are biographical papers, awards, and birthday tributes, as well as manuscripts relating to the Woman's Centennial
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Congress of 1940, the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, and other organizations with which Catt wasaffiliated.
Organization of the PapersThe collection is arranged in six series:
• Diaries, 1911-1923• General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947• Speech and Article File, 1892-1946• Subject File, 1848-1950• Miscellany• Oversize
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Description of SeriesContainer SeriesBOX 1-3REEL 1-2
Diaries, 1911-1923
Typescript account of Catt's travels. Includes duplicates.Arranged chronologically.
BOX 4-9REEL 2-7
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Letters received and copies of letters sent.Arranged alphabetically.
BOX 10-13REEL 7-9
Speech and Article File, 1892-1946
Drafts, notes, handwritten manuscripts, typescripts, and near-print and printed copies ofspeeches and articles.
Titled speeches arranged alphabetically; untitled speeches arranged chronologically; articlesarranged alphabetically at end of series.
BOX 14-28REEL 9-18
Subject File, 1848-1950
Correspondence, near-print and printed matter, newspaper clippings, awards, andmiscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 29-30REEL 18
Miscellany
Autographs, bookplates, photographs, printed matter, and other material.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX OV 1REEL 18
Oversize
Photographs and drawing.
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Container ListMicrofilm edition available. Shelf no. 17,349
Container Contents
BOX 1-3REEL 1-2
Diaries, 1911-1923
Typescript account of Catt's travels. Includes duplicates.Arranged chronologically.
BOX 1REEL 1
Hamburg, Germany; Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Southampton, England; Madeira, MadeiraIslands; and Cape Town, South Africa, Apr. 8-Aug. 14, 1911
South Africa, Aug. 15-Sept. 19, 1911(2 folders)
South and East Africa, Sept. 19-Nov. 15, 1911(2 folders)
Palestine, Nov. 14-Dec. 17, 1911(2 folders)
Ceylon, Jan. 20-Feb. 1, 1912BOX 2REEL 1
India, Feb. 1-Apr. 1, 1912
(2 folders)Java, Apr. 5-July 1, 1912Philippines, July 19-Aug. 20, 1912China, Aug. 21-Sept. 27, 1912Korea; Japan; and Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 28-Oct. 31, 1912Notes on London, England, 1913
BOX 3REEL 1-2
Duplicates
Apr. 8-Aug. 14, 1911Nov. 14-Dec. 17, 1911Jan. 20-Feb. 1, 1912Feb. 1-Apr. 1, 1912Apr. 5-July 1, 1912July 19-Aug. 20, 1912Aug. 21-Oct. 31, 1912
Europe and South America, 1922-1923(4 folders)
BOX 4-9REEL 2-7
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Letters received and copies of letters sent.Arranged alphabetically.
BOX 4REEL 2-3
Abbott, Grace See Container 6, Labor Department
Achelis, Elisabeth
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Adams, John T.Adams, Lida S.Adams, MildredAddams, JaneAlexander, Mrs. W. H.Algeo, Sara M.Allen, Florence E.American Association of University WomenAnthony, Lucy E.Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Mujeres de la República deArndt, Jessie A.Asociacion Insular de Mujeres Votantes See Container 7, Mujeres Votantes, Asociacion
Insular deAssociated Leagues for a Declared WarAstor, Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, ViscountessBailie, Helen T.Baker, Newton DiehlBarker, Irene C.Barnard College, New York, N.Y.Barnes, Viola F.Bates, Juanita B.Baur, Mrs. JacobBenedict, ElsieBlackwell, Alice Stone
(5 folders)Blackwell, Henry B.Blake, Katherine D.Blatch, Harriet S.Boardman, Mrs. H. B.Booth, Elizabeth K.Bowen, Louise de KovenBradford, Mary C. C.Bradish, Kate C.Brainerd, EvelineBritish consulate general, New York, N.Y.Brown, Frances G.Brown, Gertrude F.Broyles, Bertha L.Buchanon [Buchanan?], Margaret B.Caldwell, Robert J.Calvo, Ester N. deCentury Club, Seattle, Wash.Chase National BankChicago, University of, Chicago, Ill.Christian Science MonitorClark, Bennett ChampClarkson, Annie C.
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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Clayton, Clara C.Clevenger, Mrs. EarlComstock, AdaCommission on International Justice and Goodwill See Container 6, International Justice and
Goodwill, Commission onCommittee on Militarism in Education See Container 7, Militarism in Education, Committee
onConfraternidad de Señoras de la República de El Salvador See Container 5, El Salvador,
Confraternidad de Señoras de la RepúblicaConsejo Nacional de Mujeres de la República de Argentina See Container 4, Argentina,
Consejo Nacional de Mujeres de la República deCook County Hospital, Chicago, Ill.Corliss, Mrs. ClaytonCotnam, Florence B.Council of Women for Home Missions See Container 9, Women for Home Missions, Council
ofCraft, F. E.Cunningham, Minnie F.Curtis, CharlesDampier, BelleDaniels, JosephusDarby, Florence H.Dartmouth Round Table, Hanover, N.H.Davidson, Alaska P.Day, Stephen A.Dean, Vera M.De Bey, CorneliuDempsey, MaryDetzer, DorothyDreier, Mary
BOX 5REEL 3
Dubois, Edna
Dudley, AnnaEarl, MissEducation, U.S. Office ofEdwards, Marie S.Elliott, Martha H.El Salvador, Confraternidad de Señoras de la República deEngel, LaviniaErnberg, AnnaEvans, Mrs. F. E.Ezekiel, RachelFawcett, Millicent G.Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in AmericaFederation of Woman's Boards of Foreign MissionsFerrari, Sofia deFinland, consulate general
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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Floore, Florence C.For Finland, Inc.Foreign Policy AssociationForster, RudolphFraser, Mrs. Nicholas S.Frederick A. Stokes Co. See Container 9, Stokes (Frederick A.) Co.Furuhjelm, AnnieGallagher, RachelGannett, Mrs. William C.Gellhorn, Edna F.General Federation of Women's ClubsGeorgia State Library, Atlanta, Ga.Gibbie, PattyGillette, Guy M.Gilman, Charlotte P.Grand Rapids League of Women Voters, Grand Rapids, Mich.Grant, Florence B.Grissel, NellieHall, Olivia P.Hanson, Helen P.Harper, Ida Husted
(2 folders)Harper, May BellHarrison, CarrieHartley, Luella P.Harvard University Liberal Club, Cambridge, Mass.Hast, Emma W.Hay, Mary Garrett
(4 folders)Hebard, Grace R.Heine, Mrs. M. CaswellHickman, EmilyHillyer, Mary W.Hooper, Mrs. Ben
(3 folders)Howard, DanielHoward, Mrs. George
BOX 6REEL 3-4
Hoyt, Emily B.
Hunt, Alice R.Hunter, Mary A.Hyde, Clara
(8 folders)Institute of Pacific RelationsInter American Commission of WomenInternational Assembly of WomenInternational Federation of Business and Professional Women
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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International Justice and Goodwill, Commission onInternational Mark Twain SocietyInternational Woman Suffrage AllianceIowa Gamma Pi PhiIowa State College Alumni Association, Ames, IowaIrwin, Inez H.Jacobs, Aletta H.James, AhleeJenkins, Lois F.Jenkins, Theresa A.Johns, Laura M.Johnson, Mrs. F. I.Johnson, Grace A.Kelley, FlorenceLabor DepartmentLaGuardia, Fiorello H.Lathrop, Julia C.Leach, Henry GoddardLeech, Mrs. Henry G.League of Nations Association“Liga Drepturilor si Datoriilor Femeii”Lindemann, AnnaLloyd, AliceLockwood, GeorgeLuisi, PaulinaLutz, BerthaLyncroft Association, New Rochelle, N.Y.McClung, NellieMcCormick, Mrs. StanleyMcCulloch, Catharine W.McGuire, Mrs. Arthur J.Maher, Amy G.Maloy, Mrs. William M.Mandujano, GracielaMann, Rowena M.Mansfield, Helen C.Manus, CarmenManus, Rosette Suzanne,
1922-1937(5 folders)
BOX 7REEL 4-5
1938-1941
(2 folders)Manus, S.Mason, Cassily E.Mauck, Joseph W.Meredith, Mrs. Ellis
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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Michaelis, KarinMilitarism in Education, Committee onMiller, Mrs. Craig C.Miller, H. A.Miller, Helen G.Miller, Mary W.Moore, Henrietta G.Moravian Seminary and College, Bethlehem, Pa.Moreau, AliciaMorgan, Laura P.Mujeres Votantes, Asociacion Insular deNachman, Rose H.Nathan, MaudNational Achievement AwardNational American Woman Suffrage AssociationNational Committee on the Cause and Cure of WarNational Council for Prevention of WarNational Council of Jewish WomenNational Council of WomenNational Education AssociationNational Federation of Business and Professional Women's ClubsNational Institute of Social SciencesNational League of Women VotersNational Security LeagueNational Woman's Christian Temperance UnionNational Women's Conference of the American Ethical UnionNesbitt, Mrs. W. D.New Jersey State Federation of Women's ClubsNew Rochelle Civic League, New Rochelle, N.Y.New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, N.Y.New Rochelle Women's Club, New Rochelle, N.Y.New York Committee for Justice in Freeport, New York, N.Y.Nicolson, MarjorieNorrie, Margaret L. M.O'Connor, Kate F.Ostoloza, Amalia E. Mallen dePark, Maud Wood
(5 folders)Parker, Valeria H.Parkhurst, MarionPeck, Mary Gary,
1909-1918(5 folders)
BOX 8REEL 5-6
1919-1947
(9 folders)Perkins, Frances
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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Phillips, Lena M.Pi Beta Phi fraternityPictorial ReviewPorter, Kate H.Post, J. F.Potter, Dr.Procope, HjalmarPurdy, Grace B.Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.Radcliffe Liberal Club, Cambridge, Mass.Reid, Helen RogersRichardson, AnnaRichardson, CoraRipon College, Lane Library, Ripon, Wisc.Robins, Margaret D.Rockford College International Relations Club, Rockford, Ill.Roderick, VirginiaRoelofs, HenriettaRoman, Frederick W.Romig, Charles D.Romine, Henrietta A.Rowe, L. S.Ryan, Agnes E.Ryder, C. A.Schain, MissSchneiderman, RoseSchoen, Carolyn N.Schuler, Nettie R.Schwimmer, Rosika
(3 folders)Seton, Grace T.Severence, Sarah M.Shaw, Anna HowardSherwin, BelleSimkhovitch, Mary K.Slade, Mrs. F. LouisSmith, Ethel M.Smith, Luella D.Sporborg, Constance
BOX 9REEL 6-7
Stantial, Edna Lamprey
(5 folders)Stebbins, EdnaStockwell, Maud C.Stokes (Frederick A.) Co.Straus, DorothySulzberger, Arthur Hays
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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Sweet, Emma B.Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va.Swope, Mary H.Tabouis, GenevieveTaft, William H. (1857-1930)Taylor, Kenneth B.Thayer, Mrs. Maynard F.Thomas, Lou K.Thomas, M. CareyThomas Paine Memorial House, New Rochelle, N.Y.Tilton, Mrs. WilliamTumulty, Joseph P.Udny, AnneUeland, LouiseUnited States Office of Education See Container 5, Education, U.S. Office ofUniversity of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. See Container 5, Chicago, University ofUniversity of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. See same container, Wyoming, University ofUpton, Harriet TaylorUrquhart, Augusta W.Van Hoesen, Grace A.Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.Vassar College Political Association, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.Villard, Oswald GarrisonWaid, Dan E.Wald, EstelleWarfield, LornaWellesley College Forum, Wellesley, Mass.Wendell, George K.Westchester County Federation of Women's Clubs, Westchester County, N.Y.Wetterer, Edna E.Wheeler, Everett P.White, William AllenWhitehouse, V.Wiley, LouisWillard, Mabel C.Wilson, Halsey W.Wilson, Justina Leavitt
(3 folders)Wilson, WoodrowWomen for Home Missions, Council ofWomen's International League for Peace and FreedomWomen's Trade Union LeagueWorld Alliance for International FriendshipWorld Center for Women's Archives, New York, N.Y.Wynner, EdithWyoming, University of, Laramie, Wyo.
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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Yale ReviewYates, Elizabeth UphamYoung, RoseYoung Women's Christian AssociationUnidentifiedCorrespondence regarding Catt's death
(3 folders)
BOX 10-13REEL 7-9
Speech and Article File, 1892-1946
Drafts, notes, handwritten manuscripts, typescripts, and near-print and printed copies ofspeeches and articles.
Titled speeches arranged alphabetically; untitled speeches arranged chronologically; articlesarranged alphabetically at end of series.
BOX 10REEL 7-8
Speeches
“An Appeal for Liberty,” 1915“Be Joyful Today,” Feb 13, 1920“A Call for Action,” Apr. 13, 1921, and Mar. 25, 1943“The Case for Woman Suffrage,” undated“The Enfranchisement of Women,” undated“Feminism,” undated“Gaps in the Machinery of Peace,” Mar. 1, 1930“Honor to Whom Honor Is Due,” radio address by Mrs. Herbert E. Ottenheimer, Dec. 10,
1933, concerning Catt“The Hope of the Founders,” Mar. 26 [1930?]“Is Our Foreign Policy at Fault?” Apr. 23, 1927“The League of Women Voters,” undated“Looking Forward,” undated“Men, Women, and War,” Apr. 1925“A Message to the Home,” undatedThe Nation Calls: An Address to the Jubilee Convention of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, 1919“Nazis and Nazism,” Mar. 30, 1938“Neutrality,” Nov. 11 [1935]“On the Inside,” Feb. 14, 1920Partisans or Non-Partisans,” Jan. 1921“Peace or War--What Shall We Do About It?” [1923?]“Political Parties and Women Voters,” Feb. 14, 1920“Poverty After War,” undated“The Price of Peace,” Feb. 14, 1935“Scattered Thoughts about After-War Reconstruction,” undated“Ten Suggestions to Young Workers for Peace,” undated“Then...and Now,” Jan. 9, 1939“They Shall Not Pass,” fragment, undated“This Changing World,” Dec. 3, 1930“The Traffic in Women,” 1899
General Correspondence, circa 1890-1947
Container Contents
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“The Vote as a Safeguard of Democracy,” May 1936“War or Peace,” Nov. 10, 1923“What Have Women Done with the Suffrage?” undated“What Is the Monroe Doctrine?” Jan. 1929“What Shall We Do about War?” Dec. 8, 1936“Who Won Suffrage?” undated“Woman Suffrage as a War Measure” [1918]“Woman Suffrage Now Will Stimulate Patriotism,” undated“The Woman's Century, 1820-1920,” June 9, 1936“Women Voters at the Crossroads” [1919]Untitled
1892, 1900-1908, 1916-1933(30 folders)
BOX 11REEL 8
1934-1944
(22 folders)Fragments
(4 folders)Lists ofNotes for
(2 folders)Notes and quotations for
BOX 12REEL 8-9
Undated
(2 folders)Lecture notes
(2 folders)Articles
“Anti-Feminism in South America,” Current History Magazine, undated“Are You a Normal?” [1924]“Chang Sing--Another True Story,” Woman Voter [Jan. 1914]“College Women as Citizens,” The Arrow, June 1922“A Corset Problem Too?” circa 1925“An Eight-Hour Day for the Housewife--Why Not?” Pictorial Review, Nov. 1928“Fads and Fancies,” Indiana Club Woman, undated“The First Woman Voter,”fragment, undated“Fourteen Points,” May 8, 1925“Gaps in the Machinery of Peace,” Christian Advocate, Nov. 6, 1930“God and the People,” [1915]“How Far Have We Come in Suffrage?” Union Signal, May 5, 1946“The Idea and the Hour,” Woman's Press, Sept. 1928“If Not Prohibition, What?” undated“It Makes Sense,” Aug. 25 [1940]“Looking Forward,” General Federation Clubwoman [Jan. 1945]“More Votes for Women,” Woman Voter, circa 1909“The Most Interesting Person I Ever Met,” 1917“Mrs. Catt on the Election,” New York Times, Nov. 21, 1920
Speech and Article File, 1892-1946
Container Contents
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“Observance and Enforcement--Not Repeal,” undated“One Growing Menace” [1925?]“Our Obvious Duty,” for publication in the General Federation paper, Oct. 10, 1935“Our War Aims Demand a Pledge of Sincerity” [1918]“The Outlawry of War,” reprinted from the Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, June 1928“Page Horatio!” May 5, 1924“The Parting of the Ways” [1903]“The Present and Future of Disarmament” [1928]“The Prohibition Referendum,” July 26, 1926“Ready for Citizenship,” The Public, Aug, 24, 1917“Republican Sins vs. Democratic Sins,” circa 1922“The Right Side,” Oct. 9, 1931“The States” [1920]“The Status Today of War vs. Peace,” undated“Suffrage” [1903]
BOX 13REEL 9
“Ten Suggestions to Young Workers for Peace” [1930]
“Their First Convention” [1920]This Troubled World, introduction to, June 6, 1938“The Three I's,” [1924]“A True Story,” undated“What Next?” [1919]“What Right Has Woman to Be Free from Political Duties?” Sept. 16, 1915“What the Vote Will Do for the Woman” [1917]“What Women Have Done with the Vote,” The Independent, Oct. 17, 1924“Whose Government Is This?” undated“Why I Have Found Life Worth Living,” Christian Century, Mar. 29, 1928“Why Suffrage Took Fifty Years,” Omaha Excelsior [1920]Why Wars Must Cease, introduction and foreword, 1935“The Widow's Mite,” undated“Woman Suffrage Only an Episode in Age-Old Movement,” Current History, Oct. 1927“Woman Suffrage: The First Ten Years,” New York Times Magazine, Aug 24, 1930“Women and the Presidency” [1916]Articles and editorials for Woman Citizen, 1919-1927
(6 folders)Articles for Good Housekeeping, 1923-1928Articles for Woman's Journal, 1928-1930Untitled
circa 1927(1 folder)
Speech and Article File, 1892-1946
Container Contents
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Undated(5 folders)
BOX 14-28REEL 9-18
Subject File, 1848-1950
Correspondence, near-print and printed matter, newspaper clippings, awards, andmiscellaneous material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
BOX 14REEL 9-10
Awards
American Hebrew MedalNational Achievement Award
(4 folders)National Institute of Social SciencesOrder of the White Rose, FinlandPictorial Review AwardMiscellaneous
Biographical papersCarrie Chapman Catt (1944), by Mary Gray Peck
Correspondence concerning, 1948-1950Newspaper clippings and other papers, 1944-1950File cards on libraries receiving copies
Miscellaneous material (chiefly newspaper clippings) concerning Catt(4 folders)
BOX 15-16REEL 10-11
(34 folders)
BOX 17REEL 11
(7 folders)
Birthday tributes70th birthday80th birthday
(2 folders)Other
(2 folders)Citizenship coursesEmpire State Campaign Committee
(2 folders)BOX 18REEL 11-12
Inter American Commission of Women
International Alliance of WomenInternational Council of WomenInternational Women's NewsIowa Suffrage MemorialLeague of Nations
(2 folders)League of Women VotersLibrary of Catt
Speech and Article File, 1892-1946
Container Contents
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Memorial fund for Catt(5 folders)
BOX 19REEL 12
National Committee on the Cause and Cure of Wars
Correspondence and related papers(10 folders)
Printed matter(2 folders)
Index of booksPhotograph
BOX 20REEL 13
Pan American conferences
Correspondence and other material(2 folders)
Printed matter(3 folders)
Protest Committee of Non-Jewish Women Against the Persecution of Jews in GermanySeneca Falls Convention, Seneca, N.Y., 1848, with comments, 1948TributesTurkish stamp honoring CattU.S. stamp commemorating 100 years of the progress of American women, 1948-1949Woman's Centennial Congress
Banquet, 1940Commissions
EconomicsEducation
BOX 21REEL 13-14
Ethics and religion
Government and politicsWorld peace and international societyYouthMiscellany
CommitteesExecutiveFinance
(2 folders)Men's
(2 folders)BOX 22REEL 14
(1 folder)
New EnglandGeneral
(3 folders)ConnecticutMaineMassachusettsNew HampshireRhode Island
Subject File, 1848-1950
Container Contents
Carrie Chapman Catt Papers 19
VermontOrganization representatives
BOX 23REEL 14-15
Declaration of purpose
(2 folders)Delegates
(3 folders)Film projectFinancial papers
(2 folders)Minutes of committee meetingsNational committeeNewslettersPhotographPlanningProceedings
(1 folder)BOX 24REEL 15-16
(2 folders)
ProgramPublicity
(4 folders)ReportSouvenirsSponsorsVictory, How Women Won It (1940), by the National American Woman Suffrage
Association(2 folders)
BOX 25REEL 16
(4 folders)
Women of achievementPrinted matter
Women, history of(7 folders)
Women's Action CommitteeCorrespondence, 1939-1949, undated
(3 folders)Minutes of meetings
BOX 26REEL 17
Printed matter
(6 folders)BOX 27REEL 17
(6 folders)
Women's organizations, attacks on(7 folders)
BOX 28REEL 17-18
(3 folders)
World Court
Subject File, 1848-1950
Container Contents
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Wyoming, University of, Laramie, Wyo., honorary degree
BOX 29-30REEL 18
Miscellany
Autographs, bookplates, photographs, printed matter, and other material.Arranged alphabetically by type of material.
BOX 29REEL 18
Autographs of Carrie Chapman Catt
BookplateDrawing See OversizePhotograph albumPhotographs See also Oversize
(6 folders)BOX 30REEL 18
(2 folders)
Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., index to Catt's papersWill, Mar. 1945General
(4 folders)Printed matter
(4 folders)
BOX OV 1REEL 18
Oversize
Photographs and drawing.
BOX OV 1REEL 18
Photographs and a drawing (Container 29)
Subject File, 1848-1950
Container Contents
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